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Séminaire "La valeur du papier. Matérialité, consommation et culture de l'écrit, début XIIIe-XIXe siècle"
- 23 octobre,
- 20 novembre
- 18 décembre
- 22 janvier

Chaque séance vise à faire se rencontrer différentes approches liées à la matérialité du papier, entre spécialistes de de domaines parfois institutionnellement éloignés, allant de la conservation et de la restauration à l’histoire culturelle, de la codicologie et de l’histoire du livre à l’histoire économique des circulations marchandes et des pratiques de consommation.

Organisé avec une collaboration UVSQ / Tours / Archives natioanles et avec le soutien de la Fondation des sciences du patrimoine.

https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/evenements/la-valeur-du-papier-materialite-consommation-et-culture-de-lecrit-debut-xiile-xixe

Possibilité de suivre le séminaire à distance (ne pas hésiter à me demander le lien).
Venez nombreux ! le programme détaillé suit ⬇️

#histodons #histodon #paperhistory #archivistodon

📝 Une nouvelle transcription sur laquelle j'ai un peu peiné, mais c'est pour la bonne cause : essayer de comprendre ce qui a bien pu se passer pour que Raynaldinus de Fabriano perde le contrôle de son moulin, de son matériel, de ses moyens de production....

C'est à cause du Vincent Bolloré local.

#paperhistory

https://papetierspo.hypotheses.org/1679

📝 Billet de carnet - transcription
Je me suis dit qu'un usage de ce carnet pouvait aussi être de mettre en ligne certaines de mes transcriptions les plus propres, de documents que je trouve intéressant.
Alors je commence avec ce contrat de location d'un moulin un papier... par la femme du seigneur de Bologne, Ginevra Sforza, en 1496..

#paperhistory
https://papetierspo.hypotheses.org/1651

🗒️ Les derniers actes "Actualités de la recherche en histoire du papier" tirés de la journée d'étude de l'Association Française pour l'Histoire et l'Etude du Papier et des Papeteries de 2024 sont en ligne.

J'y avais parlé de mes toutes premières recherches sur l'industrie papetière à Bologne à la fin du Moyen Âge. On y trouve aussi des articles passionnants sur le rationnement du papier en Belgique pendant l'Occupation, sur les registres de notaires à Montpelliers, le papier javanais ou encore sur la gestion de l'eau dans la Cartonnerie de Gondardennes (Pas de Calais).

https://afhepp.org/publications-de-lafhepp/journees-detude/

#paperhistory

And for friends of #paperhistory: when this image was printed, in mid 16th century, paper was available all over Europe. Like in this example, when you had paper sheets stored next to your working desk: bsky.app/profile/dbel...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/post/3lasqxudgwk2d

@tntype @dbellingradt @BiblioWingate @dohanian I found some time yesterday to go over British and American consular trade reports between the 1870s and 1910s and it appears that the majority of printing paper in Bilad al-Sham was imported from Austria-Hungary.

#PaperHistory #PaperTrade #OttomanEmpire #AustriaHungary

Is there any meaningful literature on the paper trade in the late Ottoman Empire (second half of the 19th century onwards) that I might have missed? I tried all keywords I could think of in the common databases for scholarly literature and searched through works on the history of printing and publishing but came up practically empty-handed.

Amy Ayalon, Hala Auji, Titus Nemeth ( @tntype ), and the late Kathryn Schwartz mention paper in passing. The body of literature on watermarks and manuscripts doesn’t help either as this isn’t concerned with the cheap, industrially produced paper for periodical printing I am interested in.

Is there a chance of @dbellingradt or
@BiblioWingate knowing more?

#PaperHistory #OttomanEmpire #PeriodicalStudies #PaperTrade

Some threads are about paper being present in the past: #paperhistory bsky.app/profile/dbel...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/post/3l4axbzojzt25

Letters with news, professional political news and private news, were a think back then. As soon as paper was available in Europe (see my #paperhistory threads), paper letters were all over and trendy. Reading letters mattered! bsky.app/profile/dbel...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/post/3laymog73d22c

Letters with news, professional political news and private news, were a think back then. As soon as paper was available in Europe (see my #paperhistory threads), paper letters were all over and trendy. Reading letters mattered! bsky.app/profile/dbel...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/post/3laymog73d22c

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

Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians

Let's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️ Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs. 1/

Let's focus on #earlymodern paper. Today in the spotlight: #cartography and its connection to #paperhistory:

"De geograaf" in the seventeenth-century painting by Johannes #Vermeer was a paper using man surrounded by paper.

