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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė

@mildakviz.bsky.social
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Early modern travel historian researching rare books. Digital Humanities enthusiast. Basically, if it’s old, bound, and mysterious, I’m probably digging into it.

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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Signs for hydration break! #IpswichMinster
Close-up of a medieval wooden pew-end carving inside a church, depicting a wide-eyed animal with an open mouth and visible teeth beside a carved tree. The background is softly blurred, showing rows of wooden pews and colourful stained-glass windows illuminated by daylight. The shallow depth of field draws attention to the expressive carving, giving it an almost comical appearance.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hydration break in the 1630s.
A painting from the 1630s showing a young man with a bottle, likely a wine bottle, pouring liquid into a fancy glass (of a man). The painting is from FRANS FRANCKEN the younger (1581-1642): Banquet at the House of Burgomaster Rockox.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Gotcha, smiling sea-bishop of #earlymodern fame.
The sea-bishop in the 1560s map.The sea-bishop from the 1640s print.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We often say that books hide stories. This time, one quite literally did. Secret compartment was hollowed out in this collection of sermons. 🕵️ #earlymodern #rarebooks #secretcompartment
Open eighteenth-century printed book showing a title page with a large rectangular cavity cut through hundreds of pages. The hollowed-out compartment, carved into the paper block to conceal a small object, reveals the layered edges of the pages and creates a hidden compartment within the book.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
So much to admire! 🔥 Breviarium Romanum. Antverpiae: Ex Officina parva Plantiniana, apud Aegidium Beysium, 1595
A small early printed book shown standing upright on a dark surface against a pale textured background. The book has a worn wooden or leather-covered binding, raised bands on the spine, and fragments of handwritten text visible on reused parchment or manuscript waste wrapped around the spine. The edges and covers show age, wear, staining, and signs of historical use.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
When I hear debates about whether it is appropriate – or disrespectful – to write in books, images like these immediately come to mind. Sometimes the “damage” is more interesting than the content of the book.
Close-up of an open early modern book showing a hand-drawn ladder or diagram on the inner page. The diagram includes a sun at the top and several labelled steps, with Latin words such as “Gloria,” “Spes,” “Oratio,” “Patientia,” and “Confessio.” Additional handwritten notes fill the right margin, while the opposite page is darkened and stained.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
There are people who know how to draw a hand… and then there are people who draw this. A wonderfully rustic maniculum in this copy – less “elegant pointing hand,” more “tiny creature trying its best.” #BookHistory #Marginalia #Maniculum
Close-up of an early printed book page with Latin text. In the left margin, a red handwritten annotation and underlining mark a passage, ending in a small, roughly drawn pointing hand –  a rustic maniculum.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
“End of the Lutheran chronicle. This book is not worth reading. The quarrels of the vile Luther — suspicious of heresy.” This inscription in a copy of Marcin Bielski’s “Kronika tho iest historya swiata“ (Cracow,1564) absolutely made my day. Early modern readers: never shy with opinions!
Close-up of an early modern printed chronicle page in Polish, with Gothic type and a decorative woodcut ornament at the bottom. In the lower margin, a handwritten reader’s note comments on the book, calling it a “Lutheran chronicle” and “not worth reading.”
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"There's a party Don't you know today there is a party Open up your heart, we're gonna start it" (DJ Bobo)
Four angels making music in heaven. This is a detail from a German Schreibkalender (VD17 27:713820V).
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A book that survived fire – by losing its first page. The Brest Bible (1563) is one of the most remarkable witnesses of the Reformation in Lithuania. Printed in Brest (Brasta), it was the first full Bible translation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into a vernacular language – Polish.🧵
An open early printed book with visibly damaged and uneven pages. The text is printed in black ink in a historic serif typeface, with decorative initials. Several leaves are torn, misaligned, or loosely inserted, and handwritten notes appear in the margins. The binding is broken, with pages separating from the spine, revealing the book’s worn interior structure.A heavily worn 16th-century book with a damaged brown leather binding. The cover is partially detached, exposing wooden boards and sewing structure along the spine. The edges of the pages are uneven and warped, suggesting long-term use and age. The overall condition shows significant deterioration, with torn leather, loose threads, and visible structural fragility.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
1611 #OfficinaPlantiniana Missal, St Casimir section: an owner literally added in a missing prayer (Oratio in Translatione S. Casimiri). Early modern “add-on content –for #Lithuania ‘s only canonised saint.
