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Peaceful coexistence: Ox (in watermark) sharing the page with several "book worms" (beetle larvae), who left those oddly-shaped channels. Berlin, SBPK Magdeb. 89, 15th c buff.ly/49xfsft

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All I want for Christmas is a red medieval binding with an original title label (fenestra) and brass-enforced corners... Marburg UB Ms. 37

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Prime hosts for tiny manuscript fragments!

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That requires a lot of patience!

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This book on astronomy has a great deal of student notes bound in with the text. These small inserts did not usually make it, but here they are, in abundance! More on these tiny class notes ("schedula") in this blog post: buff.ly/2rFt0Vl. Tübingen UB Mc 64, 15th c buff.ly/41tCodx

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I’ve gotten into this odd but useful routine of writing a page or two and then read it back on my phone. The small screen creates the distance I need to see if what I wrote made sense. More text in a single view helps with that.

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I so can’t wait to read it. And congrats to getting this to print!

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Delighted to announce that my second book, The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England, is coming out with Oxford University Press in April Details here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Oxford University Press page

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Fred Schurink @fredschurink.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Fully-funded PhD scholarship opportunity on project on ‘The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750)’ at the University of Manchester. Supervised by me and my wonderful colleague Tabitha Tuckett in collaboration with Chetham’s Library. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750): A data-driven approach to social justice in library catalogues of small and medium heritage collections at The Universit...

PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750): A data-driven approach to social justice in library catalogues of small and medium heritage collections at...

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This is an interesting volume, which includes actual medieval letters - not copied onto new pages, but physically bound into the volume. Some have clear traces of having been folded, with seal and recipient name still in place (see pics). Tübingen UB Mc 63 buff.ly/3ZNa6tp

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First tried to show that the host book with the ad did not belong to abbey. It did. Then tried to show how binding with ad was made outside abbey. They have a bindery. Then tried to say it entered abbey pre-bound. Binding has local decoration. Ok, the darn thing is monastic.

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Writing a book on advertisements sheets of lay scribes operating writing businesses in late medieval cities. They took momentum away from Church. BUT. Now I suddenly have a sheet tied to a monastic house. Pardon? Those folks shouldn’t be into commerce! This needs serious creativity. Coffee time.

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It was a bit of a search so a happy end. Nice to see you here too!

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Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Got ya! Just identified the origins of a bookbinding I'm working on via 1931 pub with rubbings from German bindings: the Benedictine Abbey of Tergernsee! The attested date of the in-house (!) blindstamp (1503) matches the date of the volume (Augustine: Froben, 1506). Good end of a good day.

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I don't like math either, but there is no need to splash ink all over it! Tübingen UB Mc 64

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Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Ivory panels with two evangelists writing, pen and inkwell in hand. Binding looks odd with 11th-century ivory cuttings in much later (18th/19th-century) leather board. Berlin, SBPK, theol. lat.fol. 2. buff.ly/49sovhH

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Do you have a leaf of this manuscript in your collection that we might not know about? DM me!

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Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Daily dose of #runes: A star object among medieval rune-sticks found in Norway is this one from Tønsberg. The four sides of the stick bear various messages, from “Eilif the Worthy owns me” to “They are shacking up together, Clumsy-Kåre and Vilhjalm’s wife”. #runology

Image: One side of a long, narrow wooden stick, densely covered in runic writing from end to end.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This list of Sumerian words, like a very ancient dictionary, dates to ~2300 BCE from the ancient city of Ebla. Remarkably, one of the words listed is sha-zu, which means “midwife” (“one who knows the inside”). A midwife in a 4,300-year-old clay tablet cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/24...

Black and white photo of a broken clay tablet, partially preserving 13 columns of text, and a second fragment with an irregular shape that preserves 8 columns of text

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This rather tired-looking medieval book clearly shows how some of the quires have detached from the binding. They have given up. Also, you wouldn't say, but the object is the size of a deck of cards. Gotha Chart. B 938, 15th century buff.ly/4gsKibd

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After a morning of digging through digitized manuscripts I struck gold: a small advertisement slip for the sales of printed books (still 15th c), pasted inside a manuscript (!) sold second-hand. Print and manuscript culture are one big blend in first generation of print. Clearly.

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This one is fun for all you early music lovers: a twelfth-century page with a LOT of neumes (early musical notation). For monks who liked a musical challenge? Wolfenbüttel HAB Cod Guelf 496c Helmst. buff.ly/3OPvnfB #medievalsky

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