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Thanks so much for checking!

Black and white title page of Description of Formosa

Impressum in black and white, stating 'London: printed for Dan Brown'

Just realised that the 'Formosan hoax' of George Psalmanazar (a French impostor who, in the early 1700s, claimed that he was a native of Formosa (now Taiwan), even publishing a detailed but entirely fabricated account of its language, customs, and culture, was printed by Dan Brown... #bookhistory

Thank you both, and sorry about the upside down!

Piece of paper with text ink black in and a seal stamped on the left side

Piece of paper with text in black ink

I was recently gifted this; I have a vague idea what it is, but perhaps someone can tell me a bit more about it? #bookhistory

Postdoctoral position in the social history of material infrastructures The Early Modern History (EMH) Research Group at KU Leuven invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the social history of material infrastructures (Chinese and East Asian history, 1000-1800...

Our #history department at KU Leuven is again looking for a new Postdoc colleague, this time to join the ERC project “Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History” led by @hildedw.bsky.social. For more info check:
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#sinology #imperialchina #chineseinfrastructure

Black and white image of a hand holding a feather with above it examples how to write individual letters

Masterful use of typography to demonstrate to children how to write well | Guillaume LePescheur, 'Het fondament van wel spellen ende lesen' (1626) #bookhistory

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Collega @irenevanrenswoude.bsky.social en @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social (UU) onderzoeken hoe mensen tussen 750 en 1000 omgingen met teksten zonder bekende auteur.
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From now on I'll only respond to Dr. DJIKISTRA

Perhaps SciHub can provide a mirror?

Looking for literature on #EarlyModern portraits in books, specifically (but not exclusively) in religious context. Author's portraits, but also portraits in biographies. Stuff like Ignatius' "vera effigies" in editions of his Spiritual Exercises, saints' lives, but also Cavendish.

#BookHistory

Same, I also feel like I've seen this before, but for the life of me can't remember where

Though about that as well; there should be more MSs at this library by the same draughtsman so let's see if those have the edges as well

It's the other way around actually! The drawings were based on engravings, but in no way copied one-on-one, but more an amalgamation of various images

Not pasted in as far as I can see - perhaps for aesthetics, but that's still weird right?

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

OMG I want this!

@yunxie.bsky.social Have you seen this? This is great!

Wonderful new publication from our fully student led publishing company Armorica. Amber Blewanus shows in 'Archives of Natural Documentation' that old ink recipes (she looked at 223 different ones!) may offer guidance to more sustainable practises #bookhistory #ink

As are you!

Race and Book History A conversation exploring what book history can teach us about the history of race.

Very much looking forward to my conversation with Brandi K. Adams this Friday for #NewberryLibrary 'Race in Dialogue' on book history and race! Free and open to the public as a Zoom webinar at 12pm CDT/6pm BST/7pm CET www.newberry.org/calendar/rac...

Page of 17th century book with ornamental initial

Lovely, this 17th century author calling his new publication 'dit Papiere Kint' ('this Paper child') #bookhistory

Eigenzinnige selectie van de studenten Boekwetenschap, te zien op de UvA @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social @uitgeverijarmorica.bsky.social @lisakuitert.bsky.social @allardpierson.bsky.social

Call for paper Boekhistorisch Forum 2025

CfP! Vakgroep @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social van de @uvahumanities.bsky.social, Faculteit Letteren & Wijsbegeerte van de @uantwerpen.be en Onderzoeksgroep Nederlandse Literatuur van de KULeuven organiseren op 24 oktober het negende Boekhistorisch Forum! Meld je aan voor 15 juni #bookhistory

Yes and thanks for checking but I'm specifically interested in the Bodleian copy for its hand colouring!

Message stating that I don't have access

Can someone with access to SOLO help me out? A digital copy of this book should be available but I can't access it :-( #bookhistory solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44...

Printed page with black letters on white paper describing various experiments; What proportion of each sort of Letters are in the English, Latin, and French Tongues, &c, Forasmuch as well Printers letters are of the same height, quaere the weight of an Alphabet of the several usual sizes, Quaere how many of each sort of Letters will stand in ten inches square, Quare how many letters may be composed and distributed in an hour?

How many letters may be composed and distributed in an hour? The Royal Society doing book historical research before it was cool (kidding, book history has always been cool) [Philosophical Transactions, vol. XV 1686] #bookhistory

Just finished it and it was great! Lovely cover design as well!

Dark painting of a porcelain bowl filled with walnuts in the middle, stoneware jug, a tall glass, a long-stemmed pipe, and a tobacco wrapper.

Cut-out of the paper tobacco wrapper, showing a Black man smoking a long-stemmed pipe and the text 'orien Tael / vergini Taback / tot Dordrecht by marschael / A 1670'

Printed ephemera in paint: Still Life with Walnuts in a Wanli Bowl, a Pipe, and a Tobacco Wrapper by Hubert van Ravesteyn (1670) The wrapper’s image of a Black man holding a pipe recalls the imagery of hundreds of tobacco papers that have survived from the 17th and 18th centuries [MFABoston)

Postdoctoral researcher in Codicology for the ERC Consolidator Grant project The Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is looking for apostdoctoral researcher in Codicology for the ERC Consolidator Grant project “QurCan -- The Canonization of t...

Hey look it's a postdoctoral position to study the codicology of middle-eastern manuscripts in Leiden: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...