Aaron T. Pratt

Absolutely. Had seen it was happening but just realized I’ll be in LA during the run.

No 18mo—this one concerns more of a debate about how to define format—but I do have some examples of very stupid formats for us to think through!

A hand gripping a stack of stab-stitched pamphlets on the surface of a table. The title page that’s visible identifies them as syllabuses for the 2025 Descriptive Bibliography course at California Rare Book School.

The print-run of my 2025 @calrbs.bsky.social Descriptive Bibliography syllabus is done, with all copies stab-stitched and ready to go.

The variants are even crazier than they were last year. How many issues of the edition are there? Variants? What’s an ideal copy? What the hell is the format?

Well that’s a book to keep an eye out for at auction.

An early hebrew books panel would be cool. Would just need to find two more people! (And a chair, though I could probably help with that)

I can facilitate this if you can wrangle the panel!

As the submission deadline approaches, if anyone who hopes to go to RSA this coming year in San Francisco has a bookish panel they've put together that's in search of a sponsor guaranteeing acceptance, please let me know. Same if you'd like to whip together a panel in the next couple of weeks.

I have a modest collection of audio cassettes. In part because vinyl pressing timelines tend to be pretty long these days, lotsa current bands have been putting out tapes.

Thanks!

Maybe!?

Self-portrait of a 40-something white dude who’s barely awake, sitting in an airplane seat. Wearing an Aus-Rotten t-shirt.

Sorta awake (since 3:00), which is both a win and a loss. Beginning my plane, train, and automobile trip to New Haven for RBMS (and, most importantly, some quality Beinecke time). Hope to see some of you there.

Truly can’t stand ‘em.

Which, as far as I can tell, isn't in the USTC or Pettegree and Walsby.

Here's a 1553 Nivelle Vol. 4: loyola.biblioteca.deusto.es/items/7191e8...

The basic point is that your entry is presumably for a single volume that, if it has been described by modern bibliographers, may be—probably is—treated as part of a set. Looks like the "super evangelia" homilies fill the second vol. in the four-vol. ones.

Scraping my brain to remember my Counter-Ref days. I believe the "super evangelia" homilies were generally issued as only one part of larger Eck homilies sets. The Nivelle of 1561, which a quick search turned up, is, for instance, four vols. Not sure if each vol. has separate date.

Just changed the opening in the Gutenberg Bible @ransomcenter.bsky.social.

Here’s a detail from one of the pages on display. It shows a scrape-and-replace correction to 1 Chronicles (1 Paralipomenon) 1:21.

An error, the printed text read, “et de ela ebal.” A scribe got it to “et decla ebal.”

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Trilingual dictionary, Psalter, and Hebrew grammar. Add MS 89788

We’ve acquired a remarkable group of rare medieval manuscripts that reveal new insights into life in Britain & Ireland during the Middle Ages – from religious dialogue to daily urban life.

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At long last, “A24’s Academic Style; or, Coming of Age in an Era of Student Debt” is now out with @jcmsjournal.bsky.social

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Opening of a book printed in 1588 celebrating Pope Sixtus V’s architectural achievements. Copperplate print on the let shows the Lateran Obelisk. On the right is a letterpress poem in Neo-Latin about it.

Been thinkin’ about Egyptian obelisks in Rome. #allegyptallthetime

Wish I could!

Just truly insane. Thanks so much for coming!

The edition, bewilderingly enough, plays a major role in the new Guy Ritchie movie, Fountain of Youth.

I only wish the worst for LLM advocates and apologists.

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I suspect that's Abraham Polei from Grimma:

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Love the semi-colon, but editors I have—especially for public-facing things like exhibition labels—almost always nuke them in favor of hard stops. Gotta trust people to figure ‘em out, re-normalize.

Congrats!

Keepin’ it posi