melusina
@melusinagr.bsky.social
Co-founder, co-creator, co-conspirator (Codex Machina podcast, Strange Land Books). Luddite. Artist with the soul of a poet. Academic trying to help decolonize Book Studies/Book History. Loves periodicals. Addicted to art supplies. Plays #ttrpgs.
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🎙️ New episode! We discuss The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami, and boy, what a discussion. Like Piranesi, it’s a book that keeps you thinking. 📖
We really loved this book and it sparked a great discussion. Definitely recommended but find a friend to read it with you so you can talk about it!!
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#medievalsky #histmed #manuscripts
I’m looking for information on a miscellany, part of which contains the Sefer Hashlamat ha-tevaʿ we-ha-mezeg by the Hebrew translator known today as Doeg the Edomite.
It's Hamburg, SUB Cod. hebr. 123.
digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche/de...
I’m looking for information on a miscellany, part of which contains the Sefer Hashlamat ha-tevaʿ we-ha-mezeg by the Hebrew translator known today as Doeg the Edomite.
It's Hamburg, SUB Cod. hebr. 123.
digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche/de...
Hamburger Kulturgut Digital
Hashlamat ha-teva, fol. 119-128: SUB Hamburg Cod. hebr. 123
digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
#medievalsky #histmed #manuscripts
I’m looking for information on a miscellany, part of which contains the Sefer Hashlamat ha-tevaʿ we-ha-mezeg by the Hebrew translator known today as Doeg the Edomite.
It's Hamburg, SUB Cod. hebr. 123.
digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche/de...
I’m looking for information on a miscellany, part of which contains the Sefer Hashlamat ha-tevaʿ we-ha-mezeg by the Hebrew translator known today as Doeg the Edomite.
It's Hamburg, SUB Cod. hebr. 123.
digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche/de...
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JOB POSTING! 📚📜
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
careers.yale.edu
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
JOB POSTING! 📚📜
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...
This timeline could definitely use a handsome, heroic priest or two…
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This timeline could definitely use a handsome, heroic priest or two…
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This is what intelligence and critical thinking sound like:
VIA hana.clio
What is there to debate?(for myself)
VIA hana.clio
What is there to debate?(for myself)
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is what intelligence and critical thinking sound like:
VIA hana.clio
What is there to debate?(for myself)
VIA hana.clio
What is there to debate?(for myself)
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See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
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✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers
gjhilton.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
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No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Some of our favorite book-to-movie adaptations. Don’t forget the popcorn! 🍿 🎬
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The oldest European book in our collection is the stunning illuminated Wilton Psalter made for the nuns at Wilton Abbey in c.1250, likely by the monastic scriptorium in nearby Salisbury Cathedral.
Each of the 150 Psalms from the Christian Bible begins with a large illuminated initial letter.
Each of the 150 Psalms from the Christian Bible begins with a large illuminated initial letter.
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Does anyone in the #bookhistory or #history space know of a good article about the “publishing war” between the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmer’s Almanac?
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Does anyone in the #bookhistory or #history space know of a good article about the “publishing war” between the Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Farmer’s Almanac?
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BREAKING: Love is (still) love.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
BREAKING: Love is (still) love.
When I think of how much of a part almanacs play in #bookhistory, this feels like very sad news. www.wfla.com/news/nationa...
www.wfla.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
When I think of how much of a part almanacs play in #bookhistory, this feels like very sad news. www.wfla.com/news/nationa...
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If anybody would like this #letterpress print on Miami language 'myaamiaataweenki' revitalization, email me @ markalanmattes@gmail.com & I will share details. All proceeds support cultural programming @ the Myaamia Center @ Miami U. #Indigenous #NAIS #bookhistory #NativeAmerica #printmaking
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
😍
We really loved this book and it sparked a great discussion. Definitely recommended but find a friend to read it with you so you can talk about it!!
🎙️ New episode! We discuss The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami, and boy, what a discussion. Like Piranesi, it’s a book that keeps you thinking. 📖
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
We really loved this book and it sparked a great discussion. Definitely recommended but find a friend to read it with you so you can talk about it!!
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I think I’m in love.
Even the fires of a world war could not destroy this magnificent mandrake.
Kassel, 2° Ms. phys. et hist. nat. 10, 9th c.:
orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image...
#histmed #bookhistory #medievalsky
Kassel, 2° Ms. phys. et hist. nat. 10, 9th c.:
orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image...
#histmed #bookhistory #medievalsky
November 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I think I’m in love.
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
Love this. “Luddite Humanities” is definitely my bag.
Increasingly the Venn diagram of my intellectual interests & commitments—digital humanities, book history/bibliography, book arts, critical making—perhaps meet in the region "Luddite Humanities"
Not technological rejection—but slower, deliberate, critical, historicized engagement with technology
Not technological rejection—but slower, deliberate, critical, historicized engagement with technology
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Love this. “Luddite Humanities” is definitely my bag.
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We're looking for our January speaker for our speaker series. Is it you we're looking for? For details, go to Bodiesandbeing.com
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
Bodies and Being
The Pre-Modern Body Project
Bodiesandbeing.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We're looking for our January speaker for our speaker series. Is it you we're looking for? For details, go to Bodiesandbeing.com
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
Somehow, seems fitting today. #bookhistory
“The enemy is at the walls; we are barely holding out. If you do not come, we are all lost.”
From a textbook used by students of the Vilnius Diocesan Seminary.
#NationalLibraryofLithuania #earlymodern #manuscript
From a textbook used by students of the Vilnius Diocesan Seminary.
#NationalLibraryofLithuania #earlymodern #manuscript
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Somehow, seems fitting today. #bookhistory
Fun discovery!!! #bookhistory
What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Fun discovery!!! #bookhistory
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Eleven #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a text on the Barberini Lyre, more papal writings, Caesar's Wars (several), some Neo-Latin, a catalogue of printed books... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a text on the Barberini Lyre, more papal writings, Caesar's Wars (several), some Neo-Latin, a catalogue of printed books... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 44 of 2025
Eleven total manuscripts were digitized in the past week. These consisted of six from Barb.lat, four from Ott.lat, and a single volume, a 17th C catalogue of printed books, from Vat.lat.
To the right...
www.wiglaf.org
November 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Eleven #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes a text on the Barberini Lyre, more papal writings, Caesar's Wars (several), some Neo-Latin, a catalogue of printed books... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians
Includes a text on the Barberini Lyre, more papal writings, Caesar's Wars (several), some Neo-Latin, a catalogue of printed books... and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians
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It’s easy to see where this goes wrong and it’s not even the AI part (which is of course ghoulish) but this:
Good art doesn’t give you answers. It isn’t supposed to. It poses questions. This is certainly true of Baldwin
Good art doesn’t give you answers. It isn’t supposed to. It poses questions. This is certainly true of Baldwin
James Baldwin parceled out into AI-selected therapeutic memes, stylized via a typewriter interface: the “people-centered” AI future made possible through $500M in philanthropic funding. Without such technological advancement, we’d have no other means of accessing Baldwin quotations!
Can the James Baldwin Typebot Tell Us the Meaning of Life?
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It’s easy to see where this goes wrong and it’s not even the AI part (which is of course ghoulish) but this:
Good art doesn’t give you answers. It isn’t supposed to. It poses questions. This is certainly true of Baldwin
Good art doesn’t give you answers. It isn’t supposed to. It poses questions. This is certainly true of Baldwin
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thank you VOGUE for recommending BURY YOUR GAYS one of the seven books to scare you for halloween. now please let me have a feature where i can wear a whole closet full of pink sequin suits and do a photoshoot www.vogue.com/article/scar...
Seven Books to Scare Yourself Silly With This Halloween
www.vogue.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
thank you VOGUE for recommending BURY YOUR GAYS one of the seven books to scare you for halloween. now please let me have a feature where i can wear a whole closet full of pink sequin suits and do a photoshoot www.vogue.com/article/scar...