Emma Rothwell
Assistant Librarian @rialibrary.bsky.social. Libraries, history, art, theology, music and all that good stuff.
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- Reposted by Emma RothwellThe Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS B ii 1, Astronomical tract. It is based on a medieval Latin version of a work by Messahalah, a Jew of Alexandria who wrote in Arabic c. 815. The frontispiece is an astronomical rotula with a moveable index attached, illuminated with red and yellow pigment...
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- Reposted by Emma RothwellDid you know that Burns Library holds a collection of photographs and albums belonging to Irish activist, printer, and camogie player Máire Gill? They live in our Loretta Clarke Murray Collection and we’ve just digitized them! findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/reso…
- Reposted by Emma RothwellJust watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
- Irish manuscripts and book conservators getting a two-page spread in @irishtimes.com 🙌 Up with that sort of thing!
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- A Christmas miracle! I have tracked down a copy of Battersby's auction catalogue for the Earl of Leitrim's library, which I will visit in @nlireland.bsky.social next year. Sometimes all you need for Christmas is to know if a particular dead guy once owned and annotated the book you are holding.
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- That's a very charming piece of Dublin history.
- "At a briefing this evening, the White House said Mr Trump does not want to execute members of Congress." Good to have the clarity there. Everything is fine, I'm sure.
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- Not up to the standard of the famous mushroom guy, but these are pretty cool in my parents' garden in Carlow.
- Completed his studies in Ireland's finest, most learned county! That is Carlow, to those Philistines who weren't aware. 🇲🇱
- Come along to hear this fantastic lineup speaking about one of the most important issues facing our sector!!
- Climate Change, Sustainability and Special Collections. Friday 28th November at National Library of Ireland. Further details and booking on Eventbrite: eventbrite.ie/e/climate-change-su…
- An unwilling part, I'd imagine, if you could ask the reindeer. But it's a very cool acquisition.
- Cornwall and owlets, what's not to love?
- A fun little piece I did on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, with some interesting snippets from the RIA collection, for your delectation!
- I can only conclude that the format will be Agatha Christie-style and that one more Westlifer must die each night. Weren't there more of them??
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- A last visit to @nmireland.bsky.social Words on the Wave to see the third opening of the St Gall gospels. Not my boy St John, but still, not too shabby. Also revisiting a relic label we studied in my palaeography class & one of the world's most famous library catalogues. 😍 Farewell, Swiss friends!
- Having a cracking day with @annewelsh.bsky.social on this training! One of the many pleasures of being the secretary of the @laibluesky.bsky.social Rare Books Group...
- You've got just over an hour to get here for this!
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- All the learning! Hurray! 🙌
- Dublin, sure you're only gorgeous.
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- We've had a great month of provenance adventuring with Madeline and I can't wait to share more soon!
- By consulting the English Short Title Catalogue, and assuming the mindset of a Victorian, scissor-wielding lunatic, I have at last figured out what imprint I am looking at... another win for pedantic cataloguers everywhere!
- À demain!
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- Not sure if the cataloguing shaming here is more inspiring or terrifying.
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- A very jolly time with the Earls of Ormond at Kilkenny Arts Festival a few weeks ago, which I kept forgetting to share!
- Collections 🤝 Crafters Absolute magic
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- Come along to this lunchtime lecture if you love birds, records, museums or any combination of the above!
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- Find someone who loves you like this snail loves the poppy seed head in my garden.
- Help! Anyone able to make out this former owner's name? Probably Irish language?
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- I reckon Sir Walter Elliot was a fan of the Morning Chronicle. #JaneAusten #Persuasion
- Catching up on From That Small Island on RTÉ - fantastic! Just two nitpicks: the papyrus font for the document recreations (the Irish script is really famous) and the academic wandering into the stacks to retrieve an archival box herself is literally the most unrealistic thing I've ever seen on TV.
- Insect pigments today at Montefiascone!
- Noticeable difference between the earth colours and synthetic colours (i.e. requiring a chemical process to create; heat application, addition of acids, etc). What a wonderful palette!
- Day 2 in Montefiascone: metals! Including gold... 😍
- On a busman's holiday at the Monte Project learning about medieval pigments! 😍🖌🪨💎
- So glad this exhibition is getting such great coverage. It really is monumental and we are incredibly lucky that it is free - not very common in this day and age!
- The "Words on the Wave" exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social The article explores medieval marginalia—scribbled notes and doodles left by monks over a millennium ago. Visit in person at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street. 🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
- On the train reading Robin Flower's account of a tax man being savagely murdered by a poet in early medieval Ireland as told in the Leabhar Breac. I see the lad beside me has an ID card to say he works for the Revenue Commissioner. I hope I haven't made him uncomfortable.
- I'm giving this 15 min tour tomorrow, if you are Dublin city centre-based? I will make you excited about the Tudor Privy Council, or die trying... This is part of the 175,000 new documents on Irish history that was all over the news yesterday! www.ria.ie/events/libra...
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- The choir were discussing ways of quickly recognising the first page of this psalm. I said that the decorated capital surely made it obvious. That was not the winning answer...
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- My colleague Dr Joseph Flahive @ria.ie is next up!
