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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

à chaque année son livret ! Le Master Cultures de l'écrit et de l'image @enssib.bsky.social reprend ce jeudi. Les étudiants suivent un cursus couvrant l'histoire du livre du Moyen-Âge à aujourd'hui avec des cours sur l'archéologie du livre (80 heures), la conservation, les bibliothèques, etc

Livret Master en Histoire du Livre de l'ENSSIB 2026-2027

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

C'est avec grand plaisir que je vous invite à venir à l'inauguration de l'exposition "À la recherche des Châlonnais. Livres et traces cachés du passé" ce samedi 19 septembre à 10h. L'exposition est organisée à la médiathèque Georges-Pompidou de Châlons-en-Champagne...

Affiche de l'exposition "à la recherche des Châlonnais"

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh come on... it's even made clear on wikipedia in English. If you write a book on the 15th and 16th centuries, you cannot put Douai in the kingdom of France.

Recent book placing Douai in the kingdom of France in the 16th century

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Vous pouvez suivre la journée _Biblyon_ sur 'Les livres lyonnais et les femmes (XVIe-XVIIe)' sur le site YouTube de @enssib.bsky.social - c'est en direct maintenant ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9PN...

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Biblyon: Les livres lyonnais et les femmes (XVIe et XVIIe)

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Still time to submit your book to the Society for the Study of French Book Prize! By 31 July 2026 📖📚🇫🇷 for 'an author based in the UK and Ireland, on a topic related to the history of France and the Francophone world in its broadest global context, which is the author’s first sole book publication'

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❧ Rémi Jimenes @remi-jimenes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Appel à communication : "L'initiale ornée, entre manuscrit et imprimé (France, 1450-1550)". Colloque de clôture du projet ANR TypoReF (CESR-Université de Tours). 18-19 février 2027. initialeornee.sciencesconf.org N'hésitez pas !

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Très heureux de voir deux recensions détaillées et généreuses de mon livre 'Entre l'atelier et le lecteur' sur le commerce de l'imprimé au XVIe: => par Francesco Montorsi dans 'Studi Francesci' journals.openedition.org/studifrances... => par Thierry Boillot textoriana.blogspot.com/2026/01/note...

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Malcolm Walsby, Entre l’atelier et le lecteur. Le commerce du livre...

L’ouvrage de Malcolm Walsby, expert reconnu de l’histoire du livre, part du constat que le travail de l’imprimeur a fait l’objet de nombreuses études, tout comme l’histoire de la lecture, qui a pro...

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Quand tu lis des documents pour te distraire après une longue journée : succès garanti... Extrait des archives du tabellionage des @archives76.bsky.social pour 1575

Extrait d'un minute notariale: La prairie appelée vulgairement la grand crotte

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

... And the imprint also contains a chronogram !

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

✨Excited to be co-organising the conference 'Beyond Bobadilla: Greek Learning and Religion in Early Modern Europe, 16th-17thc.' with @hlamers.bsky.social 📍Norwegian Institute, Rome 📆27-28 May 2027 👉Please submit 250-word paper proposals by 1 December 2026 👇See below for further information!

Call for papers for the 'Greek Learning and Religion in Early Modern Europe' conference

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Quoi de neuf dans le patrimoine écrit? Je propose de faire le point le *20 mars* lors d'un focus de 3 heures en visio @enssib.bsky.social On parlera technologies d'analyse, approches innovantes, découvertes, projets, publications et leurs impacts! Infos & inscription www.enssib.fr/l-offre-de-f...

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Focus - Quoi de neuf dans le patrimoine ? | Enssib

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Cervantes's last work, 'Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda', was published in Paris in 1617, the same year as the first Madrid edition. To understand this edition & the context of how it was sold and read, I have analysed the @enssib.bsky.social copy using a book-archaeological approach... 1/2

Part of the title page of the 1617 Paris edition

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

In a time of massacres and religious conflict... The dangers of being identified as a Protestant in 1572: renarchives.hypotheses.org/4816 My latest blog article with a unpublished document from @archives76.bsky.social

Detail of an engraving of the massacre of Sens in 1562

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A disagreement over ostrich wool in Renaissance Rouen and fraudulent commercial practices... My latest blog article with, as usual, an unpublished archival document: renarchives.hypotheses.org/4502 (original kept in @archives76.bsky.social)

