Edwina Penge
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Rare books librarian at Longleat | library & book history | moderately early modern
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This manuscript by Anselmus Faust, dated 1612, is the oldest surviving European manual on bookbinding. Written in Latin & Dutch, it was created for the St Bernard's Abbey near Antwerp.
What makes it especially unique is its rare dos à dos binding: 2 books bound back-to-back, sharing a single spine.
What makes it especially unique is its rare dos à dos binding: 2 books bound back-to-back, sharing a single spine.
September 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This manuscript by Anselmus Faust, dated 1612, is the oldest surviving European manual on bookbinding. Written in Latin & Dutch, it was created for the St Bernard's Abbey near Antwerp.
What makes it especially unique is its rare dos à dos binding: 2 books bound back-to-back, sharing a single spine.
What makes it especially unique is its rare dos à dos binding: 2 books bound back-to-back, sharing a single spine.
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Rewatching Columbo and just got to the conveniently labeled “first edition” of Alice in Wonderland.
August 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Rewatching Columbo and just got to the conveniently labeled “first edition” of Alice in Wonderland.
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Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook
Lady Bindloss Buys Some Books (1676)
Of the various kinds of documents that provide evidence of book ownership in the early modern period, purchase records are among the scarcest survivals: most booklists take the form of wills, inven…
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August 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook
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A nice binding on this book printed in Seville, 1587. Rel.e.58.4 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A nice binding on this book printed in Seville, 1587. Rel.e.58.4 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
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When You Love Something, Hide It Underwater?
Ireland’s Oldest Book Shrine, Found Buried in a Lake, Reemerges share.google/SwLDzqhgDTMd...
Ireland’s Oldest Book Shrine, Found Buried in a Lake, Reemerges share.google/SwLDzqhgDTMd...
Ireland's Oldest Book Shrine Makes Its Museum Debut | Artnet News
After a 39-year conservation process, the Lough Kinale Book Shrine is on view at the National Museum of Ireland.
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June 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
When You Love Something, Hide It Underwater?
Ireland’s Oldest Book Shrine, Found Buried in a Lake, Reemerges share.google/SwLDzqhgDTMd...
Ireland’s Oldest Book Shrine, Found Buried in a Lake, Reemerges share.google/SwLDzqhgDTMd...
Delighted to see Longleat library's project with Birmingham Uni announced. Rewarding work producing the digitised MS and collaborating with Liv to create physical & online exhibitions for general audiences. Longleat MS 258 is fascinating - do explore the online content or come visit us!
Project shines new light on famous medieval poem at Longleat House - University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham and Longleat House have collaborated on a new project re-examining the famous medieval poem, La Belle Dame sans Mercy.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
June 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Delighted to see Longleat library's project with Birmingham Uni announced. Rewarding work producing the digitised MS and collaborating with Liv to create physical & online exhibitions for general audiences. Longleat MS 258 is fascinating - do explore the online content or come visit us!
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Yet another example of daughters‘ essential roles in bookselling families: In 1581-2, Middelburg bookseller Dierick van Helmondt repeatedly sent his daughter Janne to buy books from Plantin in Antwerp and settle his accounts (his son worked in the business too) (Museum Plantin-Moretus Arch. 60 f. 2)
June 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Yet another example of daughters‘ essential roles in bookselling families: In 1581-2, Middelburg bookseller Dierick van Helmondt repeatedly sent his daughter Janne to buy books from Plantin in Antwerp and settle his accounts (his son worked in the business too) (Museum Plantin-Moretus Arch. 60 f. 2)
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I dunno, I didn’t think he was that bad
June 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I dunno, I didn’t think he was that bad
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For those who have not seen it, researchers at the University of St Andrews are testing a device that can identify through light the presence of arsenic in old books:
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/new-...
The research poster is a great recap:
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social @universalstc.bsky.social
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/new-...
