REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures)

Thank you very much, @remcosleiderink.bsky.social !!
We will pass your observations on to Brenda!

Ovid’s Heroical Epistles: The Heroides in the Seventeenth Century Brenda Luies, University of Galway Ovid’s Heroical Epistles (OHE) (Dublin, National Library of Ireland, J.87)1 is a small, sextodecimo (16mo) held in the National Library of Ireland’s Joly collecti…

📜 Explore Ovid’s Heroical Epistles with us - an early modern print whose doodles, torn pages, and pointed dedications reveal how seventeenth-century readers engaged with the poet.
Read more in our latest blog post by Brenda Luies (Galway).

#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #OldBooks #Ovid #PrintingHistory

Collage of 8 pictures with impressions from REBPAFs Zurich meeting. The REBPAF logo can be seen in the middle.

Our big #REBPAF meeting in #Zurich with excellent student presentations, input on postdoctoral opportunities, workshops, and an excursion to the wonderful Abbey Library of #St.Gallen has come to an end.

A big, big thank you to all speakers and organisers!

#MSCA #Bookhistory #Booksky #Oldbooks

Immense thanks to our invited speaker for giving us such a rich overview of life in academic publishing!

Good morning, Zurich! What a pleasure to speak with PhD students and faculty from all over Europe from the @rebpaf.bsky.social doctoral network about academic publishing as career path.

💫 Many thanks to everyone who responded to the CfP for our #REBPAFConference !

We are delighted to have received so many fantastic submissions!
The committee will review each proposal and get back to you as soon as possible.

It promises to be an exciting event!!

#MSCA #BookHistory #Conference

Sailing Through Seas and Languages: A Particular Old French Copy of the ‘Navigatio Sancti Brendani’ Melania Marra, University of Alicante Among the manuscripts preserved at Trinity College Library in Dublin, MS 951 is a modest yet remarkable codex, an example of a medieval text that travelled acr…

📜🌊 Set sail into a rare Old French 'Navigatio Sancti Brendani' with us! This manuscript tells us about a medieval adventure with a philological twist – come aboard and read about it in our new blog post by Melania Marra (Alicante)!

#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Manuscript #ManuscriptStudies #OldBooks

CFP: Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures Keynotes: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University Date & Location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Re-mediat…

📣 Reminder: CFP Deadline Coming Up!

If you’re planning to apply for our #REBPAFConference, the deadline is December 15!

Don’t miss your chance to be part of this exciting conversation on early book studies!
Spread the word! 📚

Follow link for details.

#REBPAF #MSCA #bookhistory #printinghistory

From Treasured Tomes to TikTok Awards: REBPAF at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair Melissa Bastian, University of Vienna It is a cold and windy autumn day in a big city, but those inside the huge, modern glass and steel building are sheltered from the threat of rain. Narrow, seem…

📚 Step into a living city of books with us & find out more about the story of the Frankfurt Book Fair, where the history of the book mingles with its future!
Read all about it in our new blog post by @melissabastian.bsky.social !

#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #BookFair #FBM25 #ResearchImpactEU #H2021

We are very excited as well!
See you on Saturday!

Very much looking forward to the Irish Renaissance Seminar here in Galway this Saturday, featuring a keynote by @fredschurink.bsky.social, a panel by our @rebpaf.bsky.social friends, and a surprise visit from @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social.

cc: @stemma.bsky.social, @uniofgalway.bsky.social

CFP: Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures Keynotes: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University Date & Location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Re-mediat…

Do you research early #bookhistory?
Come to our #REBPAFConference : 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin!

📚 Key details:
• Deadline: 15 Dec 2025
[Abstract (max 300 words) + short CV]

• Themes: Selection,Value,Accessibility & Survival in book culture

Follow the link for more info!

#REBPAF

📯 Should you be in Zurich today, you have to listen to Luca Hollenborgs lecture about "Gardens and Metaphors.Nature in Early Middle Latin Poetry" with Alexander Häberlin! It is part of the ongoing lecture series "Natürlich Mittelalter", don't miss it! 🌿🌼
(Link for Info!)

#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory

Educational, Customisable, and Anti-Plague: Investigating the centuries-long development of a one-of-a-kind early printed music book Marika Fox, University of Antwerp During my recently completed REBPAF internship at Maggs Bros. Rare Books and Manuscripts, I had the opportunity to work with a lot of fascinating books— but none w…

Singing for the sick? 🎶 Our latest post by @marikakyrannafox.bsky.social (Antwerp) dives into a fascinating Graduale Romanorum - the largest 15th c music print?! Discover this beautifully made book & find out how the plague influenced its contents & appearance! 🐀
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing

Spanish poster advertising a seminar on hagiography organised by the University of Alicante and the IIVF with a focus on a talk by Melania Marra on Oct 31, 11.30 am in th Aula Magna, University of Alicante.

Interested in #saints? 💫
Friday (31 Oct) Melania Marra (Alicante) will talk about “The Life of St Margaret in an Occitan Translation of the Legenda Aurea and its Relation with the Catalan Tradition” as part of a seminar by @ua.es & IIVF.
Come by if you’re in the area!

#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory

The REBPAF logo as well as the logo of the Frankfurt Book Fair with a full bookshelf as background.

