#bookhistory — Public Fediverse posts

Au musée de la Pharmacie de Bâle, qu'on me recommande chaudement (le plus ancien d'Europe), un bel exemplaire de Micrographia nova (1687), montrant des cirons du fromage, chers à Pascal.
Image F. K-L
#histnat #bookhistory #histsci #histtech

And here is the broadside in full glory, #bookhistory:

You already know that scanning fingers and #scanninghands exist within the skies of #bookhistory, but here comes the first scanning wristwatch:

Mainz Psalter of 1457 / produced by Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer / first book with a printed date

#bookhistory #books #histodons

A Schreibkalender? What is this all about? Well, here is an English start into this relevant topic of #bookhistory fame: www.hab.de/the-schreibk...

The Schreibkalender (writing c...

Say hello to the (likely) dead lion presenting human text printed on his skin like a circus director presenting a grand drape for an audience. #bookhistory 🦁

paging #bookhistory #earlymodern #newshistory and #mediahistory

Medieval books were crafted from animal skin, repaired by hand, and valued by quality. Even stitched pages reveal hidden histories—so what can imperfections tell us about the past?
#MedievalManuscripts #BookHistory #Parchment #Codicology #MedievalArt
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/stitch-time-saves-nine-crafty-story-embroidery-medieval-manuscripts-021253

Medieval books were crafted from animal skin, repaired by hand, and valued by quality. Even stitched pages reveal hidden histories—so what can imperfections tell us about the past?
#MedievalManuscripts #BookHistory #Parchment #Codicology #MedievalArt
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/stitch-time-saves-nine-crafty-story-embroidery-medieval-manuscripts-021253

Medieval books were crafted from animal skin, repaired by hand, and valued by quality. Even stitched pages reveal hidden histories—so what can imperfections tell us about the past?
#MedievalManuscripts #BookHistory #Parchment #Codicology #MedievalArt
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/stitch-time-saves-nine-crafty-story-embroidery-medieval-manuscripts-021253

Medieval books were crafted from animal skin, repaired by hand, and valued by quality. Even stitched pages reveal hidden histories—so what can imperfections tell us about the past?
#MedievalManuscripts #BookHistory #Parchment #Codicology #MedievalArt
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/stitch-time-saves-nine-crafty-story-embroidery-medieval-manuscripts-021253

Medieval books were crafted from animal skin, repaired by hand, and valued by quality. Even stitched pages reveal hidden histories—so what can imperfections tell us about the past?
#MedievalManuscripts #BookHistory #Parchment #Codicology #MedievalArt
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/stitch-time-saves-nine-crafty-story-embroidery-medieval-manuscripts-021253

“The Chief Relic of the Western World”: Columcille & the Book of Kells

From 2024: Dr Rosemary Power takes us through some of the illuminations in the Book of Kells, as an introduction to an intensely rich & integrated work of art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemcAIGadb4

#Scottish #literature #history #medieval #earlymedieval #bookhistory #arthistory #BookofKells

Medieval monks in Easter Ross – and not the Hebridean island of Iona – may have created the intricately decorated 1,200-year-old Book of Kells, according to researchers. A new project will explore the possibility it was created at a monastery in Portmahomack where there was a workshop turning animal hides into vellum.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r4jxj0e3jo

#Scottish #literature #medieval #earlymedieval #history #BookHistory #BookofKells #arthistory #CelticArt

I like big books an´ I can not lie. #bookhistory #booksky

The Book of Kells: Was it made in Easter Ross?
25 March, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye & online: free

The Book of Kells is often called the world’s most famous manuscript, but its origins are shrouded in mystery. Dr Victoria Whitworth challenges the consensus that the Book was made in the island of Iona, making a case instead for the Pictish monastery of Portmahomack.

https://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/seiminear-rannsachaidh-dr-victoria-whitworth/?lang=en

#Scottish #Irish #literature #earlymedieval #arthistory #bookhistory #BookofKells #CelticStudies

I deciphered some heavily abbreviated scholastic Latin pasted into a book binding and found Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis hiding in the flyleaves of a Thalbach devotional book.

Fragments really do have a place in intellectual history.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

#fragmentology #bookhistory #incunabula #medievalists #blog #research #nuntastic

I deciphered some heavily abbreviated scholastic Latin pasted into a book binding and found Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis hiding in the flyleaves of a Thalbach devotional book.

Fragments really do have a place in intellectual history.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

#fragmentology #bookhistory #incunabula #medievalists #blog #research #nuntastic

I deciphered some heavily abbreviated scholastic Latin pasted into a book binding and found Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis hiding in the flyleaves of a Thalbach devotional book.

Fragments really do have a place in intellectual history.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

#fragmentology #bookhistory #incunabula #medievalists #blog #research #nuntastic

I deciphered some heavily abbreviated scholastic Latin pasted into a book binding and found Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis hiding in the flyleaves of a Thalbach devotional book.

