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bibliowingate.bsky.social
It’s funny how your archival notes can take you back: “nasty dirt case with purple mold” 😂 I might have actually been given gloves for this one bc it was gross #BookHistory
(This is a will of a scribe who leaves some books to people)
Picture of a PDF on an e ink tablet of my archival transcription of the will of a scribe from 1590. The initial comment before transcription says that it is the “nasty dirt case with purple mold”
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
melusinagr.bsky.social
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
johnraimo.bsky.social
Steven Heller, Mussolini’s Failed Purple Prose (PRINT Magazine; #bookhistory, #skystorians): www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
The Daily Heller: Mussolini's Failed Purple Prose – PRINT Magazine
The sordid tale of 'The Cardinal’s Mistress.'
www.printmag.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
bibliowingate.bsky.social
A fun puzzle of "what the heck does the scribe mean by this entry?!?" tonight:
"hoposarium hornatun"
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Opus aureum ornatum by Antonio Gislandi

#BookHistory
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
markalanmattes.bsky.social
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 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
klostermedizin.de
Unusually lavish for a medical manuscript.

Florence, BML, Plut. 73.16, f.181v and f.182r, c. 1250:
tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

#histmed #bookhistory #medievalsky
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
klostermedizin.de
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
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
lizetkruyff.bsky.social
To do list: #expo #bookhistory
Villers-Cotterêts : Les trésors et secrets d'écriture s'exposent à la Cité | La Gazette France
La Cité internationale de la langue française à Viller...
www.lagazettefrance.fr
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
altibel.bsky.social
Great idea for a #BookHistory drama that would never sell: on Nicolás Antonio's New Hispanic Library, his struggle to gather the info while almost bankrupt due to his book hoarding, the editions by Manuel Martí y Zaragoza & Francisco Pérez Bayer, how Pérez Bayer bitches about Martí y Zaragoza. FUN!
First page of the New Hispanic Library: BIBLIOTHECA HISPANA VETUS, SIVE HISPANI SCRIPTORES QUI AB OCTAVIANI AUGUSTI ÆVO ad annum Christi MD. floruerunt. AUCTORE D. NICOLAO ANTONIO HISPALENSI I. C. Ordinis S. Iacobi equite , patriæ Ecclefiæ canonico , regiorum negotiorum in Urbe & Romana curia Procuratore generali , Confiliario regio. CURANTE FRANCISCO PEREZIO BAYERI O , Valentino , Sereniss. Hisp. Infantum Caroli III. Regis filiorum Institutore primario , Regiæ Bibliothecæ Palatino - Matritenſis Præfecto, QUI Et prologum , & Auctoris vitæ epitomen , & notulas adiecit. TOMUS PRIMUS COMPLECTENS MILLIARIUM SÆCULUM. MATRITI APUD VIDUAM ET HEREDES D. IOACHIMI IBARRÆ REGII QUONDAM TYPOGRAPHI. MDCCLXXXVIII.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
oldpapercollector.bsky.social
This frontispiece of Hubert Goltzius’ “Les Images de tous les empereurs” (Antwerpen, 1557) is an early form of multi color printing (Chiaroscuro woodcuts), here shown in 3 and 2 colors. What an artist!

#bookhistory
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
jasonwdean.com
My colleague, Molly, wrote a bit about our speculative fiction here at Spencer! Link below! 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks
kulibraries.bsky.social KU Libraries @kulibraries.bsky.social · 5d
Explore sci-fi history at Kenneth Spencer Research Library: manuscripts, original artwork, papers - even a typewriter - from some of speculative fiction's biggest names. Discover more in the latest KSRL blog post.

📝 rockcha.lk/ksrlblog
Theodore Sturgeon’s typewriter. Papers of Theodore Sturgeon. Call #: MS 359, box 2
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
klostermedizin.de
Dioscorides in the Vienna Dioscorides, c. 512.

#histmed #bookhistory
November 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
klostermedizin.de
Dioskurides-Fragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert entdeckt.
Wenn's um Feigen geht, dann ist es das Ende des 1. Buches der "Materia medica".
www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/un...

#histmed #medievalsky #bookhistory
Unibibliothek entdeckt Pergamentfragment aus dem 9. Jahrhundert
In der Bibliothek in Halle ist beim Digitalisieren eine Handschrift gefunden worden. Sie hatte als Einband reformatorischer Schriften gedient.
www.forschung-und-lehre.de
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
wynkenhimself.bsky.social
I am particularly excited to hear Christian’s talk (the ethical implications of rare book collection histories are so important!!) but the entire panel looks great! 📜 📚 #BookHistory
ceebarnacles.bsky.social Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 9d
As part of the Fredson Bowers award from @bibsoc.bsky.social (🙏) I’ll be giving a short talk on ‘The reassembly, analysis and appraisal of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): #rarebooks collector; savant; scholar; slave owner’

November 18th, 5-7pm.

In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
A selection of early printed books once owned by John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870) alongside an example of the ‘embellishments’ - carefully cut out engravings which he pasted on the endpapers of many of his books and also an early photographic portrait that could be a rare surviving likeness of the collector
November 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
klostermedizin.de
Happy Sunday!

ÖNB, Cod. 93, f.29r, c. 1250.
viewer.onb.ac.at/132263E9/98,99

#histmed #medievalsky #bookhistory
November 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
klostermedizin.de
BnF Français 12322, f.191r, c. 1520/30.
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

#histmed #bookhistory
November 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
klostermedizin.de
All is fine!

BML, Plut.73.16, f.92v, c. 1250.
tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

#histmed #bookhistory
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
zannavanloon.bsky.social
Spilled my coffee travel mug in my backpack this morning - can you imagine the horror - so let’s just say some time with these wonderful #earlymodern miniature books was very much needed!

1) Gregorian Calendar (1585)

#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

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Close up of a very small book bound in a fragment of a medieval liturgical manuscript on parchment Yellow-black pencil for scale next to the miniature book which is with a parchment cover of medieval manuscript fragments Close-up of the title page of the book: a Gregorian calendar printed in red and black.
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
romanceofbooks.bsky.social
Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven.’ This edition was published by Harper & Brothers in New York in 1884. The hauntingly beautiful illustrations are by Gustave Doré.

Milwaukee Public Library

#EdgarAllanPoe #GustaveDoré #TheRaven #woodengraving #bookhistory
October 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
dbellingradt.bsky.social
#bookhistory
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
bibliowingate.bsky.social
Last archive day!! Will finish some witness testimony (this case is 800 folios of bees in bonnets about appraising books basically which is good for the book historians obviously!), and hopefully get to look at some actual books. If I finish early, I’ll do some notary doc spelunking! #BookHistory
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 AM
forrestpass.bsky.social
This early 20th c. pulp pamphlet promises so much: Vampires! Deathly Cars! Lady Grifters! Ferrets! Spoiler alert: it doesn't really deliver. The story is about charity fraud. #bookhistory #halloween
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
altibel.bsky.social
#BookUse no. 5437: as scaffolding for your Día de Muertos altar. #BookHistory
An old book of which the spine is uncovered showing a handwritten document. It is being used to place pictures in an altar. The pictures are from left to right: David Graeber, Shireen Abu Akleh, Natalie Zemon Davis, Refaat Alareer, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar.
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
klostermedizin.de
Casanatense Ms.459, c. 1400.
casanatense.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

#bookhistory
October 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
jasonwdean.com
Cataloging a book in signatures, mostly unopened, untrimmed, and unbound. As one does. 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks
A top down view of my desk, with a brown leather desk pad on top of which is an open notebook with my bibliographical description, a notepad with notes. And an unbound 19th century French book.
October 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM