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#booksiinprints #historyofliteracy
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Congratulations for all our contributors to the successful RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments this past weekend!
They shone with expert reports of discoveries, projects, and work-in-progress about fragments in manuscript and early-printed forms. Hurray!
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Starting on Friday!
20.11.2025 00:29 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0See you all soon!
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Up next: manuscriptevidence.org//wpme/2025-r... "Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books", 21-23 November (hybrid at Princeton and online). Experts, students, collectors, lovers of books look at fragments. Join us!
09.11.2025 13:13 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1#thresholds
23.10.2025 21:02 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#fragmentology
22.10.2025 02:38 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#childrensbooks #histoyofreading
22.10.2025 02:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#fragmemtology
22.10.2025 01:58 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#historyofliteracy #papersinpaintings
22.10.2025 01:51 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What a wonderful event! We have just completed our Symposium, and congratulate all the speakers, respondents, presiders, and participants for their contributions. Many thanks to all!
19.10.2025 18:37 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Happening this Friday!
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Poster for Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Autumn Symposium, 17-19 October 2025
Next Week: We invite you all to the RGME 2025 Autumn Symposium, "Readers, Fakers, and Re-Creators of Books: From Page to Marketplace and Beyond". This event will be held online October 17-19; more details and registration found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...
07.10.2025 15:32 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Poster for Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Autumn Symposium, 17-19 October 2025
Next Week: We invite you all to the RGME 2025 Autumn Symposium, "Readers, Fakers, and Re-Creators of Books: From Page to Marketplace and Beyond". This event will be held online October 17-19; more details and registration found on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2025-rg...
07.10.2025 15:32 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1#historyofliteracy #historyofcookbooks
30.09.2025 02:04 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#noahsark
22.09.2025 12:04 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#historyofcollections
21.09.2025 14:39 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#picturepoems #carminafigurata #wordsasimages
21.09.2025 01:39 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#lists We admire Michael Hensley's work on book lists. He spoke about it for our 2025 Spring Symposium, and we are eager to learn more. #historyoflibraries
03.09.2025 15:20 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1With the start of September, we mention the CFP deadline of 15 September for your proposals for our sessions at #kazoo2026 ( #2026icms ) and #imc2026 at Leeds. manuscriptevidence.org/2026-interna...
01.09.2025 13:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#doodles
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Now up on the IMC Padlet as well! universityofleeds.padlet.org/imc13/imc-20...
28.08.2025 12:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Research Group on Manyscript Evidence 2026 ICMS call for papers to co-sponsored sessions
#kzoo2026 CFP: this year the RGME is co-sponsoring 5 sessions at next year's ICMS- more details and portals for submissions on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-in...
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CFP: the RGME is sponsoring a session for #imc2026 called "Manuscripts at Play and as Play: Temporalities and (Re)Configurations as Reading Methods". Send us your proposals!
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#inscriptionsinstone
24.08.2025 16:02 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Brick wall engraved with a humanoid figure accompanied by hieroglyphs.
The last known inscription made in #Egyptian hieroglyphs was carved #OnThisDay in AD 394 ๐บ #Archaeology
The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom depicts the god Mandulis, accompanied with a text hoping the inscription will last forever. It seems the engraver got their wish 1/2
๐ทOlaf Tausch / CC BY-SA 3.0
#inscriptionsinstone #generosity #beauty
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Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis Byzantine, 500โ550, with modern restoration. The following text is from The Met where you can view this mosaic: The bejeweled woman, holding the measuring tool for the Roman foot, is identified by the restored Greek inscription as Ktisis, a figure personifying the act of generous donation or foundation. The man with a cornucopia, originally one of a pair flanking her, has the Greek inscription โgoodโ by his head, half of a text that probably said, โgood wishes.โ The fragment, made of marble and glass tesserae (small pieces of colored material), is typical of the exceptional mosaics created throughout the Byzantine world in the 500s. The Metropolitan Museum, after acquiring the two figures independently, has restored them in accordance with a dealerโs photograph showing their original arrangement while in storage before separation.
An exceptional Byzantine mosaic made of marble & glass tesserae showing Ktisis who personifies the act of generous donation, c. 500.
๐๏ธ Read/watch Byzantium: Beyond The Clichรฉ, here: ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/byzantium-...
#mosaicmonday ๐๏ธ #arthistory #medievalsky #skystorians ๐บ #archaeology
Restorations, with thanks to our Associate, Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social
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