Fragments really do have a place in intellectual history.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

#fragmentology #bookhistory #incunabula #medievalists #blog #research #nuntastic

I deciphered some heavily abbreviated scholastic Latin pasted into a book binding and found Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis hiding in the flyleaves of a Thalbach devotional book.

Fragments really do have a place in intellectual history.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

#fragmentology #bookhistory #incunabula #medievalists #blog #research #nuntastic

The starting initial of Nider's Decalogi made me laugh! Take that, Thursday!

M26907 Nider, Johannes: Praeceptorium divinae legis. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, um 24.V.1475. 2°

urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00037983-6

#HistoriatedInitial #Incunable #Nider #BookHistory #15thc

The starting initial of Nider's Decalogi made me laugh! Take that, Thursday!

M26907 Nider, Johannes: Praeceptorium divinae legis. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, um 24.V.1475. 2°

urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00037983-6

#HistoriatedInitial #Incunable #Nider #BookHistory #15thc

The starting initial of Nider's Decalogi made me laugh! Take that, Thursday!

M26907 Nider, Johannes: Praeceptorium divinae legis. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, um 24.V.1475. 2°

urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00037983-6

#HistoriatedInitial #Incunable #Nider #BookHistory #15thc

The starting initial of Nider's Decalogi made me laugh! Take that, Thursday!

M26907 Nider, Johannes: Praeceptorium divinae legis. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, um 24.V.1475. 2°

urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00037983-6

#HistoriatedInitial #Incunable #Nider #BookHistory #15thc

Ahead of Print in BFP: Review of Patricia F Blume’s monumental history of the Leipzig Book Fair in the GDR. Schmitz highlights Blume’s archive-rich, interdisciplinary study of Leipzig’s book fair as a key site of cultural policy, censorship and East–West exchange. #Leipzig #bookhistory #censorship

https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2025-0019

Scène d'atelier, Londres, 1631. Un compositeur d'imprimerie aux yeux fatigués est en train de composer les 10 commandements dans une Bible.

"Honour thy father and thy mother" pfffff 😵‍
"Thou shall not kill" 😑
"Thou shall commit adultery" 😴

Quelques semaines plus tard, la Bible paraît avec une version... revisitée des commandements du Seigneur.

#bookhistory

First things first. This shooting soldier is positioned as a detail within an #earlymodern print, so the context is partly grounded in #bookhistory expertise. As you can see, he is a small detail of a broadside (titled "Des pfaltzgrafen Haußgsind") published in 1621 Germany.

Look what arrived in the post: New Directions in Digital Textual Studies, expertly and diligently edited by Christopher Ohge and Kristen Schuster. My chapter on "Unlocking Literary Heritage: From Cabinets of Curiosity to Digital Storytelling" is surrounded by the work of a bunch of really terrific scholars. @peterwebster Peter Webster, Mary Erica Zimmer, Leah Henrickson and Dirk Van Hulle, to name just a few.

#publication #humanities #textualscholarship #bookhistory #literaryheritage (...)

Robert Burns & the How-to of Barrel Gauging

“Alongside the expansion of the state in this period, scientific advances greatly enhanced methods for measuring and taxing goods, and in turn required officials proficient in these complex practices.”

James Fox looks at Robert Burns’s own copy of The Excise Officer’s Pocket Companion

https://howtobook.hypotheses.org/5697

#Scottish #literature #history #RobertBurns #18thcentury #BookHistory #HistoryofScience #HistoryofMathematics

Just giant dabbers flying around while people are dancing. I am unsure what they are celebrating, but giant ink-balls were used in #earlymodern printing offices in the last step before printing. Such dabbers consist of pieces of leather filled with wool or hair and a wooden handle. #bookhistory

Back to our messenger and his context. And here, #bookhistory meets #newshistory. Stay with me. This detail is rich.

A private library full of #backwardsbooks. You see St Augustine in his study, lifting a burning heart up towards a heavenly light, and his books are all nicely shelved fore-edge outwards. #bookhistory #booksky

For decades, a cacophony of technological prophets has repeatedly proclaimed the impending end of the paper era. But here we still are, a paper-using humankind. @[email protected] and me wrote an article about paper in global book cultures. #paperhistory is #bookhistory, #globalhistory 1/3

For decades, a cacophony of technological prophets has repeatedly proclaimed the impending end of the paper era. But here we still are, a paper-using humankind. @[email protected] and me wrote an article about paper in global book cultures. #paperhistory is #bookhistory, #globalhistory 1/3

For decades, a cacophony of technological prophets has repeatedly proclaimed the impending end of the paper era. But here we still are, a paper-using humankind. @[email protected] and me wrote an article about paper in global book cultures. #paperhistory is #bookhistory, #globalhistory 1/3

