Illuminator at work, surrounded by the tools of his trade
BnF MS Latin 4915; Mare historiarum ab orbe condito ad annum Christi 1250, authore Joanne de Columma; 15th century; f.1r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
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First #bookhistory post of the year. Some books simply scream for a thread!
We have two copies of the same #EarlyModern edition. Why would we want to collect two copies of the same book, you ask? Read on!
EHC Antwerp, K 54092 copy 1 and 2.
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Have just finished this book & in complete agreement with the TLS review; highly recommended. Congratulations @pittsmike.bsky.social on a splendid achievement.
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Researchers have demonstrated a nondestructive way to collect cellular material from historical parchment manuscripts, allowing them to conduct genetic analyses that offer new insights into everything...
I love this category of typographic blunder. I blogged about my favourite one of these I’ve seen: universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/b...
We have a new guest blog post by Visiting Research Fellow Steven J. Livesey: "Three early copies of Gilles of Corbeil’s “Versus de urinis”: examining provenance". 🔎
Check it out here:
If you’re looking for something to do this Saturday, come on by the Winterthur Library for our second annual Tattoo Inspiration Open House! 💪 It runs 11-2, and dozens of gorgeous special collections items will be on show: www.winterthur.org/calendar/art...
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Something is very strange about this titlepage. Amusingly so. Can you see what it is? During printing the second “M” of the second word in the title, “GRAMMAIRE”, must accidentally have been omitte…
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I want to compliment Sam Regal, Editor of Printing History (the Journal of the American Printing History Association) for being braver and franker in his introduction to the current issue about American democracy than nearly all mainstream media in this country.
'The string alphabet remains a remarkable chapter in the development of tactile literacy in Scotland'
Dr Taylor Hare, Visiting Research Fellow, investigates the history of raised-letter printing in Glasgow. Read his full guest blog exploring his findings.
Carving of HMS Agamemnon on a Clydebank tenement. Built by William Beardmore and Company, when it was launched in 1906, it was the largest warship built on the Clyde up until that point.
#glasgow #clydebank #architecture #sculpture #publicart
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Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷
Glenn Fleishman
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Guest blog by Dr.Taylor Hare, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections. Dr Hare is a Postdoctoral Fellow in English Literature at Baylor University (…
That letter ‘S’ after the apostrophe on the top line is a bit of an afterthought, J. Boyle, printer of Aberdeen. He perpetrated this typographical horror in 1788 so I’ve probably left it a bit late to complain.
