Rose A. McCandless
@rosemccandless.bsky.social
Bibliographer, rare book enthusiast, and special collections instruction librarian. Lover of books in all ways. I post about rare books & manuscripts, fine/small press, book arts, digital humanities, etc. MPhil, MLIS. Leftist. Silly goose. she/her
Pinned
This 26-year-old has a thing for 13th century manuscripts — and a prize to prove it
Rose McCandless says the real win is putting her “hands on something that is old and cool.”
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So honored and grateful to have my book collection, and more importantly, my philosophy about rare books, featured on CPR news!
Pretty disappointed, but unsurprised, at the lot descriptions for the upcoming Christie’s Books and MSS auction citing, with little exception, ONLY de Ricci’s Census and its supplement. I doubt I need to enumerate the reasons that this is not only bad scholarly practice but also very suspicious.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Pretty disappointed, but unsurprised, at the lot descriptions for the upcoming Christie’s Books and MSS auction citing, with little exception, ONLY de Ricci’s Census and its supplement. I doubt I need to enumerate the reasons that this is not only bad scholarly practice but also very suspicious.
One of the innumerable things to love about Ben Wickey’s fantastic graphic novel about the Salem Witch Trials and their entry into the American consciousness, “More Weight,” is the beautifully accurate drawings of the various forms of printed matter—including these stab-stitched pamphlets!
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
One of the innumerable things to love about Ben Wickey’s fantastic graphic novel about the Salem Witch Trials and their entry into the American consciousness, “More Weight,” is the beautifully accurate drawings of the various forms of printed matter—including these stab-stitched pamphlets!
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no it can't, you're just describing phrenology, a white supremacist pseudoscience
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
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November 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
no it can't, you're just describing phrenology, a white supremacist pseudoscience
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Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
Bibliography friends: any source recommendations that discuss the use of “marginalia” as additions specifically related to the text vs. other manuscript additions (ownership inscriptions, unrelated notes, etc.)?
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Bibliography friends: any source recommendations that discuss the use of “marginalia” as additions specifically related to the text vs. other manuscript additions (ownership inscriptions, unrelated notes, etc.)?
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Cleveland, OH: Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives Manager, Cleveland Public Library
Cleveland, OH: Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives Manager, Cleveland Public Library
archivesgig.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Cleveland, OH: Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives Manager, Cleveland Public Library
“Hereticks are as good as Papists for all their Masses and Wafers and convents and whorish Nuns and Inquisitions”
Tell us how you really feel!
(From the lives of the Princes of Orange, 1693)
Tell us how you really feel!
(From the lives of the Princes of Orange, 1693)
October 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“Hereticks are as good as Papists for all their Masses and Wafers and convents and whorish Nuns and Inquisitions”
Tell us how you really feel!
(From the lives of the Princes of Orange, 1693)
Tell us how you really feel!
(From the lives of the Princes of Orange, 1693)
Delightful line of ownership documented in pre-title pages of this 1566 edition of Tyndale’s New Testament—a line of Bonds! Thomas, Bonds. Printed by Richard Jugge, with his mark.
October 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Delightful line of ownership documented in pre-title pages of this 1566 edition of Tyndale’s New Testament—a line of Bonds! Thomas, Bonds. Printed by Richard Jugge, with his mark.
Planting a pollinator bed or two this fall time and pulled up these beauties in the process!
October 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Planting a pollinator bed or two this fall time and pulled up these beauties in the process!
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"Where am I, and what is the time?" he said aloud to the ceiling. "In the House of Elrond, and it is ten o'clock in the morning." said a voice. "It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know." #Tolkien #BookSky
Image: "Rivendell - The Riders" by @donatoarts.bsky.social
Image: "Rivendell - The Riders" by @donatoarts.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"Where am I, and what is the time?" he said aloud to the ceiling. "In the House of Elrond, and it is ten o'clock in the morning." said a voice. "It is the morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know." #Tolkien #BookSky
Image: "Rivendell - The Riders" by @donatoarts.bsky.social
Image: "Rivendell - The Riders" by @donatoarts.bsky.social
Enjoying some time with Jean Mabillon and his extremely approachable transcriptions of Merovingian scripts, in addition to the other joys of De re diplomatica (1681)—the work first establishing the science of paleography.
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Enjoying some time with Jean Mabillon and his extremely approachable transcriptions of Merovingian scripts, in addition to the other joys of De re diplomatica (1681)—the work first establishing the science of paleography.
Dare I say I was torn when deciding to pull this?
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Dare I say I was torn when deciding to pull this?
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the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech.
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
How to Protect Your Right to Culture
The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.
hyperallergic.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech.
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
Description: handwritten by MRJames
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
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"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Spent some extremely healing quality time with the most beautiful book ever printed today.
October 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Spent some extremely healing quality time with the most beautiful book ever printed today.
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MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
If you haven’t yet read Vnouček’s fantastic article on the parchment in the Hamburg Bible, I am constantly recommending it!
October 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If you haven’t yet read Vnouček’s fantastic article on the parchment in the Hamburg Bible, I am constantly recommending it!
Alarmed and shocked at the first page of “The Grammar of Ornament,” Owen Jones (1856) which includes this representation of the head of a Māori woman owned by the Chester Museum.
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October 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Alarmed and shocked at the first page of “The Grammar of Ornament,” Owen Jones (1856) which includes this representation of the head of a Māori woman owned by the Chester Museum.
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Me welcoming the students to class in October:
October 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Me welcoming the students to class in October:
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Jobs For Medievalists
Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Full-time)
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R.
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Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Full-time)
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R.
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October 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Jobs For Medievalists
Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Full-time)
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...
Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Full-time)
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...
Books I saw at work: last week and @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social Annual Meeting today!
September 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Books I saw at work: last week and @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social Annual Meeting today!
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JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College, focusing on artists’ books and artist publications:
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September 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College, focusing on artists’ books and artist publications:
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List three things you can talk about for three hours without prep
1) the medieval manuscript trade in northeastern Ohio
2) Lemonade (Beyoncé, 2017)
3) handmade/luxury paper (historical and present)
1) the medieval manuscript trade in northeastern Ohio
2) Lemonade (Beyoncé, 2017)
3) handmade/luxury paper (historical and present)
1. The nineteenth-century pornography trade
2. paint
3. food trends past and present
2. paint
3. food trends past and present
list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep
1. the feces of various species
2. lunch meat
3. sweetbreads
1. the feces of various species
2. lunch meat
3. sweetbreads
September 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
List three things you can talk about for three hours without prep
1) the medieval manuscript trade in northeastern Ohio
2) Lemonade (Beyoncé, 2017)
3) handmade/luxury paper (historical and present)
1) the medieval manuscript trade in northeastern Ohio
2) Lemonade (Beyoncé, 2017)
3) handmade/luxury paper (historical and present)
Fun things in (and on!) books used in today’s History of the Book scavenger hunt.
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Fun things in (and on!) books used in today’s History of the Book scavenger hunt.
Stumbled across my 19-year old handwriting while shelving manuscript fragments! Back from my time as a student worker reorganizing the fragment housing—when the collection was a lot smaller than it is now!
September 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Stumbled across my 19-year old handwriting while shelving manuscript fragments! Back from my time as a student worker reorganizing the fragment housing—when the collection was a lot smaller than it is now!