Dr Leah Veronese
@leahveronese.bsky.social
She/her. Early modernist. Postdoc on @stemma.bsky.social at @uniogalway.bsky.social. PhD on Petition. Lover of manuscripts 💖💜💙
We still have room at all of it: ink workshop, palaeography training, Steven May lecture, mini-symposium, and transcribathon. There will even be sandwiches. Join us!
Meghan Kern@meghankern.bsky.social · 4w agoAnd on the 24th, an equally open transcribathon, both in person (in the same room), and online, hosted by Prof Joshua Eckhardt, with participants from 3 countries and counting
Come figure it out with us. @stemma.bsky.social is hosting an open (to everyone) Early Modern palaeography training session on the afternoon of 23rd July, at @universityofgalway.bsky.social in the Arts Millenium Building, Room AMB-G012
Submitted a new article for the first time since June 2024 😁🥳
Manuscript event! ECR funding! Join us!
STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse@stemma.bsky.social · last mo.As promised! The @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social has generously provided support for two days of public-facing ms activities this July. The events will be free of charge, and there is funding for ECR travel (defined as ≤7 years post-PhD, with preference for those not yet in permanent employment). 1/
As promised! The @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social has generously provided support for two days of public-facing ms activities this July. The events will be free of charge, and there is funding for ECR travel (defined as ≤7 years post-PhD, with preference for those not yet in permanent employment). 1/
STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse@stemma.bsky.social · 2mo agoSTEMMA will be hosting its inaugural Manuscripts Week this year starting 20 July. Watch our socials for details, including opportunities to get involved.
Serving Hat Portrait realness. Already so deeply camp
STEMMA will be hosting its inaugural Manuscripts Week this year starting 20 July. Watch our socials for details, including opportunities to get involved.
And relatedly, the bap creed
When you really need brunch 🥓🍳
What's your reading style? Over stimulated spaniel. 🐕 Robert Burton Anatomy of Melancholy
Does MS actually stand for Mouse Snack? 🤔🐭 Summary Catalogue, Vol.III, p.321
They just don't write love poetry like they used to 🪰❤️ (Thomas Carew, 'When this flie lived', in Rosenbach MS 239/27)
Morning affirmations. Is this the most miserable manuscript I've ever worked on? Maybe. Excited to present my new research from the @stemma.bsky.social project at the British and Irish Spenser Seminar today
Love some poetic waste paper ☕ Marginal note recorded in Summary Catalogue description of Rawl. poet. 25 @stemma.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 'The Originall Copy is by mee. Given me by my Brother Mr John Woodford who bought it among other broken books to putt up Coffee pouder, as I remember.'
HELP WANTED!! @stemma.bsky.social I am working on Folger MS V.b.370, a self-proclaimed 'Rich Cabinet'. The compiler clearly loved giving their MSS ostentatious titles, my favourite being 'My Merchant Ship Laden with Variety of Wares'. Ever come across these MSS titles below? Please get in touch 1/3
Casually using the @stemma.bsky.social dataset as an Early Modern RIP.ie Several epitaphs today, including this one: 'On Mr John Davnant Who died on Thursday, Aprill the 18 1622 being thee Mayor of Oxford. Dedicated to the Worthlesse and Witlesse Townsmen' [Folger MS V.a. 103, f. 22r] #folgerfinds
In code? Is it just how words start to look at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon? [Data from Bodleian MS Add. B. 106, f. 28v]
The incredible double hammer beam angel roof in the Church of St. Mary & All Saints, Willingham, Cambridgeshire 🤩 Dating to the 15th century, or slightly earlier, it was relocated here in the early 17th century, probably from nearby Barnwell Priory.
Was here on choral business. Had NO idea it was Milton and Bunyan's old haunt!!!? ❤️
I love this. It's exactly how the sun makes me feel too. At least for the few minutes before I get overheated and have to retreat into the shade. Hannah Frank, "Sun" (1943) artuk.org/discover/art...
I really hope Edmund thought 'wheeeeeeeee' whenever he wrote those descenders
Just got new team photos for a forthcoming website update. Here's a sneak peek! 🤩
Brutal reading for a Leah 🤣🤣🙈🙈 'Heaven is like Rachel, Faire and Comelie, and courted by All. All desire faire Rachel. Repentance is like Leah, Tender and Blear Eyed, with teares and sorrow. and is neglected by most'.
Embroidered binding for 'The Book of Common Prayer' and bookmark, possibly by Broderers Company, embroidered in London, ca. 1634 (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