Engraving of three putti playing with an ostrich

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

For those of you who might be in _Berlin_ tomorrow, I will be talking about "Selling Printed Books: The Circulation and Distribution of Books in Europe (1450-1650)" at the _Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften_ @humboldtuni.bsky.social at 6.15 pm at the kind invitation of Prof. Dr. Matthias Pohlig

Engraving of a woman selling books - it features on the cover of 'Entre l'atelier et le lecteur: Le commerce du livre imprimé dans la France de la Renaissance': https://books.openedition.org/pur/298922

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A small fragment of a very early edition of Flavius Josephus's works printed in the Low Countries in around 1475. The elegant pen-flourished initial probably saved this fragment... (GW M15163 - @enssib.bsky.social collection) #incunabula #incunable #fragmentology #fragments #bookhistory

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Nice case of a fake '1584 Viterbo' edition, undoubtedly printed in Paris in the 1620s. The give away ? The coat of arms of Marie de Medici engraved on the title page with the royal crown of France... #bookhistory

Title page of the edition of the 'Sommaire des privilèges, exemptions et indulgences'

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"CONCLUSIONS I will refrain from drawing any real conclusions." Ah, ok. #academia

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

To end the week, a few lines of an unknown 16th-century song jotted down on the cover of a notarial register in Le Puy en Velay: 'Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / La petite Jannetton / Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / Sur le chemin de Lyon'

Verse written on the cover of a register

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I have just noticed that it is now available as an eBook for just under € 12 - a tariff-busting deal 😂

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Delighted to announce the publication of my latest book on the distribution and sale of printed books in Renaissance France... (cheap at just € 25 😉) pur-editions.fr/product/1027... #bookhistory #history #renaissance

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Très heureux d'annoncer la parution aujourd'hui aux @editionspur.bsky.social de ma dernière monographie: 'Entre l'atelier et le lecteur. Le commerce du livre imprimé dans la France de la Renaissance' Vous pouvez vous procurer un exemplaire ici: pur-editions.fr/product/1027...

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A chaque année son livret... Le Master d'histoire 'Cultures de l'écrit et de l'image' @enssib.bsky.social reprend la semaine prochaine. Bonne rentrée à toutes et à tous!

Les livrets des quatre dernières années du Master CEI

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Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Sigh ... 🫣 we need different types (and amounts) of funding AND NOT more concentration of research money!

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

A story of Insults and reconciliation in 16th-century Auvergne in my latest blog post (it had been a while...) from the archives of the Puy-de-Dôme in Clermont-Ferrand: renarchives.hypotheses.org/4179

An engraving of a man and a woman involved in a brawl

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The 7th issue of the Sammelband flyleaf is out... with the latest information on the Sammelband 15-16 project You can read it online @archive.org : archive.org/details/samm... Or download it via the Sammelband 15-16 website: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2762 #bookhistory

Front page of the Sammelband Flyleaf n°7

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Tomorrow, I will be talking about what an early 17th-c factum can tell us about the world of Lyon book merchants: "Des apports d’un factum sur la librairie lyonnaise. Du Puys, Gabiano, Renaud, Roville et d’autres" www.enssib.fr/en/node/54287 You can follow it live on Enssib's YouTube channel!

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Biblyon: Livre, littérature et illustration à Lyon au XVIe siècle | Drupal

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Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Next up is @lankian.bsky.social on the importance of Sammelbande in how we understand how texts were read and used. Crucially for this collaborative project is how to work with other projects to create an interconnected database #bookhistory

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I will be speaking this afternoon at the CERL conference in Brussels about 'Re-using Retrospective Bibliographies and the Sammelband 15-16 research project: opportunities and limitations' - looking forward to seeing some of you there! www.cerl.org/services/sem...

Conference poster on 'Mapping knowledge'

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Demain matin, je proposerai une véritable approche archéologique du livre au colloque sur les 'Nouvelles voies des études sur la Renaissance' à Paris (colloque FISIER à Sorbonne Université). Je serai ravi d'en discuter avec vous! Voici le programme: lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/defaul...

