Farley P Katz
@farleypkatz.bsky.social
Medieval manuscript fragments, 16c printing, the Catholicon (Mainz "1460" but printed in 1470 w/ movable type), French book artist Joseph Hémard, 1930s calypso, fossils (Texas ammonites and echinoids) https://independent.academia.edu/FarleyKatz
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Farley P Katz
@farleypkatz.bsky.social
· Dec 17
Graf Zeppelin by Atilla the Hun
YouTube video by OLD SCHOOL KAISO
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#Graf_Zeppelin, #Trinidad #calypso by #Atilla_the_Hun (1934). Raymond Quevedo (1892-1962), known as #Atilla, also wrote and recorded Roosevelt in Trinidad (1936), but this is my favorite of his, an innocent and delightful moment from a distant place and time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RupV...
I have responded to the claim that tiny dots in Catholicon Press books (1469-70) were made by the heads of micro-nails used to reattach stereotyped strips to wooden bases. The same dots appear in 17c English books, which no one has ever claimed were stereotyped.
www.academia.edu/164452077/On...
www.academia.edu/164452077/On...
One More Nail in the the Nailheads’ Coffin
Paul Needham's theory that tiny dots and spots (on the order of 1/2 mm) in Catholicon Press books (1469-1470) were made by micro-nail heads used to reattach stereotyped strips to wooden bases is u...
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February 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I have responded to the claim that tiny dots in Catholicon Press books (1469-70) were made by the heads of micro-nails used to reattach stereotyped strips to wooden bases. The same dots appear in 17c English books, which no one has ever claimed were stereotyped.
www.academia.edu/164452077/On...
www.academia.edu/164452077/On...
Texas Cretaceous ammonites. Quarter for scale.
February 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Texas Cretaceous ammonites. Quarter for scale.
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Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
![Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
_________________________________________________
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreigfz6fzbu65haq7nfqgaoe7m42gsaonpinpmaaptuzd5atkqvya4i@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Zoo the cat (my son's)
January 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Zoo the cat (my son's)
Bookplate!? Who needs a stinking bookplate when you can mark your books with a red-hot branding iron? Here are two 17th c. “Marcas de Fuego” showing that the book was owned by the Great Convent of St. Francisco in Mexico City - S. FRAN.CO d MEX. CO. The second mark AP refers to the apostolica sedes.
January 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Bookplate!? Who needs a stinking bookplate when you can mark your books with a red-hot branding iron? Here are two 17th c. “Marcas de Fuego” showing that the book was owned by the Great Convent of St. Francisco in Mexico City - S. FRAN.CO d MEX. CO. The second mark AP refers to the apostolica sedes.
(To the tune of Harry Belafonte's Matilda.)
DJT. DJT. DJT.
He take our money to run Venezuela
DJT. DJT. DJT.
He take our money to run Venezuela
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
(To the tune of Harry Belafonte's Matilda.)
DJT. DJT. DJT.
He take our money to run Venezuela
DJT. DJT. DJT.
He take our money to run Venezuela
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January 14, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Weird man on flyleaf (reused manuscript leaf) – 2 versions! “MEMORUM RERUM CONDITOR NOSTRUM” – Is he the Founder of our Memories? And do we really want to remember those? In Antoninus Florentinus (Florence: Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli Monastery [c. 1477). preserver.beic.it/delivery/Del...
January 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Weird man on flyleaf (reused manuscript leaf) – 2 versions! “MEMORUM RERUM CONDITOR NOSTRUM” – Is he the Founder of our Memories? And do we really want to remember those? In Antoninus Florentinus (Florence: Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli Monastery [c. 1477). preserver.beic.it/delivery/Del...
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A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.
January 7, 2026 at 9:08 AM
A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.
Happy New Year! Image: 1936 New Year’s Card (90 years ago today) by Joseph Hémard (1880-1961)
January 1, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Happy New Year! Image: 1936 New Year’s Card (90 years ago today) by Joseph Hémard (1880-1961)
#Graf_Zeppelin, #Trinidad #calypso by #Atilla_the_Hun (1934). Raymond Quevedo (1892-1962), known as #Atilla, also wrote and recorded Roosevelt in Trinidad (1936), but this is my favorite of his, an innocent and delightful moment from a distant place and time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RupV...
Graf Zeppelin by Atilla the Hun
YouTube video by OLD SCHOOL KAISO
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
#Graf_Zeppelin, #Trinidad #calypso by #Atilla_the_Hun (1934). Raymond Quevedo (1892-1962), known as #Atilla, also wrote and recorded Roosevelt in Trinidad (1936), but this is my favorite of his, an innocent and delightful moment from a distant place and time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RupV...
