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Our new paper is out! 📚📜
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-026-02899-5

#parchment #conservation #MedievalManuscripts #BookScience

Just gave my first keynote.
(It went well—and was fun. 🙂🤓)
#BookHistory #BookScience #MedievalManuscripts

“You used a 3 million dollar piece of hospital equipment so you could read a novel?”
— Dr Cuddy, disapprovingly, to Dr House, who has done precisely that (“House MD”, s7e3)

I feel rather seen 😶 (yet defiant 😈💅)
#BookScience 📚🔬

@bookhistodons @digitalhumanities @dh

Back at University of Toronto Engineering today for an Old Books New Science Lab collaboration with Grasselli’s Geomechanics Group https://geogroup.utoronto.ca/contact-us/. We’re micro-CTing a birchbark codex. 👀 #Books #RareBooks #BookScience

@bookhistodons @histodons @litstudies

And thus one of my weirder childhood fantasies has been fulfilled: I am a sorceress, a necromancer. I wrest utterances from the void. I raise the dead. 📜🔬🪄👻😜 #OBNS_MISHA #BookScience #MedievalManuscripts
https://mastodon.social/@SJLahey/113334687020214329

Right now, University of Toronto Libraries’ homepage features an example of our output (in the banner): https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/
#OBNS_MISHA #BookScience
📚 📜 🔬
#IMadeThis 😊

@bookhistodons @medievodons @histodons

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12. a severely water-damaged medieval Hebrew manuscript (ongoing: we’re imaging the entire codex)
13. a 14th century English Statuta Angliæ manuscript

and are about to tackle:
14. our new Mandeville manuscript: https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/medieval-blockbuster-u-t-acquires-rare-14th-century-manuscript
15. our c.1470 manuscript of Christine de Pizan’s Livre de Paix
16. our sizeable collection of medieval manuscript fragments (spanning, iirc, c.800–1497)

plus a great deal more.
Watch this space 👀
#OBNS_MISHA #BookScience #BookHistory
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Formal announcement of our new project! https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/news/exploring-hidden-stories-books-andrews-gift-will-support-book-science-research-and-innovation
I’m thrilled to be heading our new #OBNS_MISHA #MISHA imaging team; currently two RAs work with me.
#BookScience 📚 📜
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@bookhistodons @medievodons @histodons

New #introduction: I’m the Mark Andrews Fellow in Book Science at OBNS (Old Books New Science) Lab, University of Toronto, and a #MedievalManuscripts scholar and cataloguer. My research mainly focuses on later #medieval European #manuscripts with an emphasis on scientific and #quantitative methods, #materiality, and provenance studies. 📚 📜 🔬 📊
#BookScience #codicology #palaeography #BookHistory #HeritageScience #parchment #DigitalHumanities #quant #statistics

Visiting you this year was a great honour and pleasure, Cambridge University Library and Girton College. Thank you for everything.
Now that I’m settled back on the other side of the pond, I have news:

From 01 September, I return to University of Toronto’s Old Books New Science Lab as the Mark Andrews Fellow in Book Science.
Watch this space! 📚📜🔬📊
#BookScience #MedievalManuscripts
https://mastodon.social/@SJLahey/111179059069391743

@bookhistodons @medievodons

All settled in with my fellow #BookScience nerds at Fuglsang Herregaard. #Denmark 📜 📚
https://sites.google.com/palaeome.org/molpal/home

https://mastodon.social/@SJLahey/112277245913944016

Looking forward to visiting #Copenhagen this week for ‘The Future of Molecular Palaeography’, a closing workshop/discussion for the @ercb2c project
#Parchment #BookScience #QuantitativeHumanities #MedievalManuscripts

https://sites.google.com/palaeome.org/ercb2c/get-involved/workshops/copenhagen-24

Imaging technology reveals hidden passages of #WilliamCamden ’s Annals for the first time in 400 years. The pages had been either over-written or concealed beneath pieces of paper stuck down so tightly that attempting to lift them would have ripped the pages and destroyed evidence.
#BookScience #Manuscripts #Tudors #EarlyModern
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/14/heart-stopping-censored-pages-of-history-of-elizabeth-i-reappear-after-400-years
@bookhistodons @histodons

Today our lab—University of Toronto’s Old Books New Science Lab (in which I am a postdoc)—was featured on CBC Radio‬⁩:
The Old Books New Science project judges #books by their covers—and #paper, spines, and #ink 📚🔬📜
#BookHistory #BookScience #MedievalManuscripts #parchment #Science #QuantitativeHumanities @bookhistodons
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-39-metro-morning/clip/15953703-the-old-books-new-science-project-judges-books