✨ We’re excited to share that part of our team will be at the #fbm25 !
📚 If you’re curious about #REBPAF, want to know more about what we do, or simply want to connect - feel free to reach out to arrange a meet up!

See you in Frankfurt!

#MSCA #FrankfurtBookFair #Networking #Publishing #BookHistory

Did you know #REBPAF also has a very active Instagram? 📸✨

Follow @rebpaf.network for more visuals, updates & fun, interesting videos! 📚📽

#MSCA #BookHistory #ResearchImpactEU #PrintingHistory #ManuscriptHistory #Booksky

"Can I call you back? I'm stuck in an O at the moment."

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711; Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas"; second half of the 12th century; p.18 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

Although #REBPAF focuses primarily on handwritten & printed books, it’s always worthwhile to look beyond one's own horizon - you never know what connections you might find!
On a research trip to monasteries in Northern Germany, we found many vehicles of knowledge beyond the book!
#MSCA #BookHistory

📜 #REBPAF members @kaiyankele.bsky.social & Alena Minko (Bristol) were in Exeter for the first workshop of the GW4 project 'Medieval Studies Mobilising Digital Humanities', learning more about manuscripts and biocodicology!

Details: gw4.ac.uk/community/me...

#MSCA #BookHistory #DigitalHumanities

📯🌿Today marks the start of 'Natürlich Mittelalter!',a new interdisciplinary lecture series organised by Prof.Dr. David Ganz & #REBPAF ’s Luca Hollenborg (Zurich),exploring the role of nature in the Middle Ages!
#MSCA #MedievalLiterature #Nature #BookHistory

Discover more: www.uzh.ch/de/events/rv...

Knights, Dragons and an Angry Librarian: Douce 261 between Manuscript and Print Kaila Yankelevich, University of Bristol “On paper, with rude pictures, imperfect”. This is how the online catalogue of the Bodleian Library describes a sixteenth-century English manuscript in thei…

🐉⚔ Rude and imperfect - or Tudor treasure?
@kaiyankele.bsky.social (Bristol) dives into Douce 261: a 16th-century handwritten remix of printed chivalric romances, with bold, woodcut-style images.
📖 Read the full story about knights and unimpressed librarians on the #REBPAF blog!

#MSCA #BookHistory

Cover of the September 2025 issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, featuring a close-up image of a bound palm-leaf manuscript with text in a South Asian script, situated on a black field.

Black text on a lavender background. Partial table of contents for the September 2025 issue of PBSA, including three articles

📘The September issue of PBSA is here! Members and subscribers keep an eye on your mailbox 📬 and don't forget you can access the electronic edition right now!

All BSA members get PBSA for free - Link in Bio to join today or login to access the digital edition.

https://bit.ly/bsa-membership-benefits

📯Read #REBPAF Sara D'Amico's (Alicante) article for #PBSA (@bibsocamer.bsky.social), spotlighting the work of Sarah de Laredo - cataloguer, translator, & researcher - whose significant contributions have been largely overlooked until now.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

#MSCA #BookHistory

Secrets of a 1569 letter: how books defied borders? The power of partnerships in the 16th century Rosenn Nicolas, University of Galway1 Figure 1: Introduction of the letter The Plantin Moretus Museum keeps an original letter exposing unusual facts about the people involved in the printing spher…

✉️ We're back from our summer break with a new blogpost by Rosenn Nicolas (Galway),exploring a letter to Christopher Plantin that shows how 16th-century European book production depended on networks of publishers,printers, & intermediaries,shaped by commerce and censorship.
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory

CFP: Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures Keynotes: Sarah Werner, independent book historian; Renske Hoff, University of Utrecht; Aditi Nafde, Newcastle University Date & Location: 23-25 June 2026, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Re-mediat…

📚 All basic information about our #REBPAFConference in Dublin next year can now also be found on our blog, where future updates will be posted as well.

✨️ Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm so far — we really appreciate it! 📖✨️

#REBPAF #MSCA #CfP #BookHistory

Thank you for your message and for bringing this to our attention! The CfP has not even gone live on our Website yet. Once we have the go‑ahead, we will post the call again in all accessible formats, which we expect will be within the next few days.

‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️
We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚
#REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory
[See images for details & how to apply.]

CFP: The Mobility of People, Ideas and Objects between the German-speaking Lands and the World beyond Europe

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156453

Wolfenbüttel, 20.05.2026-22.05.2026, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (FNI) and Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (HAB);
Organizers: …

Two facing parchment pages of the 8th-century manuscript written in an Karolingian script and with miniatures on the right

Opening parchment pages of the 8th-century manuscript written in an Karolingian script and a large opening initial letter P on the right

First page in a volume of the Chroniques by Jean Froissart. A book handwritten on parchment with a half-page miniature depicting a contemporary scene and decorated illuminated borders.

Last folio in a volume of the Chroniques by Jean Froissart. A book handwritten on parchment.

Two exceptional manuscripts from the collection of Museum Plantin-Moretus are officially recognized as Flemish Masterpieces! These rare and irreplaceable works now receive special protection from the Flemish government. 🎉 /1

#earlymodern #rarebooks #medievalmanuscript #bookhistory 💙📚📜