The research poster is a great recap:
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social @universalstc.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
For those who have not seen it, researchers at the University of St Andrews are testing a device that can identify through light the presence of arsenic in old books:
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/new-...
The research poster is a great recap:
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social @universalstc.bsky.social
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/new-...
The research poster is a great recap:
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social @universalstc.bsky.social
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four. different. ampersands. !!!!
& they all illustrate the origin of the ampersand in the ligature of the latin conjunction “et” (“and”).
222050 • @folger.edu
& they all illustrate the origin of the ampersand in the ligature of the latin conjunction “et” (“and”).
222050 • @folger.edu
June 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
four. different. ampersands. !!!!
& they all illustrate the origin of the ampersand in the ligature of the latin conjunction “et” (“and”).
222050 • @folger.edu
& they all illustrate the origin of the ampersand in the ligature of the latin conjunction “et” (“and”).
222050 • @folger.edu
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Did you study or work at CLW, DILS or DIS in Aberystwyth, any time from 1964 onwards? Help us celebrate 60 years with our reminiscence project, gathering memories and memorabilia. See libraryschool.aber.ac.uk to find out more. We’d love to hear from you.
Memories of CLW, DILS and DIS – Aberystwyth library schools memories
libraryschool.aber.ac.uk
May 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Did you study or work at CLW, DILS or DIS in Aberystwyth, any time from 1964 onwards? Help us celebrate 60 years with our reminiscence project, gathering memories and memorabilia. See libraryschool.aber.ac.uk to find out more. We’d love to hear from you.
Start the week with a dose of National Trust library history. The Book Collector's summer issue has a piece on the wonderful library at Springhill.
The Book Collector |
Home | The Book Collector an online resource for book collectors, booksellers, librarians.
www.thebookcollector.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Start the week with a dose of National Trust library history. The Book Collector's summer issue has a piece on the wonderful library at Springhill.
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ESTC is back online in a new beta version hosted by CERL: datb.cerl.org/estc/ #RareBooks #BookHistory #Skystorians #GLAM 📚📜
English Short Title Catalogue
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May 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
ESTC is back online in a new beta version hosted by CERL: datb.cerl.org/estc/ #RareBooks #BookHistory #Skystorians #GLAM 📚📜
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What better way to celebrate #EarthDay than with a hand-coloured incunable? 🌎
This is Ptolemy's 'Cosmographia', from 1482, which features 32 early examples of printed maps!
Shelfmark: Grylls 2.195
lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/90ed3...
This is Ptolemy's 'Cosmographia', from 1482, which features 32 early examples of printed maps!
Shelfmark: Grylls 2.195
lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/90ed3...
April 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
What better way to celebrate #EarthDay than with a hand-coloured incunable? 🌎
This is Ptolemy's 'Cosmographia', from 1482, which features 32 early examples of printed maps!
Shelfmark: Grylls 2.195
lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/90ed3...
This is Ptolemy's 'Cosmographia', from 1482, which features 32 early examples of printed maps!
Shelfmark: Grylls 2.195
lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/90ed3...
Interested in big house libraries? My article about the library at the National Trust's Springhill is out now: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/lih.2025.0189 Many thanks to LIH's editors Nadine Kozak & @jilld17.bsky.social.
The big house and the book-collecting game: notes on a partial twentieth-century library dispersal | Library & Information History
The big house library in Ireland was on a precarious footing in the early twentieth century. Successive sales assisted the demise, or diminishment, of the houses’ book collections. Libraries were ofte...
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April 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Interested in big house libraries? My article about the library at the National Trust's Springhill is out now: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/lih.2025.0189 Many thanks to LIH's editors Nadine Kozak & @jilld17.bsky.social.
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It's that Friday feeling.
April 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It's that Friday feeling.