A 🧵 for #skystorians

So much paper in this 1665 painting from Cornelis N. Gijsbrechts. You see an open cupboard door, as art history labelled the image, but what you also see: prints, letters, a broadside, an almanac, stored unused paper sheets, etc. It's #paperhistory all over. Let's have a 🧵, dear #skystorians

The man copying a few lines from an open book onto a fresh sheet of paper was a well-known Franciscan friar and one of the important philosopher-theologians of Europe: John Duns Scotus (1265-1308). Here is a 🧵 about him as a paper user. For #skystorians and #earlymodern #paperhistory friends. 1/6

There is a paper story in this painting from 1672: welcome to the shortest thread for #paperhistory in one post only (more in the alt-text) 1 - a paper letter (being moved) 2 - used paper sheets (messy)) 3 - a document bag! (fun) 4 - stored paper sheets (waiting) 5 - waste paper (lying around)

That's important for #paperhistory: you see fresh (unused) paper-sheets waiting for action. Paper-sheets were often being stored next to writing tables, a patiently waiting resource. Using papers included a material history of purchasing and storing. Every office was also a paper storing space. 5/7

The story of communication with paper artifacts includes a big chapter on storing, dear #skystorians. A thread or those enjoying #paperhistory and #bookhistory alike. You see Abraham Gorlaeus (or his brother David), both being born around mid sixteenth-century, sitting at a desk in #Haarlem. 1/7

The history of early modern reading is also a history of #rereading, a history of storing papers and ideas (and information), and a history of the material conditions of writing, reading, transporting and reusing papers. A newly accentuated #PaperHistory is connecting these fields. Goodybe. 8/8

Bonus detail for the #paperhistory crew: the globe in the back was made of paper too. But that's a topic of another thread of the future. 6/8

All eyes on #rereading, dear #skystorians: Among the many reusages of paper in #earlymodern Europe was certainly the rereading of letters. Here's a thread - using a 1780s painting from Marguerite Gérard - for those interested in #paperhistory and #bookhistory 1/8

Highlighted is a typical paper product of the time, a single sheet print - a so-called #broadside. Here it is glued to the wall. These paper products could be used for educational purposes. In the painting, it is carrying script, printed words. On paper. #BookHistory is basically #PaperHistory. /2

Schools in Europe were social spaces of learning and teaching, and above all, schools were a paper world: contact zones for pupils with papers of all sorts. Let's have a look at this 1670 painting by Jan Steen. A thread for #PaperHistory and #BookHistory #earlymodern #skystorians #BlueLZ 1/

Say hi to the "Bologna stone" of 1389 carrying the oldest known European paper sizes, dear #skystorians. »Imperialle« (500 x 740 Millimeter) »Realle« (445 x 615 Millimeter) »Meçane« (345 x 515 Millimeter) »Reçute« (315 x 450 Millimeter) A thread for #paperhistory and #bookhistory folks. 1/

That's a fish painted in the 1780s. A still life by Giuseppe Artioli. And there is also a used handmade paper sheet, with calculations on it. In #earlymodern Europe, paper was used and re-used regularly.

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#PaperHistory #skystorians

Fascinating but be warned, you may crave a night in the pub after reading..

https://mastodon.social/@dbellingradt/111607655501538931
MT @dbellingradt - #Tobacco + #Paper share a common past. In #EarlyModernEurope, a period called the paper age, tobacco had its connections to paper (+ print)

#smoking, #history #PaperHistory
1671 painting by Hubert van Ravesteijn - an exclusively designed paper packet leaning against a clay pipe, ready for consumption in a tavern, to sell small units of tobacco, paper was needed
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@histodons A closer look at every administrative activity of the period offers stored and waiting fresh paper sheets. Yet unused artifacts in different trading units of the paper trade: As detail no. 4 shows, you could buy paper as single sheets or in units up to 500, in the preferred format, quality and size, by the way.

