Erik Kwakkel

Extraordinary lecture that will give you an hour+ of pure joy. Highly recommended.

Using bibliographical format to fill your boxes:
2°, 4°, 8°, two 12°s.

#Bibliography #BookHistory 📚💙

Good times ahead.

15th-century schoolbook with pen trials.

Testing 1,2,3: this original cover for a schoolbook (Cicero and other classical school texts) is completely filled with pen trials. The name Hainz/Haintz appears a lot, perhaps student’s name?

(Munich, BSB, Clm 18941, 15th c, digitized here: tinyurl.com/5n8furud, see pic 143)

The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections Abstract. It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨

Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!).
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Flyleaf of writing manual shows doodles of child.

Just came across this web resource: 76 digitized handwriting manuals 1600-1800 - mostly with models for handwriting exercises (bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/search/N-503...). A bored child learning to write doodled in one of them (source: bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/p...).

Shoe left behind in park.

Encountered during morning walk in Stanley Park. Love the scene, shoe not mine.

Medieval manuscript fragment used on a book cover.

Book shelf with two books with reused text on the spine, both medieval and modern.

Binding Waste Bonus!

#NewberryLibrary #Shelfie
#Print #Manuscript #Recycling

Script musings: Southern France - could it even be Spain? Pregothic, though almost not “pre” anymore.

Look, a much younger Kwakkel!

This spectacular Bible was created by a scribe in Mainz in 1452-53, while elsewhere in the city Gutenberg was creating the printed equivalent that would put the scribe out of business. The digitization is of equal high quality: www.loc.gov/item/52002226/. #medievalsky

This 16th Century Book Can Be Read Six Different Ways Sure, the Amazon Kindle might have dynamic font adjustments, and it can hold thousands of books, but can it do this? Printed in the late 16th century this small book from the National Library of Swede...

Just saw this on #TodayILearned and that led me to @erikkwakkel.bsky.social ! #OldBooks

www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/01/this...

Started to work on something new, a manuscript lost in the 1870 fire that destroyed the Public and University Library in Strasbourg. The pile in the foreground I imagine holds the remains of the codex I am writing about, how sad (Musée hist. de Strasbourg, R.20694), more exhibit: buff.ly/srNXVZy.

Give yourself a free present. Here’s a OA download for your paleography fix.

Ha, good question! I was on leave until March 1 and focused on getting the Advertisement book finished. That is now done. Coming up for air. Thanks for inquiring, that’s kind.

Alert: great opportunity if you are interested in doing a PhD around early book. Salaried (!) Marie Curie Doctoral Research position advertised by the U of Bristol within the exciting “Remediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures” project (@rebpaf.bsky.social).

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An unknown leaf from the Poor Clares of Cologne The involvement of nuns in creating beautiful medieval manuscripts is often underappreciated. It is very exciting, then, to discover a new example of their work. While searching for items to include i...

There's an interesting new blogpost by Ellie Jackson at the BL:
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
#fragmentology #mssprovenance

Handel's Messiah | Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs | The Ultimate Christmas Tradition | Choral Music Celebrate the festive season in style with a beautiful performance of Handel's Messiah at the grant Orpheum theatre on December 14th!

vancouverbachchoir.com/events/messi...

Orpheum theatre

Rehearsal for Handel’s Messiah, tomorrow in the beautiful Orpheum in Vancouver. We sound good and I feel you should all come.

Picard management tip: Share the credit. Take the blame.

Excellent! Being a geek is the best!

Peaceful coexistence: Ox (in watermark) sharing the page with several "book worms" (beetle larvae), who left those oddly-shaped channels.

Berlin, SBPK Magdeb. 89, 15th c https://buff.ly/49xfsft

All I want for Christmas is a red medieval binding with an original title label (fenestra) and brass-enforced corners...

Marburg UB Ms. 37

Yes, late though (16th c)

Prime hosts for tiny manuscript fragments!

That requires a lot of patience!

This book on astronomy has a great deal of student notes bound in with the text. These small inserts did not usually make it, but here they are, in abundance! More on these tiny class notes ("schedula") in this blog post: https://buff.ly/2rFt0Vl.

Tübingen UB Mc 64, 15th c https://buff.ly/41tCodx

I’ve gotten into this odd but useful routine of writing a page or two and then read it back on my phone. The small screen creates the distance I need to see if what I wrote made sense. More text in a single view helps with that.

I so can’t wait to read it. And congrats to getting this to print!

The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Oxford University Press page

Delighted to announce that my second book, The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England, is coming out with Oxford University Press in April

Details here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...