Goodnight, denizens of Hookland
LES bookstore Bluestockings, which served Narcan & radical reads, shutting down | Gothamist
#books #bookstores 📚
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Medieval Libraries of Great Britain is back!
📚🥳📜 #MedievalManuscripts
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Just gave my first keynote.
(It went well—and was fun. 🙂🤓)
#BookHistory #BookScience #MedievalManuscripts
Nearing the end of season 2 & we've hit over 100K listens on the podcast 🥂. Thanks to all of our guests for sharing their time & expertise! Thoroughly enjoyed talking medieval Ireland over the last 38 episodes, more anon! @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie
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Hooray! What a great candidate. This is such an exciting project.
And some of the images of the poor (and once beautiful, but now not usable) manuscript I'm hoping to image one day to be able to virtually restore to its once-glorious illustrations.
@sjlahey.bsky.social (I found it!)
X893 H12 (it's a Haggadah, probably illustrated by Leipnik)
Our brand-new Dye Garden is coming to life! With guidance from colleagues across the UL, and
@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, our Conservation team has planted traditional dye plants once used in manuscript painting. 🎨
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #DyeGarden
#HappyBirthday to Lester Lawrence ‘Larry’ Lessig III (b. 1961), American legal scholar & political activist, & founder of Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social 🎈🎂
… After arriving in Halifax, the pair may have continued on to Boston, yet it is possible that Jefferie briefly plied his trade in Halifax. If so, he could be #Canada ’s first printer—an honour usually bestowed upon Bartholomew Green Jr.
#books #typography #BookHistory #CdnHist 📚 📜
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Welcome to June.
In this month, in 1749, settlers heading to Halifax, Nova Scotia with Cornwallis incl. Herbert Jefferie, printer, & Thomas Blackwell, bookbinder. Whether they carried type & related equipment is unclear. …
#books #typography #BookHistory #CdnHist 📚 📜
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See also CAUT’s seven page supplement to their advisory on travel to the USA (PDF): www.caut.ca/sites/defaul...
It was an MRI machine, iirc.
CAUT (Canadian Association of University Teachers) advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
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“You used a 3 million dollar piece of hospital equipment so you could read a novel?”
— Dr Cuddy, disapprovingly, to Dr House, who has done precisely that (“House MD”, s7e3)
I feel rather seen 😶 (yet defiant 😈💅)
#BookScience 📜📚🔬
#RIP Dr Joe Nickell (1944 Dec 01–2025 Mar 04), American skeptic and investigator of the paranormal. 😞😔
Our final 'abstract spotlight' from Medium Ævum’s 93.1 issue is on @sjlahey.bsky.social and @aboyarin.bsky.social's '‘Et dixit anglice’: unpublished vernacular verses in British Library, Harley MS 912'.
Members can log into medium.aevum/space to read the full article.
Researchers using digitized photos or manuscripts in any manner in theirresearch, are invited to participate in this anonymous survey of McGill University (forms.office.com/r/nuqD9ZJzFq, 8-10 min to complete). (1/2)
The #Vatican was back this week with 40 #Manuscripts www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Including a ton more Cappella Pontificia annual diaries, a nice 8th C Greek Lectionary, some Chinese dictionaries (including rhymes), several Avvisi, some disappointment from Sire, and more!
#MedievalSky
The codex holds a Sanskrit commentary on a Hindu legal text; this copy dates from the 17th or possibly even 16th century. #HistLaw #LegalHistory #LawBooks 📚 📜
Back at University of Toronto Engineering @uofteng.bsky.social today for an Old Books New Science Lab collaboration with Grasselli’s Geomechanics Group @civmin.bsky.social geogroup.utoronto.ca/contact-us/. We’re micro-CTing a birchbark codex. 👀 #Books #RareBooks #BookScience 📚 📜
… By 1788, the library held 2000 volumes. Despite loss of many books in a 1854 fire, in 1866 the library published a catalogue listing 6990 volumes in its collections. #books #BookHistory #CdnHist 📚 📜
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#TIH #OTD 7 Jan 1779: The Quebec Gazette announced a new subscription for a public #library at Ville de Québec—the 1st public library established in what is now #Canada. Some of the books were purchased from local members of the public, but most were brought over from Europe…
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A Dispute? (‘The Cloisters Apocalypse’; Normandy, c.1330)
#MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals #Dragon #Wyvern 📚 📜
Been waiting for an excuse to break this out...
#WeirdHistory #Medieval #ThisIsFine
#AlwaysAddALT #AlwaysReadTheALT
There is also a connected database: TM Ousia (www.trismegistos.org/ousia).
The monograph reflects literature until October 2020 and was produced in the framework of the ERC project PATRIMONIVM at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne's Institut Ausonius (PI: Alberto Dallarosa; patrimonium.huma-num.fr)
Bookmarked: liiive | Real-Time Collaborative IIIF Annotation https://liiive.now/ #Digital_Humanities_IIIF Collaborate in real-time on IIIF image collections. Annotate, view, and explore high-resolution images with your team. Even without a login.
According to the chronicler Froissart, #TIH #OTD 1 Jan 1387, Charles II, King of Navarre, suffering from illness, was ordered by his physician to be tightly sewn into a linen sheet soaked in distilled spirits. The sheet caught fire; the king later died of his injuries. #WeirdHistory #Medieval
