Hannah Goeselt

Happy #fragmentfriday to all who celebrate, especially this little fellow, who I only can imagine is a recycled parchment doc used as a seal bag.

We Can't Live Like This Trump's ICE agents are wantonly breaking the law across the country, while he sends the national guard to forcibly occupy blue states. It's up to the good citizens of this country to oppose this uncon...

For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again.

burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...

Perfect baby

Deep dives into collectors and provenance research :)

Row of book spines on the subject of the history of the West Indies

On a better note, a Saturday shelfie with the Hart collection!

The online catalog at work has been getting slammed with bot traffic recently so if you find ABIGAIL timing out immediately after a search I am so sorry. We made an FAQ for it, even libanswers.masshist.org/faq/431698

Pink background with white text about applying for funding from the BSA for a book-related events by 3 November.

White background with dark pink text providing some details about the types of events BSA can fund

🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Check out this funding opportunity to support events in your community! 📖✨

📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

Scottish medieval plainchant as it may have been sung by Augustinian monks on the Feast day of St Columba (9th June) in the Abbey church on Inchcolm in the 13th & 14th century. The music is preserved in a 14th c. manuscript known as the Inchcolm Antiphoner MS 211, IV, f.2r #earlymusic #medieval

Join us @ the #medievalseminar next Monday, as we welcome @lauramorreale.bsky.social for a talk on the fascinating "Image du Monde" and its digital afterlives! 9/29, 5:30p, Barker 133. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social

#historyofcollections

It's nearly the Autumnal Equinox. The year continues to turn. Here's Stonehenge as depicted in the 16th century. #AutumnEquinox
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

Graphic says "Graduate Student Reception, September 17, 2025, 2:00-4:00 PM ET, Hybrid." Underneath is a photo of a room full of wooden tables with wooden walls. Men sit at two of the tables doing research.

Graduate students & faculty: Join us on September 17 for our Graduate Student Reception! Enjoy free refreshments and learn about the resources we offer to support your scholarship, from research fellowships to our seminars. Virtual attendees also welcome.

Register: www.masshist.org/events/gradu...

This was an excellent book, can't wait to listen 👍

A manuscript in the Libri Conciliorum of the Archives of the Order of Malta at the National Library of Malta, digitized by HMML's Malta Study Center.

The first 86 volumes of the Libri Conciliorum of the Archives of the Order of Malta at the National Library of Malta are now digitized and available online in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org).

Learn about the collections HMML has photographed at the National Library of Malta: hmml.org/collections/...

Fantastic little article about reproductions

Research Group on Manyscript Evidence 2026 ICMS call for papers to co-sponsored sessions

#kzoo2026 CFP: this year the RGME is co-sponsoring 5 sessions at next year's ICMS- more details and portals for submissions on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-in...

Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscript evidence from the medieval period survives until today in varying states of preservation, ranging from whole codices, small fragments, or somewhere in-between. Some exemplars, for example, were later palimpsested to accommodate new texts. One such case is shown in the image above. Now housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, this manuscript was acquired by Antoine d’Abbadie (1810–1897) during his travels in Ethiopia in the nineteenth century. While the overtext dates to the seventeenth century, the pages on which it was written were taken from at least four earlier manuscripts, ranging from the fourteenth (or possibly earlier) to the early sixteenth centuries. This written artefact, and other palimpsests like it in the Ethiopian and Eritrean context, was treated recently in Erho 2025. Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, ms. Ethiopien d’Abbadie 191, f. 96v. Gallica. Accessed 20 August 2025.

Donation List of ʾIyasus Moʾa from the gospel book of ʾIyasus Moʾa = EMML 1832 (1280/1281), recording the manuscripts that he donated to the monastery of Ḥayq ʾƎsṭifānos on his death in 1292. This important document is treated in my dissertation. Image courtesy of Meseret Oldjira.

