Text from an ad from Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 27 August 1858, page 4:
INTIMATION.
In a short interval will intensely interest its innumerable inspectors, in inviting bidding, at an inexpensive investment,
INFANT-INFLICTING
or, the
Innate-inundating—
Infirmity-inducting—
Inheritance-invading—
Indigence-involving—
Insolvency-increasing—
Injudicious—intemperate—incumbering—infringing—ingulphing—infectious—intoxicating—and intolerable
INFATUATION!
An intelligible, invigorating, and inimitable Inspiration,
In lucrative Verse,
Innocently and inoffensively intended, indeed decidedly and inconceivably, to inculcate instruction and invaluable information as to its
Intrusiveness—indesirablenss—inconsiderateness—inconveniences—inducements—insignificancy—insipidity—inferiority—indefensibility—inconsistency—incaution—inaptitude—incorrectness—inelegance—indecorum—indelicacy—indecency—incompatability—insincerity—inefficacy—injuriousness—injustice—inhumanity—and, indeed, its
INSINUATING, INSIDIOUS, and INIQUITOUS INSANITY!!!
Indited, in extenso, by that inexhaustible, intellectual, industrious, and inquisitive inquirer, inspector, and inveterate interposer
MALTHUS MERRYFELLOW.
Editor of 'Mirth and Mocking on Sinner-Stocking,' &c. &c.
To give birth to those
Who can but suffer many years, and die,
Methinks is merely propagating death,
And multiplying murder!—BYRON.
I don't know, maybe it needs more alliteration?
(from Chelmsford Chronicle, 1858)
11.07.2025 20:30 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Still have a free spot? I'd love to be on it :)
11.07.2025 20:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ohh, I love this! Thanks for your notes, Marie, so sorry to have missed it! @henninghansen.bsky.social, can we have an online coffee sometime and talk about this? I want to hear more! :)
09.07.2025 13:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Reviewing lactation rooms: currently at @univie.ac.at. 7/10. 'Family room' with comfortable sofa. Door can be locked from the inside. No tap or fridge, but otherwise a nice space. #ParentInAcademia #Breastfeeding
09.07.2025 10:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There is a better space, but in another terminal and only accessible for people on intercontinental flights. I'm extra dissapointed, because I checked with the @schiphol.bsky.social customer service and they said these baby care rooms would offer a 'calm place to feed the baby or pump'...
08.07.2025 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pumping on my way to Vienna: reviewing 'lactation room' at @schiphol.bsky.social. Was directed to this 'baby care room'. Well. There's a changing table, but that doesn't really help with the pumping, does it... No chair. 0/10 #breastfeeding
08.07.2025 14:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
white page with image of a green plant with written description in red and black below
zoom in on plate edge
Fellow (book)historians, a question! I am working on a late 17th century French manuscript, but it seems to have a plate edge surrounding the image. How would that work? All 200+ images seem to have one? #bookhistory
25.06.2025 09:49 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0
Cute pastel-y Holy Family scene in a manuscript.
Found the cutest little Holy Family in Utrecht Hs. 1 M 5, fol. 26r (15c)
#MedievalSky
utrechtuniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/965428966
18.06.2025 16:50 — 👍 35 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Een vrouw met een bril, gestreept shirt en een gele sjerp om laat een groot boek zien aan twee kinderen. De kinderen zie je op de rug.
Ik vind het belangrijk om ook met kinderen over wetenschap te spreken en te laten zien hoe uiteenlopend wetenschap is. Zo was ik pas betrokken bij het kinderwetenschapsfestival KennisKnetters. Geweldig om daar met kinderen over mijn onderzoek te praten! 1/3 www.tivolivredenburg.nl/agenda/99496...
12.06.2025 16:11 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Ik zou héél graag zo'n account maken, maar dan heb ik wel jullie input nodig! Dus als jullie voorbeelden hebben van teksten in de openbare ruimte die door gebruikers zijn aangepast, stuur ze me vooral! Kan door op deze post te reageren of via de mail (r.a.hoff@uu.nl).
10.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Krantenartikel met de kop: 'Vrouw in het ambt: Beschibkaar zijn voor mensen'. Er zijn twee foto's: een van een vrouw met kort haar achter een bureau, de andere van dezelfde vrouw in toga, met witte bef.
Ook mijn oma was gespecialiseerd in religie. Ze studeerde al in de jaren '50 theologie en werkte tot haar emiritaat als predikant en docent godsdienst. "Ik geloof verder niet dat het [predikantschap] om specifieke vrouwelijke of mannelijke eigenschappen gaat," stelt ze hier (1979). #vrouwinhetambt
10.06.2025 18:06 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Heart-shaped hole in the paper of a early 16th-century devotional manuscript
Dag allen! Deze week neem ik jullie mee in mijn werk! Mijn naam is Renske Hoff, universitair docent Middelnederlandse letterkunde aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Ik doe onderzoek naar religieuze boekgeschiedenis van de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw. 1/3
09.06.2025 06:54 — 👍 82 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
“Behandel vreemdelingen die bij jullie wonen als geboren Israëlieten. Heb hen lief als jezelf, want jullie zijn zelf vreemdelingen geweest in Egypte. Ik ben de HEER, jullie God.“ Leviticus 19:34 👌🏻
09.06.2025 21:33 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Deze week kun je me ook volgen op het wisselaccount @historicivertellen.bsky.social!
