Just explored a remarkable 1623 volume, 'Generale Kerckelicke Historie', penned by Rosweydus of the Jesuit order. With engravings designed by P.P. Rubens and crafted by L. Vorsterman, this work epitomizes the rich tapestry of #bookhistory in the early modern Low Countries.

Just in time for #FragmentFriday , Queen's College MS 389 now available on Digital Bodleian

digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/6dd82f…

Countless productive conversations, a few mussels and just over 10,000 photos later, and Louisa is back in blighty working on the next paper/article. Thanks to Kristof, Steven and Derek as always. You must visit Museum Plantin-Moretus and Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library whenever you can get to Antwerp!

Museum Plantin-Moretus we preserve these 3 woodblocks with biblical maps of the Holy Land. They are not found in Plantin's editions of the Bible. Neither the existing literature on maps in Bibles nor Google Lens could help us link these maps to a Bible edition. Can you help us?
#bible

Happy World Book Day!

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#WorldBookDay
#WorldBookDay 2024

#Shakespeare Day #Shakespeare #Shakespeare Birthday 📖🎂 Hollow Crown Fans Dr. JoAnn Palmeri Old paper collector Stuart Kells Kathleen McCallum Dr Alison Ray #BookDay #BookTwitter #BookLover #WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay 2024 📖

Think your #ThrowbackTuesday is vintage? Check out Varisco's 1571 Venetian printer's mark. #Starbucks , your mermaid might have some explaining to do about her long-lost twin looking fabulous after 450 years!

#Retro #Twinning
#bookhistory

Happy earth day! 🌍

From Sedighe Onderwiise der Creatvren (Antwerp 1649).

#bookhistory
#emblemata
#EarthDay24

Exceptional capital A, made by Pieter van der Borcht in 1571. Found in Opera qvæ exstant omnia by Seneca, edited by Justus Lipsius (Moretus - Antwerp 1652).

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collectie.antwerpen.be/impressedbypla…

#bookhistory
#Renaissance
#plantiniana

You never know what might be hiding under the loose vellum wrapper of an under-described 16th century book!

searchworks.stanford.edu/view/216579

yes, yes & yes

please

Medieval manuscripts can teach us a lot about recycling. Paper and parchment were precious materials and often got reused. Look at this early medieval century codex with a leaf from a musical manuscript in its binding.
Latin MS 104 luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s… #GreenRylands

To celebrate the start of our subreddit about Books before 1800, I generated this AI song with Suno. Very impressive! Please join us there, post cool books and share the knowledge!

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reddit.com/r/BooksBefore1…

#bookhistory

This is a Public Service Announcement about wearing white cotton gloves when handling archives…

DON’T DO IT!

We rarely ask researchers to wear gloves at all but if handling photographs and negatives we use powder free nitrile gloves
#Archive30 #ArchiveMyths

#UnJourUneOeuvre / #WorkOfTheDay

🇫🇷 Horloge de table en forme de livre (1583), par Hans Schnier

🌎 Book-shaped table clock (1583), by Hans Schnier

📍 Aile Richelieu, salle 531
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Tabs! From Stanford Spec Coll 1606 “Corpus juris civilis” searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1992573

Weird #medieval headgear in these great engravings by Philip Galle of rulers of the Dutch provinces of Holland and Zeeland ( #Plantin 1586).

#bookhistory
#medieval fashion

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, an 1632 oil painting by Rembrandt van Rijn and... hang on a minute... something isn't quite right but I can't put my finger on it. ;)

If you look closely, you see one page is printed and the other is drawn. What a craftsmanship!

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Antiphonarii Romani (Plantin Antwerp - 1571/1572)

#bookhistory
#rarebooks

Happy #EasterSunday !

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Copper engraving by Jan Collaert after Maarten de Vos. Schadt der Catholycke Sermoonen (H. Verdussen - Antwerp 1597).

#bookhistory
#Renaissance
#Antwerpen