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Call for Papers: ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’
Deadline 16th May 2025
9 –10 September 2025 at UCL, London
Deadline 16th May 2025
9 –10 September 2025 at UCL, London
April 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Call for Papers: ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’
Deadline 16th May 2025
9 –10 September 2025 at UCL, London
Deadline 16th May 2025
9 –10 September 2025 at UCL, London
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For anyone interested in the early Bodleian Library or early modern book owners, the Shaping Scholarship project at CELL, UCL has made the project data available: ebdo.org.uk/data/ It details every officially recorded donation made c. 1600-1620, plus some extras, which is around 10,000 items.
March 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
For anyone interested in the early Bodleian Library or early modern book owners, the Shaping Scholarship project at CELL, UCL has made the project data available: ebdo.org.uk/data/ It details every officially recorded donation made c. 1600-1620, plus some extras, which is around 10,000 items.
Hurry! 🏃♀️ It's your last weekend to catch the display of costume books from the libraries at Longleat House. Image from Mercuri's Costumes historiques (Paris: Levy fils, 1860-1861). www.longleat.co.uk/whats-on/thr...
March 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Hurry! 🏃♀️ It's your last weekend to catch the display of costume books from the libraries at Longleat House. Image from Mercuri's Costumes historiques (Paris: Levy fils, 1860-1861). www.longleat.co.uk/whats-on/thr...
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Just keep writing, just keep writing....
February 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just keep writing, just keep writing....
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A tiny, intensely illuminated Italian book of hours, newly acquired at the Boston Public Library. Copied in or around Brescia at the end of the 15th century, this book has never been in an institutional collection and will soon be digitized. Now BPL MS q Med.303 bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S7...
February 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
A tiny, intensely illuminated Italian book of hours, newly acquired at the Boston Public Library. Copied in or around Brescia at the end of the 15th century, this book has never been in an institutional collection and will soon be digitized. Now BPL MS q Med.303 bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S7...
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Supercute. Conrad Gessner’s bunny, from his history of animals, the copy presented to @theul.bsky.social by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1574. N*.1.19(A) (1551) @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Supercute. Conrad Gessner’s bunny, from his history of animals, the copy presented to @theul.bsky.social by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1574. N*.1.19(A) (1551) @theulspeccoll.bsky.social
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How to organize your books in true #earlymodern style by following 3 simple steps. Here is an advice from 1504:
Step 1: lay them on top of each other.
Step 2: book spines facing up.
Step 3: Have a few boxes within your book collection.
#bookhistory #skystorians
Step 1: lay them on top of each other.
Step 2: book spines facing up.
Step 3: Have a few boxes within your book collection.
#bookhistory #skystorians
![Detail from [Gregor Reisch] AEPITOMA OMNIS PHYLOSOPHIAE ... (1504). Two men in a room with a book collection in the back.
https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/zoom/6045160](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/bafkreiezaputgbzdhyrv55l5gumtobygauf6mefszq3zxfhaosbselmoou@jpeg)
December 16, 2024 at 7:54 AM
How to organize your books in true #earlymodern style by following 3 simple steps. Here is an advice from 1504:
Step 1: lay them on top of each other.
Step 2: book spines facing up.
Step 3: Have a few boxes within your book collection.
#bookhistory #skystorians
Step 1: lay them on top of each other.
Step 2: book spines facing up.
Step 3: Have a few boxes within your book collection.
#bookhistory #skystorians
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‘Redublique’ [sic]
December 10, 2024 at 12:02 PM
‘Redublique’ [sic]
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📢 The program for our upcoming workshop "Turning Page(s)" is now available! Join us on December 6th at the Arnamagnæan Institute or online via Zoom (link in the first rwply) for a full day of insightful talks on the history of books, libraries, and more.
Register now! #BookHistory #LibraryHistory
Register now! #BookHistory #LibraryHistory
November 16, 2024 at 9:19 PM
📢 The program for our upcoming workshop "Turning Page(s)" is now available! Join us on December 6th at the Arnamagnæan Institute or online via Zoom (link in the first rwply) for a full day of insightful talks on the history of books, libraries, and more.
Register now! #BookHistory #LibraryHistory
Register now! #BookHistory #LibraryHistory