Once carrying chant, now carrying contents: this liturgical #manuscript fragment is recycled as the cover of a small storage case. Just one of the many examples of the afterlives of medieval manuscripts! #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

Our 2026 Summer meeting has come to a close, with huge thanks to @archpbu.bsky.social for hosting such an excellent day ☀️📜 #Manuscripts #Archives #Bangor

We rely on the fantastic support from Cambridge Colleges' Conservation Consortium whenever one of our MSS leaves on loan Sometimes the loan item is exceptionally special 📖⛪🤩 Head of Conservation, Flavio Marzo, offers a peak to the back-stage: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/bri... #medievalMSS

Bringing to Life the Gospels: Conservation’s Role in the Loan of the St Augustine Gospels

Conservation is a complex field that covers much more than simply repairing and physically preserving items for the future.

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Searching for: Lecturer in Medieval Literature Location: Newcastle, GB DL: 9 July 2026 Fixed Term, 10 months Sept 2026 - June 2027 Salary: £36,636 to £38,784 jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Blooming borders! 🏵️🌺🌼💮🌹 Ordinal and Martyrology of Exeter, CCCC MS 93 fully digitised and available with CC BY-NC 4.0 licensing: parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...

The cfp for next year’s MAMO (the Middle Ages in the Modern World) conference is live! We’ve got amazing keynote panels, speakers, and special events- check it out!! themamo.org

It is with sadness that we note the passing of Professor John Hatcher (1942-2026), Life Fellow of our College and such an important figure for the successful delivery of Parker Library On the Web Just recently we had a chance to hear him remember the early days: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/amb...

Ambition and Achievement

Professor John Hatcher thinks back to the obstacles that the large-scale manuscript digitisation project at the Parker Library encountered in the early years

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This is pretty cool.

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Complete text of carbonised Herculaneum scroll unlocked for first time reut.rs/44tj9kt

Hello folks who work with digitized manuscripts. What is your preferred metadata format? If you could get ONE, what would it be? TEI, Json, a spreadsheet, MARC, or something else? Please let me know and share this query! This is important!

Job alert! British Library seeks a Curator for their Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts DL 12 July tinyurl.com/25fs9kun #medievalMSS

Friendship that spans over two millenia! Two @uoftcms.bsky.social colleagues catching up in the best library for medieval manuscript enthusiasts @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social

It is such a joy to work in a small library with such an amazing & varied collection Working with the Parker ECRF Alex van Dijk has taught me so much about the books in our collection which are textually inaccessable to me - I don't read the scripts or know the languages

The Parker Library@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our new exhibition (June&July) opened on Corpus Christi Day 'Travellers and Scriptures: Looking East at the Parker' gives an impression of European engagements with the Arabic & Persianate east through our medieval & early modern books www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-libra... #BookSky #MedievalMSS

Confession: entropy was not part of my vocabulary, had to look it up It is now part of my top 10 words - sounds nice and I can so relate to the concept

The Parker Library@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Journalist Christopher Donlan paid us a vist & wrote a lovely piece reflecting on the long view of the past and how our task (as entrusted to us by Matthew Parker) is to combat against loss of knowlege: The Archbishop’s Library - An audit against entropy #Booksky 📖 www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

Always fun to see The Library dressed up in full regalia. So many beautiful views of the Parker Library 😍

The Parker Library@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a day! Feast of Corpus Christi on 4 June: showing College silver along with new exhibition: Travellers and Scriptures: Looking East at the Parker Choral Eucharist & Evensong, motets on New Court, feast in Hall & admission of Baroness Katherine Willis CBE and Murray Gold as Honorary Fellows 🎵🎉

PhD with skills in medieval MSS & Latin needed! Post-doctoral Research Fellow for 30 months (with the possibility of extension) to support the AHRC-Funded project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain, c.1200-1500’ jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow: AHRC Project ‘Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain’

The University of Southampton is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral Research Fellow for 30 months (with the possibility of extension). The Fellow will support the AHRC-Funded project 'Strange Geograph...

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🚨Last chance to join us for the DMSI 2026 at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Gain hands-on experience in #digital methods adapted to medieval texts and images. 📆Jul 10 2026 📍Leeds, UK ▶️ tinyurl.com/5cm6ymn7 And if you have already registered for the IMC, you can still add DMSI to your registration.

Two returns, two leaves Two of our manuscripts are now on loan to @sainsburycentre.bsky.social in Norwich for the current exhibition 'Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval' www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-libra... Definitely worth a visit! #MedievalMSS

Parker on Loan

Living by the Rule in Norwich 16 May – 4 October 2026 Two of the Parker Library manuscripts have gone on their merry way to an exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. The exhibition Living by t...

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Ha! Always a pleasure to see one of ours in action 📖🎵😍 CCCC MS 391, a.k.a. St Wulfstan's Portiforium (breviary from c. 1060s) is digitised & free to view (along with all our medieval and early-modern mss) on Parker Library On the Web: parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal... #MedievalMSS

Francesca Tinti@francescatinti.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reacquainting myself with St Wulfstan’s Portiforium

Looking for Medieval Latin philologists: Postdoc specializing in Digital Philology in München job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/4...

Postdoc opportunity! The Dictionary of Old English invites applications for two grant-funded postdoctoral fellowships. 1. Postdoctoral Fellow, Editorial, DOE - deadline June 12. 2. Postdoctoral Fellow, DEfOE / Ansund project - deadline June 19. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/postdoc...

Hairy text! Surely a Jersey calf here? Durham Cathedral MS A.III.12.

Postdoctoral Fellowships with the Dictionary of Old English Deadline June 12, 2026 www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/postdoc...

The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, invites applications for two grant-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Dictionary of Old English. @uoftcms.bsky.social www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

Jobs For Medievalists

The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, invites applications for two grant-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Dictionary of Old English.

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Always exciting to see Parker Library's collections being put in good use! And both manuscripts & early-printed books mentioned It is such a treat to be able to help to provide access to @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social, both in physical & digital forms. 🥰👏🎉

Caitlín Rankin-McCabe@rankinmccabe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you're interested in #ChristopherMarlowe, you might like to read my new note on Marlowe as an auditor of the ParkerLibrary's collections in Cambridge. Thanks to Tuija @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social for all your help! 🗺️📚🌎 @marlowemightyln.bsky.social @marlowestudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/note...

HMML is hiring a "Cataloger, West African Manuscripts," a full-time, benefits-eligible, remote position. Details: https://bit.ly/4njwcgW The Cataloger will participate in HMML's effort to catalog Islamic manuscripts recently digitized in Mali. This is a one-year, grant-funded position. #LibraryJobs

Come and join @amarc.bsky.social this Friday for a fantastic afternoon on business archives showcasing amazing collections and their users! 📜🎉

AMARC @amarc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨Booking is now open for our AMARC Spring Event🚨 Exploring Business Archives: Collections and their Use 💻Virtual seminar hosted by the University of Glasgow 🕰️24th April 2026, 13.00-16.30 For booking and a schedule, see our website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/for...

🚨Booking is now open for our AMARC Spring Event🚨 Exploring Business Archives: Collections and their Use 💻Virtual seminar hosted by the University of Glasgow 🕰️24th April 2026, 13.00-16.30 For booking and a schedule, see our website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/meetings/for...

Our collection of MSS and early-printed books have reached us in a variety of ways Matthew Parker (obvsly) bequethed us his large library but there's been many smaller donations too In honour of equippers of libraries 🏛️📖😍: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/don... #MedievalMSS #BookHistory #EarlyModern

Donors of Learning, Benefactors of Knowledge

Read some highlights of early donors and benefactors of the Parker Library

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King Offa (d. 796) portrayed c. 1435 in the Register of Benefactors of the Monastery of St Albans There are numerous illustrations that represent the benefactors, a few as full figures but mostly as busts or heads CCCC MS 7, f. 103r tinyurl.com/yhx9m4y4 #MedievalMSS

I love this photo of Saint Luke with piles of manuscripts in his lap from the Gospel Book of Otto III (c. 1000 CE) (Manuscript (Clm. 4453), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich). Probably projection, but he looks traumatized by all the reading he still needs to do before the end of the semester.