I've identified some new marginalia by Henry VIII on the psalms at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
You can read all about it in the latest issue of the Library: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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I was particularly struck by Henry VIII's careful drawings of birds and manicules in this book. he was clearly a prince with time on his hands... 🗃️
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This note concerns a copy of Erasmus’ Enarratio in Psalmum XXXIII at the British Library. While this book has long been associated with the library of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, an analysis of the handwritten marginalia in this volume ...
I've identified some new marginalia by Henry VIII on the psalms at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
You can read all about it in the latest issue of the Library: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
#BookHistory #EarlyModern #skystorians
This note concerns a copy of Erasmus’ Enarratio in Psalmum XXXIII at the British Library. While this book has long been associated with the library of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, an analysis of the handwritten marginalia in this volume ...
‘The early press was like a great vertical vice, operated by a screw. This technology was centuries old, having been developed for the pressing of grapes to make wine.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on William Caxton and the story of the English printing press.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Caxton’s early interest in print was probably commercial rather than technical, that of a publisher rather than an...
