Pax (nee Patrick) Crowley (they/them, þ/þs)
@pilcrow5.bsky.social
Rare Books Librarian, Classic Doctor Who nerd, Forever DM, synth dabbler, low-level crafter, gardener, likes to cook, prefers being barefoot -- In other words, a very tall Hobbit?
All posts personal. No posts represent the opinions or will of my employer.
All posts personal. No posts represent the opinions or will of my employer.
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relaxed saturday evening reading through "women designers of book plates (1902)" and flipped past a couple of beautiful professional designs only to see this perfect plate by a young Miss Page
October 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
relaxed saturday evening reading through "women designers of book plates (1902)" and flipped past a couple of beautiful professional designs only to see this perfect plate by a young Miss Page
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FINAL CALL! ⏰
One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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Interested in exploring rare books, archives, or book history in Antwerp? Applications for the 2025 Nottebohm Fellowship are open for 2 more weeks: tinyurl.com/applyNB
Fellowship Programme | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
FINAL CALL! ⏰
One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!
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I finally set my workstation background. It files like I am properly moved in. Also, I do not think I will ever be able to work without 2 screens again. This is the best thing ever!
September 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I finally set my workstation background. It files like I am properly moved in. Also, I do not think I will ever be able to work without 2 screens again. This is the best thing ever!
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Stop in random libraries
September 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Stop in random libraries
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Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal.
This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer.
#MedievalMonday
This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer.
#MedievalMonday
September 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal.
This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer.
#MedievalMonday
This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer.
#MedievalMonday
Spotted in the stacks as I was shelving my stack of newly cataloged books. Love the headpiece and its appropriateness for the Argonautica.
#rarebooks #specialcollections #apollonios #earlyprinting
#rarebooks #specialcollections #apollonios #earlyprinting
September 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Spotted in the stacks as I was shelving my stack of newly cataloged books. Love the headpiece and its appropriateness for the Argonautica.
#rarebooks #specialcollections #apollonios #earlyprinting
#rarebooks #specialcollections #apollonios #earlyprinting
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Pumpkin adventurers
August 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Pumpkin adventurers
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Many thanks to our friends @hyperallergic.com for spreading the word about @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!
Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚
Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚
UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center Provides Funded Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities
The humanities library and museum will award up to 50 fellowships to support scholars, artists, and writers conducting on-site archival research.
hyperallergic.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Many thanks to our friends @hyperallergic.com for spreading the word about @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships!
Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚
Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/
#Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚
Finishing up cataloging this lovely 1676 book of Ecuadorian poetry and prose that contains accounts of hyperlocal fetivals with syncretic religious practices (Indegineous and Catholic). But what's enchanting my at the moment are the darling collections of typographic ornament! #rarebooks #typography
September 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Finishing up cataloging this lovely 1676 book of Ecuadorian poetry and prose that contains accounts of hyperlocal fetivals with syncretic religious practices (Indegineous and Catholic). But what's enchanting my at the moment are the darling collections of typographic ornament! #rarebooks #typography
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Happy Pancake Day!
This pancake recipe is from 'The Cook's and Confectioner's Dictionary' (1723) by John Nott, the oldest cookery book in our collections.
"...it will make them crisp, look yellow as Gold, and eat very well."
📷 Reserve 640.4 NOT
#PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #RareBooks
This pancake recipe is from 'The Cook's and Confectioner's Dictionary' (1723) by John Nott, the oldest cookery book in our collections.
"...it will make them crisp, look yellow as Gold, and eat very well."
📷 Reserve 640.4 NOT
#PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #RareBooks
March 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Happy Pancake Day!
This pancake recipe is from 'The Cook's and Confectioner's Dictionary' (1723) by John Nott, the oldest cookery book in our collections.
"...it will make them crisp, look yellow as Gold, and eat very well."
📷 Reserve 640.4 NOT
#PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #RareBooks
This pancake recipe is from 'The Cook's and Confectioner's Dictionary' (1723) by John Nott, the oldest cookery book in our collections.
"...it will make them crisp, look yellow as Gold, and eat very well."
📷 Reserve 640.4 NOT
#PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #RareBooks
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Fer Cozzi, Audaz (custom typeface for Nike), 2023.
Learn type design with Fer Cozzi, online! Create your own font, from sketch to screen (and everything in between).
10 weekly sessions, 3 hours each: Feb 26 – Apr 30, 2025
letterformarchive.org/shop/introdu...
#TypeDesign #Fonts #FontDesign
Learn type design with Fer Cozzi, online! Create your own font, from sketch to screen (and everything in between).
10 weekly sessions, 3 hours each: Feb 26 – Apr 30, 2025
letterformarchive.org/shop/introdu...
#TypeDesign #Fonts #FontDesign
February 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Fer Cozzi, Audaz (custom typeface for Nike), 2023.
Learn type design with Fer Cozzi, online! Create your own font, from sketch to screen (and everything in between).
10 weekly sessions, 3 hours each: Feb 26 – Apr 30, 2025
letterformarchive.org/shop/introdu...
#TypeDesign #Fonts #FontDesign
Learn type design with Fer Cozzi, online! Create your own font, from sketch to screen (and everything in between).
10 weekly sessions, 3 hours each: Feb 26 – Apr 30, 2025
letterformarchive.org/shop/introdu...
