Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Signs for hydration break! #IpswichMinster 010
Reposted by Milda KvizikevičiūtėDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Hydration break in the 1630s. 210521
Reposted by Milda KvizikevičiūtėDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Gotcha, smiling sea-bishop of #earlymodern fame. 3384
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026We 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 1337
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026So much to admire! 🔥 Breviarium Romanum. Antverpiae: Ex Officina parva Plantiniana, apud Aegidium Beysium, 1595 1102
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026When 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. 1133
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026There 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 072
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! 062
Reposted by Milda KvizikevičiūtėDaniel 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) 5316
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026A 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.🧵 12410
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 04/03/20261611 #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. 142
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026That 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 000
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Turns 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. 🧟♂️ 020
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Sixteenth-century book with a perfectly placed burn hole. Proof that early modern readers lived dangerously (hello, candles). 📚🔥 #RareBooks #BookHistory #MaterialCulture #LibrarianLife 1183
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026On 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! 020
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Hello sir! How to kill some time while reading. #rarebooks #doodle #earlymodern 0317
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Arbor 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. 041
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Not 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?” 050
Reposted by Milda KvizikevičiūtėSuzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Booked 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... 25016
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026While 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 020
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Petrus 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 021
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! 020
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Dominican #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 050
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 20/11/2025A 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, 000
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 20/11/2025This 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 062
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Books in paintings at the Bernini Palace in Rome: from Erasmus’s scissors to the delicate metal bookmarks of Mary. 011
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Resistance 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. 051
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Vt 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 230
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Monday mood: quietly losing my mind over UMARC fields and 35th sermon— all in the name of research 🪄📚 010
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 050
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 040
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 030
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Acutus et argutus has begun! Why to type something easily, when you can do labirynths, roses. Should my next paper look like that? 🫢 000
Reposted by Milda KvizikevičiūtėSuzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Love... Or Death? #Plague or #TooPerilous 3/3 082
Reposted by Milda KvizikevičiūtėJess Ayres @drjessayres.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Believe 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 612828
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...lithuania.ltThe Baltic Way: How Holding Hands Changed History | LithuaniaOn 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... 011
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025All sorts of activities happeningnin this teeny tiny vignette. #oldbooks #rarebooks #fishing #swimming #bridges #NationalLibraryOfLithuania 021
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Annotation? No thanks, I’ll draw my feelings instead. What mood would you doodle today? #rarebooks #earlymodernbook #NationalLibraryOfLithuania #doodle 053
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025A little bit of a personal touch left behind. De censuris Ecclesiasticis tractatus. Leiden, 1608 #NationalLibraryOfLithuanis #earlymodern #printculture 26712
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025That one person in the pool 🔫💦 @Kunsthistoriches Museum Vienna #earlymodern #printculture 040
Reposted by Milda KvizikevičiūtėBOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025This is DAMN good BibComm 🔥 1374
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025To 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 010
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Falcon 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 000
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 25/05/2025What 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 041
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Accesibility done right at the academic conference! #Reforc2025 000
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Three 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 063
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025National Library of Viena, is that a new encryption method?! Can someone crack the code? Anyway, a solid warp-up for #reforc2025 @reforc.bsky.social 000
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Meeting 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 040
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025The #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...konferencijos.lnb.ltAcutus et Argutus: Early Modern Print Culture in Motion 010