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  1. Is anyone on Mastodon knowledgeable about Tironian notes? I've got tentative readings of two headings in a 9th c. Text from the Loire Valley, which mix Tironian notes and Latin charaters. But there are 13,000 T. Notes in Schmitz, many of which look very similar. Thanks!!

    @histodons @litteracarolina @medievodons @chaprot #bookhistodons @mssprovenance

  2. New #introduction: I’m Oschinsky Research Associate at Cambridge Univ Library, Fellow of Girton College, & a #MedievalManuscripts scholar & cataloguer. My research mainly focuses on later #medieval European #manuscripts with an emphasis on #quantitative methods, materiality, & provenance. I’m about to publish a book on #parchment & have started writing another on legal manuscripts. 📜🪶📚
    #codicology #palaeography #BookHistory #LegalHistory #DigitalHumanities #quant #BookHistodons #Medievodons

  3. I went to the Maimonides exhibit at the Center for Jewish History (again) yesterday and saw a new page. (Lots of page turns recently, so it's like a new exhibit!)

    Can't get over the gold decoration on the lines here..😍
    #hebrewmss #mazeldon #bookhistodons

  4. Nouvel article sur mon carnet de recherches :

    “L’expositio missae de Florus de Lyon : un état de la tradition”
    🔗 florus.hypotheses.org/2449

    Quelles éditions ? Quels manuscrits ? Quel public au moyen âge ?

    #bookhistory #bookhistodons

  5. Book and paper history bubble: I came across a late 18th-century almanach-style notebook in the @labnf today which has a metal stylus (I don’t know whether this is the original one) and is supposedly made of a special paper that can be written on with any metal point. If writing with the provided stylus you are supposed to be able to erase. Marketed as a novelty - but it is? Anyone know more about this or where I might look for further clues?
    #c18th #bookhistodons

  6. Ego Dulcia scripsi…

    Rare evidence of a woman copyist at the end of the 8th century

    The manuscript is Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, 423, f. 79v 🔗 bibliotheque-numerique.ville-laon.fr/idviewer/1465/168

    @histodons #histodons #bookhistory #bookhistodons #medievodons #womenshistory

  7. Over 30,000 archival items associated with scientific papers presented to the #RoyalSociety (London) are now available on the new 'Science in the Making' archive, covering 1665-1949.
    makingscience.royalsociety.org

    Includes original manuscripts submitted to the RS; correspondence; lots of #images (many never published, and in colour); and >14,000 #peerreview reports.

    Essential browsing for historians of science, and not just science. (Search '#mozart'!)

    #histodons #histsci #bookhistodons #openaccess

  8. #Introduction again since I moved servers to here! I'm Alex, a PhD student in Information Science at Indiana University. I study book history, especially booksellers and private libraries in early modern Navarre/Spain. I'm interested in the intersections between book history and infosci, bringing GIS, digital humanities, and quantitative methods to book history. Whenever I graduate, I want to be a DH librarian! I'm also the bibliographer for the Chymistry of Isaac Newton project and for SHARP News! #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities #GIS #Data #Libraries #bookhistodons

  9. PhD FUNDING for a project in Scottish History at St Andrews [any period, any topic. Could be #histsci #bookhistodons etc]
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    📢 Strathmartine Trust Scottish History Scholarship📢

    The Strathmartine Trust has renewed its support for one Scottish history PhD student at the University of St Andrews (full fees & maintenance grant) for 3 years.

    Deadline 21 March 2023 5pm.

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    Details not yet on website; DM @ISHRStAndrews@twitter for more info & how to apply

    #UnivofStAndrews #StAndrewsHistory #histodons

  10. Intrigued by☟this remarkably large printed woodcut manicule☟in a incunable copy published by the Antwerp-based printer Govaert Bac in the 1490s!

    Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: R 18.38 (anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:3)

    #bookhistory #bookhistodons

  11. If you're at a #Scottish #university, believe in #openaccess, and have a monograph nearly finished and not yet under contract, then...

    18th January is the deadline for the first call for monographs from the new Scottish Universities Press @[email protected]

    Monograph must be nearly completed (i.e. to be delivered later this year). An open call for other monographs will follow in February. See sup.ac.uk/

    #openaccesspublishing
    #histodons #victodons #bookhistodons #histsci

  12. Oh, I take it back: not really a 'review', but 'A history of scientific journals' has just had a mention in this week's Nature! (=one more evidence of a human reader!)

    But my general point holds: dissemination/circulation of books is vastly improved by #oa, but I'm not yet convinced it is making much difference to response/engagement for books (as against articles). But we shall see. It's still early days. And books do take time to read, after all.

    #bookhistodons #histodons

  13. Great example of #EarlyModern almanacs
    as everyday objects.

    Christophe Plantin annotated the verso side of this almanac he had printed for 1577. He added the date 17 October 1576, and wrote down a list of the proofreaders who worked for him at the time below some calculations!

    Copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus: R 63.10: 9 (anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:1)
    #BookHistodons #bookhistory