Exciting times this week as we work on the @rialibrary.bsky.social annual stocktake! Have to make sure the manuscripts haven’t gone on summer holidays without us 😂📖 @labnf.bsky.social MS Fr. 682, f. 2v

A great last day in Lewes (for now) with visits to the castle and Anne of Cleeve’s house! 🏰

This weekend I’ve been on an amazing Bloomsbury Group pilgrimage in Sussex, first stop Monk’s House owned by Virginia and Leonard Woolf as well as a detour to the Glyndebourne Opera Festival! 📖🎨

NBD, just hanging out with the Cathach, @rialibrary.bsky.social MS 12 R 33 dating to 560-600 AD and the oldest extant Irish manuscript of the Latin Psalter 🤩📜

Had a look today at a late medieval devotional miscellany in Irish now @rialibrary.bsky.social MS C ii 2 containing fun interlace initials and a copy of the Vision of Tundale, opening with a drawing of Tundale himself! 📜🎨

These little piggies! In honour of #theodyssey movie, here’s a fantastic scene of Circe transforming Odysseus’s men into pigs, from a French translation of Boccaccio‘s Of Famous Women dated 1403 and now @labnf.bsky.social MS Fr 598, f. 54v 🐷✨

A brilliant day giving a St Thomas Becket themed #churchcrawl tour to friends today of @cburycathedral.bsky.social! 🔔⚔️🎉

Having a blast with my student placement looking at the @rialibrary.bsky.social’s collection of printing blocks! 📖🎉

Library of the Royal Irish Academy@rialibrary.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two printing blocks; almost 150 years apart! In 1827, this block was used to print a facsimile of a handwritten statement by Fr Thomas Maguire, authenticating the published report of his public debate with Rev. Richard Pope on the doctrines of the Catholic Church. 1/2

Just back from a fantastic girls’ art and aperol trip to Firenze! So wonderful to see so many favourite works in person at the Uffizi Gallery 🎨🇮🇹🎉

A fun #churchcrawl to Bangor Cathedral today, thank you to Revd Broadbent for showing the AMARC crew the amazing medieval tiles! 🔔🎨

A fantastic @amarc.bsky.social Summer Meeting today on Welsh estate records hosted by @ystadaucymru.bsky.social and the @bangoruniversity.bsky.social archive collections team! 📜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎉

I’m on a boat! Excited to head to Wales for our @amarc.bsky.social Summer Meeting at Bangor University, and here’s an image of Noah’s Ark from the Book of Ballymote to celebrate, @rialibrary.bsky.social MS 23 P 12, f. i-v 🚢🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎉

Friday Fun at @rialibrary.bsky.social checking out the watermarks in our 1482 edition of Euclid’s Elementa! This endleaf is packed with user notes and more soon on its provenance 📖💡🎉

Spotted a fun printer’s device of an elephant and castle as well as a collation register today in a 1565 edition of Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi di Amore printed by Giorgio Cavalli of Venice! 🐘🏰📖

Thank you to everyone who came to hear about all things incunable and shout out to my placement student who displayed woodblocks! 🤗📖🎉 We’re also running a family-friendly print day on 19 August for those who want to join the fun! www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...

Ink & Innovation: A Family-Friendly Printing Workshop | National Heritage Week 15th – 23rd August 2026

The Royal Irish Academy Library welcomes visitors of all ages on Wednesday, 19 August (1-4pm) for a drop-in, family-friendly printing workshop and tours of the ...

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy@rialibrary.bsky.social · 4w ago

Thank you to everyone who braved the heatwave to join us for @liber-ray.bsky.social's Curator's talk and tour of Ink & Innovation!

What links this 1496 astronomical tract and the first President of Ireland? 📖🔎 Come find out tomorrow at our lunchtime Curator's Talk and Tour of the 'Ink & Innovation' exhibition by @liber-ray.bsky.social! Last few tickets available through the link below: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

A great visit to Lissadell House today, the childhood home of Countess Markievicz and her sister Eva Gore-Booth! 📖🎨

New toy! Got a fun light sheet to experiment on the paper and watermarks of our @rialibrary.bsky.social incunables and early printed pamphlets! 📖💡

Found the fantastic bookplate of Bulkeley Bandinel, the Bodley’s Librarian @bodleian.ox.ac.uk between 1813-1860 in an English Civil War pamphlet now in the Haliday collection of @rialibrary.bsky.social! 📖

My new manuscript tape measure has arrived! 😂🦊📏

Excited to see the Werwulf trailer today and all things medieval movie! The Doom painting looks like a fun version of the Chaldon mural! 🐺😈🔥

Hebrew Palaeography Question! Could anyone please help translate the inscription below, from the end leaves of a Latin Pocket Bible? The Latin inscription added afterwards shows the book was also owned by a Dominican friar, and the book is continental but was later in Oxford! 📖🔎

Three amazing presentations today by the @memsunikent.bsky.social crew Jemima Bennett, Anna-Nadine Pike and Kate McCaffrey for the 2026 @rebpaf.bsky.social ‘Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ conference in Dublin! 📖👏🎉

A fantastic tour of @chethamslibrary.bsky.social today on a research trip to Manchester! 📖🎉

Fantastic video by my bestie Niko for #PrideMonth! Stay tuned in the coming months for exciting news from us! 🤗🌈📖

Bodleian Libraries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 2mo ago

To celebrate #PrideMonth 2026 🌈 we are looking into past examples of expressions of LGBTQ+ love. Nicholas Kontovas, Bodleian Curator for Central Asia, puts the spotlight on the poetic works of Sultan Husayn Bayqara, who ruled the Timurid Empire at the turn of the 15th century. https://bit.ly/3Sfs7Pz

Back at work @rialibrary.bsky.social after my trip to see the amazing Stowe Missal (MS D ii 3) out as our manuscript of the week for library visitors! 🤗📜

Excited to see my piece with Elena Lolli now out in the Bodleian Library Record! We identified erasures in an early 14th-century Italian book of surgery (now @bodleianlibrary.bsky.social MS. Laud Misc. 651) as records of medieval Jewish pawnbrokers in Bologna, using UV images by Andrew Honey! 📜🎉

We had so much fun on our @rarebookschool.bsky.social Evidence in Handpress-Era Books course that my classmate and I got matching tattoo souvenirs from the 1630 edition of Robert Greene’s The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay printed by Elizabeth Allde in London! 📖🎉

Now you see him, now you don’t! Having fun learning how to compare editions and their printings on our amazing @rarebookschool.bsky.social Evidence in Handpress-Era Books course at the HRC! 📖🔎

Our inaugural courses at the Harry Ransom Center are underway this week with G-60 Evidence in Handpress-Era Books, 1450-1830 (taught by Aaron T. Pratt) and L-165 Literary Manuscripts (Stephen Enniss & Megan Barnard)! We're excited to be expanding our RBS offerings with this new partnership!

Dr Alison Ray@liber-ray.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to be in Austin, TX to attend @rarebookschool.bsky.social next week at the Harry Ransom Center! Happy for any tips on sightseeing and places to eat! 🐮📖