#printinghistory — Public Fediverse posts
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The Diamond Sutra, printed in 868 China, is the oldest known dated book. Created for free distribution, it carries profound teachings—what does that say about knowledge and ownership?
#AncientHistory #BuddhistTexts #PrintingHistory #ChineseHistory #HistoricalArtifacts
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/diamond-sutra-oldest-known-printed-book-world-006185 -
The Diamond Sutra, printed in 868 China, is the oldest known dated book. Created for free distribution, it carries profound teachings—what does that say about knowledge and ownership?
#AncientHistory #BuddhistTexts #PrintingHistory #ChineseHistory #HistoricalArtifacts
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/diamond-sutra-oldest-known-printed-book-world-006185 -
The Diamond Sutra, printed in 868 China, is the oldest known dated book. Created for free distribution, it carries profound teachings—what does that say about knowledge and ownership?
#AncientHistory #BuddhistTexts #PrintingHistory #ChineseHistory #HistoricalArtifacts
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/diamond-sutra-oldest-known-printed-book-world-006185 -
The Diamond Sutra, printed in 868 China, is the oldest known dated book. Created for free distribution, it carries profound teachings—what does that say about knowledge and ownership?
#AncientHistory #BuddhistTexts #PrintingHistory #ChineseHistory #HistoricalArtifacts
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/diamond-sutra-oldest-known-printed-book-world-006185 -
The Diamond Sutra, printed in 868 China, is the oldest known dated book. Created for free distribution, it carries profound teachings—what does that say about knowledge and ownership?
#AncientHistory #BuddhistTexts #PrintingHistory #ChineseHistory #HistoricalArtifacts
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/diamond-sutra-oldest-known-printed-book-world-006185 -
@tntype @dbellingradt @BiblioWingate @dohanian
awesome find of the day: I discovered that 15 years ago I was a rather diligent note taker when conducting my doctoral research on Damascus, reading Arabic newspapers at the AUB library all day, everyday for months on end. Apparently, a local, water and steam powered paper mill was established north of #Beirut at نهر انطلياس in late 1882 by ثابت and باحوط. The official inauguration took place with much pomp in the presence of the Vali etc. in March 1883. In November 1882, the Jesuit weekly البشير even printed at least one issue on the new mill’s paper as a marketing device showing off its quality and calling on all printing presses and schools in Syria to utilise this local paper (also, of course, in the service of progress and the nation) .
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@tntype @dbellingradt @BiblioWingate @dohanian After running exiftools on a large number of digital facsimiles to compute average page dimensions and combining this ratio with the measured height of Arabic magazines found in library catalogues, it appears that page dimensions of 24.43 cm by 16 cm are somewhat close to Medium octavo after we account for some additional height caused by measuring the outside dimensions of bound library copies.
https://digitalcourage.social/@tillgrallert/115946913237198695
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Associate Curator Stephen Coles provides a bit of historical context for Langley’s San Francisco Directory (1891). See it in our Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_unitedstates_0050
#LetterformArchive #SanFranciscoHistory #PrintingHistory #IndustrialRevolution #VictorianDesign #Typography #PalmerAndRey
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Exhibition celebrating the 400th annivesray of Shakespeare's 'First Folio' at Senate House Library, University of London.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0CTzyzoQ2y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
#shakespeare #shakespeareplays #ShakespeareSunday #printinghistory
#printculture #bookhistory #historyofthebook #1623 #literaryheritage -
cfp for SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) at the University of Reading next summer.
The topic is Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access
https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/sharp-conference-2024/
#cfp #conference #bookhistory #bookculture #textualculture #printinghistory #publishinghistory #BookPublishing
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cfp for SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) at the University of Reading next summer.
The topic is Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access
https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/sharp-conference-2024/
#cfp #conference #bookhistory #bookculture #textualculture #printinghistory #publishinghistory #BookPublishing
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cfp for SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) at the University of Reading next summer.
The topic is Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access
https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/sharp-conference-2024/
#cfp #conference #bookhistory #bookculture #textualculture #printinghistory #publishinghistory #BookPublishing
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cfp for SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) at the University of Reading next summer.
The topic is Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access
https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/sharp-conference-2024/
#cfp #conference #bookhistory #bookculture #textualculture #printinghistory #publishinghistory #BookPublishing
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cfp for SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) at the University of Reading next summer.
The topic is Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access
https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/sharp-conference-2024/
#cfp #conference #bookhistory #bookculture #textualculture #printinghistory #publishinghistory #BookPublishing
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What's under the umbrella? Well, #newshistory, journalism from handwritten to printed to digital news, #maphistory, visual mapmaking by humans on whatever material, global #printinghistory, #manuscript usages, a trade focus on book flows, a reading history, and much more about communication flows and infrastructure usages with "books" of all formats and materials. Basically, #bookhistory is an overextension of many fields and approaches dealing with past communication flows and artifacts.
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All this and more is #bookhistory nowadays: #newshistory, journalism from handwritten to printed to digital news transmission, #maphistory, visual mapmaking by humans on whatever material, #printinghistory, using global printing technologies, #manuscript usages ...(and more). Too much, isn't it? Remember the riot reference?
