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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

In 1684, mayor of Amsterdam Nicolas Witsen was gifted a Chinese atlas (Guangyu Tu 廣輿圖, 1555) by Jesuit missionary Philippe Couplet. This atlas is now held at @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social, where I had to pleasure to show it to the visitors of its Vriendendag last Saturday!

Handwritten text in a seventeenth-century hand on white paper, which translates to 'The Jesuit priest Philippe Couplet returned from China to report to the Holy See about Christianity in China. He has lived there for 24 years, and Father Philippe Couplet showed me this atlas of China. At the same time, he showed me a small book with maps from which Martini had drawn his atlas and on which Martini himself had made notes. Father Philippe Couplet further said that the atlas was reprinted after the maps that had existed three hundred years ago. Martini translated the Chinese narrative in that small atlas into Latin word by word and was compiled into his new atlas of China. However, Father Philippe Couplet told me, the atlas (referring to the larger one) given to you is perfect and more refined. Nicolas Witsen, 1684'.

Woodblock printing of a Chinese map with Chinese text on the left

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Joost Depuydt @joostdepuydt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Wanted: a golden tip about this woodblock. In our exhibition 'Plantin's Plants', you can admire a woodblock depicting maize. However, we do not know for which book this woodblock was ever used. #museumplantinmoretus #plantenvanplantijn

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

📯Oproep: kandidaten voor de nieuwe, vijfjaarlijkse Evert Paul Veltkamp-prijs voor #Boekgeschiedenis! 📚💙 📜 📖 Publiceerde je in 2020-2025 een Nederlandstalig boek over de boekgeschiedenis in de Nederlanden? Dien dan in tot 4 februari. Meer info: www.mdnl.nl?p=19343

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Oproep Evert Paul Veltkamp-prijs voor Boekgeschiedenis – MdNL | Maatschappij der Nederlandse letterkunde

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Nothing ever really changes: on the left a woodcut for January in an almanac for the year 1693 - on the right the same image found in the 'Enkhuizer' almanac of 2026

Image in black-and-white of a man with a crown holding a star standing in front of mother with two children in a door post

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Clara, is that you? In Buffon, 'Histoire Naturelle', t.6 (Paris 1756)

Engraving of a black-and-white rabbit, with a cabbage in the foreground and other farm-like paraphernalia. In the background wash is hanging

Zoom-in of the background where you see a vague image of a rhinoceros

Black-and-white engraving of a rhinoceros

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

‘Et sic in infinitum’, Robert Fludd in ‘Utriusque Cosmi’ (1617) on back-to-back staff-meetings in the last days before the December break #bookhistory

Image of a black square engraved on slightly yellowing paper

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

If you have some time, please help PhD student Marta Guidotti with this survey on reading comfort. You'll be asked to adjust different parameters for texts in languages you can and cannot read to improve reading comfort of texts. The test takes about 10 minutes at most. comfortread.framer.ai

Cartoons of a person reading texts from a laptop screen with the text 'make happy readers'.

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Can anyone tell me what this visualization means? "Message to the bookbinder. The plates must be placed in the work next to the pages as indicated below, and in such a way that they can be unfolded entirely to the right-hand side" #bookhistory

White page, black type: message to the bookbinder.

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!

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2025 Contingent Book List

When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.

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Boekwetenschap UvA @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

VOORLICHTING OP 20 NOVEMBER 2025 18.00-19.00, online. Meld je aan www.uva.nl/programm.../... Of vraag via een dm om de link. Vier studentvoorlichters plus de staf praten je bij. Meer over Boekwetenschap: edu.nl/uurx4

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Oproep tot voordrachten voor de Menno Hertzbergerprijs 2026 voor boekwetenschappelijk onderzoek over de Lage Landen in brede zin (ook voor prentkunst en cartografie!) Nomineer een collega of jezelf voor de Prijs voor het Beste Boek of voor de Aanmoedigingsprijs. 1/8 #boekgeschiedenis #boekwetenschap

Zwart-witfoto van Menno Hertzberger, een oudere man met wit haar, gekleed in een colbert en donkere stropdas. Hij zit aan een bureau vol papieren en boeken, met achter hem boekenkasten gevuld met oude banden.

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Call for nominations for the Menno Hertzberger Prize 2026 in Book Studies of the Low Countries broadly considered (also looking at you specialists of print or cartography). Please nominate a colleague (or yourself!) either for Best Book or for the Encouragement Prize 1/8 #bookhistory #bookstudies

Black and white image of older man (Menno Hertzberger) with white hair wearing a sports jacket and black tie, at a desk filled with papers and books in front of book cases filled with old books.

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Sietske Fransen @sietskefransen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Super dress match met Trude Dijkstra vanavond bij #avondwm, de Avond van wetenschap & maatschappij waar we als tafelwetenschappers een stelling mochten inbrengen en bespreken met fantastische tafelgenoten. #boekwetenschap & #wetenschapsgeschiedenis

Trude en ik in de Pieterskerk in Leiden waar we allebei in het feestelijk zwart met groen accent aankwamen, zonder dat het was afgesproken

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

😭 IG newberlinlibrary

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

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CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Uitgeverij Armorica @uitgeverijarmorica.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Vanaf vandaag is Koken voor kleine handen online te koop via de onderstaande link of kom vanavond een exemplaar halen op de boekpresentatie! Duik mee in de smakelijke geschiedenis van kinderkookboeken. 📚🍴 armorica.eu/product/koke...

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Dick Zijp @dickzijp.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

NOS/Nieuwsuur maakte vorige week een alarmistisch item over onvrije debatcultuur aan Nederlandse universiteiten. Mirko Tobias Schäfer en ik schreven er een opiniestuk over: 'Dat de academische vrijheid onder druk staat, komt niet door linkse cancelcultuur.' dub.uu.nl/nl/opinie/un...

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‘Universiteit kan geen vrijplaats voor feitenvrije meningen zijn’

Dat de academische vrijheid onder druk staat, komt niet door de ‘linkse cancelcultuur’, betogen universitair docent Dick Zijp en universitair hoofddocent Mirko Tobias Schäfer. Zij hekelen de beeldvorm...

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Uitgeverij Armorica @uitgeverijarmorica.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Binnenkort bij Uitgeverij Armorica: ‘Koken voor kleine handen’ van Sara Assarrar Een smakelijke ontdekkingsreis door 150 jaar kinderkookboeken in Nederland en België. ➡️ 1 oktober vieren we de lancering samen. Vanaf die dag ook online te bestellen 💜 #kinderkookboek #kookgeschiedenis #armorica

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Boekwetenschap UvA @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Als je denkt dat het niet gekker kan....de staat Iowa probeert George Orwells 1984 te verbieden. Deze klassieker werd tijdens de Koude Oorlog door de CIA de Sovjet-Unie in gesmokkeld met als doel het communistische regime te ondermijnen. Nu wordt het boek door Trump-aanhangers verguisd.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

FINAL CALL! ⏰ One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship! ☟ ☟ ☟

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Boekwetenschap UvA @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Supertrots op dit boek van onze oude student Sara Assarrar! @uitgeverijarmorica.bsky.social @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social

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Oscar Kocken @oscarkocken.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Deze tot en met de verkiezingsdag blijven rondpompen a.u.b.

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

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Historisch Nieuwsblad @historischnwsbl.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

'Een schok', zo omschrijft terrorisme-expert @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social het besluit van de Tweede Kamer om Antifa als terroristische organisatie aan te merken. 'Het is een knuppel om tegenstanders monddood te maken.' www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/antifa/

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Beatrice de Graaf: Antifa-besluit Tweede Kamer is ‘een knuppel om tegenstanders monddood te maken’

‘Een schok’, zo omschrijft historicus Beatrice de Graaf het besluit van de Tweede Kamer om de Antifa-beweging als terroristische organisatie aan te merken.

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Dr. Sheila Addison @drsaddison.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Academia.edu wants permanent rights to your likeness, signature, voice, name, etc. to be used in any setting. My answer was "absolutely not." Log in, click on "privacy policy" when prompted to accept the new terms (don't accept!" then find "account settings" @ dropdown, scroll down to delete.

