Dr Julia King

!!! They’re gorgeous! I’ve seen that little head before in another Syon ms I think, that must be 262/1? And of course that image of Christ is spectacular and that must be another leaf of the book that has the miniature of the monks in? So much to see 😍😍

Thank you to @ies-sas.bsky.social for hosting! We had the best time📚🤓

I would love this - perhaps a workshop? The Syon manuscripts at Exeter are top of my must-visit list at the moment, the finding aids are so useful!

Flyer for 'Unfolding Time' exhibition, with opening times 9:30-17:00 Monday to Friday and until 19:15 on Thursdays.

⌛ Final Week ⌛

Time is running out to visit our current exhibition:

'Unfolding Time: The Medieval Pocket Calendar' – closing 15 May. 🕰️

🔗Opening times + digital highlights:
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/unfolding-time

#UnfoldingTime #MedievalSky #BookHistory 📜

Kathleen this is so good!!! I'm thrilled for you, congratulations! (Though I will miss our London meet-ups, any chance you'll be coming our way before your grand return?)

A pleasure to write this paper, which stemmed from the excellent panel at @newchaucersociety.bsky.social 2022 - if you like to think about why we do what we do with 'big' manuscript data, the whole collection is worth your time!

Spot the surprise Pepys, which made me exclaim in an empty stack, ‘oooh, Pepys!’

Very helpful imprints.

Exciting!!!!! You’ve certainly piqued my interest!

We used the collections care studio clamps and drill, it was everything

A very early Christmas present for me 🥳 (It’s submitted!)

The article, for those interested in the Syon Abbesses (and who wouldn't be), is available in print and soon online, so feel free to reach out for a preprint! "Caput et domina: Abbesses and Women's Literary Leadership at Syon Abbey, 1415-1539", The Mediaeval Journal, 11:1 (2023 for 2021)

A cream coloured mug with a journal citation on it, with blue trim

I defy you all to find a better PhD supervisor than
Laura, who celebrated the recent release of the article that nearly broke me with a bespoke mug (It’s blue for the BVM, she says 💙)

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We’re here in the real world now! Follow for the illustrated liturgical calendar, stay for the woodcuts of porcupines 👀

Miss Costa Greene or Pierpont Morgan’s librarian caused this to be sent here with a request that an acknowledgement might be sent to Mr. Morgan

The acknowledgement, sent to Mr Morgan on 19 May 1920.

Belle da Costa Greene sighting in the collections 🤩 She brought a facsimile of the Gospels of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, and reminded the Archbishop to send a thank you note (which he did!)

Image of title page with a chronogram in place of the imprint

Image of acrostic colophon from the same volume

What do you all make of this chronogram? We can only get it to come out to 1573, but it should be 1576 😵‍💫 (Or so says the fun acrostic date at the end)

A burnt book, lying on a foam support. The edges are black like charcoal and the leather is so burnt it is separating from the top board.

I feel like I ought to do more than just wave hi (hi!) to everyone who’s been here for ages, so instead, please enjoy the most recent photo I took of an interesting thing I found at work - one of the remaining books damaged by a 1940 incendiary bomb (it’s crispy!)