Malcolm Walsby
@lankian.bsky.social
Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre, director of research at Enssib (University of Lyon)
To end the week, a few lines of an unknown 16th-century song jotted down on the cover of a notarial register in Le Puy en Velay:
'Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / La petite Jannetton / Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / Sur le chemin de Lyon'
'Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / La petite Jannetton / Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / Sur le chemin de Lyon'
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
To end the week, a few lines of an unknown 16th-century song jotted down on the cover of a notarial register in Le Puy en Velay:
'Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / La petite Jannetton / Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / Sur le chemin de Lyon'
'Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / La petite Jannetton / Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / Sur le chemin de Lyon'
I have just noticed that it is now available as an eBook for just under € 12 - a tariff-busting deal 😂
Delighted to announce the publication of my latest book on the distribution and sale of printed books in Renaissance France...
(cheap at just € 25 😉)
pur-editions.fr/product/1027...
#bookhistory #history #renaissance
(cheap at just € 25 😉)
pur-editions.fr/product/1027...
#bookhistory #history #renaissance
September 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I have just noticed that it is now available as an eBook for just under € 12 - a tariff-busting deal 😂
Delighted to announce the publication of my latest book on the distribution and sale of printed books in Renaissance France...
(cheap at just € 25 😉)
pur-editions.fr/product/1027...
#bookhistory #history #renaissance
(cheap at just € 25 😉)
pur-editions.fr/product/1027...
#bookhistory #history #renaissance
September 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Delighted to announce the publication of my latest book on the distribution and sale of printed books in Renaissance France...
(cheap at just € 25 😉)
pur-editions.fr/product/1027...
#bookhistory #history #renaissance
(cheap at just € 25 😉)
pur-editions.fr/product/1027...
#bookhistory #history #renaissance
Très heureux d'annoncer la parution aujourd'hui aux @editionspur.bsky.social de ma dernière monographie: 'Entre l'atelier et le lecteur. Le commerce du livre imprimé dans la France de la Renaissance'
Vous pouvez vous procurer un exemplaire ici:
pur-editions.fr/product/1027...
Vous pouvez vous procurer un exemplaire ici:
pur-editions.fr/product/1027...
September 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Très heureux d'annoncer la parution aujourd'hui aux @editionspur.bsky.social de ma dernière monographie: 'Entre l'atelier et le lecteur. Le commerce du livre imprimé dans la France de la Renaissance'
Vous pouvez vous procurer un exemplaire ici:
pur-editions.fr/product/1027...
Vous pouvez vous procurer un exemplaire ici:
pur-editions.fr/product/1027...
A chaque année son livret...
Le Master d'histoire 'Cultures de l'écrit et de l'image' @enssib.bsky.social reprend la semaine prochaine.
Bonne rentrée à toutes et à tous!
Le Master d'histoire 'Cultures de l'écrit et de l'image' @enssib.bsky.social reprend la semaine prochaine.
Bonne rentrée à toutes et à tous!
September 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
A chaque année son livret...
Le Master d'histoire 'Cultures de l'écrit et de l'image' @enssib.bsky.social reprend la semaine prochaine.
Bonne rentrée à toutes et à tous!
Le Master d'histoire 'Cultures de l'écrit et de l'image' @enssib.bsky.social reprend la semaine prochaine.
Bonne rentrée à toutes et à tous!
Reposted by Malcolm Walsby
Sigh ... 🫣 we need different types (and amounts) of funding AND NOT more concentration of research money!
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: Nobel laureates call on EU to concentrate research funding.
Panel warns against “sprinkling money” as Europe loses innovation ground to China and US.
@lindanordling.bsky.social reports from Germany.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
Panel warns against “sprinkling money” as Europe loses innovation ground to China and US.
@lindanordling.bsky.social reports from Germany.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
Nobel laureates call on EU to concentrate research funding - Research Professional News
Lindau panel warns against “sprinkling money” as Europe loses innovation ground to China and US
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Sigh ... 🫣 we need different types (and amounts) of funding AND NOT more concentration of research money!
A story of Insults and reconciliation in 16th-century Auvergne in my latest blog post (it had been a while...) from the archives of the Puy-de-Dôme in Clermont-Ferrand:
renarchives.hypotheses.org/4179
renarchives.hypotheses.org/4179
August 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A story of Insults and reconciliation in 16th-century Auvergne in my latest blog post (it had been a while...) from the archives of the Puy-de-Dôme in Clermont-Ferrand:
renarchives.hypotheses.org/4179
renarchives.hypotheses.org/4179
The 7th issue of the Sammelband flyleaf is out... with the latest information on the Sammelband 15-16 project
You can read it online @archive.org : archive.org/details/samm...
Or download it via the Sammelband 15-16 website: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2762
#bookhistory
You can read it online @archive.org : archive.org/details/samm...
Or download it via the Sammelband 15-16 website: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2762
#bookhistory
July 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The 7th issue of the Sammelband flyleaf is out... with the latest information on the Sammelband 15-16 project
You can read it online @archive.org : archive.org/details/samm...
Or download it via the Sammelband 15-16 website: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2762
#bookhistory
You can read it online @archive.org : archive.org/details/samm...
Or download it via the Sammelband 15-16 website: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2762
#bookhistory
Tomorrow, I will be talking about what an early 17th-c factum can tell us about the world of Lyon book merchants:
"Des apports d’un factum sur la librairie lyonnaise. Du Puys, Gabiano, Renaud, Roville et d’autres"
www.enssib.fr/en/node/54287
You can follow it live on Enssib's YouTube channel!
"Des apports d’un factum sur la librairie lyonnaise. Du Puys, Gabiano, Renaud, Roville et d’autres"
www.enssib.fr/en/node/54287
You can follow it live on Enssib's YouTube channel!
Biblyon: Livre, littérature et illustration à Lyon au XVIe siècle | Drupal
www.enssib.fr
July 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Tomorrow, I will be talking about what an early 17th-c factum can tell us about the world of Lyon book merchants:
"Des apports d’un factum sur la librairie lyonnaise. Du Puys, Gabiano, Renaud, Roville et d’autres"
www.enssib.fr/en/node/54287
You can follow it live on Enssib's YouTube channel!
"Des apports d’un factum sur la librairie lyonnaise. Du Puys, Gabiano, Renaud, Roville et d’autres"
www.enssib.fr/en/node/54287
You can follow it live on Enssib's YouTube channel!
Reposted by Malcolm Walsby
Next up is @lankian.bsky.social on the importance of Sammelbande in how we understand how texts were read and used. Crucially for this collaborative project is how to work with other projects to create an interconnected database #bookhistory
June 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Next up is @lankian.bsky.social on the importance of Sammelbande in how we understand how texts were read and used. Crucially for this collaborative project is how to work with other projects to create an interconnected database #bookhistory
I will be speaking this afternoon at the CERL conference in Brussels about 'Re-using Retrospective Bibliographies and the Sammelband 15-16 research project: opportunities and limitations' - looking forward to seeing some of you there!
www.cerl.org/services/sem...
www.cerl.org/services/sem...
June 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I will be speaking this afternoon at the CERL conference in Brussels about 'Re-using Retrospective Bibliographies and the Sammelband 15-16 research project: opportunities and limitations' - looking forward to seeing some of you there!
www.cerl.org/services/sem...
www.cerl.org/services/sem...
Demain matin, je proposerai une véritable approche archéologique du livre au colloque sur les 'Nouvelles voies des études sur la Renaissance' à Paris (colloque FISIER à Sorbonne Université). Je serai ravi d'en discuter avec vous!
Voici le programme:
lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/defaul...
Voici le programme:
lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/defaul...
https://lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/default/files/media/2025-06/Programme%20-%20Nouvelles%20voies%20des%20études%20sur%20la%20Renaissance.pdf
June 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Demain matin, je proposerai une véritable approche archéologique du livre au colloque sur les 'Nouvelles voies des études sur la Renaissance' à Paris (colloque FISIER à Sorbonne Université). Je serai ravi d'en discuter avec vous!
Voici le programme:
lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/defaul...
Voici le programme:
lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/defaul...
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
Interested in the latest research on Renaissance Lyon book history?
