Columbo McGraw
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Inquisitive mind on history, books, libraries and art 🔎📚✨
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Love the extraordinary inventiveness of the penwork in this MS c. 1300. The battle between penwork and illumination is particularly pleasing...
Walters Ms. W.102, Book of hours
Walters Ms. W.102, Book of hours
December 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Love the extraordinary inventiveness of the penwork in this MS c. 1300. The battle between penwork and illumination is particularly pleasing...
Walters Ms. W.102, Book of hours
Walters Ms. W.102, Book of hours
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In 1647, self-taught astronomer and brewer Johannes Hevelius created the first detailed map of the Moon 🌕
Nearly four centuries later, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have brought his Selenographia into the digital age – letting anyone explore the world’s first lunar atlas.
Learn more ⬇️
Nearly four centuries later, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have brought his Selenographia into the digital age – letting anyone explore the world’s first lunar atlas.
Learn more ⬇️
Mapping the Moon: the world’s first lunar atlas goes digital |
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December 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In 1647, self-taught astronomer and brewer Johannes Hevelius created the first detailed map of the Moon 🌕
Nearly four centuries later, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have brought his Selenographia into the digital age – letting anyone explore the world’s first lunar atlas.
Learn more ⬇️
Nearly four centuries later, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have brought his Selenographia into the digital age – letting anyone explore the world’s first lunar atlas.
Learn more ⬇️
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The First Bible Map Turns 500 – And It Helped Shape How We See Borders Today www.medievalists.net/2025/12/the-... #history #maps #Bible
The First Bible Map Turns 500 – And It Helped Shape How We See Borders Today - Medievalists.net
The 1525 Holy Land map, the first ever printed in a Bible, not only revolutionised biblical illustration but helped shape early modern concepts of territory and nationhood, a new study finds.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The First Bible Map Turns 500 – And It Helped Shape How We See Borders Today www.medievalists.net/2025/12/the-... #history #maps #Bible
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Mobile manicule service - 13th/14th century, Montpellier. Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H 51, f. 138r
November 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Mobile manicule service - 13th/14th century, Montpellier. Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H 51, f. 138r
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FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897".
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).
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If you’re nervous speaking in front of an audience, just imagine they’re sat there in their underwear - 13th century, Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 2200, f. 57v
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
If you’re nervous speaking in front of an audience, just imagine they’re sat there in their underwear - 13th century, Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 2200, f. 57v
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What kind of #earlymodern knee pad would you choose to look fancy around the year 1500? I would totally be wearing number 7 or 10. #skystorians
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
What kind of #earlymodern knee pad would you choose to look fancy around the year 1500? I would totally be wearing number 7 or 10. #skystorians
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As the #medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by.
🔓 Alison Ray’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
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🔓 Alison Ray’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
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How Medieval Scribes Balanced the Books
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November 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
As the #medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by.
🔓 Alison Ray’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
🔓 Alison Ray’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
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🚨PRINTER’S HAT SPOTTED🚨
September 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🚨PRINTER’S HAT SPOTTED🚨
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University of Oxford chemists have solved a decades-old archaeological mystery and identified a honey offering in bronze jars from a 6th century BCE Greek shrine close to Pompeii.
Read more about the discovery here ⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...
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Read more about the discovery here ⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...
@ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
University of Oxford chemists have solved a decades-old archaeological mystery and identified a honey offering in bronze jars from a 6th century BCE Greek shrine close to Pompeii.
Read more about the discovery here ⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...
@ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social
Read more about the discovery here ⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...
@ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social
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#MediaMocking in the past. Imagine a group of pamphleteers engaged in publishing pro and contra Flugpublizistik. At some point, this Hamburg-based printer had an idea. In order to support the mocking intention of this pamphlet he ...
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#bookhistory #earlymodern
May 2, 2024 at 11:39 AM
#MediaMocking in the past. Imagine a group of pamphleteers engaged in publishing pro and contra Flugpublizistik. At some point, this Hamburg-based printer had an idea. In order to support the mocking intention of this pamphlet he ...
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In progress:
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Working With Historic Pigments
‘Paintings were valued because of the materials that they contained. But they were also valued because of the mysterious ways craftsmen could convert raw materials into something with fateful…
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June 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
In progress:
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I'm always struck by he glorious subtlety of a British Museum stamp, in this case adorning a 12th c. copy of Osbern's Vita Dunstani. At least Dunstan's looking good...
June 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I'm always struck by he glorious subtlety of a British Museum stamp, in this case adorning a 12th c. copy of Osbern's Vita Dunstani. At least Dunstan's looking good...
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'The magic of manicules'. More pointing fingers from the margins of Cardiff’s rare books in our Special Collections and Archives: scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/t...
The magic of manicules: more pointing fingers from the margins of Cardiff’s rare books
As we continue to explore and catalogue Cardiff University’s extensive collections of rare books, we are encountering more and more manicules in the margins. These wonderful little symbols in…
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June 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
'The magic of manicules'. More pointing fingers from the margins of Cardiff’s rare books in our Special Collections and Archives: scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/t...
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Early Modern Europe was a paper age - a first period of paper usages. Especially managing information became a paper business as the painting "The Lawyer's Office" (1628) from Pieter de Bloot highlights. (Rijksmuseum: t1p.de/1awb). A thread for #paperhistory, and #bookhistory #skystorians
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September 12, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Early Modern Europe was a paper age - a first period of paper usages. Especially managing information became a paper business as the painting "The Lawyer's Office" (1628) from Pieter de Bloot highlights. (Rijksmuseum: t1p.de/1awb). A thread for #paperhistory, and #bookhistory #skystorians
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