#TypeDesign #Fonts #FontDesign
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A couple of great owl decorations and some lovely initials in an otherwise pretty unremarkable edition 1901 edition of Bacon’s Essays. I love how well designed even mass market books could be at the turn of the last century. #rarebooks #owls #SCSUSpecialCollections #specialcollections
February 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A couple of great owl decorations and some lovely initials in an otherwise pretty unremarkable edition 1901 edition of Bacon’s Essays. I love how well designed even mass market books could be at the turn of the last century. #rarebooks #owls #SCSUSpecialCollections #specialcollections
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If you like music, you might enjoy seeing this image. It is from a service book c.1300 (WCL Q107 folio 17v).
January 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
If you like music, you might enjoy seeing this image. It is from a service book c.1300 (WCL Q107 folio 17v).
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Happy Lunar New Year!
What do you get if you cross #WatermarkWednesday with the year of the snake? A jolly snake watermark, of course!
We found this happy chap on the endpapers of a 'Sacerdotale sive sacerdotum thesaurus' which was printed in 1592.
📖 F 26/103
What do you get if you cross #WatermarkWednesday with the year of the snake? A jolly snake watermark, of course!
We found this happy chap on the endpapers of a 'Sacerdotale sive sacerdotum thesaurus' which was printed in 1592.
📖 F 26/103
January 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Happy Lunar New Year!
What do you get if you cross #WatermarkWednesday with the year of the snake? A jolly snake watermark, of course!
We found this happy chap on the endpapers of a 'Sacerdotale sive sacerdotum thesaurus' which was printed in 1592.
📖 F 26/103
What do you get if you cross #WatermarkWednesday with the year of the snake? A jolly snake watermark, of course!
We found this happy chap on the endpapers of a 'Sacerdotale sive sacerdotum thesaurus' which was printed in 1592.
📖 F 26/103
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A 'Serpens Americanus', aka giant anaconda, from Ulisse Aldrovandi's 1640 volume on snakes & dragons #YearOfTheSnake
January 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A 'Serpens Americanus', aka giant anaconda, from Ulisse Aldrovandi's 1640 volume on snakes & dragons #YearOfTheSnake
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This is intense. 💛 Asphodel, from ‘Collection des plantes usuelles, curieuses, et étrangères selon les systèmes de Mrs Tournefort et Linnæus, tirées du jardin du roi... gravées & imprimées en couleur... / par M. Gautier Dagoty’ (Paris, 1767). CCF.47.33 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is intense. 💛 Asphodel, from ‘Collection des plantes usuelles, curieuses, et étrangères selon les systèmes de Mrs Tournefort et Linnæus, tirées du jardin du roi... gravées & imprimées en couleur... / par M. Gautier Dagoty’ (Paris, 1767). CCF.47.33 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
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One way that you can tell a shark scientist from a non-expert enthusiast in online discussions is that the non-expert enthusiasts will say things like "Look at that Galeocerdo cuvier! " and professional shark scientists will say "that stripey boi is chonky!"
January 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
One way that you can tell a shark scientist from a non-expert enthusiast in online discussions is that the non-expert enthusiasts will say things like "Look at that Galeocerdo cuvier! " and professional shark scientists will say "that stripey boi is chonky!"
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It's #LibraryShelfieDay!
Take a picture of your favorite shelf of books (with or without yourself) - and then tag the Library!
In these photos: #MakerSpace, #SpecialCollections, #UnionStrong, #Cats, #LunarNewYear, #SelfHelp
Take a picture of your favorite shelf of books (with or without yourself) - and then tag the Library!
In these photos: #MakerSpace, #SpecialCollections, #UnionStrong, #Cats, #LunarNewYear, #SelfHelp
January 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It's #LibraryShelfieDay!
Take a picture of your favorite shelf of books (with or without yourself) - and then tag the Library!
In these photos: #MakerSpace, #SpecialCollections, #UnionStrong, #Cats, #LunarNewYear, #SelfHelp
Take a picture of your favorite shelf of books (with or without yourself) - and then tag the Library!
In these photos: #MakerSpace, #SpecialCollections, #UnionStrong, #Cats, #LunarNewYear, #SelfHelp
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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Did you know that Jan 15 is Strawberry Ice Cream Day? Neither did we! It might have to do with a tradition that James Madison's 2nd inauguration celebration included strawberry ice cream.
Read about the history of ice cream making in "Of Sugar and Snow" available as an ebook via SouthernSearch.
Read about the history of ice cream making in "Of Sugar and Snow" available as an ebook via SouthernSearch.
January 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Did you know that Jan 15 is Strawberry Ice Cream Day? Neither did we! It might have to do with a tradition that James Madison's 2nd inauguration celebration included strawberry ice cream.
Read about the history of ice cream making in "Of Sugar and Snow" available as an ebook via SouthernSearch.
Read about the history of ice cream making in "Of Sugar and Snow" available as an ebook via SouthernSearch.
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Celebrate the public domain with the Internet Archive on Wednesday, January 22nd ⤵️
10am PT—Register for our VIRTUAL party: www.eventbrite.com/e/singin-in-...
6pm PT—Come to the Internet Archive for our IN-PERSON film screening: www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-...
10am PT—Register for our VIRTUAL party: www.eventbrite.com/e/singin-in-...
6pm PT—Come to the Internet Archive for our IN-PERSON film screening: www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-...
January 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Celebrate the public domain with the Internet Archive on Wednesday, January 22nd ⤵️
10am PT—Register for our VIRTUAL party: www.eventbrite.com/e/singin-in-...
6pm PT—Come to the Internet Archive for our IN-PERSON film screening: www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-...
10am PT—Register for our VIRTUAL party: www.eventbrite.com/e/singin-in-...
6pm PT—Come to the Internet Archive for our IN-PERSON film screening: www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-...
