This is a fascinating account of the discovery and exploration of a medieval Arthurian manuscript that was used as a book cover in the 16th century. Without physically undoing to the 16th century book, researchers have been able to explore the manuscript. https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merlin-manuscript-discovered-cambridge #bookHistory

#BookHistory folks, how different are the later ("corrected"?) editions of Gaskell's Intro, vs. the original 1972 edition? (Signed, would rather pay $60 less if there aren't huge differences for a casual scholarly reading... TY!)

"There are hundreds of libraries like this in the Eastern Wilderness"
To give you some perspective: by early European medieval standards this would be an impressive library. There'd be grander ones, but each of those bound books would be worth a small farm, so whoever owned would have spent a lot to get them. Xianxia, of course, mirrors historical China, where ->

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Viel mehr mittelalterliche Manuskripte als gedacht stammen aus Frauenhand
https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000264092/viel-mehr-mittelalterliche-manuskripte-als-gedacht-stammen-aus-frauenhand

#medieval #bookhistory

Exciting & intrigjuing but have to note reason for caution
Database: 24K Colophons
254 = 1.1% (!) mss by women --> extrapolates to 100K (only 8000 extant)

#WWII #histoiredulivre #Resistance #bookhistory #imprimerie #printing

Vient de paraître ce HS de Télérama avec la contribution de plusieurs chercheuses et chercheurs.

#histoiredulivre #bookhistory #publicité #advertising
Dernière séance du séminaire, "Au carrefour de l'imprimé contemporain"
2 avril : 16h, Bib. Forney, Paris
Thème: Publicité et publics
M. Boucharenc : Le bandeau promotionnel : son histoire, ses formes et usages.
J. Meizoz : Conversation sur les romans (un terrain).

https://idhes.parisnanterre.fr/manifestations-scientifiques/seminaires/au-carrefour-de-limprime-contemporain-xixe-xxie-siecles-1

Bien à vous,

Patricia Soel, Elen Cocaign, Marie-Cécile Bouju et Julien Hage

Retour de colloque sur les impressions orientales à Rome entre le XVIe et le XIXe, la tête pleine de caractères tibétains, syriaques, géorgiens, de dragons pontificaux et de poinçons trimbalés de Rome à Paris en passant par l'Egypte...

https://indesling.hypotheses.org/

A man of words made out of words. This printed carmen figuratum, in German Figurengedicht, shows Martin Luther as a figure made out of words. And the words form the three creeds used in the Lutheran tradition: the Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed.

Ahead of Print in BFP: Review of a new volume on the history of the East German book trade. Peter Vodosek reviews the latest volume in the monumental series on German book history, focusing on publishing, distribution, and libraries in the GDR. #BookHistory #Publishing #GDR #Libraries

https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2024-0101

Say hi. This is an example of how human labor will be remembered when all books are digitized and we all work with digital copies only. And maybe, hand on heart, this hand was intentionally raised to greet us from the past. #histodons #bookhistory #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #digitization

For bibliophiles who also like old photography: a Flickr album with portraits of people with their books.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallcurio/albums/

excellent question from excellent student: why was the first published edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) bound in red cloth? I knew why (and how) it was bound in cloth, and pointed the student to resources on gold stamping versus later more elaborate multicolour stamping/embossing, and between stamping and printed paper over cardstock. And on the absence of dust jacket. We found early reviews with info on pricing, buyers, and implied readers. But: why red? #bookhistory

Back to #BooksOfHours, another miniature from the Houghton was added today, 2020HEM-79. Possibly from Sienna, later 15th C. It is a lovely MS, but rebound (17th C) and either then or later many leaves were removed. Some offices start in the middle, and folios have ink transfer from non-existent miniatures.
https://www.cokldb.org/p/v100/ms/880
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#bookhistory #Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

@litteraturejeunesse Je signale la parution toute fraîche de ce formidable essai de l'historienne Sophie Heywood, consacré à l'édition jeunesse en France pendant la guerre froide, avec un accent particulier mis sur la maison Hachette: Children’s Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age of Surveillance and Control. le résultat d'année de recherches! (le livre est cher, mais bonne nouvelle, on peut le lire en ligne gratuitement) https://magasindesenfants.hypotheses.org/15851 #EditionJeunesse #LitteratureJeunesse #bookhistory

The first known bound books occurred in India in the first century BCE. These books were made of palm leaves stitched together. These books don't last well but this is a 20th century example. #books #bookhistory #printinghistory

Integral to any office are books, defined as a collection of pages bound together. Scrolls, created of one long roll of paper wound around a central core, preceded the development of books. This is a 13th century Byzantine scroll. #books #bookhistory #printinghistory

#bookhistory #histoiredulivre

https://sup.sorbonne-universite.fr/catalogue/beaux-livres/histoire-de-limprime-references/visages-de-lobjet-imprime

Doing some research, and amused by the story of the handwritten card placed above the fireplace in Alyth Reading Room in 1858, telling people about an upcoming meeting there to discuss maybe founding a public library. Unusually for me who doesn’t easily visualise things, I now have a clear mental image of a cosy fireplace, with seats beside it, and an enigmatic handwritten card resting above. They got their library in the end. #BookHistory #ScottishHistory #Perthshire #Scotland #Libraries #Alyth

Candidatures ouvertes pour l'école d'été "Le livre médiéval au regard des méthodes quantitatives" (16-20 juin 2025)
Pendant une semaine, venez vous initier à l'analyse quantitative du livre manuscrit ou imprimé médiéval : quelles observations ? quelles méthodes ? De la paléographie à la codicologie en passant par l'analyse de filigrane, il s'agit d'une semaine combinant approches théoriques et ateliers pratiques.
N'hésitez pas à candidater jusqu'au 31 mars !
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