09.06.2025 11:52 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Overigens zag het er zo uit toen we hier kwamen wonen, dus we hebben lekker tegelgewipt!
31.05.2025 15:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Iets van vijf meter breed bij zeven-acht meter diep, denk ik.
31.05.2025 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wild en groen! Paar vaste struiken (allemaal inheems) en verder een combinatie van een gezaaid bloemenmensel en planten die aan zijn komen waaien.
31.05.2025 14:30 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hahaha, the perfect place... One of my favourites: "You can use the accessible toilet to pump. It has one of these changing station, where you can lay your baby on!" Well, the baby is not here, that's sort of the point...
22.05.2025 15:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Reviewing lactation rooms at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, part 8: Vening Meineszgebouw 2. 9/10! Another room in the same building, much better! Tap, fridge, comfortable chair and door can be locked. Hurray! #ParentInAcademia #Breastfeeding
22.05.2025 14:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
Reviewing lactation rooms at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, part 7: Vening Meineszgebouw. 6/10. Has a tap, fridge, basic chair. Can't be locked from the inside and also functions as storage room. What should I draw on the white board? #ParentInAcademia #Breastfeeding
22.05.2025 10:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
A man (the poor poet) is lying in his bed, being surrounded by old books, and he is working in his bed (likely writing a new poem). The setting of the room, an attic room, is unpretentious.
The painting is from Carl Spitzweg, titled Der arme Poet, and was likely made around 1839. You may find the painting in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Neue Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/9pL3KbKLeb (Zuletzt aktualisiert am 30.10.2024).
There is a paper story included into this famous German painting of 1830s from Carl Spitzweg. You may know the common interpretation of the Poor Poet (German: Der arme Poet): Attention to the material misery of most artists and their work!
A 🧵 for #skystorians, fans of #paperhistory, and more. 📚
19.05.2025 06:12 — 👍 82 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 3
Two students working with manuscripts
Manuscript UL Utrecht, 17 A 22 (Middle Dutch with eleborate penwork)
My first-year students and I got to spend our morning in the special collections of Utrecht University library! ❤️ #medieval #manuscripts
16.05.2025 10:47 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Recreatex - Detail ticket
#Bookhistory Miraeus lecture door Dr. @renskehoff.bsky.social 11/06, 18u30, Antwerpen.
Boeken maken: de personalisatie van vroege drukken
Deze lezing beschouwt de rol van lezers in het personaliseren en aanpassen van vroegmoderne boeken.
Gratis, inschrijven via ttk.recreatex.be/Tickets/Deta...
14.05.2025 07:45 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography
Submit citations for the SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography! We are accepting citations for many different types of resources having to do with LGBTQIA+ book history. There are no restrictions o...
#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...
07.05.2025 19:40 — 👍 49 🔁 56 💬 4 📌 5
Pope election day is the most fun day to be Catholic because we get to be like sports or political commentators to all our non-Catholic friends
08.05.2025 19:20 — 👍 67 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Uit een post van Andrea Reyes: Een klein boekje over spirituele oefeningen: "Ramillete de diuinas flores escogidas en el delicioso Iardin de la Yglesia para recreo de el cristiano lector" van Bernardo de Sierra
Sietske Fransen kijkt naar vloeistof in een heel dun glazen buisje, door een replica Leeuwenhoekmicroscoop. Ik moet de microscoop heel dicht tegen mijn oog houden om überhaupt iets te kunnen.
Uit een post van Jeanine Dekker: item over Zeeuws Meisje in boek Goed Zeeuws Goed Bont
Uit een post van Mariëlle Hageman: een klein briefje met een versje, gelegen op een blauw omslag van inventarisnummer 9 uit het archief van Jan Boon en de Maatschappij ter Bevordering van Nijverheid. Op het briefje de tekst:
Tot welsijn van de burgerij
Van dese plaas juijst niet voor mij
Maar k heb er ook mijn voordeel van
Zoo wens ik dat dees oude man
Die nu van daag is heer traktant
Nog lange blijve in dit lant
En zo de heer een eijnde geeft
Dat gij dan in den hemel leeft
oud 80 Jaar
12 November 1802
W. Middelveld
Lijkt het je leuk om ook een keer te posten op @historicivertellen.bsky.social? Ik ben op zoek naar mensen die vanaf september een week willen vertellen over hun historisch onderzoek. (1/3)
Repost = ❤️
08.05.2025 09:25 — 👍 28 🔁 43 💬 2 📌 1
The size, the metalwork, and also the figure on the binding - a large stamp, I think - do suggest a Bible to me. If this is a Dutch State Bible (likely for a Northern Netherlandish painting from around 1800), it would be near impossible to find the specific edition, as there were a lot.
28.04.2025 18:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
PEETERS ONLINE JOURNALS
Out now: a special issue of OGE. Journal for the History of Spirituality in the Low Countries on the theme 'Religious Imagination in the Late Medieval Low Countries: Theories and Practices', which I co-edited together with Veerle Fraeters and Kees Schepers.
poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
11.04.2025 10:16 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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