This oneโs for the real ghoulies! In honour of The Bride! film, hereโs 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 โ ๏ธ๐๏ธ๐ค#monstermash
This oneโs for the real ghoulies! In honour of The Bride! film, hereโs 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 โ ๏ธ๐๏ธ๐ค#monstermash
I had a fantastic sneak peak at the @rialibrary.bsky.social Genesis Bone ahead of @pomuirch.bsky.socialโs lunchtime lecture today, an animal bone carved with biblical text by 19th-century Irish language scholar Thaddeus Connellan! ๐๐ฆด
An amazing @bibsoc.bsky.social Winter Virtual Visit to the Vatican Library with a presentation by the Manuscript Departmentโs Stephen Metzger! So fun to see highlights like the Thomas Aquinas autograph ms! ๐๐
A fantastic treat of teaching manuscripts today for a wonderful group of visiting students to @rialibrary.bsky.social! ๐๐
Shots of Rome taken on my Rollei 35S camera with Ilford XP2 film! ๐ฎ๐น๐ธ
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! ๐๐ฌ
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! ๐๐
doi.org/10.1080/2325...
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! ๐๐
So thrilled to catch Tate Britainโs Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals exhibition today, Iโm obsessed with Constableโs clouds and they had a whole dedicated section in the show! ๐โ๏ธ๐จ
I never copped on how central it is, so pleased to finally make it! ๐ค
So atmospheric! ๐
Brilliant historic walk with the @lincoln.ox.ac.uk crew yesterday following in Giordano Brunoโs footsteps across Londonโs Strand from his 1584 Ash Wednesday Supper adventure! ๐๐ฃ๐
Major #churchcrawling bucklet list achieved yesterday with a visit to the amazing St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield! ๐๐
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! ๐๐ถ๐
Thank you for your question, but I unfortunately donโt know!
Photography is not allowed in the Sistine Chapel, so hereโs 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! ๐ฎ๐น๐
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 Franรงais! ๐๐จ
Fun church crawls today to Basilica di S. Maria in Trastevere and Santa Sabina + bonus accidental find of St Valentineโs relics on Valentineโs Day in Santa Maria in Cosmedin! โ ๏ธโค๏ธ
A fantastic tour of the Il Tempo Della Devotione exhibition today at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome with curator Francesca Manzari! ๐๐
It was so lovely to visit! ๐ค
Church crawling: Rome edition! Amazing visits today to Santa Maria in Aracoeli, the Basilica di Santa Prassede and Santa Maria Maggiore ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐น
One for the ghoulies! Tomorrow is both Friday the 13th and Galentineโs Day, celebrate with your special memento mori โ ๏ธ๐
@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 Bunnyโs Super Bowl halftime show, from a 14th-century Psalter now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk MS. Douce 6, f. 33v ๐ฐ๐๐ถ
I had so much fun exploring the medieval vaults of Oxfordโs Mitre Inn (now Gusto Restaurant) as part of @lincoln.ox.ac.ukโs Hidden Spaces series- check out the video on YouTube or Instagram! ๐ค๐
youtu.be/OkDTotazAhs?...
A nice bank holiday #churchcrawl to Cong Abbey, Co Mayo!
Due to an unfortunate grooming incident, Elmo now looks like Isaac Newton ๐ญ
A nice Sunday church crawl to St Patrickโs Cathedral, Dublin! ๐