Close-up of a 1611 printed missal page for the feast of St Casimir, with red and black typography and an illuminated initial. At the bottom, a small handwritten slip in Latin titled Oratio in Translatione S. Casimiri is pasted onto the page, adding a prayer not included in the printed book.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
That missal once belonged to Sigismund III Vasa – King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. History, hiding in plain sight. Currently held at the Uppsala University Library
An open early modern missal resting on dark green fabric. The right-hand page shows a hand-coloured woodcut surrounded by painted floral decoration in green, pink, blue, and gold tones, with red printed Latin text. The left page is mostly blank, bearing a handwritten ownership inscription. The book is bound in worn brown leather, with visible aging and stains on the paper.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Turns out the priest of the Church of St Joseph & Nicodemus in #Vilnius was not just keeping death records – he was also expressing himself artistically in the margins. 🧟‍♂️
Close-up of an early 18th-century handwritten Latin parish record on aged paper. Beneath the text are small doodles drawn in brown ink: two cartoon-like skulls with hollow eyes
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Sixteenth-century book with a perfectly placed burn hole. Proof that early modern readers lived dangerously (hello, candles). 📚🔥 #RareBooks #BookHistory #MaterialCulture #LibrarianLife
Close-up of a 16th-century printed book page with dense blackletter text. A round burn hole interrupts the page near the top right, revealing a modern photo behind it of a smiling person giving two thumbs up.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
On 7 May 1697, fire destroyed most of Stockholm’s Tre Kronor Palace. The blaze spread fast through wooden interiors and copper roofing. Evacuation followed; servants tried to save royal possessions. That is how Bleau’s atlas and a drinking glass survived the fire!
Stack of large early modern atlas volumes used as a display plinth, with a small historic drinking glass placed on top. Behind them, a wall-mounted engraving depicts the 1697 fire at Stockholm’s Tre Kronor Palace, showing flames, fleeing figures, and collapsing buildings. The scene is set against rough stone walls in a museum exhibition space.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Hello sir! How to kill some time while reading. #rarebooks #doodle #earlymodern
Fragment of a page with an initial letter Oli, that has been doodled in with a face, beard and a hat on top.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Arbor Consanguinitatis (Tree of Consanguinity) from a 1509 edition of the Sexti libri materia, printed in Paris. Clerics used these complex "trees" to map out prohibited degrees of relationship. If your family branches crossed here, a marriage was legally considered incestuous.
A black-and-white early modern woodcut printed on paper, depicting a stylised tree filled with circular labels. At the top, a crowned male figure holds branching vines; below, circles name family relations in Latin (father, mother, siblings, cousins), each marked with red Roman numerals indicating degrees. A central human figure stands mid-tree. At the bottom, a banner reads “Haec est arbor consanguinitatis” (“This is the tree of consanguinity”). The image was used in canon law to calculate degrees of kinship for marriage.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Not even the Pope escapes the gloves-on brigade 😄 First comment on the reel where he’s flipping through the Borso d’Este Bible: “No gloves for the Pope?”
Pope Leo in white papal robes smiles while turning the thick pages of an illuminated Bible. On-screen text reads, “Pope Leo: ‘Can I turn the pages?’” Below, a social media comment says “No gloves for the Pope?” with dozens of likes.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Booked for the Evening? Tonight we'll premier my favorite new acquisition, a 17th c. surveying manuscript with a Galileo link! My Conservation colleagues will explain the plan to deacidify and support areas with iron gall ink damage... It's not too late to join us! www.newberry.org/calendar/boo...
