Vanitas 💀 Latijn voor ‘IJdelheid’ 🪞 Voorstelling om de vergankelijkheid van het leven en de zekerheid van de dood te tonen 🕯️ Bij katholieke #devotieprenten altijd met zeepbellen 🫧 én een muziekblad 🎶🎵🎶 Knipselprent met aquarel op perkament ca. 1750 ✂️ Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder

Books have layers! Book printed in black and white (1484), rubricated, woodcuts coloured and initials flourished by hand, damaged, repaired in handwriting. And still going strong today UBLeiden Dutch translation of the Gesta Romanorum, 21219 B 15: 2.

Leaf from a beautifully glossed Bible MS (Book of Revelation) recycled as a cover (Universität Halle (inaktiv), 79 L 1044) #fragmentology nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv…

I wonder how long this spider carcass has been here… (The manuscript is from the 1480s, and apparently hasn’t been opened much since!) #medievaltwitter

Frammento di manoscritti in scrittura beneventana, XI secolo, già noto e registrato in BMB, usato come guardie posteriori di un incunabolo. Ambrogio, Commento al Vangelo di Luca 🔍✏️📖

Why is Google Books removing access to out-of-copyright books that it once hosted as open access? There is a good chance that the mass-deaccession policy of libraries, on the ground that "it's available for free online", will be one of the most stupid acts of modern curatorship.

I love manuscripts within manuscripts! I'm currently working with SJC MS 82, a beautiful 15th century book of hours, and wanted to share this image of a manuscript within a manuscript! SJC MS 82 will be available to view on Digital Bodleian soon.

This richly decorated Dutch #BookofHours was likely made in Groningen and used as a family record for over a century! Check out our latest Curators’ Choice video to learn more about this wonderful manuscript👇 youtu.be/Go0IhUsqdCw?si… (New College, Oxford, MS 371) #ManuscriptMonday

Never trust that anything that’s digitised or available online will be available forever. Digitisation is not preservation, and tech companies aren’t archivists or librarians. The presence of hard copy in a physical collection is the only guarantee of long-term survival

A milestone for MMFC: 1600 fragments from Flemish collections published on Fragmentarium and available to scholars worldwide. #fragmentology fragmentarium.ms/search?sQueryS…

This richly decorated manuscript Dutch #BookofHours was likely made in Groningen and used as a family record for over a century. Check out our latest Curator's Choice video to learn more about this wonderful manuscript 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=Go0IhU… #Manuscript #NewCollege #Archive

In her Rare Book of the Month blog for November, Melania Marra (Alicante) examines the variations and transformations of a little-known chanson de geste, the Auberi le Bourguignon, as it moves between manuscripts: rebpaf.wordpress.com/2024/11/07/cha…

Interesting palaeographical transitions in this 15th-c. manuscript of the Grandes Chroniques de France: it starts in textualis, then goes to a smaller modulus of textualis, and then in the middle of the page to cursive (BnF, fr. 10136)

The day Marie realized she couldn't renew her library books indefinitely.

All 279 surviving manuscripts from the library of the Dukes of Burgundy KBR are now digitally available:   bitly.cx/eFaHX   (Ms. 9261, f. 1, miniature by Loyset Liédet: Philip the Good commissions the author to write the 'Recoeil des Histories de Troyes', c. 1464)