How deeply insightful (and consoling). Thank you for sharing, @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
24.01.2026 21:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@theodunkelgrun.bsky.social
Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS I come from merchants in textile, and deal in text and exile
How deeply insightful (and consoling). Thank you for sharing, @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
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PB the elder died in 1569. The original (1565) is in the Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, in a treasure chest of a room filled with Bruegels. But Vienna has a lovely copy!
22.01.2026 14:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Still Life with Chinese Lanterns, orange Dahlias, porcelain cup, Alle De Wercken by Jacob Cats, and a box of family secrets (2026). Thanks for sharing, Liesbeth!
22.01.2026 09:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This gem not far behind (spotted at the Cambridge University Press Bookshop)
21.01.2026 12:32 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The 11th-century manuscript itself -- Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.66.1 -- has been digitised in IIIF by the BML here: tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll... and is also available through the invaluable @biblissima.bsky.social
20.01.2026 17:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ancient Jewish History in Medieval Lombardy in Renaissance Florence
Boccaccio wrote > 1,000 marginalia in a MS of Josephus's Jewish Antiquities copied at Monte Cassino.
Silvia Finazzi (Roma Tre)'s critical edition of all of them, published by Olschki:
#bookhistory
www.olschki.it/libro/978882...
π₯π₯π₯Hello academic blueskyers, we are hiring again. We are looking for a proactive, communicative, motivated post-doc π¦ΈββοΈπ¦ΈββοΈ for our ISF project Josephus Christianus (sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-chr...). Feel free to circulate!
19.01.2026 20:19 β π 17 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0De auteur van dit artikel beweert dat het (inderdaad laakbare) lemma "Anti-Semietisme" in de Katholieke Encyclopaedie (1933-39) van de hand van Titus Brandsma is. Dat lemma is echter ondertekend "V. Houtte", i.e. de latere hoogleraar geschiedenis aan de KU Leuven, Jan Van Houtte (1913-2002).
16.01.2026 10:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0His younger brother, the puritan minister George Walker (c. 1581β1651), was no less a bibliophile. Both used motto's derived from Proverbs 10:9, playing on their surname. Here is a Hebrew Pentateuch (Venice: Bomberg press, 1548), from the library of Emmanuel College Cambridge, shelf mark 303.3.57.
16.01.2026 09:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ik herinner me nog goed zijn bezoek aan het Sorghvliet, waarvan hij zelf alumnus was, op uitnodiging van Hans Neervoort, onze leraar Nederlands. Een betoverende ontmoeting met een Γ¨chte schrijver, en een geschenk van een fijnzinnige docent aan zijn leerlingen.
15.01.2026 10:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What a trip β lucky students! Thanks for sharing, @homophonous.bsky.social
14.01.2026 18:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Β‘Por eso te estamos tan agradecidos por hacerlo, @perurealfonso.bsky.social !
13.01.2026 19:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Please do, @christinekooi.bsky.social . Thanks!
11.01.2026 18:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you, @stefanhanss.bsky.social ! Just looking for a more efficient way to stay on top of all your amazing work.
11.01.2026 12:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That just happens to be one of my favourite books, too, @letter-kunde.bsky.social ! Does your copy have any noteworthy provenance? The storyteller would like you to know that he hopes you enjoyed the tale.
11.01.2026 10:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
En in 1959 speelde Louis Armstrong in de Houtrusthallen. De bebrilde tiener met zwart haar in het publiek rond 0:15 is mijn vader, toen 16 jaar oud.
youtu.be/Nh223LfzeL0
Thanks so much, @mihalyfy.bsky.social! Hoping for (re)connections like this is why I stepped into this lustrous lounge, however incomparable it may be to the myriad Chi-Town locales that still bear our invisible footsteps.
08.01.2026 21:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks so much, @joseph-m-davis.bsky.social
Whether in Prague or in Antwerp, our beloved sixteenth century remains inexhaustible, doesn't it?
And that from one of my ideal readers!
Gratias tibi plurimas, @annetteyreed.bsky.social
By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025)
pims.ca/publication/...
Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
First post on Bluesky...
Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues old and new, and even with non-historians.
Eens kijken of het in deze kroeg zo gezellig is als men zegt!