The annual one-day Biblyon conference will take place on 4 July with the following line-up:
(and you can follow it online on the @enssib.bsky.social youtube channel!)
The annual one-day Biblyon conference will take place on 4 July with the following line-up:
(and you can follow it online on the @enssib.bsky.social youtube channel!)
June 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Interested in the latest research on Renaissance Lyon book history?
The annual one-day Biblyon conference will take place on 4 July with the following line-up:
(and you can follow it online on the @enssib.bsky.social youtube channel!)
The annual one-day Biblyon conference will take place on 4 July with the following line-up:
(and you can follow it online on the @enssib.bsky.social youtube channel!)
Le dernier numéro de _Balisages_ sur le livre et l'événement, du manuscrit au numérique, est désormais en ligne.
Sous la direction de @nicolasbeaupre.bsky.social et de Susan Kovacs, il est en libre accès, bien sûr, sur @openedition.bsky.social !
journals.openedition.org/balisages/
Sous la direction de @nicolasbeaupre.bsky.social et de Susan Kovacs, il est en libre accès, bien sûr, sur @openedition.bsky.social !
journals.openedition.org/balisages/
June 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Le dernier numéro de _Balisages_ sur le livre et l'événement, du manuscrit au numérique, est désormais en ligne.
Sous la direction de @nicolasbeaupre.bsky.social et de Susan Kovacs, il est en libre accès, bien sûr, sur @openedition.bsky.social !
journals.openedition.org/balisages/
Sous la direction de @nicolasbeaupre.bsky.social et de Susan Kovacs, il est en libre accès, bien sûr, sur @openedition.bsky.social !
journals.openedition.org/balisages/
A couple of photos of the exhibition 'Livres et chercheurs en réseaux' on networks in the Renaissance printing world at the Diderot library of ENS Lyon...
May 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A couple of photos of the exhibition 'Livres et chercheurs en réseaux' on networks in the Renaissance printing world at the Diderot library of ENS Lyon...
The thirteenth international event of the Sammelband 15-16 project is organised in Cyprus... A call for papers:
I am pleased to share the CfP for the next meeting of the Sammelband 15-16 project group, on 'The Sammelband and Instruction'
📍Nicosia (University of Cyprus)
📆9-21 November 2025
For more information, and the full CfP, please see below:
sammelband.hypotheses.org/2481
📍Nicosia (University of Cyprus)
📆9-21 November 2025
For more information, and the full CfP, please see below:
sammelband.hypotheses.org/2481
Call for papers: The Sammelband and Instruction
Conference The Sammelband and Instruction – Call for Papers for the 13th International Sammelband 15-16 event University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 19-21 November 2025 Beginning in 2019, the Sammelband 15-16...
sammelband.hypotheses.org
May 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The thirteenth international event of the Sammelband 15-16 project is organised in Cyprus... A call for papers:
Interested in learning more about rare books?
I offer two summer school courses @allardpierson.bsky.social in Amsterdam in the first week of September:
1. Expert approaches to Book Archaeology
2. Identifying and understanding different types of bindings
#Bookhistory #bindings #books
⬇️
I offer two summer school courses @allardpierson.bsky.social in Amsterdam in the first week of September:
1. Expert approaches to Book Archaeology
2. Identifying and understanding different types of bindings
#Bookhistory #bindings #books
⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Interested in learning more about rare books?
I offer two summer school courses @allardpierson.bsky.social in Amsterdam in the first week of September:
1. Expert approaches to Book Archaeology
2. Identifying and understanding different types of bindings
#Bookhistory #bindings #books
⬇️
I offer two summer school courses @allardpierson.bsky.social in Amsterdam in the first week of September:
1. Expert approaches to Book Archaeology
2. Identifying and understanding different types of bindings
#Bookhistory #bindings #books
⬇️
A 16th-century German binding in the collections of the University of Cyprus in Nicosia @ucy1.bsky.social decorated with the medallions of great reformers and pre-reformers, notably Erasmus, Luther and Melanchthon:
#bookhistory #bindings #reformation
#bookhistory #bindings #reformation
March 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A 16th-century German binding in the collections of the University of Cyprus in Nicosia @ucy1.bsky.social decorated with the medallions of great reformers and pre-reformers, notably Erasmus, Luther and Melanchthon:
#bookhistory #bindings #reformation
#bookhistory #bindings #reformation
This is this evening - do join us online!
