To be honest, with the world falling apart and ww3 not being just fictional any more, i think often about Star Trek and really really hope one day that future will be possible. If we can imagine it, it must be possible ... Right? At least let me dream, for my son...
Or a lost binding around ms binders waste? See this article about reused bindings in bindings. Friday in my lecture i talked about the possibility of reconstructing lost bindings around ms fragments. There are options. www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
The @bookbindings.bsky.social conference was a succes. Lovely to be there, talking about reused bookbindings with my colleague @daniel-ermens.bsky.social
So often i see a relevant pic for my research and need to ask the signature or location... Hoping i get an answer. Frustrating
Yes! The Netherlands & Flanders now have their own fnd patient organisation. Proud to be the chairwoman 💙 and hopeful to help other patients in their lives with fnd. fnspatientenvereniging.com
Who does not want a book page on the wall?
Manuscript on parchment, 40x58cm.
For sale in The Netherlands today: arabic bible .... 🤔
strugling to understand these lines on this binding: are these deliberatly made in the wood, or are these just imprints from the blindtooling in the leather that once (?) covered these boards?
polona.pl/item-view/6e...
14th./15th c bosses from bone or ivory with wooden peg.
polona.pl/item-view/2a...
Some intriguing Polish Capitals, 13th c. polona.pl/item-view/0a...
ghostprint? How would you name these imprints of binders waste?
"I have my hat, my boots ... why do I have the feeling I forgot something...?"
polona.pl/item-view/43...
just amazing
www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/doublevie...
I wrote more, but these are still in dutch. when i have the English translations ready i post these also.
How to recognize the reuse of bookbindingmaterials in a bookbinding? Here are some hints for you (In Dutch and English)
boundforhistory.com/2024/03/26/b...
an intruiging see-through... not only medieval text but some old map ....
www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/...
survey-request!
Anyone who works with book(binding)s and regularly comes across reused fragments, would you be so kind to complete this small survey? (in Dutch or English)
English:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Dutch:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
beasty initial
access.ecodices.nl/universalvie...
amazing background
access.ecodices.nl/universalvie...
Thanks! Nowhere in the add it says it is a postcard. The writing at the bottom made me think it was from a book.
I know they cut up manuscripts to sell the illuminated letters.
But this dude cuts up a modern book about manuscripts and is selling the illustrations... As 'illuminated letter L' for just 2 euro.
reused bookbindings in bookbindings. A common practice but until now slightly forgotten in the study of bindings. So a series of blogs about 'bindings in bindings'. #1: reused wooden boards. boundforhistory.com/2023/12/07/b...
'you wanted some gold on the page as well?'
Walters art museum, W437, f108
If you don't have a tray, just use a book...
painting, 1490.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Woh, what a find. A wax tablet in action. Love to see this. Thanks @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
My son had no choice, going by bike to school, but he can tell you: the rain in Nijmegen was very wet yesterday 🌧️
Yes, mag ik het 2x 2 uur zien worden vannacht!
Thanks. More pics are here: boundforhistory.com/2023/03/07/3...
More info about the 3d printed medieval book is found in my blog: boundforhistory.com/2023/03/07/3...
My article about 3D printed books in the Yearbook of Dutch book history has arrived in copy and online! Honoured that my book made the cover 😊
www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
