Lisa Fagin Davis
@lisafdavis.bsky.social
Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
We have 41 leaves to work with. What will they discover when they catalogue their individual leaves and we digitally rebuild it online? Stay tuned! (this leaf is Boston Public Library Pb Med. 232)
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
We have 41 leaves to work with. What will they discover when they catalogue their individual leaves and we digitally rebuild it online? Stay tuned! (this leaf is Boston Public Library Pb Med. 232)
My @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social Library Science students kicked off this year's final project today: studying and rebuilding this gorgeous fragmented manuscript known as The St. Alexius Hours!
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
My @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social Library Science students kicked off this year's final project today: studying and rebuilding this gorgeous fragmented manuscript known as The St. Alexius Hours!
Well, that explains it! lol
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Well, that explains it! lol
You meet all the best people at the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair! @book-historia.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
You meet all the best people at the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair! @book-historia.bsky.social
I am on vacation in Cappadocia and in addition to exploring the extraordinary natural wonders of the region I have just had dinner at a restaurant called Barbarian Medieval Tavern and it was delightful. Skewers and tankards and Celtic music and lots and lots of sausage. 10/10 no notes.
October 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I am on vacation in Cappadocia and in addition to exploring the extraordinary natural wonders of the region I have just had dinner at a restaurant called Barbarian Medieval Tavern and it was delightful. Skewers and tankards and Celtic music and lots and lots of sausage. 10/10 no notes.
This one's my favorite!
October 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This one's my favorite!
Absolutely wonderful field trip to the@Boston Public Library Special Collections with my Simmons Univ. Library Science students. We were treated to 10th- and 12th-c. monastic manuscripts, 13th-c. Bibles, 15th-c. literature and Books of Hours, and everything in between! Magnificent!
October 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Absolutely wonderful field trip to the@Boston Public Library Special Collections with my Simmons Univ. Library Science students. We were treated to 10th- and 12th-c. monastic manuscripts, 13th-c. Bibles, 15th-c. literature and Books of Hours, and everything in between! Magnificent!
Good morning from @amtrak.com! On my way to New Haven to hang out with my favorite manuscript in my favorite library with some of my favorite people! 😎
October 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Good morning from @amtrak.com! On my way to New Haven to hang out with my favorite manuscript in my favorite library with some of my favorite people! 😎
Not an actual Calvin & Hobbes comic, but pretty funny just the same! And, in case you didn't already know how far gone I actually am, the Voynichese text in the last panel is from folio 15v... (h/t @theefantomas.bsky.social) #Voynich
October 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Not an actual Calvin & Hobbes comic, but pretty funny just the same! And, in case you didn't already know how far gone I actually am, the Voynichese text in the last panel is from folio 15v... (h/t @theefantomas.bsky.social) #Voynich
Ha! I love this! And, in case you didn't already know how far gone I actually am, the Voynichese text in the last panel is from folio 15v! 😎
October 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Ha! I love this! And, in case you didn't already know how far gone I actually am, the Voynichese text in the last panel is from folio 15v! 😎
Wishing a peaceful and introspective Yom Kippur to all who participate, and a very easy fast.
(the image is the opening of the Kol Nidre prayer on folio 74v of the fourteenth-century Leipzig Mahzor, vol. 1)
(the image is the opening of the Kol Nidre prayer on folio 74v of the fourteenth-century Leipzig Mahzor, vol. 1)
October 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Wishing a peaceful and introspective Yom Kippur to all who participate, and a very easy fast.
(the image is the opening of the Kol Nidre prayer on folio 74v of the fourteenth-century Leipzig Mahzor, vol. 1)
(the image is the opening of the Kol Nidre prayer on folio 74v of the fourteenth-century Leipzig Mahzor, vol. 1)
Post-season, here we go! LET'S GO #REDSOX! #medievalistswholovebaseball
September 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Post-season, here we go! LET'S GO #REDSOX! #medievalistswholovebaseball
Today in my @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social LIS class, 2,000 years of Latin Paleography in three hours! LFG!
September 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Today in my @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social LIS class, 2,000 years of Latin Paleography in three hours! LFG!
North End sunset!
September 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
North End sunset!
My favorite slide from yesterday's #Voynich lecture at the University of Toronto...particularly à propos since Jimmy Doohan was Canadian!
September 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
My favorite slide from yesterday's #Voynich lecture at the University of Toronto...particularly à propos since Jimmy Doohan was Canadian!
What an absolute joy to present the computational and codicological #Voynich work Colin Layfield and I have been compiling for nearly a year! Many thanks to the U. Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies for inviting me. For those of you who missed it, I'll post the video link when it's available!
September 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
What an absolute joy to present the computational and codicological #Voynich work Colin Layfield and I have been compiling for nearly a year! Many thanks to the U. Toronto Centre for Medieval Studies for inviting me. For those of you who missed it, I'll post the video link when it's available!
Shanah Tovah, friends. I wish you all a year of peace and joy.
.שנה טובה חברים. אני מאחל לכם שנה של שלווה ושמחה
.שנה טובה חברים. אני מאחל לכם שנה של שלווה ושמחה
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Shanah Tovah, friends. I wish you all a year of peace and joy.
.שנה טובה חברים. אני מאחל לכם שנה של שלווה ושמחה
.שנה טובה חברים. אני מאחל לכם שנה של שלווה ושמחה
Did I go to King Richard's Faire today and meet The King himself? Why, yes I did and it was all kinds of fun. It's also a very interesting study in how cosplayers are inspired by medieval tropes, but that's a blogpost for another day...
September 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Did I go to King Richard's Faire today and meet The King himself? Why, yes I did and it was all kinds of fun. It's also a very interesting study in how cosplayers are inspired by medieval tropes, but that's a blogpost for another day...
A ten-year-old girl in a harness flies three stories above the massive crowds, declaiming in Italian about the glories of the Madonna del Soccorso, whose shrine was carried in procession earlier in the evening. It's an absolutely delightful spectacle that originated in 16th-c. Sicily, in Sciacca.
August 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A ten-year-old girl in a harness flies three stories above the massive crowds, declaiming in Italian about the glories of the Madonna del Soccorso, whose shrine was carried in procession earlier in the evening. It's an absolutely delightful spectacle that originated in 16th-c. Sicily, in Sciacca.
This is the absolute best thing about living in Boston's North End. Not just the summer Italian festivals, but this one in particular: The Fisherman's Feast in honor of Madonna del Soccorso. The festival culminated tonight with the annual Flight of the Angel!
August 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This is the absolute best thing about living in Boston's North End. Not just the summer Italian festivals, but this one in particular: The Fisherman's Feast in honor of Madonna del Soccorso. The festival culminated tonight with the annual Flight of the Angel!
So much Voynich content coming your way in the next few years!
August 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
So much Voynich content coming your way in the next few years!
Well, I've been keeping this mostly-quiet for a while, but I can now officially announce that, in collaboration with several brilliant colleagues, I have signed not one, but TWO publishing contracts for #Voynich books! #MedievalSky
August 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Well, I've been keeping this mostly-quiet for a while, but I can now officially announce that, in collaboration with several brilliant colleagues, I have signed not one, but TWO publishing contracts for #Voynich books! #MedievalSky
August 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM