New purchase: Het Kongsiwezen van Borneo. By J J M de Groot. 1885. With the signature of the author!
This noon, I attended @yunxie.bsky.social’s lecture on the materiality of printed Chinese script in 19th-century Netherlands. The talk addressed challenges, networks, reasons, and innovations related to printing Chinese in Europe. Thanks for this new angle on printing culture! #ChinaBooks #Sinology
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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊
New purchase: The Sacred Edict 圣谕广训. Translated and edited by missionary F W Baller 鲍康宁, printed by China Inland Mission and Presbyterian mission press in Shanghai, 4th edition. 1917. With the signature and notes by missionary John Steele.
We’re rewriting Archetype[1] and one of the joys of that is introducing new developers to palaeography. Today’s fun was: the first *p* is actually a *wynn* and not a *p* — only the second *p* is a *p* 😏
[1] the framework that powers Models of Authority, DigiPal & at least 30 other projects.
Nothing angered Dave more than being referred to as a ‘lucky duck’. It wasn’t luck at all. He’d worked hard to get to where he was. He paid his own bills, and even managed to create a nest egg for himself - 15th century, Oxford University, St John's College MS 82, f. 148r
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New purchase: LES LIVRES SACRÉS
DE L'ORIENT, by G Pauthier, in 1852, with divisible Chinese types which were made by M Legrand.
New purchase: 要理问答，北京救世堂印刷所 (北堂, Noordkerk, Lazaristen Drukkerij), by Peking Bishop Stanislas Jarlin C M 林懋德 (林 準) missionary from France, in Beijing in 1921. Typography with Chinese page style and binding.
Japanese studies folks,
I’m pleased to introduce Minna de Honkoku OCR, a new AI system for recognizing kuzushiji.
yuta1984.github.io/honkoku-ocr-...
It is an AI-OCR system trained on 57 million characters of input data from the crowdsourced transcription platform Minna de Honkoku.
New purchase: Het Chineesch Taaleigen Inleiding tot de gesprokene taal (Noord -Pekineesch dialekt), by Jos Mullie 闵宣化 (1886-1976, Belgian missionary from Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae. Printed in Beijing in 1931, Dutch and Chinese. PeiTang (Noordkerk) Drukkerij 北堂印刷所。
