#bookhistory — Public Fediverse posts

Geheimnisvolles „HM“ und „EH“ – die Rätsel der Steinbrener-Zeichner

https://www.hogn.de/2026/10/09/1-da-hogn-geht-um/geheimnisvolles-hm-und-eh-die-raetsel-der-steinbrener-zeichner-eva-reitspiesova-kalender-vimperk-winterberg-illustrationen/222411

In accordance with good tradition, I hereby have to highlight my regular topics posted to the blue skies: #bookhistory news, #skystorians stuff, and a few jokes about using AI from private companies that stole it all.

Lisa Fagin Davis' redearch on the #voynichmanuscript was featured in the Guardian today. Excellent summary, too!
#medieval @medievodons @histodons #bookhistory

#bookhistory

Origins of the Book of Kells
25 Nov, Perth. £8.61

It has long been assumed that the Book of Kells was made on the island of Iona. But there is no direct evidence to support this. Dr Victoria Whitworth will discuss her newly published research, which points to a different candidate for its origins: the Pictish monastery of Portmahomack, in Easter Ross.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/origins-of-the-book-of-kells-tickets-1998069367264

#Scottish #literature #history #earlymedieval #arthistory #bookhistory #BookofKells #Picts #CelticStudies

#bookhistory

MAPS and SOCIETY lectures -- 36th series just announced ... great online lectures. Info and registration at https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/whats/lectures-talks/maps-society-lecture-series

This is a wonderful series -- 36 years and no presenter duplicated - key to the emergernce of critical #maphistory

#maps #cartography #bookhistory

(image = fun cover of Fortune Magazine)

Wie immer mit großzügigem Rezensionsteil, der open access publiziert wird. #bookhistory #mediahistory #skystorians

#bookhistory #histmed 18th Century Literatures job at the University of Alberta! Particular interest in candidates with expertise in Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; History of Science/Medicine; and Print Culture/ Book History.

Assistant Professor (tenure-tr...

Russia targeted a second-hand book market in Kyiv, and publishing warehouses and printing presses nationwide . #bookhistory

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i7y6twqh4b7433s6l3vfnomr/post/3mvq3veaz6h2w

How to do with books, especially bibles, when you live in a material world? Well, William Hogarth of 18th century fame reminds us of the typical re-using (of bindings). In this case, the leather binding is re-used for a shoe sole. #bookhistory #booksky

How to do with books, especially bibles, when you live in a material world? Well, William Hogarth of 18th century fame reminds us of the typical re-using (of bindings). In this case, the leather binding is re-used for a shoe sole. #bookhistory #booksky

The hardcover is still about 150 Euro/USD, and I am deeply sorry for this. If you wanna read the pdf, drop me an email. #bookhistory

Dr Andrew Nash: EDITION Autumn Lecture & workshop
23 October, University of Edinburgh. Free, ticketed.

Workshop: Publishing the Scottish Literary Renaissance

Lecture: The Voice of Scotland: Literature, Publishing and the Nation in the 1930s

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dr-andrew-nash-edition-autumn-lecture-and-workshop-tickets-1999511210857

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #ScottishRenaissance #BookHistory

And it could dance, #bookhistory.

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And here is the page in full glory, #bookhistory nerds:

And here is the page in full glory, #bookhistory nerds:

I've finally rebuilt the site for a rather unusual book I've owned for over 25 years, back when I used to be a book dealer.

It's an old arithmetic textbook that somebody, probably around the turn of the 20th century, used as a scrapbook for newspaper cuttings about lynching, racial violence, Black politics, churches, education, sport, and quite a lot of other material. There are also some racist cartoons and a loose unidentified studio photograph tucked into the book.

I scanned it back in 2001, but I've now gone back through the whole thing, produced a checked transcription, and done some research into where the clippings came from, when it was assembled, and who might have put it together.

The whole thing is online, and there's also a single PDF of the complete scans and transcription if anyone wants to download it for research or preservation.

