It! Is! Live! (A friend sent me the heads-up bc I have The Best Friends!) English. Illuminated. Printed. Parchment. Bibliographical nerdery abounds. Read on!

Colouring in the Lines of Early Tudor Printed Parchment | The Library

While scholars have mined English printed books of hours for decades as sources for important research, a small proportion remain almost without study. Neither manuscript nor standard print, the present article examines books of hours that were printed ...

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Wow: “To be a librarian is to dance along the cracks of the institution, engaged in a thousand small teaching acts.” Good thing this is OA or I’ll soon be in violation of copyright.

Who needs endless social media vids, try the dopamine rush of finding a woman hidden in a 1649 imprint!!

The form will still be set for Open House Chicago if you want to check it out.

Squirrels 🐿️ in a factotum initial from early C17 Urbino.

And I would have gotten away with it* too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids**! *an exact index **inexact printers Edward Herbert, The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth (London, 1649) #bookhistory

This week! Thursday & Friday! Come think about books & collecting & reading & annotating!

Anna Opryszko@anna-opryszko.bsky.social · 4w ago

#BookHistory and #EarlyModern workshop hosted by SFU in downtown Vancouver in a few weeks! Free and open at all interested!

buying books is a perverse act of hope. that i might find time to read yet another.

finally someone is speaking out against Big Rare-Books-and-Manuscripts

Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷@book-historia.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well that’s a hot pro-glove use with books take

PhD year 2, starting off strong 👉

So cool! This was an awesome project to see come together, and then get to teach with.

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)@ala-acrl.bsky.social · 4w ago

Congrats to the 2026 Leab Award recipient for Best in Show, Innovation in Design, and Innovation in Inclusion and Representation Digital Catalog Categories: “Disembodied Reembodied” by Jenny Schmid, Emily Beck, Jaime Konerman-Sease, and Lois Hendrickson. https://bit.ly/4gEJuTy

#BookHistory and #EarlyModern workshop hosted by SFU in downtown Vancouver in a few weeks! Free and open at all interested!

Studied for Action?: The Library of William Dowsing, 1596-1668

An international scholarly workshop exploring the library & marginalia of William Dowsing, English yeoman farmer & iconoclast, 1596 -1668.

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🌻 Curtis's botanical magazine.. London ; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.]. [Source]

#BookHistory and #EarlyModern workshop hosted by SFU in downtown Vancouver in a few weeks! Free and open at all interested!

Studied for Action?: The Library of William Dowsing, 1596-1668

An international scholarly workshop exploring the library & marginalia of William Dowsing, English yeoman farmer & iconoclast, 1596 -1668.

eventbrite.ca

Thinking about books & publishing from a different perspective? Want to write a review of the new game/trend that foregrounds bookishness? Want to express how the Muppets have influenced your book history pedagogy? Submit a proposal to @sharpnews.bsky.social Features! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Finished print: "We need spaces of refusal: to prioritize us safe free protecting each other; recognizing proximity to tech is only technofascism's expl!c!t lure". If we're dreaming futures, why choose a nightmare? <3, Bartleby.

Amanda Wyatt! Visconti@literaturegeek.bsky.social · 4w ago

"We need spaces of refusal." Overlay type for yesterday's silver background furniture printing. Combining them, next.

Do not dreame it Be it

It’s a cruel joke to have to submit seminar papers during Virgo season as a Virgo. There are not enough hours in the day to meet the perfectionism that this moment asks for!

Manicule Manicule Manicule Manicule Manicule Monday #Manicules

I love fallen type! I found this example from 1585 when I worked at the Wangensteen.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab.bsky.social · last mo.

Fallen type at the Huntington, in the library’s Damaged Goods show. @jaymoschella.bsky.social

What is it about the printing press that inspires bad metaphors about digital tech?

Who’s got a favorite book/article on feminist and/or queer theory and Shakespeare?

Reflecting back on this. One consequence of our intensified regime of third-hand consumption of information displacing study is that we are going to have to be more explicit in teaching students that if they want to inquire into a phenomenon they’ll need to identify the appropriate primary sources.

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · last mo.

At this stage I don't even know how much is coming from the person prompting the chatbot or just the automated text itself, but based on other real interactions with students, I have a pet theory that a lot of people think research means "interviewing someone who wrote a book."

Trying my hand at some linocut! This A is from Richard Verstegan, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (1605)

Our medieval manuscripts curator rates every "open book" emoji. 📖

#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers: Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!

Now on the blog, curator @heatherwolfe.bsky.social shares heavily annotated books in the Folger collection from early modern readers who knew the power of underlining words, adding notes in the margin, and even putting the occasional doodle in what they were reading. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Marginalia Maxxing, Early Modern Style | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Should we dismantle the collage, catalogue & preserve the fragments individually, so that they can be identified, studied & made accessible to researchers? Or keep the collage intact, recognising it as a museological object in its own right? /2 #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks

Ghosts have always entered the bibliographic record and it’s always been our job to use the physical evidence to extinguish them. Automatically generating them without a care is anathema.

Might make this thread into a between-term reading list!

Dr Eleanor Baker@eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Does anyone have any reading recommendations for creative-critical practice in book history (both terms broadly conceived, as they can only be)? Very accepting of the 're-'s (remaking etc) but also interested in other approaches.