Looking forward to presenting my Printed Prayers research next week Centre for the Study of Religion (CSR), NUI Galway & @historyatgalway!

Join us tomorrow 6th Sept at 4pm (tea/coffee 3.30pm) for the first of a series of @historyatgalway Research Seminar Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway in collaboration with Centre for the Study of Religion (CSR), NUI Galway with Dr. Katie Tycz {@ciaokatet.bsky.social} on Printed Prayers We are now Research Ireland University of Galway CASSCS @SchoolENCA School of LLC, NUIG surl.li/kutpe

The time is nigh! The inaugural St Andrews Early Modern PG Workshop will take place next Monday, 18 September, in person and online - Details below. Please send us an e-mail if you wish to attend remotely. See you then!

A #WoodcutWednesday sneak peek at one of the items we'll be bringing to Boston Book Fair at the end of October: this teeny-tiny Dutch thumb Bible, published in the Hague in 1750

Now this is amazing

These wood-cut playing cards were found at Trinity College, Cambridge by Walter Morley Fletcher in the Summer of 1902 during repair work to a staircase. It is said that the cards were lost by workmen having a game of cards during the construction of the staircase around 1599!

On this day 500 yrs ago, a catastrophic flood was meant to hit Europe - according to astrologers. In anticipation, provisions were gathered & boats (even, allegedly, arks!) were procured. But the flood never arrived, leading some to ask questions about astrology...History Today

Two tiny panel stamps for the binding of this miniature bible. The lower board takes the prize for me 🌷 Cambridge University Library Syn.9.70.1, The Holy Bible in verse, 1700. #cambridgeuniversitylibraries #MiniatureBook #MiniatureBinding

*La rapresentatione di santo Valentino, & di santa Giuliana* (Firenze, 1554) Working on sacre rappresentazioni (holy plays) for the Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) 📖🔍 today. Here's a (less than) cheerful account of the life of St #Valentine (& St Giuliana) on #ValentinesDay ❤️ proquest.com/books/la-rapre…

Funded PhD opportunity with the wonderful Suzanna Ivanic 🇺🇦 I stand with Ukraine AND ME!!! Are you interested in craft, making, knowledge and belief? Do you know someone who could be? #earlymodern #twitterstorians please spread the word.... komldsp.org.uk/projects/craft…

In my first blog for the Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) 📖🔍, I revisit one of the first books that made me fall in love with #bookhistory — Giovanni Marinelli's Gli ornamenti delle donne (1562), which provides cosmetic receipts and medical advice for women who want to enhance their appearance. 🪞

Have you ever brought your own subtitles to the theatre? With this playbook for Li tre cicisbei ridicoli the audience in Brussels could read the Italian & a French translation side by side. The introduction warns not to expect an elegant translation, as it is done word by word,/1

This tiny piece of papyrus is the earliest biblical fragment held in the Bodleian. It is more than 1,800 years old, just after 150AD. It contains a fragment of the Acts of the Apostles, and is considered one of the earliest witnesses to the original text of the New Testament.