Book under the microscope. Chart with a scientific instruments border and iron gall damage in the text.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
While fighting −25 °C in #Lithuania, it feels oddly perfect to accidentally stumble upon #Seehunds 🦭 in a book about Japan. Wilhelm Heine. Reise um die Erde nach Japan. Leipzig, 1856 #earlymodern #rarebooks #specialcollections
An open 19th-century illustrated book held in a library storage space, with stacks of old, worn volumes in the background. The title page reads Reise um die Erde nach Japan. On the open spread is a sepia-toned engraving showing a cold coastal landscape with mountains, water, and several seals (#Seehunds) resting on rocky ground. The scene visually echoes winter conditions.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Petrus Ekerman (1697–1783) pushed the #Uppsala system to its limits – writing ~600 master’s dissertations for pay. Ready-made theses, sold to students. The profits even built Ekerman’s House in Uppsala. 📚💸 #CarolinaRediviva #UppsalaUniversityLibrary #earlymodern
An open early modern printed book held at an angle, showing a Latin dissertation title page from Uppsala. A hand points to the printed name “PETRI EKERMAN,” highlighting the author attribution. In the background rare books in shelves.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#Sunny days require shiny #books!
Stack of four old books with decorated edges, piled unevenly on a light-colored surface. Warm sunlight casts strong geometric shadows on the wall behind, highlighting the texture of frayed bindings, embossed page edges, and faded red cloth.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
#NewYearResolutions | 1912 1. To wake up no later than 6 a.m. 2. 30-45 min to cultivate Lithuania culture 3. 45 min to read aloud in English 4. To walk outdoors for 1 hour 5. To reserve 1 hour per week for the art of rhetoric, writing or translation. May constancy triumph over distraction!
A vertically oriented photograph of a small handwritten note titled „Prižadai 1912 metams“ (“Resolutions for the year 1912”). The text is written in neat cursive Lithuanian, in dark ink on light paper, divided into five numbered sections with decorative braces. The resolutions list: waking up no later than 6 a.m.; spending 30–45 minutes daily on Lithuanian culture; reading aloud in English for 45 minutes; walking outdoors for one hour every day; and dedicating at least one hour per week to learning, writing, or translation. At the bottom, the note is dated “Su pabaiga 1911 metų” (“At the end of 1911”) and signed with a handwritten name.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Dominican #censorship Fun fact: in the Bibliotheca Casanatense, book theft didn’t just get you in trouble—it got you excommunicated on the spot. (At least that’s the warning that was hung up at the library) #earlymodern #bookhistory
A person with colourful tattooed arms and a graphic T-shirt holds open an early printed book. The visible woodcut portrait inside shows a Martin Luther’s face that has been heavily crossed out with dark ink. Bookshelves filled with old volumes are blurred in the background.A person with tattooed arms holds open a 16th-century printed book. The title page reads “De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae Praeludium, Martini Lutheri,” with handwritten marginal notes and an old library stamp at the bottom. Shelves of historic books line the background.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A masterpiece of early natural history 🦋✨ Scilla’s 1715 butterfly manuscript, Italy’s first Lepidoptera collection, pairs meticulous watercolours with 211 specimens preserved between mica “windows” — centuries before modern plastics. Kept at Biblioteca Casanatense,
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This fencing manual - written between 1482–1487 and dedicated to Guidobaldo da Montefeltro - once sat in the Ducal Library of Urbino. Influenced by Fiore dei Liberi, cited in the ducal index, lost after Cesare Borgia’s 1502 conquest, resurfaced centuries later at the National Central Library of Rome
An open 15th-century manuscript displayed on a wooden table. The right-hand page features a full-length illustration of a stylized male figure holding a long sword, decorated with bright colors and symbolic motifs: a green dragon head near the hilt, gold circles at the knees, and a horned or fleur-de-lis–shaped crest on the helmet. Surrounding the figure is dense handwritten Latin text in brown ink. The left-hand page contains neatly written text with rubricated initials and marginal notes. The pages show signs of age and wear.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Books in paintings at the Bernini Palace in Rome: from Erasmus’s scissors to the delicate metal bookmarks of Mary.
