Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social Book historian, Pop Bibliographer, old book liker, Curator of Special Collections. They/them. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
IRHT-CNRS @irht-cnrs.bsky.social Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS) – Le manuscrit médiéval et la transmission des textes de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance.
http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social Medievalist and librarian, interested in all aspects of manuscript culture.
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social Independent scholar: research interests in hermeneutics, textual criticism, and the classical tradition; aurum in stercore
(I don't use Chat)
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Shahrouz, PhD @parchmentwizard.bsky.social Professor | PhD, Yale History | Specialist in the Middle Ages + World History | Manuscript collector | Taking each day 24 hours at a time.
Benjamin Albritton @blalbritton.bsky.social Rare books and manuscripts. Measurer of shelves.
INSULAR @insularmss.bsky.social Insular Manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne: ERC Advanced Grant research project (2024–2029). Run by Prof. Jo Story, with Dr Anna Dorofeeva and partners in libraries & universities across Europe. Funded by UKRI.
Ainoa Castro Correa @ainoacastro.bsky.social | :: Visigothic script :: | Mss Studies
PI ERC funded project #PeopleAndWriting
Universidad de Salamanca
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Jesse Hurlbut @jessehurlbut.bsky.social Medievalist. Manuscript studies, 15th-century Burgundy, French literature, art, culture, Digital Humanities. Retired. https://jessehurlbut.net
Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social Mark Andrews Fellow in #BookScience, Old Books New Science Lab, University of Toronto · #MedievalManuscripts cataloguer & researcher · #Parchment #QuantitativeHumanities 📜 🔬 📚 📊 🇨🇦
Alixe Bovey @alixebovey.bsky.social Art historian & medievalist; under-appreciated plant enthusiast, uptight watercolourist. 🇨🇦✍️📚🌱. Insta: @alixebove
Jesse Keskiaho @jkeskiah.bsky.social Early medieval historian and manuscript scholar, docent @helsinki.fi. Researching ideas about the soul, annotations to Augustine, dreams. He/him.
Arthur Westwell @arthurwestwell.bsky.social Medieval historian. Liturgical manuscripts. Romanesque churches.
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Universität Regensburg.
Picture: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod.lat.958 and Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 184
Dr Manuel Muñoz García @manuelmunoz.bsky.social Palaeographer. Lecturer in Latin Palaeography of the European Middle Ages at IMEMS (Durham University). Gran Canaria-Sevilla-London-East Midlands.
Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social Sermone nitidus. Early Insular, Irish, British, Breton, Cornish, Welsh and wider Palaeography & Manuscripts. I love the letter g.
AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order.
https://www.cokldb.org/
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/
Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social Head of Conservation & Heritage for Cambridge University Libraries.
All views my own 🇪🇺
#CULconservation
Madalina Toca @madalinatoca.bsky.social Late antiquity, epistolography, manuscripts | Humboldt Fellow in Bamberg. Research Associate at the University of Vienna and KU Leuven. Former Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellow in Classics at the University of Edinburgh
Ulrike Graßnick @ulrikegrassnick.bsky.social #TeamSchwimmen
#medievalsky
Kanzlerin der Universität Trier | hier privat unterwegs.
Chancellor of Trier University | views are my own.
Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social Medievalist and Digital Humanist at @leedsims.bsky.social doing @manuscriptsetc.bsky.social. Co-founder of @kismetpress.bsky.social. Director of @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social. Was at KU Libraries (KS, USA) & Arnamagnæan Insitute (Denmark). nkyavuz.com
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Peter Kidd @mssprovenance.bsky.social Oxford-based researcher of medieval manuscripts; formerly of the Bodleian and the BL; especially interested in provenance and illumination; currently preparing a catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts of University College, Oxford.
Stewart J. Brookes @stewartbrookes.bsky.social Cataloguing medieval manuscripts @bodleianlibs| Co-director of Models of Authority: http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk | working on Archetype 3.0 | F-shaped "y" is where it's at!
Julia Walworth @juliawalworth.bsky.social Medievalist, book and library historian, lover of all libraries, Fellow Librarian at Merton College Oxford
Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social A Carolingian scholasticus lost in the 21st century. Your humblest narrator. Manuscripts, texts, controversies. Mostly Latin, some Old High German and early Romance, too. 📚📜 Glosses.
🦊 Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum.
homomodernus.net
Calum Cockburn @ccockburn.bsky.social Curator of Medieval Manuscripts @BritishLibrary
He/him 🌈
@manuscripta.bsky.social @manuscripta.bsky.social manuscripta.se – A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden
Grigory Kessel @grigory-kessel.bsky.social Interested in Syriac manuscripts
Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments: https://fragmentarium.ms
posts currently by William Duba.
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Katarzyna Anna Kapitan @kakapitan.bsky.social Books & texts in the digital age (www.kakapitan.com)
#JuniorProfInParis in #digitalhumanities at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social, @psl-univ.bsky.social. Past @ox.ac.uk, @haskoliislands.bsky.social, @ucph.bsky.social
Repost≠endorsement
my opinions≠employer's
Dr Patrick McDonagh @patrickmcdonagh98.bsky.social Historian of Late Medieval Ireland, Wales, and England | Irish Traveller | https://shorturl.at/u4JSw
Dr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social Medieval Occitan & French; vernacular lyric; music & text; history of the book; medieval book arts; binding fragmentology. PI of the Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social 📜
medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com corpus bones!
Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social N.E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia. Lover of old & worn early printed books/manuscripts & the stories they tell in the margins. Co-director, Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place. #dhjewish 🟦
Hidden in Plain Sight @hips-project.bsky.social Hidden in Plain Sight is a collaboration between @qmul.ac.uk, @QMUL_HSS, @theul.bsky.social, @MAACambridge, @NLWales, and other leading libraries.
Website: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/inplainsight/
Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social Professor of Book History at UBC School of Information, Vancouver. Into medieval manuscripts. He/his. Blog: https://medievalbooks.nl. Writing a book on ads by medieval scribes.
“There is more to life than medieval books, but it's a good place to start.”
Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, University of Bristol 📚 w/ Oxford Univ Press, Cambridge Univ Press, Boydell & Brewer, Schnell & Steiner, ARC Humanities Press; now writing ‘The Medieval Library: Using and Abusing Books in the Middle Ages’ for Reaktion Books
The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library
Parker Library On the Web - our medieval and early modern MSS digitised
https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
The Peripheral Manuscripts Project @peripheralmss.bsky.social Digitizing medieval manuscript collections in the Midwest. PIs @lizhebbard.bsky.social and @sarahloleet.bsky.social 📜
https://peripheralmss.org
Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social Medieval and early modern manuscripts, books, libraries and archives
Sub-Librarian / Special Collections Librarian at The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
My posts, my views and interests - not my employer's
Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own. 
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social Medieval manuscript fragments, 16c printing, the Catholicon (Mainz "1460" but printed in 1470 w/ movable type), French book artist Joseph Hémard, 1930s calypso, fossils (Texas ammonites and echinoids) https://independent.academia.edu/FarleyKatz
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Collecting since 1451, Archives and Special Collections @UofGlasgow, part of @UofGLibrary. Always inspiring people with our collections. #UofGASC
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
AScottishBookCollector @noahdidny.bsky.social 
Govanhill Go! @govanhillgo.bsky.social Govanhill Go! is a place on the internet for positive content about the area past, present and future. N.B trolling is banished.
Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social We give out almost £1million in funding each year to help people in Glasgow protect, repair and promote the city's historic buildings and places.
New Glasgow Society @newglasgowsociety.bsky.social Aiming to promote, encourage and stimulate public interest in, and care for, the beauty, history and character of the city of Glasgow and its surroundings.
Crookston Castle @crookston.bsky.social The Friends of Crookston Castle help care for and celebrate Glasgow's only surviving medieval castle.
Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Professor, Archaeology, University of Glasgow, the Urban Prehistorian, and Keeper of Hookland’s Stones. Glasgow’s Archaeologist in Residence (self-appointed)
Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland @theahss.bsky.social www.ahss.org.uk
Speaking For Scotland's Buildings since 1956! Campaigning. Membership. Events.
Dr Ailsa Boyd @ailsaboyd.bsky.social Victorian art history, design, literature, house history, Scottish heritage #retrofirst
Dr Robyne Calvert @robyneerica.bsky.social Cultural Historian: art, design, architecture, fashion. Author: The Mack @YaleBooks; Academic & Learning Developer (SLD) @UofGlasgow. Feminist & aspire to be a good Ally. Sewist 🪡🧵 Kdrama Addict🫰and GenX Nerd 🧙🏻♀️👻☕️ she/her
https://robynecalvert.com/
Dr Katie Strang @palaeokatie.bsky.social Curator of Mineralogy & Petrology at The Hunterian 🏴 Trustee of Scottish Geology Trust & Fossil Grove Trust. Researcher of Scotland’s rocks, industrial heritage, coprolites & graveyard geology.
