Christina Duffy

Another of our fire-damaged manuscripts is now online Cotton MS Otho A VIII contains Goscelin of Saint-Bertin's Life and Translation of St Mildreth, and the Old English Life of St Machutus Multi-spectral imaging sponsored by the Goldhammer Foundation access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ar…

Now you see it, now you don't A hidden sketch in one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, revealed using multi-spectral imaging. Looks very much as if Leonardo had tried to rub it out. Does it represent Michelangelo's David, dare we ask? bl.uk/events/daggers…

Our hearts since whenever we think about the Cotton fire (1731), at the fatefully-named Ashburnham House. And then we remember that modern technology can sometimes come to the rescue, as described in this blogpost. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

Delighted to see #multispectral images of Cotton Vitellius F. XI in the Spring 23 edition of @IrishArtsReview. Great article by Bernard Meehan on this 10th century Irish Psalter. @BLMedieval

We wanted to express our gratitude to Gina Goldhammer for funding our incredible work to restore the Cotton manuscripts, and to @CCockburn2 @DuffyChristina Gavin, Camille, Gary & Francesca for their contributions to the project. More on the Blog soon. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

I am so happy to see these images being published! This was a great project to work on and I can’t wait to see what it leads to.

@ClarkeAoife @IrishRugby Wow! So perfect! Well done Aoife!

Dreams do come true 🥰 Massively excited to be joining @IrishRugby in July 🏉 ☘️

@CCockburn2 @BLMedieval Yay!

Sometime before he died #OTD in 1066, Edward the Confessor's seal was attached to a small parchment writ. Almost 1000 years later, @DuffyChristina's technological wizardry revealed some of the secrets- and erasures- it had been carrying: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

@CCockburn2 Sorry to hear this Calum 😰

@JoanneDyer_BM Thanks Joanne!

@DuffyChristina @awscloud @amazon Congratulations Christina!! All the best in this new adventure! 🤗 🤗

Today was #Day1 in my new role as Senior Content Strategist at Amazon Web Services in Dublin! A big change from cultural heritage, but I am very excited for new challenges! @awscloud @amazon #alwaysdayone #tech #data

@DavidHowell_now Thanks very much David!

I hadn’t heard! Best of luck with everything and hope our paths cross again sometime. The BL benefitted so much from your research and public engagement with science

@EEJackson999 Well done, Ellie! 👏🏽

It’s about time that I posted about my new book 😁 Published a week ago, it’s an accessible introduction to the Lindisfarne Gospels. Such a treat to write about, so exciting that the book is finally here 📚💜 Available online 🔗 shop.bl.uk/products/the-l…

Like many of the manuscripts in the Cotton collection, it was badly burned in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. With multi-spectral imaging, we can now uncover many of the previously hidden details, names, seals, and signatures it contains.

This papal bull (Cotton MS Vitellius B IV/I) is one of the most important documents in British history. Given by Pope Leo X in 1521, it conferred on Henry VIII the title Defender of the Faith, a title used to this day by Queen Elizabeth II and now HM King Charles III.

I'm delighted to give everyone a sneak preview of a major project we're currently working on that uses multi-spectral imaging on some of the fire-damaged Cotton manuscripts in our collection, in collaboration with British Library Imaging Scientist @DuffyChristina.

We love to discover beautiful and interesting details in the bindings we treat. Check out these headbands from the Arabic manuscripts: OR 5099 and Add MS 9596. 😍

Ministers - if you want to take a screenshot of your resignation letter, it's shift+command+4 on a Mac or Windows+PrtScn on a PC. Stop taking blurred, wonky photos.

@TurloughDownes @DCUMaths Congratulations 🎉

Some professional news: I'm really delighted to say that I have been promoted to Full Professor with @DCUMaths. It's been a long time since I was filling out my CAO form, trying to decide between biochemistry and theoretical physics, 1/2