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• OLD ENGLISH: Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, / þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon...
• MIDDLE ENGLISH: Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, / The droghte of March hath perced to the roote...
• EARLY MODERN ENGLISH: To be, or not to be, that is the Question: / Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde...
April 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e
Part of a page of a medieval manuscript that had a hole cut into it. Underneath it is a restoration of a large decorated B, which would have been in this place, and which was restored by Eliza. The letter emulates the medieval style of script, but the image inside it is in a late 18th century style, showing a verdant tree standing against a green bucolic landscape.
March 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Righte ther wyth thee, 2,000-yeare-olde charred scroll, righte ther wyth thee.
News story shows a charred scroll and includes the headline "'Disgust' among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll"
February 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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A course covering medical colonialism just launched at McGill University in Montreal.

The course teaches students about systemic anti-Indigenous racism in Canada’s healthcare system.
Course on medical colonialism launches at McGill University | APTN News
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February 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Getting ready to teach my medieval manuscripts class this semester. First week of class we learn...the beautiful, condensed language of catalogue entries. I made this annotated graphic of one to show everything we learn from this brief entry.
A screenshot of a catalogue entry from the Cambridge University Library illuminated manuscript catalogue. I have overlaid this with my annotations. Here I will describe the original text and then my annotation on it, which I will precede with the word, NOTE. It goes like this: 178. Note: number of the manuscript as it appears in this catalogue Add. 4086. Note: Shelfmark see also Pl. LIX. Note: "plate" means an image, usually in color, elsewhere in the catalogue Horae. Note: Contents or title of the text in this manuscript, in this case a book of hours Use of Sarum. Note: Use refers to the rites as practiced ina certain region; here Salisbury (Sarum is Latin) England, London. Note: place where the manuscript was made S. xiv with a superscript 4/4. Note: S means century from Latin for saeculum; xiv is the 14th century; and 4/4 means the fourth quarter of the century. This whole thing means the manuscript was made in the fourth quarter of the 14th century. Parchment. Note: the writing support (what the pages are made of) ii + 121 + 1 fols. Note: this manuscript starts with two flyleaves, has 121 folios, and ends with 1 endleaf. 165 x 122 mm (133 x 90 mm). Note: these two separate measurements refer, respectively, to the size of the folios and the dimensions of the area on each ruled for text. ruled in red ink, below top line. Note: below top line is a method for determining whether a manuscript was copied before or after c.1220. rubrics, catchwords, 2o folio ipse est. Note; Secundo folio means the first words on the second folio of the manuscript, often the way a manuscript was catalogued in the Middle Ages.
January 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Did anyone else spend their breakfast thinking about the development of the letter [s] in the 11th and 12th century? No? Just me? Want to know why? Here comes some Breakfast Paleography…
January 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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How does a historian read a new study on evolutionary genetics of a pathogen involved in major human disease? Since I just gave a paper this weekend arguing that the field of #histmed can no longer ignore the work being done in aDNA, I'm going to give an account of how I'm reading a new paper. 1/n
January 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Cure for a migraine

BF MS NAF 16251; Images de la vie du Christ et des saints; 13th century; f.84v @labnf.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Lettering samples with ink and gouache 😎
December 22, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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Here are some nice mushrooms
A tiny bouquet of splitgill mushrooms growing on top of an upturned branch in front of a mossy log All photos by me
December 18, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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A horoscope with astrological figures suitable for the different stages of the preparation of the Philosopher's Stone.

BL Add MS 10302; Thomas Norton, Ordinal of Alchemy; 15th century; England; f.67v
December 14, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Oh wow! Potentially big news for the history of smallpox. Haoyue Zhao & Andrew Wilson have just posted their preprint of a study documenting osteomyelitis variolosa from Roman Britain. This bone condition suggests the presence of smallpox there in the 3rd/4thC. ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid... #histmed
A case of Osteomyelitis variolosa from Roman Britain, and the introduction of smallpox to the Roman world - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive
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November 30, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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Guys! How utterly perfect is this?? (So much love for my messy little illuminator friend)

From: noordboek.nl/boek/ezelsor...
A cartoon drawing or a medieval scriptorium. It’s adorable and with a lot of very accurate steps of the processs
November 27, 2024 at 3:16 PM
lucienell.bsky.social
1) Smal pair of scissors
2) Lipbalm
3) Bandaids
4) Dry whiteout
5) Bod £ (sentimental)
annapwilson.bsky.social Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social · Nov 14
1) Bluetooth earbuds (30% charge)
2) several pens
3) a green plastic necklace, scribbled paper or other small child ephemera
4) loose raisins
5) dramamine
meganlcook.bsky.social Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · Nov 14
1) Airpods (no charge)
2) Between 3 and 7 Muji .38mm tip gel ink pens in blue black
3) The Power Broker by Robert Caro (it's very heavy)
4) Stain removal pen
5) Coffee-stained legal pad with a mix of to-do notes, shopping lists, lesson plans, meeting agendas, and outlines for writing projects
November 18, 2024 at 3:34 AM