Milly Budny
@sparkle230.bsky.social
Books, gardens, stories, laughter.
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More is More, Volvelle Style, Cut-Outs Awaiting!
Great find! The Linda Hall Library also has two uncut volvelle sheets tucked into a 1553 Erasmus Reinhold edition of Georg Peurbach's Theoricae novae planetarum. (Assembled versions of the same volvelles are from their copy of the 1542 edition.) catalog.lindahall.org/permalink/01...
January 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
More is More, Volvelle Style, Cut-Outs Awaiting!
Volvelle-in-Waiting. Make your own: Cut Out and Serve!
Unexpected Friday find: a sheet bound in a Sammelband after a 1566 Antwerp edition of Joannes de Sacrobosco’s Sphaera with uncut parts of a volvelle diagram(!)
#earlymodern #rarebooks #bookhistory #woodcut #printhistory 📜 📚💙
#earlymodern #rarebooks #bookhistory #woodcut #printhistory 📜 📚💙
![Title page of the book with the short title ‘Sphaera […] emendata’. The imprint below a printer’s mark with the motto ‘Fortuna rotat omne datum’ reads Antvverpiae apud Joannem Richardum 1566.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hoi7rsxw4y2k74pdmuqwxfhp/bafkreif4honaxxwxfjruer5ahxossuawbonqmes76kzskim64kipw7tuea@jpeg)
January 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Volvelle-in-Waiting. Make your own: Cut Out and Serve!
Delicate initial 'P' with bird's head
BnF Latin 9451; The 'Purple Lectionary'; c.800 CE: North Italy (Verona or Monza); f.100v
BnF Latin 9451; The 'Purple Lectionary'; c.800 CE: North Italy (Verona or Monza); f.100v
November 25, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Nifty 1501 edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger. But for me, the star of the show is the printed book’s manuscript binding: a recycled leaf from a ca. 11th/12th-century copy of Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Job. Lovely hierarchy of script! #fragmentology #ManuscriptFragment #BindingFragment
November 25, 2024 at 7:21 AM
For our first post on Bluesky, we thought we'd take a wee twirl around the Sun Stone, an early medieval standing cross carved in the lost Viking-Age kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons and found in our 1,500-year-old churchyard in Govan, located in Glasgow, Scotland.
November 14, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Still life of a musicological library, likely commissioned by Bolognese music critic Giovan Battista Martini, c. 1725, Oil on canvas (Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna)
November 14, 2024 at 11:29 PM
How might sound determine the layout of a 15th-century #manuscript page?
Dr. Jennifer Carnell, cataloger of Western manuscripts at HMML, takes a gander in this look at #Animals in HMML's collections: hmml.org/stories/seri...
Dr. Jennifer Carnell, cataloger of Western manuscripts at HMML, takes a gander in this look at #Animals in HMML's collections: hmml.org/stories/seri...
What Does the Fox Say? A Hierarchy of Animal Voices
“For thousands of years, languages around the world have attempted to capture the sounds of animals...”
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June 21, 2024 at 5:48 AM
Four NYPL branches had broken air conditioning this week amid 90-degree temperatures, despite being city-designated "cooling centers." Library officials blame $750,000 in deferred maintenance exacerbated by Mayor Eric Adams’s recent budget reductions.
After budget cuts, NYC's libraries can't fix broken air conditioners amid heat wave
The air conditioning was out in at least four New York Public Library branches on Tuesday, forcing two Staten Island sites to close.
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June 21, 2024 at 5:46 AM
St Catherine depicted on the 15c rood screen at Filby, Norfolk
June 14, 2024 at 5:18 AM
This 9th-century manuscript is called Claudii Caesaris Arati Phaenomena. Dealing with astronomy, these illustrations depict various constellations. Here you can see a Hydra, the ship Argo, Virgin, Aesculapius, Auriga, Big and Little Bear, Centaur and Hercules fighting the Hesperides dragon.
May 11, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Day 3 of 3 for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence at #2024icms #2024kazoo #https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2024-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program/
May 11, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Day 3 of 3 for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence at #2024icms #2024kazoo #https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2024-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program/
Congratulations to @rgmemss.bsky.social!
Gratefully, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (RGME) announces a 2024 grant for an integrated pair of Spring and Autumn Symposia dedicated to teaching in the Liberal Arts from Special Collections with original sources of many kinds and from a range of periods, languages, and cultures.
Grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for the RGME Library & Archives in 2023 -
The RGME announces a Research Library Program Grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for the RGME Library & Archives as a collection.
manuscriptevidence.org
April 6, 2024 at 6:24 AM
Congratulations to @rgmemss.bsky.social!
E-florescence.
April 2, 2024 at 12:16 PM
E-florescence.
Excellent mini exhibition at the Bodleian on fakes! Here’s a medieval French chronicle with a miniature added in the 17th/18th c. I wouldn’t call an addition/supplement a forgery, except that it was perhaps intended to disguise the book as a copy for Philip VI? Very interesting!
April 2, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Fishes in books, Pisces Style, Manuscripts Included.
Today Medievalsky, let’s explore the Anglo-Norman Pisces horoscope:
"Qant la lune est en Pisce. Piscis est une signe commune, freyde e moyste, fleumatik, de la nature de ewe. Donke est il bone oure a vendre, e achater, la mer entrer e passer...
1/5
"Qant la lune est en Pisce. Piscis est une signe commune, freyde e moyste, fleumatik, de la nature de ewe. Donke est il bone oure a vendre, e achater, la mer entrer e passer...
1/5
![[Illustration : Zodiac : Pisces (Paris, BnF, Latin 7330 f.33v)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:blghsmic3py2uda37qcbt4rq/bafkreidt5xksani4qdty6y2bsnyp3ydhffwo6guuvcd34nt5hhnqm4rjt4@jpeg)
March 15, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Fishes in books, Pisces Style, Manuscripts Included.
Here is one of the things I am working on now. Co-organizing this event, hybrid, in April at my alma mater. Excited about the program. Great subject. Fantastic line-up of speakers.
Plus it's the Anniversary Year (25/35) for the RGME. Much to celebrate.
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Plus it's the Anniversary Year (25/35) for the RGME. Much to celebrate.
manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2024-sp...
2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College -
The 2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College celebrates accomplishments for manuscript and early-book studies in Special Collections at Vassar and elsewhere.
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March 5, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Here is one of the things I am working on now. Co-organizing this event, hybrid, in April at my alma mater. Excited about the program. Great subject. Fantastic line-up of speakers.
Plus it's the Anniversary Year (25/35) for the RGME. Much to celebrate.
manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2024-sp...
Plus it's the Anniversary Year (25/35) for the RGME. Much to celebrate.
manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2024-sp...
Acrobatic initial with interlace and fish
BnF Smith-Lesouëf 2; Psautiers mozarabiques; 11th century; f.105v @bnf.bsky.social
BnF Smith-Lesouëf 2; Psautiers mozarabiques; 11th century; f.105v @bnf.bsky.social
March 2, 2024 at 12:06 PM
I'm teaching some students about digitization and thought it would be fun to estimate how many years it will take to digitize all our collections at our current rate. Apropos of nothing, this manuscript is 1200 years old and these images are 30 years old. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/783d...
March 1, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Only a few weeks now until the Spring Equinox!
BL Add 18856; Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale; c.1420 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.5v
BL Add 18856; Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale; c.1420 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.5v
February 27, 2024 at 9:31 PM
State of Preservation. #recordingrecords #articlesincluded
Here's a recent article by @mpe.bsky.social, in which he surveys the state of preservation statuses of over 7 million articles: eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/51.... Sign up if you'd like to hear more on the topic this Thursday, 29 Feb at 1pm GMT: forms.office.com/e/7Jdm09BSMd
Birkbeck Institutional Research Online
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February 27, 2024 at 2:40 PM
State of Preservation. #recordingrecords #articlesincluded
Working under duress
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February 16, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Middle Ages for Educators has new content! If you are interested in print technology, check out this new video by Eric White on the Gutenberg Bible - featuring a real Bible from Princeton! It's a wonderful intro & discussion, meant for everyone : middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/gutenberg-bi...
February 14, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Congratulations!
Tickled to announce that Middle Ages for Educators has won a @MedievalAcademy Centennial Grant! MAFE will host a Sweet-16 bracketed competition (w/cash prizes!) & the winner announced @ MAA 2025 in Boston. More details (& call for submissions) coming soon! middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu
February 14, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Congratulations!