Benjamin Albritton
@blalbritton.bsky.social
Rare books and manuscripts. Measurer of shelves.
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Had fun filming a short video about the fabulous Parker.stanford.edu with @blalbritton.bsky.social today. We have a super NEH project (Global Currents) on the automated retrieval of features of manuscript layout using Parker data.
October 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Had fun filming a short video about the fabulous Parker.stanford.edu with @blalbritton.bsky.social today. We have a super NEH project (Global Currents) on the automated retrieval of features of manuscript layout using Parker data.
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Calling all independent humanities scholars, non-faculty researchers, librarians, anyone struggling to find time for research when it's not in your job description!
This Saturday, 11 PDT. Links below for calendar/zoom & timezone conversion
#medievalsky #bookhistory #dh #humanities
This Saturday, 11 PDT. Links below for calendar/zoom & timezone conversion
#medievalsky #bookhistory #dh #humanities
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Calling all independent humanities scholars, non-faculty researchers, librarians, anyone struggling to find time for research when it's not in your job description!
This Saturday, 11 PDT. Links below for calendar/zoom & timezone conversion
#medievalsky #bookhistory #dh #humanities
This Saturday, 11 PDT. Links below for calendar/zoom & timezone conversion
#medievalsky #bookhistory #dh #humanities
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🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Check out this funding opportunity to support events in your community! 📖✨
📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
September 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Check out this funding opportunity to support events in your community! 📖✨
📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
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Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work
A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...
A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...
Chronicles of a Book Detective: The case of MS 328
A lost sewing structure. A trip to Winchester which turns up an unexpected clue. A conservator looking for answers. This is the case of MS 328.
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk
August 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work
A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...
A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...
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A new #OpenAccess resource for teaching world/global history is almost ready. The module "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta," is in final editing & should be "live" by the beginning of September. A preview here: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07...
August 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A new #OpenAccess resource for teaching world/global history is almost ready. The module "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta," is in final editing & should be "live" by the beginning of September. A preview here: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07...
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Curious Cures completed - really excellent work by a brilliant team @theul.bsky.social led by Dr James Freeman: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
July 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Curious Cures completed - really excellent work by a brilliant team @theul.bsky.social led by Dr James Freeman: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
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Quick round of updates: Early Short Title Catalogue has moved to CERL, it is the beta version. They do not just want to restore but also improving the data. They call on research community for input on beta version #Bookhistory
June 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Quick round of updates: Early Short Title Catalogue has moved to CERL, it is the beta version. They do not just want to restore but also improving the data. They call on research community for input on beta version #Bookhistory
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Just came across this web resource: 76 digitized handwriting manuals 1600-1800 - mostly with models for handwriting exercises (bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/search/N-503...). A bored child learning to write doodled in one of them (source: bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/p...).
June 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Just came across this web resource: 76 digitized handwriting manuals 1600-1800 - mostly with models for handwriting exercises (bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/search/N-503...). A bored child learning to write doodled in one of them (source: bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/p...).
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This piece is worth reading/ wrestling with. imho.
1. AI can't do original research and thinking; it recombines (often badly) so may be most potent for digestible popular history. That's worth worrying about separately. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
1. AI can't do original research and thinking; it recombines (often badly) so may be most potent for digestible popular history. That's worth worrying about separately. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This piece is worth reading/ wrestling with. imho.
1. AI can't do original research and thinking; it recombines (often badly) so may be most potent for digestible popular history. That's worth worrying about separately. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
1. AI can't do original research and thinking; it recombines (often badly) so may be most potent for digestible popular history. That's worth worrying about separately. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
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It’s a full house for @etreharne.bsky.social ‘s John Coffin Memorial Lecture on mortuary rolls @ies-sas.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It’s a full house for @etreharne.bsky.social ‘s John Coffin Memorial Lecture on mortuary rolls @ies-sas.bsky.social
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Resharing this job posting. There’s still time to apply! Come work with me. 📜📚
June 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Resharing this job posting. There’s still time to apply! Come work with me. 📜📚
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UNC Library isn’t on Bluesky
I guess so I’m sharing that they’re currently recruiting for the Hanes Curator of Rare Books: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...
This is an amazing opportunity! Happy to talk to anyone about my experiences when I held this role!
I guess so I’m sharing that they’re currently recruiting for the Hanes Curator of Rare Books: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...
This is an amazing opportunity! Happy to talk to anyone about my experiences when I held this role!
June 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
UNC Library isn’t on Bluesky
I guess so I’m sharing that they’re currently recruiting for the Hanes Curator of Rare Books: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...
This is an amazing opportunity! Happy to talk to anyone about my experiences when I held this role!
I guess so I’m sharing that they’re currently recruiting for the Hanes Curator of Rare Books: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...
This is an amazing opportunity! Happy to talk to anyone about my experiences when I held this role!
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"In response to the withdrawal of multiple public datasets and websites" the University of Chicago Library has launched has launched the "UChicago Data Mirror." For starters, it includes NPS and Census data. Good to see more stakeholders involved mirroring data. www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/u...
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May 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"In response to the withdrawal of multiple public datasets and websites" the University of Chicago Library has launched has launched the "UChicago Data Mirror." For starters, it includes NPS and Census data. Good to see more stakeholders involved mirroring data. www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/u...
