If you enjoyed Jo Story's fabulous keynote paper on Monday, do join us for our three main project sessions tomorrow! We will be presenting many of our exciting findings in early #medieval #palaeography, art history and #manuscript studies in public for the first time. #IMC2026 #Insular

Really looking forward to this lecture by Jo Story on the @insularmss.bsky.social project, on insular manuscripts and cross-European connections. #IMC2026

eManuSkript is a browser-based, modular platform for teaching and research in manuscript studies. By combining specialized apps with guided tutorials, eManuSkript brings together in one environment tools for image processing, layout analysis, annotation, and the study of material structures.

So glad that it's finally out! What a privilege to have been involved with the eManuSkript project. emanuskript.vercel.app

Annette von Stockhausen@avstockhausen.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 3mo ago

Bookmarked: eManuSkript https://emanuskript.vercel.app/ #DH #Handschriften #Paläographie #Tools eManuSkript: A Digital Toolkit for Teaching and Learning Medieval Manuscripts

Notarial Archives Foundation Ġilduża Project on Malta Revives Parchment Making share.google/MdGsXJFHO3Sh.... A wonderful week for @erc.europa.eu #Codicum #HerdPath #INSULAR See more @ #CODICUM - Parchment Production Malta share.google/QWKLgmywCTiS...

Malta Revives Parchment Making Tradition Through International Workshop

The Ġilduża Project has reached a milestone with an international parchment-making workshop aimed at reviving the craft in Malta

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48 #Manuscripts digitized this week by the #Vatican, www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... includes a bunch of Coptic biblical fragments, Classics, Bede, and early date for William of Moerbek, liturgical commentary and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 12 of 2026

A total of forty-eight manuscripts were digitized in the past week. The largest set, twenty-three, were from Ott.lat, as has been the recent trend. The second largest group was from one of the casse...

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Jess Hodgkinson from the @insularmss.bsky.social project discussing dry point annotations in Insular mss and photometric stereo imaging as a cutting edge technology to retrieve them!

One of our project members, Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson, will be presenting the results of some of her amazing research here. Do tune in!

Ana de Oliveira Dias@ana0dias.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Only a few tickets left! But the good news is that you can join us via Teams! 🎉 Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eec9de... The countdown has started 🥁 #medievalsky #manuscripts #science #history

The programme is out 📣 Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages! A two-day colloquium organised by the #CraftingDocuments project in partnership with the @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social (We are working on hosting it as a hybrid event. more soon) Registration info 👇🏼 #medievalsky

Our most famous manuscript, available on Parker Library On the Web: tinyurl.com/4a62s8s6 In case you havent noticed, you can have a copy of this too! Download full manuscript pdf directly from the image viewer for you personal enjoyment 📖 We have released all our images with CC BY-NC 4.0 licensing

Ennius@enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 10mo ago

18th October is the feast of St Luke the Evangelist who is depicted in this text which may have been brought with the missions to Kent in 597 CE or 601 CE. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 286; Gospels of St Augustine; 6th century; Italy; f.129v @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social

Next Wednesday 8th October, 12.30-1.30: Jiří Vnouček on "A Tale of Two Parchments" - insular and continental parchment preparation. In person: @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Weston Library, Lecture Theatre Or livestreamed. Free: book here visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...

A tale of two parchments

In this talk, Dr. Jiří Vnouček discusses differences in species choice and membrane preparation of 'Insular' and 'Continental' parchment used for book-making in the early Middle Ages.

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Here is a controversial - or maybe not so controversial? - #palaeography question: how did this scribe do the rolled tops on ascenders and the letter i? Was it by pushing the pen up and to the left, then down and to the right? Or were these additional downward strokes?

We're hiring for e-codices. The position is modest, but, hopefully it'll be the start of something big. www.unifr.ch/sp/en/open-p...

I recently finished cataloging the Arabic-script manuscripts of the National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Over 750 manuscripts in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Bosnian, free to view in the HMML Reading Room w3id.org/vhmml/readin...

Congratulations to our Leicester early medieval colleague, Professor Joanna Story (@insularmss.bsky.social), on being elected a Fellow of the British Academy!

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · last yr.

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

And marvellous Jo Story @uniofleicester.bsky.social too: fantastic and so well-deserved. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/joan...

Our PI Prof. Joanna Story is one of the newly elected Fellows! Her work on early medieval Insular sources, including interdisciplinary approaches to text and material culture, continues to break new ground in the INSULAR project.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last yr.

The lovely time of the year when we announce our newly elected Fellows - a range of extraordinary scholars. Plus four new fantastic Hon Fellows - Lindsey Hilsum, @richove.bsky.social, Lubaina Himid and Judith Weir. Congratulations and welcome! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...

Update on Fragmentology (www.fragmentology.ms ): the journal's back online. Submissions at the moment can be made directly to fragmentarium@unifr.ch. In other news, Wesleyan UL has published their Ege "Oriental" leaves. We're always happy for help decolonizing them. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-d...

The deadline for this job is this coming Monday!

INSULAR@insularmss.bsky.social · last yr.

There's an exciting new 3-year job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of our project! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht... We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography

And more decorated/illuminated letters to download and print and print for free, and then colour in. Good for children in the holidays, teachers who want a bit of a quiet time (!!), and adults who want to spend some time thinking only of what colours to use! www.patricialovett.com/mediaeval-de...

Dot Porter@leoba.bsky.social · last yr.

This is AMAZING!! I love it!

There's an exciting new 3-year job in Göttingen (Germany) available as part of our project! www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht... We need someone with experience in manuscript studies and early medieval Germanic vernaculars. Digital humanities skills an advantage! Deadline: 14 July. #palaeography

🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔? No... Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ... 👇

3/5: The brilliance is in the details: neck rings show the calf's age, tension lines reveal stretching techniques, repair stitches identify different craftsmen's work, and even parasites tell us about animal health. Nothing is merely a "flaw" - everything is evidence!

2/5: What excites me most is how each parchment sheet reveals a complete narrative - from living animal to finished writing surface. The 346 calfskins used across three volumes preserve evidence of medieval animal husbandry, craft techniques, and workshop practices.

🧵 1/5: I'm THRILLED to see Jiří Vnouček's paper on the Hamburg Bible's parchment finally published with such stunning illustrations (73 in all)! This research shows how a careful reading of parchment tells a rich story of its creation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📕 I am glad to see that this volume to which your humble narrator contributed is finally out in Open Access. Enjoy! 🔗 punctumbooks.com/titles/the-a... #medievalsky

Woooohoooo! Blow the trumpets, drum the drums! Just got an advance copy of my new book! Drum those drums and blow trumpets blow, and pop that cork! It’s always exciting!!

Wie haben professionelle Schreiber im frühen Mittelalter neue Schriften gelernt und miteinander gearbeitet? Unsere Historikerin Anna Dorofeeva vom Institut für #DigitalHumanities untersucht dies an rund 850 Handschriften: www.campuspost.goettingen-campus.de/2025/01/21/a...

Yesterday listened to Prof Joanna Story's fascinating talk (thanks @ghilondon.bsky.social) about @insularmss.bsky.social ERC AdG Project on identifying provenance of Early Medieval insular-style manuscripts with #Biocodicology (protein & aDNA analysis) – much like the Nordic CODICUM ERC Project!

A great paper by Jo Story @insularmss.bsky.social at the @ghilondon.bsky.social last night, including a mention of Vienna cod. 15: a sixth-century copy of Livy, owned by an 8th-c. bishop 'of Dorestad'. bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de/view/onb_cod...