‘We like lists because we don’t want to die’, said Umberto Eco. What drives our deep fascination with lists? PhD researcher Michael Hensley explores the meaning of Ethiopian and Eritrean book lists, offering glimpses into communities that would otherwise be lost:
uhh.de/csmc-hensley

Woodcut of hand-coloured Hollyhock surrounded by text in Latin and an early reader's marginalia

Hollyhock in the garden this morning & on the pages of Hieronymus Bock's Herbal, printed 473 years ago & coloured by hand.

This was such a treat to see after Leeds; loved also the Faddan More Psalter as part of this exhibit- 9th c. and found in a bog!

British Library Manuscripts Metadata Since the cyberattack of October 2023, the British Library has restored only a fraction of the manuscripts it digitized over the past decade-plus. Even for those MSS now back online, we have only t…

Update on the great discovery of archived BL manuscript metadata: I started putting together a page at my website to host PDFs of the archived pages I retrieve.

ruffnotes.org/british-libr...

#medievalsky

Big fan of the marks of use in this ms, especially this very confident inscription of its date by a later owner

IMC 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS: MEDIEVAL FRAGMENTS. Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), Durham University. Building on the success of Medieval Fragments at the IMC 2025, we would like to invite expressions of interest for 2026. Fragments,ever present across a great number of materials, are unique and tantalising windows to the past. Surviving as insertions in later textiles, in later buildings or as parts of bindings in manuscripts, fragments offer us layers of meaning: what were they, originally? What was their original purpose? And their later purpose? How have they survived? We understand fragments as physical pieces of any material. Some suggested topics are: - Manuscript fragmentology: collections of or individual fragments; selling and acquiring fragments; palaeographical and codicological analysis of fragments. - Any medieval fragments: Including but not limited to archaeological, architectural, textile, manuscript and incunabula fragments from anywhere within the medieval period. - Meaning, lives and usage: reconstructing the original object; the meaning of the original and of the fragment; original and later life and use of the fragment. - Methodology: Methods and techniques to work with fragments, manuscript or otherwise, including digital methods and digital projects. Please send us a short abstract (c. 300 words) and CV to Dr Manuel Muñoz García (manuel.munoz-garcia@durham.ac.uk) no later than September 15. We look forward to hearing from you!

No rest for the wicked! We’re now reciving expressions of interest @imems.bsky.social for our session(s) at @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 on MEDIEVAL FRAGMENTS.

Have a look at our CfP, and do get in touch with any proposals or questions. Also, please share if you can!

A view of the audience at the session.

Lisa Fagin Davis introducing the session in front of the Leeds International Medievalist Congress banner.

The 2nd day of the sessions sponsored by #DigitalMedievalist at the #IMC2025 is coming to an end with roundtable on digital tools chaired by @lisafdavis.bsky.social with contributions from many fantastic digital medievalists.
@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

Busy getting everything ready for UK travel but this week a researcher found some great ms binding waste (from the Winthrop Library again) & its worth a small #fragmentfriday share

2025 International Medieval Congress at Leeds: RGME Program - We announce the Program for our scholarly events at the 2025 IMC at Leeds, including five sessions including a roundtable, to explore "Manuscripts as Worlds of Learning" and "Knowledge Games" as trans...

#IMC2025 is fast approaching, and we are very excited this year to be sponsoring four sessions as well as a roundtable. We'll see you there!
A detailed overview of the session programs are found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-in...

For #fragmentfriday today we've got some great in-situ binding waste acting as the cover of Weyer's De Praestigiis Daemonum (Basel: Iohannes Oporinum, 1566)

We thank Dana Delibovi for her thoughtful blogpost on translations of Boethius in English through the ages.

New Web Tool: Transcriptions and Annotations for Manuscript Research

Introducing TAMAR: our new open-access web tool lets you display digitised manuscripts side-by-side with transcriptions or additional info. Originally developed in a project on Biblia pauperum manuscripts, TAMAR is adaptable for a wide range of research purposes:
uhh.de/csmc-tamar

The moment of prepping for Strawberry Festival is here

And we're live! Invest in your research and book your place on our new, £200, fully online 1-week courses today!

Manuscripts Up Close: An Introduction to Codicology: rb.gy/u9taoi

Working with Early Printed Books, 1476-1700: rb.gy/9bfsez