#bookhistodon — Public Fediverse posts

Tentatively exploring the idea of remounting the landmark exhibition Marks in Books for its 40th anniversary next year and if I do I will definitely be shouting "Make way for the MiBs!" anytime I push the booktruck holding them somewhere. #bookhistodon https://nrs.lib.harvard.edu/urn-3:fhcl.hough:40935393

Dans le Décaméron de Boccace, 2e journée, 10e nouvelle, est mentionné (dans la traduction que j'écoute) “un de ces calendriers qu'on *imprimait* autrefois à Ravenne, à l'usage des enfants qui apprennent à lire.”

Sauf que Boccace vit un siècle avant l'invention de Gutenberg.

Un calendrier gravé sur une planche et dont on tire des affiches ? Non car, poursuit ma traduction, “Ce petit *livre* lui fournissait chaque jour un nouveau saint…”

Qu'est-ce que c'est ? On en a conservé ? #bookhistodon

The initial P is for Perching Bird!

Fol. 78r in a thirteenth-century #manuscript Bible of Museum Plantin-Moretus (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:13971814/E)

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So fascinating to see preparatory manuscripts for printing. This one written by a professional scribe for Cornelius Kiliaan was intended to be printed in the Officina Plantiniana around c. 1600. It demonstrates how meticulously such manuscripts were revised. On one page, Kiliaan, for example, made an annotation in the margins that his epigram should be placed elsewhere in the book.

Museum Plantin-Moretus: M 14.2 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:13282193/E)
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Got to see the most amazing drawings that the renowned Baroque painter Rubens made when he was only twelve years (!) old… Can you imagine?!

Museum Plantin-Moretus: PK.OSB.0192 (digital reproduction dams.antwerpen.be/asset/a2FXWNoe…)
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