I put it onto: https://bygonestuff.com

It's been online for 25 years, but this is a much more accessible version of it.

Usual trigger warnings apply for newspapers of this era.

#BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #Histodons #Archives #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities #GLAM #Librarians #Bookstodon #Newspaper #Archives

Reading by Touch: Scotland’s early tactile reading systems

What came before braille? Scotland played a key role in the early history of reading by touch, opening new possibilities for blind readers in the 19th century. Taylor Hare explores embossed pages, knotted strings & radical alphabets

https://www.nls.uk/collections/stories/printing-and-publishing/reading-by-touch/

#Scottish #literature #Scotland #BookHistory #blind #19thcentury #braille #printhistory #printing #bookmaking

And we are finally open access: a volume full of #earlymodern almanacs, especially the German #Schreibkalender, dear #bookhistory experts:

www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/post/3mgalsa7b3c2q

Schreibkalender der Frühen Neu...

#bookhistory is also #newshistory, #skystorians

For the #booksky and #bookhistory feeds, feel free to add relevant links.

The proof reading monkey can be found in a book about Europeans travelling China printed in 1669. #bookhistory

And here is the image in full glory, #earlymodern #bookhistory, and #fishsky.

Here is the full page of the manuscript. The writer started the next chapter too early, and so someone decided to have this chess like pattern included to make the text, well, unseen or overwritten. #bookhistory

Here is the full page of the manuscript. The writer started the next chapter too early, and so someone decided to have this chess like pattern included to make the text, well, unseen or overwritten. #bookhistory

This putto in raised arms pose celebrating is part of an #earlymodern pamphlet - a titlepage woodcut. Likely printed in the 16th century, and announcing itself as "fein lustig unnd kurtzweilig zulesen". #bookhistory

This putto in raised arms pose celebrating is part of an #earlymodern pamphlet - a titlepage woodcut. Likely printed in the 16th century, and announcing itself as "fein lustig unnd kurtzweilig zulesen". #bookhistory

I found a copy of Kepler's 'Somnium' that had the original latin but every other page was an English translation, super fun, and you get so much more in context!

Does anyone know if there's anything like that for the original 'Steganographia' by Trithemius? It's just for personal use (I dabble in codes). For just latin it's pretty easy to find:
https://archive.org/details/SteganographiaBSB1608

Thinking of #bookstodon #booksky #books #history #oldbooks #libraries #bookclub #latin #bookhistory @overholt

The Codex, an early form of the book with bound pages, replaced scrolls around the 1st century CE because it was easier to navigate. Imagine trying to find your favorite chapter on a giant unrolling scroll! #BookHistory #ReadingEvolution

This lovely image is from 1725, and was printed in Georg Christian Woyttens "Drey Sinn-Bilderliche Centifolien-Rosen : deren Flor bequem: Die Welt-Lust abzuschröcken; Das Hertze zu entdecken; Den Sinn wohl aufzuwecken; Jn dreyerley Abtheilungen befindlich. ..." (Augsburg). #bookhistory

The image is from Thomas Murner's Logica memorativa, Straßburg 1509. #bookhistory

This morning I started listening to the In Our Time series ‘The Written World’. Episode 1 starts with the earliest written language (cuneiform in Mesopotamia), and ends with the Greek invention of the first phonetic alphabet and the explosion of alphabets across the world.

#writing #bookhistory #history

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018wfsc

Whether your urine bottle was allowed in a library reading room of around 1400 AD depended on the specific location and their zero tolerance policy for any liquids near rare books. #bookhistory

While I was out for my walk this morning, I listened to this In Our Time episode about the Library of Nineveh. King Ashurbanipal seems to have been a book hoarder collecting everything the Babylonians ever wrote down (in cuneiform on clay tablets or wax-covered boards), and more. It involves Gilgamesh and scholars dressed as fish (and some in chains).

