Book historian, medieval manuscript liker, Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library. They/she. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷
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Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
happy pride 💕
Yet ANOTHER squished fly in the Smithsonian Libraries, this time with citation!
Mosquito in an 18th century botany book from the Smithsonian Libraries
"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking." 📚 #Skybrarians
Panera stitchin’
Matt Baume 🏳️🌈
Buné
Here’s a later one, from the 19th century
Kat Abughazaleh
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷
Here are a couple different guys from this hulk of an incunable at the Library of Congress (again, citation can be found if needed)
Kirsti
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷
For #InternationalArchivesWeek, consider how digitized copies of manuscripts can preserve access to a manuscript's contents, provide a record of ownership if the object is removed, and provide access to cultural heritage if a community is displaced.
Learn more: hmml.org/stories/reversal-of-fates
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷
Not me putting off dinner to find examples of bugs smashed in books 😭
HMML
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷
Boy do I! I can’t find the shelf mark of this on my phone (I can dig it up if needed) but here’s a late incunable that is the final resting place of a spider from the Smithsonian Libraries
