💫A couple of days ago I had a VERY exciting day💫 A box has arrived with advance copies of my new book and I am delighted with it! With enormous thanks to @EdinburghUP for being such a fantastic press to work with! 📚🎉🍾✨#culminationof10yrswork!
More from my little friend, 2020HEM-56, this time the ever challenging sfi triplet in “Transfiguratio“ #MedievalSky
‘Bibliotheca Fictiva is and will remain the definitive account of literary forgers and forgeries from antiquity to the present day.’ –Nicolas Barker, The Book Collector The revised edition of Arthur Freeman's Bibliotheca Fictiva is now available online: bit.ly/Q-Freeman-U62
British Library starts restoring services online after hack
But a full resumption will be "a gradual process", the chief executive of the UK's largest library says.
Juxtaposing a French lectern Bible leaf with the Gutenberg facsimile and two pocket Bible leaves (mss and printed) for a media history class later today.
I never manage to see the northern lights but this morning for my Christmas Eve run I saw some magnificent cloud iridescence. Suspect if I lived 600 yrs ago I would have taken this as a portent for something. Here's to intriguing celestial phenomena. Happy Christmas Bluesky folk!
Half of the marking done ✅ Trinity book chapter submitted ✅ Magazine article submitted ✅ Book proposal submitted ✅ Out of office on ✅ And breathe...🎉 (images from these projects: The Trinity Altarpiece; Paris, BnF, Ars. MS 5062, f. 203v, The visitation, Book of Hours, Jörn Günther Rare Books)
Today is teaching on Jean Hey and Anne of France for my 4th yr course, then all the talk prep for next week... ...which is BUSY with lectures on van Eyck, Durer, Bosch and Bourdichon, CRC training on manuscript handing and a talk in Aberdeen on 15th C Scottish illumination...😬