#books #history #library #BookHistory

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b7r71

Copies of the first edition of Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio. Patrick Scott & Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory

Burns – in serious financial, & legal, difficulties, mostly of his own making – was on his way to Greenock to take passage to Jamaica, where he had been offered the job of book-keeper on a slave plantation, when news reached him that his book had been enthusiastically received. He decided to stay in Scotland, & attempt a poetical career.

#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory

“You will have heard that I am going to commence Poet in print; and to-morrow my works go to the press. I expect it will be a volume of about two hundred pages. It is just the last foolish action I intend to do—and then turn a wise man as fast as possible.”

The “Kilmarnock Edition” of Robert Burns’s Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was published #OTD, 31 July, 1786.

https://digital.nls.uk/poems-chiefly-in-the-scottish-dialect/archive/74464614#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-9336%2C-785%2C21170%2C15693

#Scottish #literature #poetry #18thcentury #RobertBurns #romanticism #BookHistory

Ein Feßle #Bier am 2. August! ... gab's jedenfalls im Jahr 1608 beim Verfasser der handschriftlichen Einträge im #Schreibkalender, den ich in meinem Blogbeitrag bespreche:

https://etheritage.ethz.ch/fessle-bier/

#wein #ernte #ocr #volltexterkennung #htr #transkribus #ethbibliothek #altedrucke #rarebooks #bookhistory #sonnenfinsternis #erara

Trivia! Before electricity, many books were printed with wider margins so readers could jot notes by candlelight without straining their eyes. Next time you dog-ear a page or scribble in the margins, know you're continuing a centuries-old tradition! ✍️ #BookHistory #ReadingCommunity

We are having a term for this within #bookhistory: "book destruction". Adam Smyth and Gill Partington edited a fine volume on this, and the debate about human practices of using and destroying books has started to expand after this.

Just an illuminated cat catching an illuminated mouse in an illuminated manuscript from around 1300. #bookhistory

🎧📚📌 Latest podcast alert:

'Books Without Borders'
​How did Arabic manuscript culture shape the global intellectual history of the medieval world? Dr. Tadghout examines its pivotal role in the latest episode of The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast.

​🔗 Listen to the episode and full series:
https://www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/

​#MulticulturalMiddleAges #MedievalStudies #ArabicManuscripts #ManuscriptCulture #BookHistory #ArtHistory #MedievalHistory #Podcast #medieval #manuscripts #libraries #art #Philosophy

Nu ik al weer een tijdje bezig ben met een aanbeveling uit mijn eigen doctoraalscriptie (boek)geschiedenis van bijna veertig jaar geleden, vond ik het tijd om die ongepubliceerde scriptie online ter beschikking te stellen. Maar wat een (digital preservation) avontuur was dat.

#BoekGeschiedenis #BookHistory #DigitalPreservation

https://cannedit.org/blog/van-tasword-naar-joomla

Copies of the first edition of Robert Burns’s POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT are 3 times rarer than the Shakespeare First Folio. Patrick Scott & Allan Young are tracking the histories of surviving Kilmarnock Editions

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/kilmarnock-burns-book-history/

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertBurns #BookHistory #poetry

Rare first edition of Burns’s Kilmarnock Edition goes on display at Edinburgh Writers’ Museum

Printed in Kilmarnock & published on 21 July 1786 in a run of just over 600 copies, only around 90 copies are known to survive today & each copy is different

https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/14450/rare-first-edition-of-burns-kilmarnock-edition-goes-on-display-at-the-writers-museum

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertBurns #BookHistory #poetry

CFP: “Politics, Place, & Print Culture”: the 14th International Walter Scott Conference
28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Papers are invited papers on any & all aspects of Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture. Deadline 1 Oct 2026

@litstudies

https://llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-scottish-literature/14th-international-walter-scott-conference

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #bookhistory #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #CallforPapers

Before reading. You see potential buyers of books and prints staring at window panes of the bookseller shop 'Eccentric Book Warehouse', St John Street, London, in 1803. Behind the windows were title pages of books and other bookish ads to lure them into the shop. Come in, buy stuff ... #bookhistory