A painting showing Erasmus seated beside wooden shelves filled with several books. On the middle shelf, a pair of metal scissors hangs vertically. The books have clasps and ties. The man wears a dark cap and black clothing, looking downward.A hand holding an open book with gilded page edges and a blue ribbon bookmark. The figure wears a dark garment with white lace cuffs. A small dog with brown fur is partially visible in the background, looking toward the viewer.A close-up of a Renaissance painting showing a seated woman in a red dress and grey cloak. Beside her, on a cushion, lies a thick book with a red cover and metal fittings. Several thin metal-tipped bookmark cords hang from the lower edge of the book. The background shows an arched window and a view of buildings outside.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Resistance in the 18th c. could look like this. At first glance, this coat of arms seems unmistakably Russian – a double-headed eagle with St George in the centre. But LOOK closer. One head is scraped off, and in the centre you find #Vytis, the #Lithuanian coat of arms, quietly reclaiming its place.
Close-up photograph of a worn, reddish-brown leather book cover with an embossed silver coat of arms. The design resembles a Russian double-headed eagle, but only one eagle head remains visible; the other has been scraped away. In the center shield, instead of St. George a mounted knight (Vytis) – coat of arms of Lithuania. The leather around the emblem is scratched and scuffed, showing age and wear.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Vt Cases CorpVs præDa beaVIt aMor. Early modern authors: “Here, decode my feelings and my calendar.” Me: sir this is a title page. Is it 1716, though? #earlymodern #chronigram #handwritten #manuscript
The main text reads “Laudabili, gratiulādi, cōdolēti… occasione accommodata. IN Parnasso VILNENSI proposita Anno…” followed by the chronogram “Vt Casēs CorpVs præDa beaVIt, aMor.” The writing varies between large black calligraphic capitals and smaller cursive notes added in brown ink. A blue circular ink stamp with a double-headed eagle appears on the right side. Marginal notes and a signature run along the left edge. The paper is worn and stained, with visible discoloration and small surface abrasions.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Monday mood: quietly losing my mind over UMARC fields and 35th sermon— all in the name of research 🪄📚
A vintage illustrated postcard depicting a theatrical or ballroom scene. In the center, a woman in a yellow and purple gown with flowers in her hair curtsies gracefully. On her left, a man in a green and red costume with a plumed hat bows and kisses her hand; on her right, another man in a blue coat bows deeply while holding a violin. The background features draped curtains and a large arched window, suggesting a stage setting.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“The enemy is at the walls; we are barely holding out. If you do not come, we are all lost.” From a textbook used by students of the Vilnius Diocesan Seminary. #NationalLibraryofLithuania #earlymodern #manuscript
A handwritten Latin manuscript pageA handwritten Latin manuscript pageTitle page of a 17th-century Latin manuscript titled Promptuarium Orationum in Omni Materia Subsequentur Epistolae Varie.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
📢 #CFP is open! Join us in Vilnius for the international conference “Scattered, Tracked, Connected: New Approaches to Dispersed Heritage” - exploring innovative ways to trace, interpret, and connect fragmented cultural collections. 🔗 lnm.lt/en/events/in... #heritage #archives #museums #GLAM
Poster for the international conference Scattered, Tracked, Connected: New Approaches to Dispersed Heritage organized by the National Museum of Lithuania. The event will take place at the National Museum of Lithuania, Arsenalo Street 1, Vilnius, on 29–30 April 2026. Logos of the organizer and partners, including the Institute of History, Vilnius University’s Faculty of History and Faculty of Communication, UNESCO, and the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council, appear at the bottom.Screenshot of the National Museum of Lithuania website showing the Call for Papers text for the conference Scattered, Tracked, Connected. The description invites museum professionals, historians, and heritage specialists to explore the fragmented and displaced nature of cultural heritage, emphasizing digital tools, collaboration, and ethical storytelling.Screenshot of the National Museum of Lithuania website listing the first three themes of the Scattered, Tracked, Connected conference: 1) Mapping the Dispersed, 2) Whose Heritage Is It, and 3) Digital Reconnections. Each theme addresses topics like provenance research, ethical frameworks, restitution, digital documentation, and reuniting dispersed collections.Screenshot of the National Museum of Lithuania website showing thematic areas 4 and 5 of the Scattered, Tracked, Connected Call for Papers — ‘Silent Absences’ and ‘Institutions and Imagination.’ The text also provides submission guidelines: 250–300 word abstracts in English or Lithuanian and a 100-word biography, to be submitted by 19 December 2025 via a registration form.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