For decades, a cacophony of technological prophets has repeatedly proclaimed the impending end of the paper era. But here we still are, a paper-using humankind. @[email protected] and me wrote an article about paper in global book cultures. #paperhistory is #bookhistory, #globalhistory 1/3

For decades, a cacophony of technological prophets has repeatedly proclaimed the impending end of the paper era. But here we still are, a paper-using humankind. @[email protected] and me wrote an article about paper in global book cultures. #paperhistory is #bookhistory, #globalhistory 1/3

Profs Sally Mapstone & Dauvit Broun explore the St Andrews Chronicles – one of Scotland’s most important historical works – tracing the manuscript’s journey to St Andrews & its significance for understanding Scottish identity, legacy & nationhood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ck7zxfVxA

#Scottish #literature #history #BookHistory #16thcentury #manuscripts

My blog post today is a set of links for research on manuscripts and incunables from German-speaking lands, particularly from women's convents

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

#BookHistory #weblinks #Research #Manuscripts #Incunabula #nuns #Nuntastic #blog #AmWriting #AcWri

Scotland’s Gutenberg: William Ged & the Invention of Stereotype Printing, 1725–49

Examining the ‘non-moveable type’ productions of Edinburgh goldsmith William Ged (c.1683–1749), Dr William Zachs hypothesises the existence of a group of previously unknown stereotyped books, thus offering a revised history of book production in 18th-century Britain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMcEZ9FK6ak

#Scottish #literature #history #BookHistory #printing #bookproduction #18thcentury

The St  Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at University of St Andrews Wardlaw Museum from 21 November to 7 December

https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-year-old-history-of-scotland-on-public-display-for-the-first-time/

#Scottish #literature #history #16thcentury #manuscript #BookHistory

Here is part 3 of my blog series about the #NorwegianExlibris. Read it at https://www.annikarockenberger.com/2025-11-12/norwegian-exlibris-3/.

Guaranteed free of #genAI, but full of typos & too long sentences. I will fix the typos & edit the text at my earliest convenience (not tonight).

This time, I dug up a 1940 newspaper article and two special prints of it published in 1941 & 1942, both skilfully manufactured in O. Christiansens boktrykkeri.

#NorskTut #allheimen #bookplate #Norway #Oslo #Morgenposten #bookhistory

A look at my new Urban History academic journal paper, using a local trade directory to understand the Scottish print trade, venues for reading and the urban hierarchy in the 1820s https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/a-look-at-my-new-urban-history-academic-journal-paper-using-a-local-trade-directory-to-understand-the-scottish-print-trade-and-urban-hierarchy-in-the-1820s/ #History #bookHistory #Scotland #urbanHistory

Question for #digitalhumanities , #earlymodern , #bookhistory , #latin and especially #neolatin people here: Do you know of #linkedopendata resources that are potentially relevant for Neolatinists? I'm preparing a talk on the topic and would like to provide an overview of interesting datasets beyond wikidata, factgrid, prism, lila and the linked data services of some libraries.

The history of the library is one of creation, loss, reinvention, and endurance. Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen share this story with Abby Smith Rumsey on the Future Knowledge #podcast THE LIBRARY: A FRAGILE HISTORY.

🎧 Listen & subscribe here ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-library

#Libraries #LibraryHistory #BookHistory #Knowledge @internetarchive @AuthorsAlliance

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

AI won’t kill literature, it’ll just colonise the middle ground where most writing lives. From calligraphy to photography to synthesisers, every “threat” to the arts created more art. The monasteries will remain.

https://ridleypark.blog/2025/08/10/sturgeons-law-ai-and-the-literary-ivory-tower/

#SturgeonsLaw #AIWriting #DigitalCulture #BookHistory #Literature #TechAndSociety #GenAI #WritingLife #FictionWriting #WritingCommunity

Collecting The Most Beautiful Books
22 Aug, Mount Stuart House, Rothesay – £8.50–£11

Kelsey Jackson Williams will explore armorial bookbindings in the Bute Collection & tell how aristocratic pride, the bookbinders' art, & subsequent tastes in collecting came together to form an exceptional but unknown assemblage of book-art in the Mount Stuart libraries.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collecting-the-most-beautiful-books-august-talk-tickets-1529153030879

#Scottish #literature #books #bookbinding #bookhistory #Bute #Rothesay

You can read a digitised version of the National Library of Scotland’s Kilmarnock Edition online

3/3

https://digital.nls.uk/poems-chiefly-in-the-scottish-dialect/archive/74571150?mode=fullsize

#Scottish #literature #poetry #RobertBurns #Scots #Scotslanguage #18thcentury #BookHistory #RareBooks