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🎉Almost 2000 views!
So grateful for all this interest in my new book (and extremely grateful to the Dutch Research Council for covering the book's Open Access funding 😊).
The free e-book version is here 🔓📖👇
academic.oup.com/book/59790
So grateful for all this interest in my new book (and extremely grateful to the Dutch Research Council for covering the book's Open Access funding 😊).
The free e-book version is here 🔓📖👇
academic.oup.com/book/59790
May 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🎉Almost 2000 views!
So grateful for all this interest in my new book (and extremely grateful to the Dutch Research Council for covering the book's Open Access funding 😊).
The free e-book version is here 🔓📖👇
academic.oup.com/book/59790
So grateful for all this interest in my new book (and extremely grateful to the Dutch Research Council for covering the book's Open Access funding 😊).
The free e-book version is here 🔓📖👇
academic.oup.com/book/59790
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"Every so often in this Rare Book Librarian’s work, a book that seemed really exciting when I ordered it, turns out to be even more exciting when it arrives and I am able to interact with it in person" 📜 Iowa State University
isuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/r...
isuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/r...
Rare Books Highlight: Epitome Cosmografica (1693)
Every so often in this Rare Book Librarian’s work, a book that seemed really exciting when I ordered it, turns out to be even more exciting when it arrives and I am able to interact with it i…
isuspecialcollections.wordpress.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"Every so often in this Rare Book Librarian’s work, a book that seemed really exciting when I ordered it, turns out to be even more exciting when it arrives and I am able to interact with it in person" 📜 Iowa State University
isuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/r...
isuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/r...
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This one: www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
Restoration of 18th-century choir book in Abenaki language may help revitalization efforts | CBC News
The restoration of an 18th century manuscript of liturgical choir songs written in the Abenaki language will be an important resource for language revitalization efforts in Odanak, Que.
www.cbc.ca
May 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This one: www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Just in time for our #StanfordManuscriptSciences’ event on authenticity, @blalbritton.bsky.social!
May 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Just in time for our #StanfordManuscriptSciences’ event on authenticity, @blalbritton.bsky.social!
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This kid sure gets around… slowly ( Stanford, Codex 1417 T). A Book of Hours dated to 1526, belonging to Anna Maria, Countess of Fürstenberg.
May 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This kid sure gets around… slowly ( Stanford, Codex 1417 T). A Book of Hours dated to 1526, belonging to Anna Maria, Countess of Fürstenberg.
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Wow, there’s a lot going on in this StanfordUL binding fragment—once the pastedown & spine strengthener for a Book of Hours(?) belonging to Charles Bruce, Earl of Ailesbury. It’s comprised of a leaf from the Great Bible (different from EEBO version) & a medieval fragment I’m working on. Fab, eh?
May 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Wow, there’s a lot going on in this StanfordUL binding fragment—once the pastedown & spine strengthener for a Book of Hours(?) belonging to Charles Bruce, Earl of Ailesbury. It’s comprised of a leaf from the Great Bible (different from EEBO version) & a medieval fragment I’m working on. Fab, eh?
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Yey! Finally! This is worth checking out! Congratulations to the editors and the authors!
#digitalhumanities
#digitalhumanities
New issue of Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures Vol. 14, No. 1 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54736 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social Big Data & Manuscript Studies: Some Reflections on a Methodology @leoba.bsky.social @danielsawyer.bsky.social @julialilinoe.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Yey! Finally! This is worth checking out! Congratulations to the editors and the authors!
#digitalhumanities
#digitalhumanities
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Jonah making an appearance
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003; The Dover Bible, Volume I.; 12th century; f,262r
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003; The Dover Bible, Volume I.; 12th century; f,262r
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Jonah making an appearance
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003; The Dover Bible, Volume I.; 12th century; f,262r
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003; The Dover Bible, Volume I.; 12th century; f,262r
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
A day of archival fun with @etreharne.bsky.social and colleagues. Pulled out a selection of medieval and early modern documents and all agree we wish we knew more about seals - like these in various states of covering.
April 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A day of archival fun with @etreharne.bsky.social and colleagues. Pulled out a selection of medieval and early modern documents and all agree we wish we knew more about seals - like these in various states of covering.
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So proud to have co-written this newly published book w/my brilliant friend Anne E. Lester; I just remembered the book came into being largely b/c of an #NEH grant Anne received in 2020-2021, allowing us to follow up on our pandemic zoom calls together.
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/a-c...
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/a-c...
April 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
So proud to have co-written this newly published book w/my brilliant friend Anne E. Lester; I just remembered the book came into being largely b/c of an #NEH grant Anne received in 2020-2021, allowing us to follow up on our pandemic zoom calls together.
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/a-c...
cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/a-c...
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New issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities Vol. 6, No. 4 (2025) reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n4 Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Preservation @roopikarisam.bsky.social @jenguiliano.bsky.social @dr-tg.bsky.social
Vol. 6, No. 4: April 2025 - Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Preservation · Reviews in Digital Humanities
Vol. 6, No. 4 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...
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April 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
New issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities Vol. 6, No. 4 (2025) reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n4 Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Preservation @roopikarisam.bsky.social @jenguiliano.bsky.social @dr-tg.bsky.social