This one’s for the real ghoulies! In honour of The Bride! film, here’s a fantastic 15th-century depiction of La Danse Macabre des Femmes (the Dance of Death of the Women) from @labnf.bsky.social MS. Fr. 995, f. 30v ☠️🎞️🖤#monstermash
I had a fantastic sneak peak at the @rialibrary.bsky.social Genesis Bone ahead of @pomuirch.bsky.social’s lunchtime lecture today, an animal bone carved with biblical text by 19th-century Irish language scholar Thaddeus Connellan! 📜🦴
An amazing @bibsoc.bsky.social Winter Virtual Visit to the Vatican Library with a presentation by the Manuscript Department’s Stephen Metzger! So fun to see highlights like the Thomas Aquinas autograph ms! 📜🎉
A fantastic treat of teaching manuscripts today for a wonderful group of visiting students to @rialibrary.bsky.social! 📜🎉
Shots of Rome taken on my Rollei 35S camera with Ilford XP2 film! 🇮🇹📸
So lucky to catch The Testament of Ann Lee in 70mm at the Irish Film Institute, amazing watch for any fans of female mystics and Amanda Seyfried serves incredible Margery Kempe energy! 🙏🎬
Congrats to the amazing Oxford Conservation Consortium team for their new article in the @araukie.bsky.social journal on their projects to rehouse estates and livings records of @lincoln.ox.ac.uk and other colleges! 📜🎉
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Puzzle Binding!
Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just...
Had One???
And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)
Would love to see this! 📜🎉
So thrilled to catch Tate Britain’s Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals exhibition today, I’m obsessed with Constable’s clouds and they had a whole dedicated section in the show! 😍☁️🎨
I never copped on how central it is, so pleased to finally make it! 🤗
So atmospheric! 😍
Brilliant historic walk with the @lincoln.ox.ac.uk crew yesterday following in Giordano Bruno’s footsteps across London’s Strand from his 1584 Ash Wednesday Supper adventure! 📖👣🎉
Major #churchcrawling bucklet list achieved yesterday with a visit to the amazing St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield! 🔔🎉
A fantastic reading tonight by Anthony Delaney from his book Queer Georgians on the Ladies of Llangollen accompanied with contemporary music performed by the Irish Baroque Orchestra! 📖🎶🎉
Thank you for your question, but I unfortunately don’t know!
Photography is not allowed in the Sistine Chapel, so here’s an internet shot of the ceiling I got to see today!
A fantastic final day in Rome today with a power trip around the Vatican Museums and church crawling visits to Santa Cecilia in Trastevere and San Pietro in Montorio! 🇮🇹🎉
Had a great trip to the Borghese Gallery yesterday, plus a church crawling extravaganza including visits to Sancta Sanctorum, San Giovanni in Laterano + Battistero, and Eglise Saint Louis des Français! 🔔🎨
Fun church crawls today to Basilica di S. Maria in Trastevere and Santa Sabina + bonus accidental find of St Valentine’s relics on Valentine’s Day in Santa Maria in Cosmedin! ☠️❤️
A fantastic tour of the Il Tempo Della Devotione exhibition today at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome with curator Francesca Manzari! 📜🎉
It was so lovely to visit! 🤗
Church crawling: Rome edition! Amazing visits today to Santa Maria in Aracoeli, the Basilica di Santa Prassede and Santa Maria Maggiore 🔔🎨🇮🇹
One for the ghoulies! Tomorrow is both Friday the 13th and Galentine’s Day, celebrate with your special memento mori ☠️💕
@britishlibrary.bsky.social Yates Thompson MS 7, f. 174r
It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Get the music started! This rabbit has his bagpipes ready for Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, from a 14th-century Psalter now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 6, f. 33v 🐰🏈🎶
I had so much fun exploring the medieval vaults of Oxford’s Mitre Inn (now Gusto Restaurant) as part of @lincoln.ox.ac.uk’s Hidden Spaces series- check out the video on YouTube or Instagram! 🤗🎉
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A nice bank holiday #churchcrawl to Cong Abbey, Co Mayo!
Due to an unfortunate grooming incident, Elmo now looks like Isaac Newton 😭
A nice Sunday church crawl to St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin! 🔔
