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LAST CALL for applications for our Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop! The deadline to #apply is TOMORROW 21 February at 12 noon UK time. All details here: ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-appli…. #ManuscriptStudies #Hebrew #Workshop #ApplyToday #JewishStudies

Herculaneum: First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years. buff.ly/412VmXK

@EmilyGuerry @liber_ray @bodleianlibs Nice to see you in the staff common room as well! 🥪

@liber_ray @bodleianlibs Heaven!! And they are SO lucky to have you 📚

📽️ Premier tonight! 🍿 Catch @bodleianlibs conservator Andrew Honey talking about the paper and pins(!!) used by Jane Austen in the manuscript of 'The Watsons'

We hope to see you there 🍂 And this is your ONE chance to bring DRY leaves into the library with you, to contribute to a risograph collage (with permission of the Preventive Conservation team of course!) visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/nov24/re…

We’ll also be welcoming back artist @alicefoxartist to talk about some of her more botanical works and her piece that currently features in the ‘Book Marks’ display in Blackwell Hall 🖇️

If you go down to the woods next week you’re in for a nice surprise! Join the @bodleianlibraries team on Saturday 9th November for ‘Reading in the Woods - a day of learning about wood in the library and the chance to hear from lots from team BodCons throughout the day

An unexpected and sweet smelling part of the collection has required Claire to do a lot of thinking outside the box and work with objects and materials she never expected to be faced with when working in a library. For more see her article in @IIC_ News in Conservation, pp. 28-33

For today’s #WhatIsItWednesday we’re back with Claire and her fabulous work rehousing the artefacts in the @bodleianlibraries John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. Any guesses as to what she’s experimenting with here? issuu.com/nic_iiconserva…

@MatthewHolford No I hadn't, but it does make me feel (slightly) better about the one I'm currently using for the Buildwas Abbey guidebook!

@BodCons have you seen this?

@ALillieSvensson @liber_ray @bodleianlibs They're in stock in the physical Bodleian shop

@liber_ray @ALillieSvensson @bodleianlibs Luckily it features as one of the bookmarks available from the Bodleian shop! bodleianshop.co.uk/collections/bo…

I'm glad you like our stains and paperclips! 🖇️

We are seeking papers dealing with digital manuscript studies for a series of sessions entitled ‘Digital Approaches to Materiality of Manuscripts’ at @IMC_Leeds 2025 (UK).  Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2024, 23:59 CST.

@mclees_fiona @NMWPrevCons Half a Dunmow flitch??

@liber_ray Does this mean we need recalibrate our manuscript measuring device? Our units were 'Alisons' but we'll update to 'Dr Rays'!! 📏📏

@liber_ray 😱 We're suitably traumatised (but everyone should have their Philomena Cunk moment youtu.be/WxZDx8dmCXM?si…)

@petetoth @bodleianlibs Surely a slightly petulant dog? 🐩

What kind of creature could this be in this 800-year old Coptic psalter ⁦@bodleianlibs⁩ Share your thoughts for a late #Thursday motivation