Archaeoptics @archaeoptics.bsky.social Pioneers of 3D laser scanning in Cultural Heritage. Complete digital archive available at http://archive.archaeoptics.co.uk
New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Not always very neurotypical. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social The Scottish Record Society is one of Scotland’s oldest historical societies, and is dedicated to publishing calendars, indexes and texts of historical records.
TnmntTiles @tnmnttiles.bsky.social An archive of historical design. Discoveries from Scottish tenements & beyond. Originally a Twitter project, est 2015. Now found on Instagram, FB, & here! No Ai!
Images taken by myself, unless otherwise credited. Happy to share your finds? Give us a tag.
This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social 'This Is My Glasgow' is a photographic project from Colin M. Drysdale, author of 'Glasgow Uncovered: 18 Walks Through its Past, Present and Future.' All images are my own.
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
AMARC @amarc.bsky.social The Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections - promoting the study, accessibility and preservation of manuscripts and archives
https://amarcsite.wordpress.com/
Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social PI of FitMA (Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and funded by @erc.europa.eu.
Author of The Friar and the Philosopher.
Medieval Greek-Latin translations of philosophy and science.
Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social Classicist / early medieval research fellow at Oxford. Female patronage in the late antique west; Roman + Visigothic Iberia; religion and ‘magic’; epigraphy; mosaics; Classical reception in film / video games. Sometimes I make Roman recipes :) ♾️
Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social Professor of English at Rhode Island College (views my own). I’m a nerd for medieval things, biblical apocrypha, Star Wars, LotR, & Magic (TCG). He/him.
“Read some fucking apocrypha.”
https://linktr.ee/brandonwhawk
Roman Hautala @romanhautala.bsky.social 
Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social 
Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social Researcher @University of Vienna, PhD @VU Amsterdam
Syriac manuscripts, materiality, digital humanities
Editor, Middle East @TheDigitalOrientalist
Rachel A. Fletcher @rafletcher.bsky.social Leiden University. Working on the reception of Old English in 19th-century Europe. Dictionary enthusiast.
Illuminated Manuscripts @sharonargyle.bsky.social Artist, Art Historian
The King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts @traditionalarts.bsky.social We teach and research arts and crafts of the world's great traditions. https://schooloftraditionalarts.org/
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary research on written artefacts – from all periods and regions of the world @uni-hamburg.de. Home to the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, aka NMCT @thenmct.bsky.social We give grants for manuscript conservation projects and are the the only UK charity focusing solely on supporting manuscript conservation in non-national GLAMs
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together.
https://schoenberginstitute.org/
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
James Mitchell @plainfeather.bsky.social Retired book publisher and author, medievalist, photographer, Soto Zen student, early musician, San Francisco resident since 1967, unrepentant hippie. Like Bluesky, life is plenitudinous.
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Matuww Scripts @matuww.bsky.social Matuww is a project about the phylogenetic relationships of writing scripts descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs, involving linguistics, history, and art, showing how connected we are as humans.
𓏞 Project link: matuww.com
https://www.ko-fi.com/matuww
Tomasz Biernat | Lettering Artist, Coffee Lover ☕️ no ai art! @tomaszbiernat.bsky.social Logo Designer, Illustrator, Lettering Artist, 3D
Graphic Design, Traditional techniques, Digital Art, Sketchup 3D - technical stuff and architecture, Interior Design.
👉🏻 Inquiries via my website
https://www.tomaszbiernat.us
Friends of Calligraphy @friendsofcalligraphy.org Our purpose is to promote the study and practice of calligraphy, to encourage individual excellence, to foster a wider appreciation and deeper understanding of calligraphy, its history and applications.
Our website is https://www.friendsofcalligraphy.org/.
Umut8Art @umut8art.bsky.social Der Weltbeste Kalligrafie Stream auf Twitch ist jetzt auch auf Bluesky ✍️
The Acorn Scribe @scribblenut.bsky.social #EndDisabilityTorture #ResignDougFord #CanadaDisabilityBenefit #PwD - Cranky old mandolin playing, calligrapher. Disabled.
buy me a ko-fi ko-fi.com/theacornscribe and help me survive
SciFi story in progress @ https://thesalvagersplague.wordpress.com
Calligraphy Outside @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social A project to put calligraphy in public places in Scotland. Always happy to hear if you come across any posts in the real world