Anne McLaughlin

Senator Cory Booker puts his hand on his heart in appreciation as the Senate applauds for him for having just broken Strom Thurmond's 24-hour-plus record for the longest speech in the US Senate.

While it feels like there’s precious little one can feasibly do, the least I can do is back those who are working to shed a little light on the darkness.

Brava!!

Love love love.

Gothic or not -- it's a lovely little book! Thanks for the great thread Carin!!

@trincolllibcam.bsky.social

Not in Oxford, calendar conflicts? Fear not! The Ford Lectures by Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne--French in Medieval Britain--are wonderful AND recordings of the first three are already online at www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l.... #medievalsky

The painting "Lawyer's Cabinet" by Dirk van Delen, dated 1642. You see an interior of a contemporary (Dutch) lawyer's office with lots of books, and papers. The details are described in this thread. A source for the digitized painting is: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Dirck_van_Delen_-_The_Lawyer%27s_Cabinet.jpg

The painting "Lawyer's Cabinet" by Dirk van Delen, dated 1642. You see an interior of a contemporary (Dutch) lawyer's office with lots of books, and papers. The details are described in this thread. A source for the digitized painting is: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Dirck_van_Delen_-_The_Lawyer%27s_Cabinet.jpg

You may have read it before on this account: #earlymodern Europe was a paper age. Let's focus, once more if you fancy, on the paper usages of a period that mastered so many communication flows on paper.

Another 🧵 for #paperhistory nerds, and enjoying #skystorians 🗃️

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The fountain in the centre of great court, Trinity College, Cambridge

Frost and fog and a frozen fountain!

YouTube video by Dua Lipa Dua Lipa - Levitating (Official Animated Music Video)

You can thank me later:
🔗 what-is-dh-the-album.netlify.app/vol-01/digit... & 🔗 youtu.be/N000qglmmY0?... (all credit to Philip Allfrey)! #IIIF #WhoNeedsAJobDescription

🚨 Exciting opportunity alert! 🚨
Trinity College is looking to recruit two enthusiastic Graduate Trainees, one to join our Library team, and one to be part of the Archives team. There is still time to apply before the deadline of Sunday 2nd February.

For details: trin.cam.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/

Can’t wait to get my hands on this!! Sounds ace!

LAST CHRISTMAS Ich gave thee my hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole my hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme
biyonde all the stars.

SEEKE NOW my hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste!

Ford Lectures! Jocelyn Wogan-Browne! Bet these'll be great! @oxmedstud.bsky.social #medievalsky www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l...

A selection of black and white photographs documenting archeological finds

What’s the best thing about working in a library? When gorgeous photographs from an archeological excavation at Nemi in the mid 1880s find their way onto your desk!

Saddened to see this as someone who walked the Camino as a solo woman at 21 who (very luckily) faced none of these horrors. And very very angered that so many have.

And the author has just joined us all here on Bluesky! You can find him at @cdrieshen.bsky.social!

We at the London Palaeography Seminar have a special treat for you on Tuesday 12th Nov at 5:30pm - Tessa Webber speaking on 'Punctuation and the aural dimension of Latin texts in the Middle Ages'. In person in Senate House and hybrid. Do sign up:
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/punct...

Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

This is a fascinating study. But when you find a Lidar survey of a region, process it with archaeological techniques, and locate an archaeological site, that’s not “an accident”. That’s “an on purpose”. 🗃️

IF YOU'RE IN GEORGIA, CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

THE DEADLINE IS OCT. 7 TO REGISTER. YOU MAY THINK YOU'RE REGISTERED AND FIND YOU ARE NOW "INACTIVE."
mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

Augustini Soliloquia, Cambridge, Queen’s College, ms 25

The complete manuscripts collection of Cambridge Queen’s College is now accessible online! 📚
tinyurl.com/4w4yjtzb

Medievalsky

Incredible!! I know what I’m doing this weekend!!

A page of humanist script with white vine borders on three sides. A large capitol E starts the main text, under several lines of title. Ott.lat.743 f.1r

A page of greek minuscule in 2 columns with occasional red capitols in the gutter. Vat.gr.1991 f.3r

A page of a polyphonic Kyrie Eleison. Three large Ks are on the left, each starting 2 staves of mensural music Capp.sist.53 f.3v

Due to Ash Wednesday, only 47 Manuscripts were digitized by the Vatican this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024...
Includes a Eusebian Chronical with Sanvito rubrication, a Polyphonic mass by Allegri, some more 17th C texts and more!

A great summary of last week’s Now You See It, Now you Don’t: Sustainable Access in a Digital Age. Definitely worth a read:

The British Library hack is a national outrage – the Government must pay to save it It is a national outrage that the British Library has been unable to fulfil its function over the past three months following a savage cyberattack – and that its functioning is likely to be severely...

The vicious cyberattack on the British Library is a national outrage – posing huge challenges for our national library. I argue in this Opinion piece in the Evening Standars that government should be properly funding their complex recovery programme.

Want to know more about the discoveries relating to Thomas Cromwell's Book of Hours, now on display in the Wren? This blog post will tell you everything, from the link with Holbein's portrait to how Raman spectroscopy was used to identify the jewels in the binding. Not to be missed! t.ly/ot3RS

New Royal Historical Society blog post on ‘Web access to British Library databases: workarounds for historians’. If you have any info about other relevant resources, there’s a link to submit suggestions too 🗃️

Next time you’re up in Ely, let me know — there can be wine!

Friends, there is a 5-year position in Italian Renaissance history going at Monash, in my department! Please share widely >> medievalsky skystorians earlymodern careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/e...

British Library news (3):

English Short Title Catalogue mirror now updated to include post-1700 records.

Let's hope that this augurs the full, official release of the ESTC as #OpenAccess

estc.printprobability.org

#History 🗃️

F. 1r

Capital D (f. 11r)

Redefining ‘cutting’ (f. 129r)

And ‘pasting’ (f. 121r)

The best days always begin with #manuscripts!! Lovely details from @trincolllibcam.bsky.social MS R.14.34🔗: mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/R...