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Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers

Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Lovely view of the facade of the new University Library of the @uvahumanities.bsky.social, very fitting background when teaching our MA course 'The World in Books' #bookhistory @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social

Image of facade full of text, with a view of the street it is on

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This is a wondeful book and available in Open Access!

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Quite a drastic - and creepy - measure to take when a friendship has run its course. From the album amicorum of Joannes Hackaert (must have been a nice guy) [Rijksmuseum Amsterdam]

Portrait of a man in eighteenth century dress with a blue coat and a red waistcoat with a face that is erased

Portrait of a man man in a black coat and red waistcoat who’s face is erased

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Practise makes perfect! 18th-century artist manual with colour swatches [Rijksmuseum Amsterdam]

Page with colour swatches in pink, blue and green

On the right hand side colour swatches on the right side written text

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

REGISTRATION OPEN! Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade. Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

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Conference: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus

The aim of this two-day conference is to share knowledge of women’s rich and varied lives and works in the period before the rapid industrialisation of book production which changed the face of home l...

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse soon to be lost to the sands of time near Løkken, Denmark #cantwaitfordune3 #sandblasted

Photograph of dunes with a lighthouse in the far background. The sand is yellow and the sky is grey

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Not a combination you would expect, but the Museum of the Historty of Printing and Canning in Stavanger, Norway is fantastic! #bookhistory #Iddis #doeswhatitsaysonthetin

Led light sardines in yellow and pink on the left, books and a small cupboard in the back

Sign: printing history to the left, canning history to the right

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Just realised that the 'Formosan hoax' of George Psalmanazar (a French impostor who, in the early 1700s, claimed that he was a native of Formosa (now Taiwan), even publishing a detailed but entirely fabricated account of its language, customs, and culture, was printed by Dan Brown... #bookhistory

Black and white title page of Description of Formosa

Impressum in black and white, stating 'London: printed for Dan Brown'

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I was recently gifted this; I have a vague idea what it is, but perhaps someone can tell me a bit more about it? #bookhistory

Piece of paper with text ink black in and a seal stamped on the left side

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Masterful use of typography to demonstrate to children how to write well | Guillaume LePescheur, 'Het fondament van wel spellen ende lesen' (1626) #bookhistory

Black and white image of a hand holding a feather with above it examples how to write individual letters

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Huygens Instituut @huygensknaw.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🎉 NWO-subsidie voor onderzoek naar anonieme middeleeuwse schrijvers! Collega @irenevanrenswoude.bsky.social en @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social (UU) onderzoeken hoe mensen tussen 750 en 1000 omgingen met teksten zonder bekende auteur. Hoe betrouwbaar was kennis zonder naam? 👉 tinyurl.com/45bwhwds

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

From now on I'll only respond to Dr. DJIKISTRA

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Perhaps SciHub can provide a mirror?

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Looking for literature on #EarlyModern portraits in books, specifically (but not exclusively) in religious context. Author's portraits, but also portraits in biographies. Stuff like Ignatius' "vera effigies" in editions of his Spiritual Exercises, saints' lives, but also Cavendish. #BookHistory

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Fellow (book)historians, a question! I am working on a late 17th century French manuscript, but it seems to have a plate edge surrounding the image. How would that work? All 200+ images seem to have one? #bookhistory

white page with image of a green plant with written description in red and black below

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Wonderful new publication from our fully student led publishing company Armorica. Amber Blewanus shows in 'Archives of Natural Documentation' that old ink recipes (she looked at 223 different ones!) may offer guidance to more sustainable practises #bookhistory #ink

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Very much looking forward to my conversation with Brandi K. Adams this Friday for #NewberryLibrary 'Race in Dialogue' on book history and race! Free and open to the public as a Zoom webinar at 12pm CDT/6pm BST/7pm CET www.newberry.org/calendar/rac...

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Race and Book History

A conversation exploring what book history can teach us about the history of race.

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Lovely, this 17th century author calling his new publication 'dit Papiere Kint' ('this Paper child') #bookhistory

Page of 17th century book with ornamental initial

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