Exploring interconnections of book history and art history. Independent scholars in alliance with the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Univ. of Penn
Durham, NC USA
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British Library announces that it is aiming to restore access to digitised manuscripts by September 2024: blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge…
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👀 New content is up on the @RSAorg Digital Resources page! Have a look: bit.ly/3p8pEoI @maxson_brian @angeladressen @MaddenAmanda #RenTwitter #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #twitterstorians
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Lots of reading women at Art Institute of Chicago #RenSA24
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#Legnano #Milan #Italy: Interior of the main chapel of the Basilica of San Magno. Exif, full size img: milanofotografo.it/englishFo…
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Great to see that The Classical Review will start publishing reviews of digital classics project.
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We start the new year with a gift: a list of 20 open access books on the Middle Ages from Medievalist.net. Lovers and researchers of manuscripts will certainly be interested in the second title, volume 1 of "Touching Parchment" by Kathryn Rudy. medievalists.net/2023/12/20-…
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Delighted to have received a CBE in the New Year Honours List. With thanks as ever to all my colleagues in the St Andrews Book History Group, whose companionship and intellectual engagement has made writing such an enjoyable experience.
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NEW UPDATE BLOG! Click here to read about our efforts to expand the USTC to 1700, this time with new data from the Northern Netherlands: ustc.ac.uk/news/extension-to…
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Excited to announce the publication of this article in the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage by the DS 2.0 team on building and implementing the DS Catalog prototype. Great summary of the 2-yr @US_IMLS -funded DS 2.0 project. @mikko_koho @lpc359 @dpwbeast
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A joy not a burden
#NationalBookLoversDay
BL Add 15275, f.141r @BLMedieval
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Fantastic move by @cambridgeUP to make OA publishing easier
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Delighted to say that our two reports on Author Rights Retention and Secondary Publishing Rights are being presented this morning to European national open science coordinators @CoNOSC_Council #OA #OS #SPR
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Have you ever heard of an ectype? An ectype is an ink-based imprint made directly from a plant specimen, and one of them is found at the back of @upennlib @kislakcenter @sims_mss LJS 419, an Italian herbal from the 15th and 16th centuries. instagr.am/reel/CrbL5XAgXj7/
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Behold the Equinox!
#Equinox2023
@BLMedieval BL Add 18856; Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale; c.1420 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.5v
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Journal of the Walters Art Museum, vol. 76, Essay #2:
Nicholas Herman, “Looking through Books”
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🎉We are pleased to announce that as of 1 July 2023, a subscription will no longer be required to access the Index of Medieval Art database! This transition was made possible with the support of the Kress Foundation and Princeton A&A Dept. ima.princeton.edu/2023/01/12… #medievaltwitter
ALT Manuscript detail depicting two male jongleurs wearing colorful dress, playing music, and dancing. From the Silos Beatus, 1091–1109 (London, British Library, MS Add. 11695), fol. 86r.
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Out now: My article on women printers in the HRE with insights into their training, legal status, work & production and reputation.
Incl. appendix of the 170 women I could identify (so far) who ran a print business for 3+ yrs.
In Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung (ZHF)
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Cipher bit.ly/3dDWIxP
Coding information supplied in manuscript.
References to King James and other persons would seem to date this around 1688.
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“Building the Book from the Ancient World to Present Day” is now open in our Main Gallery! Celebrate 50 years of @rarebookschool by traversing time, space, process, and product in the evolution of book production. Free & open to the public, Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm.
![A rust red promotional poster for “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School and the Book Arts Press, September 28 – December 23, 2022.” There are nine images, from left to right: Detail from art deco binding made by C. Grandgeorge for Salammbô; Activity for RBS Online course “Descriptive Bibliography: The Fundamentals”; ex libris seal: Shoushan stone cut by Yu Weiguo; Megillat Ester MS scroll; Detail from Ge’ez MS scroll, [Ethiopia]; RBS typesetting and printing demonstration; Detail from the cover of The Moss Rose; Rare Book School (RBS) papermaking demonstration; Diamond-Cutter Sutra MS. [Mongolia]. Photos courtesy of Rare Book School.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdruKUZXkBsG8o2.jpg?name=orig)
ALT A rust red promotional poster for “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School and the Book Arts Press, September 28 – December 23, 2022.” There are nine images, from left to right: Detail from art deco binding made by C. Grandgeorge for Salammbô; Activity for RBS Online course “Descriptive Bibliography: The Fundamentals”; ex libris seal: Shoushan stone cut by Yu Weiguo; Megillat Ester MS scroll; Detail from Ge’ez MS scroll, [Ethiopia]; RBS typesetting and printing demonstration; Detail from the cover of The Moss Rose; Rare Book School (RBS) papermaking demonstration; Diamond-Cutter Sutra MS. [Mongolia]. Photos courtesy of Rare Book School.