@lankian.bsky.social
Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre, director of research at Enssib (University of Lyon)
Photo of the fragment of the incunable
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
Title page of the edition of the 'Sommaire des privilèges, exemptions et indulgences'
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
Start of the conclusion of an article
"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
These snippets of lost verse turn up in the most unlikely of places...
It's probably a variant of the well-known French bawdy song 'La Rirette'
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rire...
Verse written on the cover of a register
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'
Félicitations, Nicolas !
21.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sorry for answering a year late ... 🙄
13.10.2025 17:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0He is holding his heart... It is one of the most extraordinary pieces of renaissance art - just fantastic
13.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Lovely double manicule !
(And Charles VI 😉)
Glad it's made it north of the Channel!
24.09.2025 16:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Frankly, I would use whatever helps...
24.09.2025 07:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I have just noticed that it is now available as an eBook for just under € 12 - a tariff-busting deal 😂
24.09.2025 07:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Sure! If you dm me your email address, I will send you some information and photos!
19.09.2025 08:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A lovely series of fragments in the binding of this Genevan imprint - so much to research about circulation from these manuscripts survivals (especially for works that should have been technically banned and are nevertheless in Catholic areas)!
12.09.2025 07:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!
11.09.2025 21:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Full text: The printing and reading of Renaissance books have been extensively studied. But what happened between the printing of the pages in the workshop and the moment a reader picked up a volume has not attracted much attention. Yet this movement from the workshop to the reader was a crucial stage in the life of any publication. The analysis of this stage allows us to understand the true impact of printing. Local, national and international distribution, as well as the methods of selling printed matter, are fundamental to explaining how people gained access to books in Renaissance France. Drawing on previously unknown archival sources scattered throughout France and beyond, as well as the examination of tens of thousands of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century books preserved in numerous European libraries, this study offers a radically new approach to the first century and a half of the circulation and sale of printed books in France. It is the result of more than twenty years of research in the field.
Here is an English synopsis of the book:
11.09.2025 08:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
Vous trouverez sur l'introduction et la table des matières en suivant le lien!
11.09.2025 07:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
Les livrets des quatre dernières années du Master CEI
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!
A pratical compromise ;-)
08.09.2025 15:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But also: a perfect example of why 2A should not be used... Aa / AA / aA (etc)
08.09.2025 13:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sigh ... 🫣 we need different types (and amounts) of funding AND NOT more concentration of research money!
27.08.2025 13:04 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
An engraving of a man and a woman involved in a brawl
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
It includes, amongst other things, information about forthcoming events in Nicosia (organised by @nconstantinidou.bsky.social ) and Rome ( @rozanneversendaal.bsky.social )
you can sign up to receive the Flyleaf as a pdf by emailing the project (address to be found here: sammelband.hypotheses.org)
Front page of the Sammelband Flyleaf n°7
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
A new link:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p6T...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ma0...
Currently live!
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!
