Steven Van Impe
@svanimpe.bsky.social
Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
For the feast of Saint Martin, let us remember a story recorded by Letaldus of Micy, in which a bear killed & ate Martin's donkey during a pilgrimage to Rome. Saint Martin then forced the bear to become his beast of burden. Similar stories go back to at least the sixth century.
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Next week, Laurent Simons will defend his PhD in #QuantumPhysics at #Antwerp University.
He is 15 years old.
#ImposterSyndrome
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He is 15 years old.
#ImposterSyndrome
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Antwerpenaar Laurent is slechts 15 jaar, en al doctor in de quantumfysica: “Maar in mijn vrije tijd doe ik gewone dingen”
Op zijn achtste zwaaide hij af in het middelbaar. En kijk: nadat hij zijn universitair diploma binnenhaalde, is Laurent Simons op zijn vijftiende al doctor in de quantumfysica. “Miljardairs willen nu in me investeren.”
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November 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Next week, Laurent Simons will defend his PhD in #QuantumPhysics at #Antwerp University.
He is 15 years old.
#ImposterSyndrome
www.gva.be/binnenland/a...
He is 15 years old.
#ImposterSyndrome
www.gva.be/binnenland/a...
Art.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Art.
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'It's a lost map!'
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
'It's a lost map!'
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
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While I was intoxicated yesterday, I gave a talk to a group of veterans in the pub about the overdiagnosis of Syphilis in First World War soldiers in lunatic asylums.
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
While I was intoxicated yesterday, I gave a talk to a group of veterans in the pub about the overdiagnosis of Syphilis in First World War soldiers in lunatic asylums.
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The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture, Courtauld, statement of intent deadline 17 November 2025
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
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Call for nominations for the Menno Hertzberger Prize 2026 in Book Studies of the Low Countries broadly considered (also looking at you specialists of print or cartography). Please nominate a colleague (or yourself!) either for Best Book or for the Encouragement Prize 1/8 #bookhistory #bookstudies
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Call for nominations for the Menno Hertzberger Prize 2026 in Book Studies of the Low Countries broadly considered (also looking at you specialists of print or cartography). Please nominate a colleague (or yourself!) either for Best Book or for the Encouragement Prize 1/8 #bookhistory #bookstudies
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Does anyone recognize this 15th-century coat of arms (Italian?)
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Does anyone recognize this 15th-century coat of arms (Italian?)
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"Festival of Floppies" and "Copy that Floppy" are such good titles for outreach events, I can't get over it.
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Future Nostalgia: Safeguarding the knowledge of floppy disks
Funded by British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust Small Grant
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November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"Festival of Floppies" and "Copy that Floppy" are such good titles for outreach events, I can't get over it.
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nosta...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/future-nosta...
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Petrus Pictor, popular poet from St Omer on the border of 12th-c Flanders and France, wrote rhyming Latin hexameters (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2849 & 1721 - also 1717-20)
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November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Petrus Pictor, popular poet from St Omer on the border of 12th-c Flanders and France, wrote rhyming Latin hexameters (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 2849 & 1721 - also 1717-20)
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object102907/en/
digitalesamlinger.kb.dk/manus/vmanus/2011/dec/ha/object100688/en/
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This morning, the burial ceremony for a Belgian soldier who fell during #WWI kicked off in Diksmuide. His remains were discovered in Sept 2025 during roadworks. Photo: Focus WTV #remembrance
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This morning, the burial ceremony for a Belgian soldier who fell during #WWI kicked off in Diksmuide. His remains were discovered in Sept 2025 during roadworks. Photo: Focus WTV #remembrance
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In passport line in Prague remembering my best experience in US:
Agent: why are you here?
I’m a Professor, giving a talk.
What’s you subject?
Political Philosophy.
My favourite!!
Really??
No. I say that to all the Professors.
Agent: why are you here?
I’m a Professor, giving a talk.
What’s you subject?
Political Philosophy.
My favourite!!
Really??
No. I say that to all the Professors.
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
In passport line in Prague remembering my best experience in US:
Agent: why are you here?
I’m a Professor, giving a talk.
What’s you subject?
Political Philosophy.
My favourite!!
Really??
No. I say that to all the Professors.
Agent: why are you here?
I’m a Professor, giving a talk.
What’s you subject?
Political Philosophy.
My favourite!!
Really??
No. I say that to all the Professors.
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The red of these anemones has really cheered me up on this miserable day in Dublin! From Hieronymus Bock's 16th century herbal, hand-coloured by an early reader.
October 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The red of these anemones has really cheered me up on this miserable day in Dublin! From Hieronymus Bock's 16th century herbal, hand-coloured by an early reader.
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I think we should bring back vibe spelling. Just add extra letters wherever, as you feel ‘em. Things can be frantick or hectick if you need that superfluous ’k’ edge. Resist the tyranny of received orthography!
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I think we should bring back vibe spelling. Just add extra letters wherever, as you feel ‘em. Things can be frantick or hectick if you need that superfluous ’k’ edge. Resist the tyranny of received orthography!
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I finished Honorée Fanonne Jeffers's _The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois_ late last night and I can't believe I have to go to bed without checking in with Ailey and her family. If you haven't read the novel yet, you absolutely should.
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I finished Honorée Fanonne Jeffers's _The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois_ late last night and I can't believe I have to go to bed without checking in with Ailey and her family. If you haven't read the novel yet, you absolutely should.
The greatest crossover ever!
The rights for Roger Rabbit have reverted back to author Gary K. Wolf 🐰
“I now have back the rights to all my characters, all my books. I can, basically, do my own Roger Rabbit projects"
“I now have back the rights to all my characters, all my books. I can, basically, do my own Roger Rabbit projects"
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The greatest crossover ever!
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Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
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In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky
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Sarah, I can't stop thinking about how children's books teach kids to read and feel with such innovation and then they grow up to read young adult and above lit and it's almost all so text-in-paragraphs-on-pages and blah. More picture books for adults!! (I know about graphic novels thank god)
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Sarah, I can't stop thinking about how children's books teach kids to read and feel with such innovation and then they grow up to read young adult and above lit and it's almost all so text-in-paragraphs-on-pages and blah. More picture books for adults!! (I know about graphic novels thank god)
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Anyone got a spare £million? Asking for.... Well, asking for me news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
Rare Gospel Written by Medieval Women Could Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction
A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 million.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Music to my Eyes
I'd never seen this anonymous woodcut in a 1491 book at #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 571) or the music it is part of anywhere previously... has anyone else? Beautiful addition in any case!
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#BookWaste
I'd never seen this anonymous woodcut in a 1491 book at #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 571) or the music it is part of anywhere previously... has anyone else? Beautiful addition in any case!
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#BookWaste
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Fancy Meeting You Here!
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Fancy Meeting You Here!
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“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.” -Kenneth Clark
24/7 cake vending machine in the middle of nowhere. Maximum Poland.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.” -Kenneth Clark