The largest printed page of a Bible in the world celebrates Gutenberg's birthday: Schau mal, was ich auf SWR.de gefunden habe: swr.de/swraktuell/rhe… via @SWR.de

📢Can you help us decipher this inscription [excluding motto] for a monastery possibly from Flanders dated 1636? Eternal Twitter (X) glory be yours! #sleuthing #inscriptions #research #Latin #rarebookwordle

Delighted to see our colleagues, Aine Carey, Saoirse de Paor, and Heidi Campbell proudly presenting their posters at today’s MU Teaching & Learning Showcase! Great to see such inspiring contributions to teaching innovation and excellence. #MUlibrary #MaynoothUniversity

Gorgeous intact 16th century book clasps with remains of the chains where it was secured to the shelves of its former home in Spain. This lovely example also features gauffered edges when hot tools are applied to the edges (usually gilded). #chainedbooks #bookbindings

Not at #CONUL2025 this year but very much enjoying hearing Bodleian Libraries Richard Ovenden speaking about collecting and preservation through the CONUL Conference livestream!

Love this interactive poster complete with working volvelle based on the original from our 1669 copy of The Mariner’s Magazine by Samuel Sturmy! MU Special Collections & Archives

3/4 The binding, cardboard & red-fur cowhide, is as distinctive as the content: “Leabhar lán-díngthe / do starthaibh breágh Gaoídheilge / is blasta dár fríth liom…” MU Special Collections & Archives Maynooth University Library DIAS DIAS_SCS Library Maynooth University Library #DIASdiscovers #IrishManuscripts

Wonderful to see more unique material from this beautiful Irish collection on long-term loan from St. Colman’s College, Fermoy fully digitised. Check them out below 😍👇🏻 #IrishManuscripts MU Special Collections & Archives

1/3 📜✨Two new manuscripts from Russell Library, Maynooth, now on ISOS: CF 13 & 14, both 19th-c. Scribe Seosamh Ó Longáin. Religious+mythological texts, with elegant script & decorated initials. Thanks to MU Special Collections & Archives MU Special Collections& Lámhscríbhinní Choláiste Cholmáin

More digitised manuscript from MU Special Collections & Archives 📜🪄✨ We’re very spoilt by Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) 💛

It’s always an exciting and busy week when #heritageweek week comes around! Join us in the Russell Library Maynooth University next week for tours, a brand new exhibition and…fun on a mini printing press! 🥳 heritageweek.ie/event-listings…

1/3📜✨ New on ISOS: from the Russell Library, Maynooth, CF 11 & CF 16, both 19th-c copies of Leabhar Gabhála. Rich mytho-historical texts, with links back to Leabhar Droma Sneachta & earlier sources. Thanks to MU Special Collections & Archives DIAS & Lámhscríbhinní Choláiste Cholmáin.

2/3✒️ CF 11: Leabhar Gabhála: Gaois Written in 1844 by Éamonn Ó Mathghamhna. Includes references to Leabhar Droma Sneachta, the history of Ireland’s invasions & texts such as Trecheng Breth Féne & the tale of Michael the Archangel at Mount Gargan. 🔗isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS_C…

3/3✒️ CF 16: An Leabhar Gabhála Copied in 1850 by Ioseph Ó Longáin. Begins with the invasions of Ireland after the Flood, drawing on Cín Droma Sneachta and Lebor na hUidre. Ends with: “Iarna sgriobhadh le Ioseph Ó Longáin, san mbliadhain 1850. Críoch.”🔗isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS_C…

Kicking of #RBSCG25 with the first of many important talks on rare books metadata, standards, systems and the unavoidable use of AI technologies. Looking forward to this!

Something lovely for #FragmentFriday - an offset from a now detached medieval manuscript leaving a "ghost" negative image on the left board. It also features a comb lining made of cloth on which the offset is also present. RB 15c, Venice, 1492 #fragmentology #offsetting

Printer's device of Swiss printer Andreas Cratander (1490-1540) designed by Hans Holbein the Younger featuring #Occasio, the Roman goddess of good fortune and opportunity. St Patrick's Pontifical University - RB 54a, Basel, 1536 #printersmark #rarebooks

And we are official! Thank you to everyone who came to the official launch of the MU Library's Creative spaces: Makerspace and Media Lab We hoped everyone enjoyed the presentations demos and goodies. #ResearchWeek2025

👻 Step into the spooky side of history! 🎃 This Halloween, our Library has created a virtual haunted experience drawn from the fascinating collections of Maynooth University and St Patrick’s College, Maynooth! Explore centuries of mysterious manuscripts, eerie artefacts, and

This tiny book printed in 1549 caught my eye for this little insignia of a dragon. While not the insignia of Dracula (as I secretly hoped), this cute stamp is from the stunning Archiginnasio Library in #Bologna and likely belonged to Giacomo #Boncompagni (1548-1612)