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Tuija Ainonen
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Medieval and early modern manuscripts and libraries

Sub-Librarian / Special Collections Librarian at The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social

My posts, my views and interests - not my employer's
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Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social · Nov 29
Very modest starter pack for accounts that post mainly about medieval manuscripts and libraries - let me know how many I missed and I'll be happy to add you / your suggestions

#MedievalMSS

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tainonen.bsky.social
So, you're a medievalist? What do you do? Study dragons and stuff?

Well....

(check the alt text for links to the source manuscripts held @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social)
Dragons interlaced with vines inside a stylised capital O CCCC MS 253, f. 65r Fully digitised: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/dy778wn8940 Green angry dragon ith red wings surrounded by red and blue flowers and green foliage and a random gold decorative drop. CCCC MS 91, f. 1r Fully digitised: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/sf288jz3772 Mother and baby sleeping with a seven headed dragon beast of apocalypse watching over them CCCC MS 394, f. 36r Fully digitised: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/yc646yt3082 Stylised dragon screaming with tongue out CCCC MS 158, f. 3r Fully digitised: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/sp902vq7011
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
15 and + years 🎉
Our teenage years online are all about unrestricted screentime

Go and explore Parker Library On the Web and find our 560 medieval and early modern manuscripts

www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/cel...
Celebrating 15 years of Parker Library On the Web
The Parker Library guards the legacy of Matthew Parker: a remarkable heritage that is safe, unharmed and yet accessible to all through Parker Library On the Web
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
tainonen.bsky.social
Post-doctoral Mellon Fellowships or early career medievalists
Pontifical Instute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
DL 1 Feb 2026

For more information, see:
pims.ca/article/post...
Description of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Post-Doctoral Fellowship, taken from a poster circulating in the email lists in the field. Part 1. Contains an image taken from a medieval manuscript without any attribution. Description of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Post-Doctoral Fellowship, taken from a poster circulating in the email lists in the field. Part 2.
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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curatorconnelly.bsky.social
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍

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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
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November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
tainonen.bsky.social
Monday mood

Baldwin of Ford (d. 1190) focused on writing his text On the sacrament of the altar (De sacramento altaris)

CCCC MS 200, f. 1r (c. 1184-1190s) - fully digitised and online:
tinyurl.com/4s9v9j9t
Bearded man sitting at a sloping desk, under an arch that forms part of the capital letter A. He is dressed in an archbishop's mitre, light pink chasuble with pall, green dalmatic, and alb. Background is decorated with gold. Image taken from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 200, f. 1r that contains Baldwin of Ford's text on the Sacrament of the altar (De sacramento altaris).
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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richove.bsky.social
Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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komldsp.bsky.social
And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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laurajcleaver.bsky.social
How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts – an online short course taught by Anna Somfai
This course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The course explores medieval Western philosophical and scientific manuscripts produced over the spa…
palaeography.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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benpohl.bsky.social
Love medieval manuscripts? Love public libraries? Love Bristol? Don’t miss this FREE exhibition: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=250...
Medieval Manuscripts at Bristol Central Library
A rare opportunity to view a selection of medieval manuscripts from our collections. Highlights from this unique display include a richly decorated Book of Hours, a Missal made for St Augustine’...
bristol.events.mylibrary.digital
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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drdavidrundle.bsky.social
Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
MEMS to Host the Fifteenth Century Conference 2026
www.kent.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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siobhanconvery.bsky.social
📢 Delighted to announce that our Visiting Research Fellowships scheme for 2026 is now open for applications. Wonderful collections, world-class library & a brilliant @uofglasgow.bsky.social team to support you. Find out more 👇
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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matthewholford.bsky.social
Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
A magical text written in the 16th century on the previously blank margin of an earlier liturgical manuscript. Part of the original liturgical text can be seen at the bottom of the leaf. The leaf would originally have been part of the outer margin of a large leaf but has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
tainonen.bsky.social
3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!

Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️

tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
We're delighted to digitally contribute to @theul.bsky.social Curious Cures project

Curator James Freeman highlights some of way Middle English medical writings have survived to us:
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=30906

One more month to catch the physcial exhibition, do not miss it!
In their own words: medical writings in Middle English – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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amarc.bsky.social
🗞️Newsletter alert🗞️

Issue 85 of the AMARC newsletter is en route to our members, which means Issue 84 is now available online - take a look!

amarcsite.wordpress.com/newsletters-...
Newsletters 81-90
AMARC Newsletter No. 81: Newsletter81 AMARC Newsletter No. 82: Newsletter82 AMARC Newsletter No. 83: Newsletter83 AMARC Newsletter No. 84: Newsletter84
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October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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etreharne.bsky.social
In the midst of a long-overdue update to Stanford Text Technologies. If you want to get a sense of what the project does, head over to texttechnologies.stanford.edu
Stanford Text Technologies
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October 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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amarc.bsky.social
🚨Manuscripts Event🚨

Heritage Science and Manuscripts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages

📆13-14 November
📍The Queen's College, Oxford
ana0dias.bsky.social Ana de Oliveira Dias @ana0dias.bsky.social · Oct 23
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
October 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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laurajcleaver.bsky.social
The @ies-sas.bsky.social online Winter School in Jan. 2026 includes courses by Michelle Brown (the Medieval Book); Anna Somfai (Medieval Scientific and Philosophical mss); and dream team @manuelmunoz.bsky.social @rozierhistorian.bsky.social and me (History Books). Book👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
IES: LIPS & LRBS Winter School | 2026
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October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
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
October 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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carinr.bsky.social
Rana et Bufo!

@byrhtferth.bsky.social has translated Frog and Toad into Latin and he reads it for you: youtu.be/PrA0Xq15etU?...

(Fortunately, the style is more Damian than Byrhtferth.)
Rana et Bufo: Ver (Frog and Toad in Latin)
YouTube video by MedievalFleming
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October 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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mqassiti.bsky.social
Here, on the occasion of #InternationalTranslationDay, MS Reykjavík, GkS 1812 IV, 4°, fol. 34v with Arabic star names in Latinised form and Old Icelandic translation. The glossary is the oldest Scandinavian source containing Arabic terms.
#medievalsky #histsci
handrit.is/manuscript/v...
page from manuscript Reykjavík, GkS 1812 IV, 4°, fol. 34v.
September 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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marshslibrary.bsky.social
We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
October 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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amarc.bsky.social
🚨AMARC GRANTS: upcoming deadline🚨

We give grants of up to £500 to projects that promote the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives.

📅Deadline: 1 November

Read more on our website: amarcsite.wordpress.com/grants/
Grants
AMARC awards small grants in support of initiatives that are in line with our objective of promoting the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives of all periods. AMARC invi…
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October 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Happening this Friday!
rgmemss.bsky.social Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social · Oct 7
Next Week: We invite you all to the RGME 2025 Autumn Symposium, "Readers, Fakers, and Re-Creators of Books: From Page to Marketplace and Beyond". This event will be held online October 17-19; more details and registration found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...
Poster for Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Autumn Symposium, 17-19 October 2025
October 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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richove.bsky.social
MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM