Trude Dijkstra
@trude-dijkstra.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the History of the Book | University of Amsterdam | Early Modernist | The Role of Print in Intercultural Encounters between Europe and Asia| current project: Hand-Colouring the World Outside Europe
Oproep tot voordrachten voor de Menno Hertzbergerprijs 2026 voor boekwetenschappelijk onderzoek over de Lage Landen in brede zin (ook voor prentkunst en cartografie!) Nomineer een collega of jezelf voor de Prijs voor het Beste Boek of voor de Aanmoedigingsprijs. 1/8 #boekgeschiedenis #boekwetenschap
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Oproep tot voordrachten voor de Menno Hertzbergerprijs 2026 voor boekwetenschappelijk onderzoek over de Lage Landen in brede zin (ook voor prentkunst en cartografie!) Nomineer een collega of jezelf voor de Prijs voor het Beste Boek of voor de Aanmoedigingsprijs. 1/8 #boekgeschiedenis #boekwetenschap
Call for nominations for the Menno Hertzberger Prize 2026 in Book Studies of the Low Countries broadly considered (also looking at you specialists of print or cartography). Please nominate a colleague (or yourself!) either for Best Book or for the Encouragement Prize 1/8 #bookhistory #bookstudies
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Call for nominations for the Menno Hertzberger Prize 2026 in Book Studies of the Low Countries broadly considered (also looking at you specialists of print or cartography). Please nominate a colleague (or yourself!) either for Best Book or for the Encouragement Prize 1/8 #bookhistory #bookstudies
Lovely view of the facade of the new University Library of the @uvahumanities.bsky.social, very fitting background when teaching our MA course 'The World in Books' #bookhistory @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Lovely view of the facade of the new University Library of the @uvahumanities.bsky.social, very fitting background when teaching our MA course 'The World in Books' #bookhistory @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social
Quite a drastic - and creepy - measure to take when a friendship has run its course. From the album amicorum of Joannes Hackaert (must have been a nice guy) [Rijksmuseum Amsterdam]
August 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Quite a drastic - and creepy - measure to take when a friendship has run its course. From the album amicorum of Joannes Hackaert (must have been a nice guy) [Rijksmuseum Amsterdam]
Practise makes perfect! 18th-century artist manual with colour swatches [Rijksmuseum Amsterdam]
August 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Practise makes perfect! 18th-century artist manual with colour swatches [Rijksmuseum Amsterdam]
The Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse soon to be lost to the sands of time near Løkken, Denmark #cantwaitfordune3 #sandblasted
August 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse soon to be lost to the sands of time near Løkken, Denmark #cantwaitfordune3 #sandblasted
Not a combination you would expect, but the Museum of the Historty of Printing and Canning in Stavanger, Norway is fantastic! #bookhistory #Iddis #doeswhatitsaysonthetin
August 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Not a combination you would expect, but the Museum of the Historty of Printing and Canning in Stavanger, Norway is fantastic! #bookhistory #Iddis #doeswhatitsaysonthetin
Just realised that the 'Formosan hoax' of George Psalmanazar (a French impostor who, in the early 1700s, claimed that he was a native of Formosa (now Taiwan), even publishing a detailed but entirely fabricated account of its language, customs, and culture, was printed by Dan Brown... #bookhistory
July 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Just realised that the 'Formosan hoax' of George Psalmanazar (a French impostor who, in the early 1700s, claimed that he was a native of Formosa (now Taiwan), even publishing a detailed but entirely fabricated account of its language, customs, and culture, was printed by Dan Brown... #bookhistory
I was recently gifted this; I have a vague idea what it is, but perhaps someone can tell me a bit more about it? #bookhistory
July 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I was recently gifted this; I have a vague idea what it is, but perhaps someone can tell me a bit more about it? #bookhistory
Masterful use of typography to demonstrate to children how to write well | Guillaume LePescheur, 'Het fondament van wel spellen ende lesen' (1626) #bookhistory
July 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Masterful use of typography to demonstrate to children how to write well | Guillaume LePescheur, 'Het fondament van wel spellen ende lesen' (1626) #bookhistory
From now on I'll only respond to Dr. DJIKISTRA
July 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
From now on I'll only respond to Dr. DJIKISTRA
Fellow (book)historians, a question! I am working on a late 17th century French manuscript, but it seems to have a plate edge surrounding the image. How would that work? All 200+ images seem to have one? #bookhistory
June 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Fellow (book)historians, a question! I am working on a late 17th century French manuscript, but it seems to have a plate edge surrounding the image. How would that work? All 200+ images seem to have one? #bookhistory
Lovely, this 17th century author calling his new publication 'dit Papiere Kint' ('this Paper child') #bookhistory
May 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Lovely, this 17th century author calling his new publication 'dit Papiere Kint' ('this Paper child') #bookhistory
CfP! Vakgroep @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social van de @uvahumanities.bsky.social, Faculteit Letteren & Wijsbegeerte van de @uantwerpen.be en Onderzoeksgroep Nederlandse Literatuur van de KULeuven organiseren op 24 oktober het negende Boekhistorisch Forum! Meld je aan voor 15 juni #bookhistory
April 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
CfP! Vakgroep @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social van de @uvahumanities.bsky.social, Faculteit Letteren & Wijsbegeerte van de @uantwerpen.be en Onderzoeksgroep Nederlandse Literatuur van de KULeuven organiseren op 24 oktober het negende Boekhistorisch Forum! Meld je aan voor 15 juni #bookhistory
Can someone with access to SOLO help me out? A digital copy of this book should be available but I can't access it :-( #bookhistory solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44...
April 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Can someone with access to SOLO help me out? A digital copy of this book should be available but I can't access it :-( #bookhistory solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44...
How many letters may be composed and distributed in an hour? The Royal Society doing book historical research before it was cool (kidding, book history has always been cool) [Philosophical Transactions, vol. XV 1686] #bookhistory
April 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
How many letters may be composed and distributed in an hour? The Royal Society doing book historical research before it was cool (kidding, book history has always been cool) [Philosophical Transactions, vol. XV 1686] #bookhistory
Printed ephemera in paint: Still Life with Walnuts in a Wanli Bowl, a Pipe, and a Tobacco Wrapper by Hubert van Ravesteyn (1670) The wrapper’s image of a Black man holding a pipe recalls the imagery of hundreds of tobacco papers that have survived from the 17th and 18th centuries [MFABoston)
March 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Printed ephemera in paint: Still Life with Walnuts in a Wanli Bowl, a Pipe, and a Tobacco Wrapper by Hubert van Ravesteyn (1670) The wrapper’s image of a Black man holding a pipe recalls the imagery of hundreds of tobacco papers that have survived from the 17th and 18th centuries [MFABoston)
This is a message I can get behind!
March 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This is a message I can get behind!
Great early example of an optical illusion which apparently is called 'the Thatcher effect', found in an early 18th-century coloured German 'Totentanz' held at the University of Amsterdam #bookhistory #DanceMacabre #MementoMori
March 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Great early example of an optical illusion which apparently is called 'the Thatcher effect', found in an early 18th-century coloured German 'Totentanz' held at the University of Amsterdam #bookhistory #DanceMacabre #MementoMori
Helped asked! I'm looking for coloured copies of John Jonston's 'Historiae naturalis', esp. the volume on 'quadrupetibus' (1650) Please let me know if you or your library has a copy 📚 #bookhistory #libraries
February 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Helped asked! I'm looking for coloured copies of John Jonston's 'Historiae naturalis', esp. the volume on 'quadrupetibus' (1650) Please let me know if you or your library has a copy 📚 #bookhistory #libraries
Call for Papers Yearbook for Dutch Book History 33 (2026)
We publish Open Access articles in Dutch and English on all aspects of the book history of the Low Countries. For the 33rd edition, we particularly welcome contributions within the theme of "Sustainability and reuse". (1/3)
We publish Open Access articles in Dutch and English on all aspects of the book history of the Low Countries. For the 33rd edition, we particularly welcome contributions within the theme of "Sustainability and reuse". (1/3)
February 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Call for Papers Yearbook for Dutch Book History 33 (2026)
We publish Open Access articles in Dutch and English on all aspects of the book history of the Low Countries. For the 33rd edition, we particularly welcome contributions within the theme of "Sustainability and reuse". (1/3)
We publish Open Access articles in Dutch and English on all aspects of the book history of the Low Countries. For the 33rd edition, we particularly welcome contributions within the theme of "Sustainability and reuse". (1/3)
A 17th Century MS on elephants in Batavia: One of these elephants was called Japon. He often walked through the streets of Batavia past the houses, begging for alms. Usually, someone would give him some fruit or something else to eat (1/2)
January 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A 17th Century MS on elephants in Batavia: One of these elephants was called Japon. He often walked through the streets of Batavia past the houses, begging for alms. Usually, someone would give him some fruit or something else to eat (1/2)
Season's greetings from this little guy on a 16th century binding of Johannes Trithemius' 'Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique' (ParisPour Jaques Kerver, 1561) in the collection of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
December 11, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Season's greetings from this little guy on a 16th century binding of Johannes Trithemius' 'Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique' (ParisPour Jaques Kerver, 1561) in the collection of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
Ooooppssss....
November 29, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Ooooppssss....
It's the outside that counts: Early modern parchment binding made from a sea-map, UvA Allard Pierson VII-12-F-4(8)
November 28, 2024 at 10:42 AM
It's the outside that counts: Early modern parchment binding made from a sea-map, UvA Allard Pierson VII-12-F-4(8)