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

For those who have not seen it, researchers at the University of St Andrews are testing a device that can identify through light the presence of arsenic in old books: news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/new-... The research poster is a great recap: @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @universalstc.bsky.social

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Interested in the latest research on Renaissance Lyon book history? The annual one-day Biblyon conference will take place on 4 July with the following line-up: (and you can follow it online on the @enssib.bsky.social youtube channel!)

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Le dernier numéro de _Balisages_ sur le livre et l'événement, du manuscrit au numérique, est désormais en ligne. Sous la direction de @nicolasbeaupre.bsky.social et de Susan Kovacs, il est en libre accès, bien sûr, sur @openedition.bsky.social ! journals.openedition.org/balisages/

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

A couple of photos of the exhibition 'Livres et chercheurs en réseaux' on networks in the Renaissance printing world at the Diderot library of ENS Lyon...

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The thirteenth international event of the Sammelband 15-16 project is organised in Cyprus... A call for papers:

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Interested in learning more about rare books? I offer two summer school courses @allardpierson.bsky.social in Amsterdam in the first week of September: 1. Expert approaches to Book Archaeology 2. Identifying and understanding different types of bindings #Bookhistory #bindings #books ⬇️

Close up of G3r of a book printed on vellum

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A 16th-century German binding in the collections of the University of Cyprus in Nicosia @ucy1.bsky.social decorated with the medallions of great reformers and pre-reformers, notably Erasmus, Luther and Melanchthon: #bookhistory #bindings #reformation

Medallions of Erasmus, Luther and Melanchthon

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is this evening - do join us online!

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

On Monday at 6:30 pm CET (7:30 local), I will be setting out a new comprehensive approach to the way we think about heritage books to the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus: "The Archaeology of the Book: rethinking how we analyse books" 1/2

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Pour ceux qui sont à Paris et qui s'intéressent à l'histoire du livre: Je vais parler ce vendredi (13h30-15h30) d'un exemplaire de l'édition parisienne de 1617 du _Persiles_ de Cervantes conservé @enssib.bsky.social. Pour plus d'infos, voir l'affiche⬇️ Vous êtes toutes et tous les bienvenus!

Affiche de l'intervention du 21 mars 2025 sur le Persiles de Cervantes

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

PO = POT Watermark used in Rouen in 1555. From a manuscript volume of documents @archives76.bsky.social

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Delighted that my paper 'La survie improbable: les livres sauvés par leur matérialité', published in the _Revue de la BNU_ in 2020, has been included in the anthology: 'Histoires matérielles du papier', a thematic issue of 'Living Books About History': livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/mate...

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Living Books About History

This anthology explores the long history of paper from the perspective of its materialities, covering a variety of practices, periods, and geographical contexts.

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History Today @historytoday.com · 07/03/2025

On 9 March 1522 the Swiss #Reformation kicked off with an ‘ostentatious eating of sausages.’ ✍️ @mathewlyons.bsky.social explains buff.ly/lrBC8bg

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The Affair of the Sausages

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Edmund Brumfitt @ebrumfitt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Never seen this done to fore edges. It's a school geography primer - perhaps one very bored pupil.

The fore edge of a 1777 German geographical primer, carefully sculpted (scalloped, perhaps?). It is tempting to think it is a representation of a ridge of hills described in the book, but alas it isn't that kind of geography. Not a roche moutonnée to be seen.

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Venez faire de la recherche avec les chercheurs de l'Enssib... Appel à candidatures !

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Talking in Lyon this morning about the first edition of Jean de La Bruyère's 'Caracteres' as part of a one day event on preparing a digital edition of the text: www.mshb.fr/event/journe... Do come and exchange with us!

Title page of the first edition of La Bruyère's 'Caracteres'

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The archaeology of a printed edition and its copies... Presenting my findings on 'Les faitz de Jésus Christ et du Pape' to the SETAF project of the Université de Genève and the Institut d'histoire de la Réformation this morning : www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/journ...

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am delighted to present the cover of my forthcoming monograph on the French Renaissance book trade ⬇️ It concentrates on what happens after the sheets are printed, but before the books are read. It is with the publisher, the Presses universitaires de Rennes, and will be out in September 2025.

Title page of the forthcoming book 'Entre l'atelier et le lecteur. Le commerce du livre imprimé dans la France de la Renaissance'

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