Daniel Bellingradt

#skystorians

This period will end eventually, so let's enjoy it while it lasts. #academicchatter

For a short time in history, academics engaged in a mashup of everyday commenting and 'real' academic work. We called it the social media period of academia.

I like the idea of a University of Bluesky in the sense that many of us are part of a virtual res publica litteraria these days. I haven't (and likely won't) meet all of you in person ever, but I read your research, hints, comments, problems, and puns, even your bad jokes.

Very grateful to all of my academic mutuals, whether you're a professor or independent scholar. Grateful to the folks who aren't my mutuals, too. The University of Bluesky is truly one of my favorite things.

The abseiling entrepreneur - a journal for ideas from above.

Maybe …

As a German, I loved learning today that the English have a word for „abseilen“: namely abseiling. This is absurdly funny.

Es geht um die Kalender mit Eintragungen.

For the "everything is online" crowd in the back:

Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.

#almanacs #Schreibkalender

That's a good question, and I cannot answer it.

Der Band wird übrigens auch open access erscheinen, auch wenn die Schreibkalender damals fast alle mit "nicht nach zu drucken"-Hinweisen aufwarteten.

bsky.app/profile/dbel...

Der Band dokumentiert und erweitert eine Tagung, die 2024 an der HAB Wolfenbüttel stattfand. Es gab dazu damals ein Programm, das im Stil der frühneuzeitlichen Schreibkalender gedruckt worden war: bsky.app/profile/dbel...

If you are wondering about what a Schreibkalender - an almanac - was, you may find answers here, #earlymodern #bookhistory:

www.hab.de/the-schreibk...

Schreibkalender der Frühen Neuzeit Buch | Harrassowitz Verlag

Es liegt ein Tagungsband in der Luft, sehr gelb und voller Schreibkalender:

www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Schreibkalen...

Have a look yourself, all the images are from Olfert Dapper's Description De L'Afrique, printed in 1686 in Amsterdam. Here is a link: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b...

Pyramids in the Egyptian deserts.

When they arrived at the pyramids, in the 1680s, the buildings might (?) have still been looking like this: more or less intact. I am unsure about the giant stony head though.

A copperplate print showing a burial chamber in a pyramid being entered, "opened", by tomb raiders!

Tomb raiders!

This scene is about entering an Egyptian burial chamber in late seventeenth-century. Mummies, hieroglyphs on the wall, and torches. And little helpers abseiling the others ...

A part of a larger print about entering an Egypt pyramid in late 17th century. Two persons are abseiling a third person into a tomb.

Oh, they are abseiling someone - into a burial chamber of a Egypt pyramid!

The left corner of a print in detail: you see two humans, holding a line.

Hey you, suspicious-looking characters, what are you doing there, in the corner of a copperplate print, in 1686?

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Digitalisierte Sammlungen der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Hier finden Sie Digitalisate in bester Qualität von Büchern, Handschriften und anderen Medien der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

You may find all these details, and more, much more serious stuff for #skystorians in here, if you fancy:

Laufenberg, Heinrich: Regimen SBB Ms. germ. fol. 1191

digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/...

One more initial with a human head blowing a trumpet

And one last trumpet blowing initial from this manuscript just for fun 🎺

Anotjer initial with a human head and a blunt in his mouth.

... clearly a blunt this initial is having in its mouth, but what do I know...

An initial with human faces on bothe sides. The tongues look like trumpets.

Meet the trumpet-tongue-twins!

A detail from a handwritten manuscript of around 1400 showing a drawn hand with a long finger leading the way to a text part. This detail is from Laufenberg, Heinrich: Regimen (SBB Ms. germ. fol. 1191).

And a manicule with a loooong and hairy finger making an impression...

An initial with a human head blowing a trumpet

*tooooooooot*

Another initial, this time with human faces to both sides, and the left head is on topm of a dragon body.

This one is special in more than one way, adding a #manicule, and a second face staring not so amused into the text: the human head on the left of the initial is not only breathing out artfully but (nota bene) the human head is on top of a dragon body! #bookhistory #dragons

Another initial with a human head breathing or screaming.

*screaming-breathing*