And how did all these waiting papers get into the many secretaries? Well, ask the paper trade: https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/56966

#histodons #bookhistory #paperhistory

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There is a paper story to this painting from 1672 waiting to be told. Meet Jan Berckheyde's "A Notary in His Office" highlighted in 5 steps - a thread for friends of #paperhistory and #mediahistory of #EarlyModernEurope, and for #histodons in general. Expect a view into the inky paper states of Europe, a paper age dealing also with waste papers, fresh paper sheets waiting to be used, a high paper demand, and some document bags literally full of used papers. Let's roll @histodons

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@histodons Folded paper sheets ruled in early modern Europe. For letter writing activities, for administration, or for including your ideas into chapters of big books, or next to them - as in the highlighted part of the painting. The paper sheet was a mass artifact of the period, maybe THE most often produced artifact of the publishing, writing, and printing good old Europe. However, loose sheets were precious goods, easily damaged, burned, hard to collect over time. #PaperHistory

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Here is a new thread for friends of #PaperHistory, #BookHistory, and the #histodons community.
@histodons

On the painting with the title "The Alchemist" from the Flemish Mattheus van Helmont, circa mid seventeenth century, are many uses and abuses of #earlymodern paper products reflected in the details. I will address 7 of these paper issues in the thread. Bonus for #Alchemy friends: a large écorché figure, a distillation apparatus over a fire, and metal working assistants.
Enjoy.

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X-ray of the lungs, or handmade papersheet of early eighteenth-century with a ink accident and a slightly hidden watermark from the paper maker Ferdinand Faber used for musical notations ... @histodons #histodons #paperhistory

Hidden #Manuscripts in #DundeeUniversity Special Collections https://learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk/dundeeuniculture/2023/07/24/hidden-manuscripts-in-dundee-special-collections/ #BookHistory #RareBooks #Dundee #Scotland #PaperHistory #Books #Bookstodon #Histodon

Great article for #bookhistory, #paperhistory and #musichistory: Paper and parchment as repair materials in early modern lutes. #histodons, it is a recycling story!

This sun #watermark from fifteenth century Switzerland is dissatisfied with the overall situation. #paperhistory @academicchatter

📘 A obra "Celulose da Caima, 130 Anos. Inovação e Resiliência", da autoria de Jorge Custódio, que celebra o 130º aniversário da #Caima, reunindo informação histórica, arqueológica e documental das unidades fabris de Albergaria-a-Velha (extinta) e Constância-Sul, está disponível em #AcessoAberto 🔓:
https://www.caima.pt/livro/caima130.pdf

#histodons #IndustrialHistory #PaperHistory #IndustrialArchaeology #Portugal #Industrialization #Papel

Just a 1399 watermark unicorn from a Valencia paper manufacturer. #BookHistory is #Paperhistory #histodons
https://memoryofpaper.eu/apccv/apccv.php?Signatura=1475.1

A CFP for #PaperHistory and #MusicHistory

The Association Française pour l'Histoire et l'Etude du Papier et des Papeteries (AFHEPP) and the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM-CNRS/ENS) are organizing a one day conference (Paris, October 13 2023) devoted to the "Characteristics and uses of paper for producing sound and writing music”.

#histodons #bookhistory

Early modern Europe was a paper era, as this still life of 1655 from Anthonius Leemans (https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-752) reflects. #PaperHistory #BookHistory #Histodons

A globe and bound books, and a violin, were not objects you would find in every household of seventeenth-century Europe. In fact, this young gentleman is part of a rich elite. Like globes? Check this #paperhistory thread: https://mastodon.social/@dbellingradt/109846474614571328

Classy bonus with a book on another book: using a big book as your reading support. How to do with books anyway? #bookhistory

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At first sight: a young viola player, painted with oil on panel in 1637 by Gerrit Dou, a master painter of the seventeenth century. But take a closer look at the shadowy parts and you will see a lot of paper details and various book variations of the time. A hidden #bookhistory and #paperhistory thread in six steps for #histodons.

Dou painted this piece of art at age twenty-four, in 1637. Enjoy and zoom the painting yourself: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/5675/interior-young-viola-player

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Some #PaperHistory stuff for today: The spouting whale.