When out collecting #Cretaceous marine #fossils, don't forget the perfect accompaniment -- Texas #limestone-flavored sparkling water.
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
When out collecting #Cretaceous marine #fossils, don't forget the perfect accompaniment -- Texas #limestone-flavored sparkling water.
Day of the Dead 2025, Mexico City, outside Café Tacuba. #dayofthedead #diademuertos @miblogestublog.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Day of the Dead 2025, Mexico City, outside Café Tacuba. #dayofthedead #diademuertos @miblogestublog.bsky.social
Here's a beautiful Texas Argiope spider (fam. Araneidae) which I saw every day when I walked my dog until one day she was gone.
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Here's a beautiful Texas Argiope spider (fam. Araneidae) which I saw every day when I walked my dog until one day she was gone.
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I have posted a draft of "the Catholicon Press (1469-1470) and Printing with Wired Type", concluding wired type was used by early printers and is the reason line pairs in the Catholicon Press books moved together as a unit.
www.academia.edu/144440747/Th...
www.academia.edu/144440747/Th...
The Catholicon Press (1469-1470) and Printing with Wired Type (DRAFT 10/13/2025)
This draft article is one in a series of articles about the books printed by the Catholicon Press in Mainz (1469-1470), consisting of the Catholicon, a massive Latin grammar and dictionary, and two sm...
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October 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I have posted a draft of "the Catholicon Press (1469-1470) and Printing with Wired Type", concluding wired type was used by early printers and is the reason line pairs in the Catholicon Press books moved together as a unit.
www.academia.edu/144440747/Th...
www.academia.edu/144440747/Th...
The marks from over a thousand supposed nailheads in the Catholicon (Mainz "1460") recently discovered by Paul Needham were, in fact, left by sand grains that fell on inked type and were crushed by the platen into the type. Revised article on this analysis at:
www.academia.edu/143660455/Th...
www.academia.edu/143660455/Th...
The Catholicon (Mainz “1460”), The Myth of “Nailheads” -
A response to Paul Needham’s lecture “The Catholicon Press Revisited: The Evidence of Nailheads,” July 29, 2025. In which he claimed to have found new proof that the Catholicon Press books were printe...
www.academia.edu
September 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The marks from over a thousand supposed nailheads in the Catholicon (Mainz "1460") recently discovered by Paul Needham were, in fact, left by sand grains that fell on inked type and were crushed by the platen into the type. Revised article on this analysis at:
www.academia.edu/143660455/Th...
www.academia.edu/143660455/Th...
Mango, my son's #BullTerrier, just doing her thing on her couch.
September 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Mango, my son's #BullTerrier, just doing her thing on her couch.
Died Hard. Neues Museum, Berlin.
September 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Died Hard. Neues Museum, Berlin.
Found this woodcut in a sammelband at the Berlin Staatsbibliothek. No idea what's up, but the dude on the left seems to be hawking a fine vine and the Angel of Truth looks like he fell into a vat of leeches. Or maybe this involves poison ivy. c. 1474-5. LC copy on right has identical coloring.
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Found this woodcut in a sammelband at the Berlin Staatsbibliothek. No idea what's up, but the dude on the left seems to be hawking a fine vine and the Angel of Truth looks like he fell into a vat of leeches. Or maybe this involves poison ivy. c. 1474-5. LC copy on right has identical coloring.
Ammonite in outside wall of firehouse in Berlin. #urbangeology #FossilFriday
September 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Ammonite in outside wall of firehouse in Berlin. #urbangeology #FossilFriday
Looking for Heinrich Keffer at the fabulous Staatsbibliothek Bamberg.
September 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Looking for Heinrich Keffer at the fabulous Staatsbibliothek Bamberg.
I have posted The Catholicon (Mainz “1460”), The Myth of “Nailheads” at www.academia.edu/143660455/Th... This is a response to Paul Needham's recent lecture in which he claims to have found proof that the Catholicon Press books were printed by stereotype, not movable type. I conclude otherwise.
The Catholicon (Mainz “1460”), The Myth of “Nailheads” DRAFT
A response to Paul Needham’s lecture “The Catholicon Press Revisited: The Evidence of Nailheads,” July 29, 2025. In which he claimed to have found proof that the Catholicon Press books were printed by...
www.academia.edu
August 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I have posted The Catholicon (Mainz “1460”), The Myth of “Nailheads” at www.academia.edu/143660455/Th... This is a response to Paul Needham's recent lecture in which he claims to have found proof that the Catholicon Press books were printed by stereotype, not movable type. I conclude otherwise.
Coming Soon - Towers of Bologna - The Game!, with the basic rules concept --
August 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Coming Soon - Towers of Bologna - The Game!, with the basic rules concept --