Mss Text Cultures

The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures is an interdisciplinary research platform for ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, South Asia & medieval Europe

[W+IGS @WIGSblog]

ECA Book Prize
🏆 Winner: The winner of our book prize was Carolin Gluchowski @CariGluchowski, for her book proposal Arbeit an der Gottesbeziehung. Reform, Reframing und Recycling in Handschriften aus Kloster Medingen 3/

[The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference @OxMedGradConf]

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is delighted to announce this year's Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20 minute papers from graduate students on ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. Details below:

#OMGC2025 #cfp #medieval #medhist

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

We're delighted to say that four more of our digitised manuscripts have now returned!

Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero D IV)
Codex Sinaiticus (Add MS 43725)
Moutier Grandval Bible (Add MS 10546)
Chronicle of the Isle of Man (Cotton MS Julius A VII)

https://t.co/oIxMDiABuJ

[Selena Wisnom @LSWisnom]

Look what just arrived … out 31st October and also available open access!

[Mss Text Cultures @OxWMTC]

#notalion

[New College Library and Archives, Oxford @NewCollegeLib]

‘I’d like you to draw a lion to decorate this border. Not an angry lion, though, a nice friendly one.’

Nailed it—he must be the best lion in any of our manuscripts! 🦁🤣

(@NewCollegeOx, MS 242, f. 2r)

#ManuscriptMonday #Lion #MedievalTwitter

[Oxford Medieval Studies @OxMedStud]

You've read our booklet and watched our TikToks, but have you ever wondered what Oxford Medieval Studies is actually meant to be?

We've put together a short promotional video to explain exactly who we are and why you should join us! Watch it now at https://t.co/ekAA9wf5tg

[Oxford Medieval Studies @OxMedStud]

It's Week 1 of the new academic year and you know what that means... it's time for a new Medieval Booklet and a new giant OMS thread!!

Browse the booklet via https://t.co/XAVDEX9bay and follow along here to discover everything in store for you this term 📯

[AMARC @AMARCmss]

🚨AMARC GRANT DEADLINE🚨

Just over 2 weeks left to apply for an AMARC grant (deadline 1 November).

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

https://t.co/10gf34o8Jv

[Digital Scholarship @ Oxford @DH_Oxford]

For Oxford University staff and students – are you interested in learning about some of the innovative work taking place in digital scholarship in the Bodleian Libraries and across the university? Join us for this hybrid event on the 25th October: https://t.co/KMH85sz1lR

[Oxford Medieval Studies @OxMedStud]

@OxWMTC are hosting a Work in Progress colloquium chaired by @HLaehnemann.

📅 Tues 12 Nov
⌚️ 5:15pm
📍 Memorial Room @QueensCollegeOx

[Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @CSMC_Hamburg]

Did you write your doctoral thesis on #manuscripts or other written artefacts? Then take part in the competition for the J.P. Gumbert Dissertation Award 2024!

The winner will receive 5,000€ and a research fellowship at the CSMC.

https://t.co/IfESwJbQbp

[New College Library and Archives, Oxford @NewCollegeLib]

That annoying moment when your precious beauty sleep is interrupted by the apocalypse . . .

(@NewCollegeOx, MS 65, f. 40r)

#ManuscriptMonday #Manuscript #Revelation #MedievalTwitter

[Henrike Lähnemann 📯 moving to bsky @HLaehnemann]

Just gone online: Join me for Book at Lunchtime: The Life of Nuns ⁦@TORCHOxford⁩ #nuntastic https://t.co/1gxtlvNZvR

[Henrike Lähnemann 📯 moving to bsky @HLaehnemann]

@liber_ray @bodleianlibs Now online! And yes, it was huge fun - including list of animals in the household #CatsAreFamily @bodleiancsb @bodleianlibs #earlymodernlettersonline
https://t.co/ti3EQzh8vn

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

This tiny piece of papyrus is the earliest biblical fragment held in the Bodleian. It is more than 1,800 years old, just after 150AD. It contains a fragment of the Acts of the Apostles, and is considered one of the earliest witnesses to the original text of the New Testament.

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

It is a modern myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the Earth was flat. 'The Book of Curiosities', from 11th century Egypt (MS. Arab. c. 90), gives an account on the correction on the circumference of the Earth, and talks about the then known inhabited lands.

#flatEarth

[Mss Text Cultures @OxWMTC]

Today 5:15pm @QueensCollegeOx our
“Work in Progress” colloquium: @CariGluchowski Revising Devotion: Exploring Church Reform through Prayerbook @bodleianlibs MS. Lat. liturg. f. 4 & Paola Rea Female Autographs & Kinship in Early-Modern Italian Letters

https://t.co/67AZFlx2ds

[peter toth @petetoth]

Have you remembered to tax your vehicle?

Here is a reminder from 1880 years ago:

Tesenuphios taxed his camels - he paid fines for delay. This is his tax disc ⁦@bodleianlibs⁩

#TuesdayFeeling #TuesdayMotivation