@bryonycoombs.bsky.social
Art Historian I Medieval and Early Modern, PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS Renaissance Teaching Fellow, Edinburgh Uni Franco-Scottish cultural connections: art, architecture and material culture. https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs https://bryonycoombs.com
Front board of a 15th c. book with a c. 1578 doodle of a man (?) in a tunic with a large, later woodcut crest bookplate on top of it that appears to have been slightly peeled away!
HAD to put the bookplate there, didn't you...
10.11.2025 17:16 โ ๐ 75 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0
Very interested in this... when can I get to Norway?
www.nb.no/hva-skjer/th...
I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works:
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast
I had a great time recently chatting with @cjfaraday.bsky.social about 'Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance' for the 'British Art Matters' Podcast. I am in the company of some wonderful authors discussing their (and others) works:
www.walpolesociety.org.uk/podcast
I think a join eca / Celtic and Scottish Studies manuscript workshop series might be an idea... lots of crossover to explore at some level in the future...
06.11.2025 18:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This afternoon I ran an embodied manuscripts workshop at Edinburgh CRC and we looked at some extraordinary manuscripts (just look at CRC MS 19๐๐), and I had the opportunity to spend time talking to some very interesting, engaged and enquiring students - honestly what could be better? Thank you LAMPS
06.11.2025 18:46 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ohh look at this:
06.11.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1ICYMI TOMORROW my colleague Nick Herman will show off our new-to-us Flemish book of hours - Noon ET on Zoom, registration link is in the quoted skeet.
05.11.2025 20:32 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This might include book history, textual transmission, the making and use of manuscripts, publishing, printing, bookbinding, book-ownership and book-collecting. These awards are intended to support research that advances the understanding of book cultures from all parts of the World.
04.11.2025 12:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0CFP: โEmbodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern Worldโ
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
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none of this friendly pumpkin nonsense....
31.10.2025 21:13 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Amazing! ๐
31.10.2025 21:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0terrifying!
31.10.2025 21:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0These are the terrifying Halloween carved turnips of my youth....
31.10.2025 17:14 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0๐คฉ
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Had a meeting in the Scottish National Gallery yesterday and just enough time to reacquaint myself with what is on view...
Was interested to see evidence for scribal work with a couple of quills with plumes still attached and some lovely details of MS pen-work...
The university is threatening cuts on a massive scale with little to no justification. Truly surreal moment in HE.
29.10.2025 07:59 โ ๐ 59 ๐ 38 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2
Dorbรฉne's copy of Adomnรกn's Life of Columba.
Oct 28: Feast of Dorbรฉne mac Altaรญniย (โ 713), abbot of Iona. Scribe of the earliest surviving copy of Adomnรกnโs Life of Columba. Fรกelchรบ mac Dorbรฉni succeeded him. ๐ธStadtbibliothek Schaffhausen #medievalsky
28.10.2025 08:49 โ ๐ 24 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2We are very pleased to be working with @ihr.bsky.social and @findmypast.bsky.social on this new Applied History Fellowship programme.
The launch event on Weds 19 November bit.ly/49vcgCS provides further details of the scheme and how to apply #Skystorians
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Edited by Andrรฉ Stufkens
More info: bit.ly/47H0Jz7
#Illumination #llustration #Manuscripts #Literature #ManuscriptStudies #MedievalTwitter #ArtHistory #MedievalArt
six views of Beinn Sgritheall, a word-mntn for Loch Hourn; the the-ben-of-screes
27.10.2025 07:42 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This event was a real joy. Merci beaucoup pour l'invitation!
25.10.2025 20:25 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Thank you all for joining us to celebrate Franco-Scottish friendship and the 730th anniversary of the #AuldAlliance! We were delighted to organize two inspiring conferences with Dr. Bryony Coombs and Clarisse Godard Desmarest as well as a wonderful choir concert at St Giles' Cathedral
24.10.2025 12:38 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Detail of 15th c. book with cat (?) paw prints!
Open book with several paw prints.
Pink Panther Returns?!
#Caturday
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 5656)
Found a joyful fragment in my collection: a 15th-century parchment leaf once reused in a bookbinding! ๐ถ
It preserves Tantum ergo Sacramentum โ the Eucharistic hymn by Thomas Aquinas โ complete with neumes and traces of blind-stamped leather.
#BookHistory
#Fragmentology
There are still 5 spots left in my upcoming workshop on โThe Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writingโ!
You can sign up below (and please DM me if you have questions!).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It has been a big week, with a lot of talking to people. Now to catch-up on all the other things...
25.10.2025 09:19 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This early 16th century collection of papal letters dealing with the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine has a secret - a scrap of unidentified earlier manuscript that lurks in the depths of the spine. What could it be? We donโt know. (UPenn Ms. Codex 85) #medievalsky
๐: https://bit.ly/473znDa
#EpigraphyTuesday - A stunning piece discovered in 2014 in the Galloway Hoard. A Roman rock-crystal column-head, repurposed and mounted in gold, ca. 8-9th Century, to serve as a small container for liquids. #Archaeology #Art ๐บ (1/2)
Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.2018.12.71.18.1).