✨ Acutus et Argutus: Early Modern Print Culture in Motion has finally happened! Three days of brilliant talks, sharp ideas, and lively discussions on early modern books, poetics & print networks — with speakers from across Europe. #bookhistory #PrintCulture #earlymodern
A group photo of conference speakers
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Acutus et argutus has begun! Why to type something easily, when you can do labirynths, roses. Should my next paper look like that? 🫢
.Slide with a piesia artificial example – text written in a trumpet
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Love... Or Death? #Plague or #TooPerilous 3/3
Canoodling couple seated by tree, crossed out! Bodies (sick, not in flagrante delicto) on floor, crossed out with great enthusiasm.
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Jess Ayres @drjessayres.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Believe it or not, this is a parish register from the seventeenth century that was damaged during a fire! 🔥 Heat causes the collagen fibres in the parchment to denature and shrink and eventually turn to gelatine, which sometimes has a ‘glassy’ appearance. #EarlyModern #Skystorians
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
#BalticWay was a call for #freedom! On August 23, 1989, 2 million people joined hands across #Lithuania, #Latvia, and #Estonia to mark the 50th anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, when the USSR and Nazi Germany secretly divided Europe into spheres of influence. lithuania.lt/news/life-an...
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The Baltic Way: How Holding Hands Changed History | Lithuania
On August 23, 1989, a momentous event unfolded that would forever leave its mark on history. Two million people joined hands, creating an unbroken human chain that spanned over 600 kilometres, linking...
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
All sorts of activities happeningnin this teeny tiny vignette. #oldbooks #rarebooks #fishing #swimming #bridges #NationalLibraryOfLithuania
Illustration of a stone bridge with two arches. A small figure walks across the bridge, carrying a stick. Below, people fish on the riverside. On the right side stands a tower and trees; on the left, hills and another tree. The scene is framed within an oval border.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Annotation? No thanks, I’ll draw my feelings instead. What mood would you doodle today? #rarebooks #earlymodernbook #NationalLibraryOfLithuania #doodle
A printed Latin text with a large decorated initial “Q.” The letter has been doodled into a cartoonish face, with eyes, eyebrows, nose, and a frowning mouth. Above the “Q,” extra pen strokes make it look like the figure is wearing a hat.A printed Latin text with a large initial “V.” Inside the letter, someone has drawn a small face with eyes, nose, and mouth.A printed Latin text with a large initial “Q.” The circular part of the letter has been filled with a face: two dark eyes, a large shaded nose, and a serious mouth with a moustache-like line, making the letter resemble a stern human head.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A little bit of a personal touch left behind. De censuris Ecclesiasticis tractatus. Leiden, 1608 #NationalLibraryOfLithuanis #earlymodern #printculture
A close-up photo of an old book page numbered 267, showing Latin text printed in black ink. In the upper right margin, there is a visible black fingerprint smudge, suggesting someone with ink-stained fingers touched the page. The paper has a rough texture and slightly browned edges.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
That one person in the pool 🔫💦 @Kunsthistoriches Museum Vienna #earlymodern #printculture
A detailed black-and-white woodcut print showing a crowded public bath scene. Numerous nude and semi-nude figures, both male and female, are seen bathing, washing, socializing, and lounging around an elaborate fountain and classical-style architectural structure with columns. Some figures are scrubbing themselves or each other, while others are engaged in conversation or relaxation.
