Dr Alison Ray
@liber-ray.bsky.social
Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Had great peek at the @rialibrary.bsky.social manuscript of the week! The O’Gara manuscript (RIA MS 23 F 16) is a 17th-century collection of Irish bardic poetry copied on the continent by Augustinian friar and scribe Feargal Dubh Ó Gadhra from now-lost medieval works. 📜✍️
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Had great peek at the @rialibrary.bsky.social manuscript of the week! The O’Gara manuscript (RIA MS 23 F 16) is a 17th-century collection of Irish bardic poetry copied on the continent by Augustinian friar and scribe Feargal Dubh Ó Gadhra from now-lost medieval works. 📜✍️
A fun look today at @rialibrary.bsky.social’s manuscript of the week! The 15th-century Leabhar Breac / The Speckled Book (RIA MS 23 P 16) is a collection of religious, literary and historical works, including the lives St Patrick, St Brigid and Alexander the Great 📜🎉
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A fun look today at @rialibrary.bsky.social’s manuscript of the week! The 15th-century Leabhar Breac / The Speckled Book (RIA MS 23 P 16) is a collection of religious, literary and historical works, including the lives St Patrick, St Brigid and Alexander the Great 📜🎉
Spooky shots of Glendalough taken on my Rollei 35S camera! 👻
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Spooky shots of Glendalough taken on my Rollei 35S camera! 👻
A fun #churchcrawl to Glendalough, Co Wicklow today! 🍁
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A fun #churchcrawl to Glendalough, Co Wicklow today! 🍁
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In this week’s Miscellanies: how #medieval scribes balanced the books.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
In this week’s Miscellanies: how #medieval scribes balanced the books.
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Excited to start today in my new role as Collections and Archives Manager at @rialibrary.bsky.social! Looking forward to working with my colleagues and fun projects! 🤗📖🎉
November 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Excited to start today in my new role as Collections and Archives Manager at @rialibrary.bsky.social! Looking forward to working with my colleagues and fun projects! 🤗📖🎉
Only on display for two hours per week, it was amazing to see Frederic William Burton‘s painting ‘Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs’ in person today @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social! 🎨❤️
November 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Only on display for two hours per week, it was amazing to see Frederic William Burton‘s painting ‘Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs’ in person today @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social! 🎨❤️
Thank you so much to my friends and colleagues who came to my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Spooktacular leaving do today and let me match my costume to a medieval bestiary! 📜🐈⬛❤️🎉
October 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Thank you so much to my friends and colleagues who came to my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Spooktacular leaving do today and let me match my costume to a medieval bestiary! 📜🐈⬛❤️🎉
Thank you @lincoln.ox.ac.uk for a lovely last day in the archives and fantastic guest night with the gang! 😍🎉
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Thank you @lincoln.ox.ac.uk for a lovely last day in the archives and fantastic guest night with the gang! 😍🎉
Had so much fun with Laure Miolo last week sharing amazing @bodleian.ox.ac.uk manuscripts with MSt students as an introduction to the history of the book and palaeography! A blog with videos is now up on their highlights: medieval.ox.ac.uk/between-bats...
October 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Had so much fun with Laure Miolo last week sharing amazing @bodleian.ox.ac.uk manuscripts with MSt students as an introduction to the history of the book and palaeography! A blog with videos is now up on their highlights: medieval.ox.ac.uk/between-bats...
