Marie Groult

Trademarks registered by playing card manufacturers in Rouen

[PRIX] 🎓 Avis aux étudiants, vous avez jusqu'au 30 septembre pour candidater à l'édition 2025 du prix Charles de Beaurepaire qui récompense l'auteur d'un mémoire de Master 2 ayant utilisé les archives conservées aux AD de la Seine-Maritime. Règlement et inscription : https://fcld.ly/prix2025

Portrait au crayon de Geoffroy Dumonstier

[CONFERENCE] Nos collègues Marie et Caroline donneront ce samedi 13 septembre une conférence organisée par le Cercle Généalogique du Pays de Caux.

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What a magnificent exhibition at the Château de Chantilly with the presentation of the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry !

Très honorée d'avoir reçu hier l'accessit de la Grande Loge de France dans le cadre du prix de thèse du Suprême Conseil de France 2025 pour mon travail sur les ordres de chevalerie.
Cap sur la publication maintenant !

I'm delighted to be here today to talk about the orders of chivalry and their links with the royal families. #KQ14

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
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Lost manuscript of Merlin and King Arthur legend read for the first time after centuries hidden inside another book For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register. Cutting-edge techniques have revealed it for the first time.

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Help wanted: has anyone ever had access to the accounts of the English royal wardrobe for the 14th century held at the public record office? I would need photographs or to know if transcripts of these accounts have been published.

@lvhicks.bsky.social Currently, in the office

1066 in Playmobil!

New research on the earliest image of Pope Gregory the Great, painted in the C7th on the inside of a C5th ivory consular diptych, reveals not only how it was made but also that in the C8th new names were added including 5 Anglo-Saxons, pilgrims perhaps. artsandculture.google.com/story/nwVxkd...

Le portail des libraires, cathédrale de Rouen.

Today is Ash Wednesday when we are reminded that we are made of dust and, in the end, return to dust.

BL Add 37049; The Carthusian Miscellany; England, N.; 15th century; f.32v

Teppich von Bayeux: Fragment des Teppichs von Bayeux in deutschem Archiv entdeckt Im Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein ist ein Fragment des weltberühmten Teppichs von Bayeux entdeckt worden. Es soll noch in diesem Jahr an Frankreich zurückgegeben werden.

Fragment of the Bayeux tapestry discovered in North Germany - with thanks to Annemarieke Willemsen!
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Some dragons and chimeras (Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime, 17H04)

Commission for the trial of Lady Jane Grey [TNA KB 8/23]

Close up of "Edwardus" on a Great Seal [TNA KB 8/23]

Lady Jane Grey's trial occurred so early in Mary I's reign that a Great Seal for Mary hadn't yet been made. As such, the trial records use Edward VI's seal instead. [TNA KB 8/23]

Female figure with long dark hair and clothes, wearing an id on a lanyard, holds one corner of the document lightly open and gestures to the other side. The bottom half the the document box is solid blue and contains an inset red wax seal that is attached to the document via cords.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered

The Newberry is now a member of the Digital Scriptorium, with more manuscript discoverability coming soon! Our Head of Cataloging Services, Megan Kelly, opens a slightly recalcitrant vellum document with Ferdinand II's name and seal on it! (Wing MS oversize ZW 6561 .26)

Eglise Saint-Étienne de Caen

Manuscript page with red initial O and red capitals

Today is the feast of St. Mildred/Mildrith, d. 730/731, another of the crop of abbesses from the royal families of the early English kingdoms. This morning we'll look at an 11th-c. #manuscript of an anonymous life of Mildred in Old English, BL Cotton Caligula A XIV, here at f. 121v. 🧵 #medievalsky

Happy Valentine’s Day - Love who you love - 15th century, Harley MS 4431, f. 100r

Seal of Raoul de Meulan, 1272 (Archives départementales de la Seine-Maritime, 14H)

Here is an in situ binding fragment of a notated 15th-century leaf. It includes parts of two hymns, one of which (Si bona suscepimus de manu domini mala) was sung during the celebration of the feast of Job. It is held at Goshen College’s Mennonite Historical Library in Goshen, Indiana. #medievalsky

Gaelic manuscripts lost from Edinburgh for 50 years are found The items that vanished from the National Library of Scotland in the 1960s included poems and songs.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #Gaelic #literature

image of a sheep in a coat of arms next to a hole in the parchment

'The lamb is among all beasts the most sweet and innocent...It hurts no man with teeth, nails or horns and all that comes of him is good and profitable...'
Surely the scribe was considering the parchment of that very folio - made more noticeable by the hole - as he wrote this... [Harley 6149].

Pour la 5e conférence du cycle « Le vitrail, invitation au voyage », Maxence Hermant,conservateur en chef au département des Manuscrits de la @labnf.bsky.social évoquera « La peinture sur verre en Champagne du Nord. Chefs-d’œuvre méconnus ».
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➡️ 5/02/25 18-20h, INHA

Fighting initial 'A'(rma) at the beginning of Virgil's Aeneid

BnF MS Latin 16236; Publius Vergilius Maro: Eglogae, Georgicae, Aeneis cum glossa; 11th century; France; f.61r
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Publication – Paul Bertrand, « Forger le faux. Les usages de l’écrit au Moyen Âge » Si les concepts de fake news et post-vérité semblent définir notre monde contemporain, le Moyen Âge n’était-il pas déjà l’empire du faux ? De la fausse donation de Constantin aux évangiles apocryph…

Publication – Paul Bertrand, « Forger le faux. Les usages de l’écrit au Moyen Âge »

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