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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is DAMN good BibComm 🔥
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
To open an exhibition is a celebration in itself. But to have a President Dalia Grybauskaitė as a patron of exhibition and give her a personal guided tour is huge honor! Queens, Realms and Emotions open till 4 January, 2025. #NationalMuseumOfLithuania, House of Histories #Lithuania
In a vivid orange exhibition space, former President Dalia Grybauskaitė listens as Dr. Milda Kvizikevičiūtė (in a green patterned dress), one of the curators, presents a display table featuring ceramic reconstructions of historical dishes, biscuit moulds, vegetables, and a frying pan. The table is illustrated with recipes and foods once enjoyed by Renaissance queens Barbara Radziwiłł and Catherine Jagiellon. Nearby stand co-curators Dr. Vaida Ragėnaitė (in a violet dress) and Julija Janus (in pink stripes), along with Rūta Kačkutė (in a dark blue dress), general director of the National Museum of Lithuania. Exhibition cases with rare books and portraits are visible in the background.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Falcon in its natural habitat. 🦅 It’s always nice to see exhibition come to life! 📖Les délices des la natura, Nürnberg, 1774 🪶Falco cherrug 🖼️ Tapestry with hunting scene Quenns, Realms and Emotions from June 4th at the #NationalMuseumofLithuania
A museum exhibit featuring a taxidermied falcon perched on a branch inside a glass case. In front of it, another glass case displays an open illustrated book showing a detailed drawing of a falcon. In the background, a large, ornate tapestry depicts a vivid hunting scene with figures on horseback, dogs, and wild animals in a dense forest setting. The display highlights the cultural and symbolic role of falcons in historical hunting traditions.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
What a week! #REFORC2025 has ended, and it was a blast. I had the opportunity to discuss a Lithuanian text published in London to raise aid for Reformed churches in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania devastated by the Deluge. #NationalMuseumOfLithuania #rarebooks #specialcollections @reforc.bsky.social
A speaker presenting at an academic conference.Title page of a book: A Relation of the Distressed Statė of the Church of Christ processing the Protestant Religiom in the Great Dukedom of Lithuania. Title page of a book by Samual Clarke. A Generał Martyrologię, published in London, 1677
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Accesibility done right at the academic conference! #Reforc2025
The left screen features a sign language interpreter against a blue background, providing live interpretation. The right screen displays a presentation slide titled “Renouncing Erasmus? Reading…” with images of historical figures
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Three books. Three bullets. These volumes—once part of a peaceful library—were struck and torn apart by gunfire in #Vienna in 1940s. A haunting reminder of how even cultural heritage aren’t spared from violence. #WienMuseum
A stack of three old books with visibly damaged spines and covers, pierced by a bullet. The leather bindings are torn, and some pages are shredded and charred.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
National Library of Viena, is that a new encryption method?! Can someone crack the code? Anyway, a solid warp-up for #reforc2025 @reforc.bsky.social
A tall wooden bookshelf filled with ornate, gold-tooled leather-bound books inside the National Library of Austria. Some books are laid on their bookbloks, exposing the red block sides.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Meeting of Lithuanian special collections curators: discussing security in the face of geopolitics, crises, and thefts. How can we protect our heritage while staying as open and accessible as possible? #CulturalHeritage #security #Lithuania #specialcollections
A group of people sits in a historic Vilnius Universtity library room with an ornate vaulted ceiling decorated in blue and gray floral patterns.
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Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The #CFP has been extended! You can still submit your proposals for the conference until May 15. Perhaps you’ll help us uncover just how much wit and sharpness it took to write, publish, illustrate, or collect books. More: konferencijos.lnb.lt/acutus-et-ar...
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Acutus et Argutus: Early Modern Print Culture in Motion
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