A spooky church crawl today to see the amazing transi tomb of Alice Chaucer at St Mary the Virgin Church, Ewelme! ☠️🎃🍁
October 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A spooky church crawl today to see the amazing transi tomb of Alice Chaucer at St Mary the Virgin Church, Ewelme! ☠️🎃🍁
So pleased to have a History Matters article in the latest amazing issue of @historytoday.com on Oxford’s medieval scribes, beer brewing, and more! ✍️🍻🎉
October 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
So pleased to have a History Matters article in the latest amazing issue of @historytoday.com on Oxford’s medieval scribes, beer brewing, and more! ✍️🍻🎉
Trick or Treat! To mark my last week in Oxford, all Bod-card holding friends and colleagues are invited to a manuscript spooktacular that I’m hosting on Thursday, 30 October at 3pm in the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visiting Scholars’ Centre! 🎃👻📜✨
October 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Trick or Treat! To mark my last week in Oxford, all Bod-card holding friends and colleagues are invited to a manuscript spooktacular that I’m hosting on Thursday, 30 October at 3pm in the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visiting Scholars’ Centre! 🎃👻📜✨
You can ring my bell! Had a great evening bell-ringing with the Oxford University Society of Change Ringers 🔔🎉
Ape ringing bells from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 118, f. 35v
Ape ringing bells from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 118, f. 35v
October 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
You can ring my bell! Had a great evening bell-ringing with the Oxford University Society of Change Ringers 🔔🎉
Ape ringing bells from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 118, f. 35v
Ape ringing bells from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 118, f. 35v
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Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky
October 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky
A Neo-Gothic dream come true to visit Strawberry Hill House & Gardens today! 🏰🎉
October 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A Neo-Gothic dream come true to visit Strawberry Hill House & Gardens today! 🏰🎉
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Celebrating 50 years since the conversion of one of Oxford's most iconic buildings into one of its most beautiful libraries @lincoln.ox.ac.uk (Yours truly also in the slideshow getting very excited showing things from the historic collection.)
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...
Lincoln Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Library | Lincoln College Oxford
Lincoln Library 50th Anniversary
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October 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Celebrating 50 years since the conversion of one of Oxford's most iconic buildings into one of its most beautiful libraries @lincoln.ox.ac.uk (Yours truly also in the slideshow getting very excited showing things from the historic collection.)
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/lincoln...
Hole-y Books! A fantastic @bodleian.ox.ac.uk lecture and workshop yesterday on early medieval Insular and Continental parchment by Jiří Vnouček for the ‘INSULAR: Insular manuscripts in the age of Charlemagne’ project! 📜🎉
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Hole-y Books! A fantastic @bodleian.ox.ac.uk lecture and workshop yesterday on early medieval Insular and Continental parchment by Jiří Vnouček for the ‘INSULAR: Insular manuscripts in the age of Charlemagne’ project! 📜🎉
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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
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
Got some fun Oxford rooftop snaps on my Rollei 35S camera with Ilford XP2 400 film! 📸
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Got some fun Oxford rooftop snaps on my Rollei 35S camera with Ilford XP2 400 film! 📸
Enjoyed a fun autumnal day out to @nationaltrust.org.uk Chastleton House and Gardens! 🏰🍁
October 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Enjoyed a fun autumnal day out to @nationaltrust.org.uk Chastleton House and Gardens! 🏰🍁
Spooky season is finally here! This Office of the Dead features a scene of the raising of Lazarus with skull-tacular details ☠️
Book of Hours produced in Italy and dated 1507, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 9, fols. 182v-183r
Book of Hours produced in Italy and dated 1507, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 9, fols. 182v-183r
October 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Spooky season is finally here! This Office of the Dead features a scene of the raising of Lazarus with skull-tacular details ☠️
Book of Hours produced in Italy and dated 1507, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 9, fols. 182v-183r
Book of Hours produced in Italy and dated 1507, now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 9, fols. 182v-183r
This week we’re celebrating 50 years of the @lincoln.ox.ac.uk Library! Had lots of fun sharing our historic collections with the College community and we had All Saints Church Tower-themed cupcakes! 📖🎉
October 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This week we’re celebrating 50 years of the @lincoln.ox.ac.uk Library! Had lots of fun sharing our historic collections with the College community and we had All Saints Church Tower-themed cupcakes! 📖🎉
An exciting evening at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the opening of the new ’John le Carré: Tradecraft‘ exhibition, featuring materials we have loaned from @lincoln.ox.ac.uk! 🕵️📖🎉
September 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
An exciting evening at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the opening of the new ’John le Carré: Tradecraft‘ exhibition, featuring materials we have loaned from @lincoln.ox.ac.uk! 🕵️📖🎉
A fun church crawl to Winchester Cathedral today, my highlight was seeing the Winchester Bible under a medieval wall painting of a scribe at work! 😍📜
September 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A fun church crawl to Winchester Cathedral today, my highlight was seeing the Winchester Bible under a medieval wall painting of a scribe at work! 😍📜