On Monday at 6:30 pm CET (7:30 local), I will be setting out a new comprehensive approach to the way we think about heritage books to the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus:
"The Archaeology of the Book: rethinking how we analyse books"
1/2
"The Archaeology of the Book: rethinking how we analyse books"
1/2
March 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is this evening - do join us online!
On Monday at 6:30 pm CET (7:30 local), I will be setting out a new comprehensive approach to the way we think about heritage books to the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus:
"The Archaeology of the Book: rethinking how we analyse books"
1/2
"The Archaeology of the Book: rethinking how we analyse books"
1/2
March 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
On Monday at 6:30 pm CET (7:30 local), I will be setting out a new comprehensive approach to the way we think about heritage books to the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus:
"The Archaeology of the Book: rethinking how we analyse books"
1/2
"The Archaeology of the Book: rethinking how we analyse books"
1/2
Pour ceux qui sont à Paris et qui s'intéressent à l'histoire du livre:
Je vais parler ce vendredi (13h30-15h30) d'un exemplaire de l'édition parisienne de 1617 du _Persiles_ de Cervantes conservé @enssib.bsky.social.
Pour plus d'infos, voir l'affiche⬇️
Vous êtes toutes et tous les bienvenus!
Je vais parler ce vendredi (13h30-15h30) d'un exemplaire de l'édition parisienne de 1617 du _Persiles_ de Cervantes conservé @enssib.bsky.social.
Pour plus d'infos, voir l'affiche⬇️
Vous êtes toutes et tous les bienvenus!
March 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Pour ceux qui sont à Paris et qui s'intéressent à l'histoire du livre:
Je vais parler ce vendredi (13h30-15h30) d'un exemplaire de l'édition parisienne de 1617 du _Persiles_ de Cervantes conservé @enssib.bsky.social.
Pour plus d'infos, voir l'affiche⬇️
Vous êtes toutes et tous les bienvenus!
Je vais parler ce vendredi (13h30-15h30) d'un exemplaire de l'édition parisienne de 1617 du _Persiles_ de Cervantes conservé @enssib.bsky.social.
Pour plus d'infos, voir l'affiche⬇️
Vous êtes toutes et tous les bienvenus!
PO = POT
Watermark used in Rouen in 1555.
From a manuscript volume of documents @archives76.bsky.social
Watermark used in Rouen in 1555.
From a manuscript volume of documents @archives76.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
PO = POT
Watermark used in Rouen in 1555.
From a manuscript volume of documents @archives76.bsky.social
Watermark used in Rouen in 1555.
From a manuscript volume of documents @archives76.bsky.social
Delighted that my paper 'La survie improbable: les livres sauvés par leur matérialité', published in the _Revue de la BNU_ in 2020, has been included in the anthology: 'Histoires matérielles du papier', a thematic issue of 'Living Books About History': livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/mate...
Living Books About History
This anthology explores the long history of paper from the perspective of its materialities, covering a variety of practices, periods, and geographical contexts.
livingbooksabouthistory.ch
March 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Delighted that my paper 'La survie improbable: les livres sauvés par leur matérialité', published in the _Revue de la BNU_ in 2020, has been included in the anthology: 'Histoires matérielles du papier', a thematic issue of 'Living Books About History': livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/mate...
Reposted by Malcolm Walsby
On 9 March 1522 the Swiss #Reformation kicked off with an ‘ostentatious eating of sausages.’
✍️ @mathewlyons.bsky.social explains
buff.ly/lrBC8bg
✍️ @mathewlyons.bsky.social explains
buff.ly/lrBC8bg
The Affair of the Sausages
buff.ly
March 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
On 9 March 1522 the Swiss #Reformation kicked off with an ‘ostentatious eating of sausages.’
✍️ @mathewlyons.bsky.social explains
buff.ly/lrBC8bg
✍️ @mathewlyons.bsky.social explains
buff.ly/lrBC8bg