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

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...

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.

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...

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

YouTube video by Enssib

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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'

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 !

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...

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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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

... And the imprint also contains a chronogram !

Zanna Van Loon@zannavanloon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Fictitious imprints deserve their moment. I’ll go first: 'Printed in the printing office of orthodox doctrine, by the heirs of Pope Juth, residing in Bricked‑Up Street in Rome, right next to the place where the excess good works of the Roman saints are sold for money, in the pissed‑out Purgatory'

✨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!

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...

The latest issue of the Sammelband Flyleaf is online: Read the report of the Nicosia conf. organised by @nconstantinidou.bsky.social, the programme of Rome event (28-30 April) organised by @rozanneversendaal.bsky.social & a portrait of Alessia Giachery (Marciana)! sammelband.hypotheses.org/3088

The Sammelband Flyleaf n° 8

The eighth issue of the Sammelband Flyleaf is now available online. This issue of the Flyleaf contains a full report on the Nicosia conference organised by Natasha Constantinidou of the University of ...

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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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Very pleased to be hosting the 13th Sammelband 15-16 event in Nicosia from tomorrow, co-organised with @lankian.bsky.social You can take a look at the programme here: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2810

Nicosia conference programme

. The thirteenth event organised by the Sammelband 15-16 project group on Sammelbände and instruction will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus from 19-21 November 2025. We are delighted to share the programme ...

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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'

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

Malcolm Walsby@lankian.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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

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...

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!

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

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · last yr.

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: Nobel laureates call on EU to concentrate research funding. Panel warns against “sprinkling money” as Europe loses innovation ground to China and US. @lindanordling.bsky.social reports from Germany. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

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

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

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!

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