From the 1770s onward, the Dutch paper maker Adriaan Rogge used this #watermark for his papers. The whale is sometimes incorrectly taken as a play on his name Rogge (Rog = ray), but refers to Rogge's paper mill: "De Walvis" (Whale).

His watermark of a spouting whale is floating through a lot of manuscripts and prints of late eighteenth century. Also: the whale was part of Rogge's ream wrappers covering his to be sold papers. #histodons

Well, #paperhistory. This comic cover is superb: #Superman, #Batman and Robin are transporting old papers in order to recycle the material resource. How very timely: "Fight Paper-Waste".

Here is the original toot: https://mastodon.online/@ComicBookProgressive/110024605667550328 #histodons

While the trilingual edition from 1672 used this new image, most other editions were happy with the old image published in the first edition of 1658.

This is the more or less exact original image published in the London 1672 edition of the "Orbis Sensualium Pictus". Remember the small bookseller of 1658? Here he is again. And lots of paper, #paperhistory.

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How to do with books, and paper, in Early Modern Europe?

This is a thread for #paperhistory and #bookhistory experts and #histodons in general. The thread is mainly about storing objects in a paper consuming culture. So follow me and this thread to investigate what do we see here in this printed image?

By the way, the image is part of a book published in #Frankfurt, #Germany, in 1626.

Daniel Meisner "Thesaurvs Sapientiae Civilis, sive Vitae Humanae ac Virtutum Et Vitiorum Theatrum...".

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Dear #Histodons, this is a first round up toot of the #paperhistory threads devoted to Europe’s first paper age that I started in the #Fediverse:

Using paper at home: https://mastodon.social/@dbellingradt/109880798515079256

Paper all round: https://mastodon.social/@dbellingradt/109544828705221635

A cupboard full of papers: https://mastodon.social/@dbellingradt/109647195967468973

Cartography as a paper art: https://mastodon.social/@dbellingradt/109846474614571328

A work table with and for paper practices: https://mastodon.social/@dbellingradt/109669540629626554

Paper crowns: https://mastodon.social/@dbellingradt/109535188203083168

A paper age example: https://mastodon.social/@dbellingradt/109517448834407919

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And now over to the more important part for #paperhistory: you see fresh (unused) paper sheets waiting for action. Paper sheets were often being stored next to your writing table, a very patiently waiting resource.

Using papers in 1580 (and later) had always a material history of purchasing and storing included. Every office was a paper storing and using space.

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The story of communication with paper artifacts includes a big chapter on storing, dear #histodons.

What you see on the engraving is a paper using man in late sixteenth-century Europe. You see Abraham Gorlaeus or his brother David, both being born around mid sixteenth-century. However, the engraving is dated exactly 1580, the place is #Haarlem, and the print is nowadays hosted at the #Rijksmuseum in #Amsterdam.

A thread for those enjoying #paperhistory and #bookhistory alike.

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And another thread for #histodons enjoying #paperhistory. Today, we focus on #cartography as a paper art.

You see the famous painting of late seventeenth-century from the Dutch Johannes #Vermeer that reflects some of the paper usages of early modern cartography: "De geograaf" was a paper using man; early modern #cartography was a paper world of its own. @histodons

By the way, the #Rijksmuseum in #Amsterdam just opened an exhibition on Vermeer these days: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/johannes-vermeer?ss=

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And another #PaperHistory thread for those interested in the material worlds of the past, dear #histodons.

You see a trompe l'oeil painting from 1883 by Walter Goodman: The Printsellers Window. It may have also been called the Papersellers Window https://magart.rochester.edu/objects-1/info/3889

Let's have a deeper look at the paper worlds present in this painting. The nineteenth-century in Europe was, just like the early modern period, a paper world of its own: another paper age. Paper was everywhere. #History

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You see a European artist's worktable from mid seventeenth century. These worktables were places where paper was used, a place where ink, quills, and paper was stored and handy. Let's focus on this in more detail, a short thread for friends of #paperhistory.

Access the print at the BM: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1848-0911-4

#histodons #history

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Almost hidden: an opened small book, a bound copy, with another resting eyeglass on top. These bound books were the favorite focus of #bookhistory, but they were only one small part of the paper artifacts used and produced in Europe's first paper age.

Good bye, friends of #paperhistory, this thread has come to an end.

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