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- ESTC is back online in a new beta version hosted by CERL: datb.cerl.org/estc/ #RareBooks #BookHistory #Skystorians #GLAM 📚📜
- On this day in the year 868, the first book was published. It was titled "The Diamond Sutra" and it is a compendium of Mahayana Buddhist scripture. It is the oldest known object that has all the characteristics of a modern book. #BookSky #BookHistory #History #OTD
- Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks #skystorians, what would you list as the key highlights of early modern book history? Think printing innovations, landmark publications, shifts in literacy, censorship etc. Curious to hear your (especially lesser-known) takes! 💙📚📜
- #BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...
- Obviously, the dates should be 19-21 🙂 #bookhistory #skystorians
- 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
- Fun fact: a printed #manicule starting the framing texts. I hope you enjoyed this, #BookHistory folks. Goodbye. And thanks for your attention and sharing, and commenting. 7/7
- The Conclave to elect the 267th Pope begins today. This broadside, probably printed in Venice, shows plans for getting food and drink to cardinals in a Papal #Conclave in 1605. The food was checked for hidden messages and the door was guarded. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social T*.4.51(D)
- #bookhistory nerds, nota bene: the framing texts of the timepiece are in relation to the hours (and prayers) of the faithful inside. The printer surely had fun framing the texts... 5/
- What makes this print special is not the fact that we know almost nothing about its creator (Bartholomaeus Rhotmann). What makes this print special is the allegory of a clock running from 1 to 12 interpreted in 12 printed textual units. #earlymodern #BookHistory folks, have a look at the units 2/
- 📜 Ever wondered how medieval manuscripts were made and used? Our latest blog dives into a 12th-century manuscript, explored by Postgraduate students in a hands-on workshop. 🔗 Read more: manuscriptsandmore.liverpool.ac.uk?p=8716 #MedievalManuscripts #BookHistory #SpecialCollections #LivUni
- Beautiful woodcut decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week. #rarebooks #books #antiquarian #woodcuts #earlymodern #woodcutwednesday #booktwitter #printhistory #bookhistory #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
- VIRGIL 1778 FOULIS PRESS 2v BURMAN Latin BUCOLICA GEORGICA AENEID Glasgow #books #antiquarian #Virgil #Foulis #bookhistory #Latin #Bucolica #Georgica #Aeneid #Glasgow #bookauction bit.ly/432xbZr
- Lovely, this 17th century author calling his new publication 'dit Papiere Kint' ('this Paper child') #bookhistory
- Book #10 read in 2025 was the Lionel Giles translation of Sun Tzu's Art of War (edited by Dallas Galvin). I have always had interest in reading this text & this edition was nice as it had the text and then a secondary version with commentary from various points in history. #BookSky📚💙 #BookHistory
- Some of the rare & antiquarian books we have for auction this week. #antiquarian #history #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #religion #philosophy #maps #law #topography #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompedlars
- Would love some paleography help, 📜 friends. Thanks to @sibyllacumae.bsky.social ‘s help, pretty sure the name on the first line is “Benedict von Mosham” but the rest is well and truly beyond my skills. Help me find out who owned this LHL new acquisition on astrolabes, please???
- "Christoph Plantin, a player in a multilingual book market. A tour through the Namur collection of #Plantin editions" - Miræus lecture by Pierre Assenmaker & Valérie Leyh (Université de Namur), online now for (re)listening on soundcloud soundcloud.com/consciencebi... or spotify! 📜 #BookHistory 📚💙
- In many histories of early modern printing houses, women play a secondary role. Heleen Wyffels questions this narrative and asks instead: what happens when we read the stories that printers themselves told about their family businesses? Read her article for free: doi.org/10.51750/eml... #bookhistory
- Distinguished #bookhistory scholar Robin Myers remembered on this anniversary.
- So glad that this wonderful news is now public. #BookHistory friends, Dr. Yingst's scholarship on #18thc and #19thc print culture and gender transition will rock your world.
- Thrilled to announce the 2025 Katharine F. Pantzer Junior Fellow, @ceyingst.bsky.social !🏆 Their research, "Transitions by the Book," delves into how print shaped and reflected non-normative gender in the long 18th century. This award is generously supported by Katharine F. Pantzer's legacy.
- Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians
- #earlymodern how-to books often feature colourful and sometimes perplexing medical recipes involving 'abracadabra' charms... #bookhistory
- Lady Gaga’s pop anthem #Abracadabra is the latest chapter in a 2,000-year magical history 🪄 In this post, @jamesafox.bsky.social explores the history behind the themes of Gaga’s work. Of interest for #LittleMonsters and history enthusiasts alike! 🎶 #skystorians scilicet.org.uk/abracadabra-...
- ☞☞ How much highlighting is too much highlighting? ☜☜ To mark relevant passage in this 16th-century devotional manual, a reader underlined text enthusiastically as well as added signs of attention in the margins, including a bunch of manicules. #rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 💙📚📜
- The newspaper that broke ground for Black Canadians. For three decades, Contrast covered stories of Black life that Canada's mainstream media ignored, by @caradrianh.bsky.social ricochet.media/media/the-ne... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social @cajournalists.bsky.social #cdnmedia #journalism
- #BookHistory friends! Contact me by April 20th if you’d like to participate in this collaborative bibliography! Share to your networks too! You don’t have to be a SHARP member to participate
- 📢 Call for Collaborators Work with SHARP News Bibliographer, Alex Wingate, on the next SHARP News bibliography. The topics is: LGBTQIA+ Book History! 🏳️🌈 Deadline to indicate interest in collaborating is April 20, 2025. See the full call and all details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Translations are #bookhistory and it’s noteworthy how seldom that’s noticed.
- Who translated Foucault's The Order of Things? progressivegeographies.com/2025/04/06/w... Not the most important thing even in Foucault studies, but a chance archival discovery and an old oddity...
- We’re having a symposium at @livesandletters.bsky.social! Come and geek out with us over early modern libraries and the books that filled them. Abstracts due May 16th, full details here www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #bookhistory #earlymodern
