Applications for our rare books librarian position at the University of Arizona are open until Feb 9 (next week)
We have a fab diverse collection, great people to work with, and amazing Mexican food.
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I'm not on the search, please feel free to reach out w qs!
Had fun filming a short video about the fabulous Parker.stanford.edu with @blalbritton.bsky.social today. We have a super NEH project (Global Currents) on the automated retrieval of features of manuscript layout using Parker data.
Calling all independent humanities scholars, non-faculty researchers, librarians, anyone struggling to find time for research when it's not in your job description!
This Saturday, 11 PDT. Links below for calendar/zoom & timezone conversion
#medievalsky #bookhistory #dh #humanities
Pink background with white text about applying for funding from the BSA for a book-related events by 3 November.
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🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Check out this funding opportunity to support events in your community! 📖✨
📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities
Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work
A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️
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The opening of a blogpost announcing the imminent release of an open-access teaching module, "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta."
A new #OpenAccess resource for teaching world/global history is almost ready. The module "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta," is in final editing & should be "live" by the beginning of September. A preview here: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07...
Warm congratulations Liz!
Curious Cures completed - really excellent work by a brilliant team @theul.bsky.social led by Dr James Freeman: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Quick round of updates: Early Short Title Catalogue has moved to CERL, it is the beta version. They do not just want to restore but also improving the data. They call on research community for input on beta version #Bookhistory
Flyleaf of writing manual shows doodles of child.
Just came across this web resource: 76 digitized handwriting manuals 1600-1800 - mostly with models for handwriting exercises (bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/search/N-503...). A bored child learning to write doodled in one of them (source: bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/p...).
This piece is worth reading/ wrestling with. imho.
1. AI can't do original research and thinking; it recombines (often badly) so may be most potent for digestible popular history. That's worth worrying about separately. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
It’s a full house for @etreharne.bsky.social ‘s John Coffin Memorial Lecture on mortuary rolls @ies-sas.bsky.social
Resharing this job posting. There’s still time to apply! Come work with me. 📜📚
UNC Library isn’t on Bluesky
I guess so I’m sharing that they’re currently recruiting for the Hanes Curator of Rare Books: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...
This is an amazing opportunity! Happy to talk to anyone about my experiences when I held this role!
"In response to the withdrawal of multiple public datasets and websites" the University of Chicago Library has launched has launched the "UChicago Data Mirror." For starters, it includes NPS and Census data. Good to see more stakeholders involved mirroring data. www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/u...
Cover of the book: The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections
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🎉Almost 2000 views!
So grateful for all this interest in my new book (and extremely grateful to the Dutch Research Council for covering the book's Open Access funding 😊).
The free e-book version is here 🔓📖👇
academic.oup.com/book/59790
"Every so often in this Rare Book Librarian’s work, a book that seemed really exciting when I ordered it, turns out to be even more exciting when it arrives and I am able to interact with it in person" 📜 Iowa State University
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Warmest congratulations!
Just in time for our #StanfordManuscriptSciences’ event on authenticity, @blalbritton.bsky.social!
Manuscript image of child riding a peacock
Manuscript picture of child riding a snail
This kid sure gets around… slowly ( Stanford, Codex 1417 T). A Book of Hours dated to 1526, belonging to Anna Maria, Countess of Fürstenberg.
Wow, there’s a lot going on in this StanfordUL binding fragment—once the pastedown & spine strengthener for a Book of Hours(?) belonging to Charles Bruce, Earl of Ailesbury. It’s comprised of a leaf from the Great Bible (different from EEBO version) & a medieval fragment I’m working on. Fab, eh?
Yey! Finally! This is worth checking out! Congratulations to the editors and the authors!
#digitalhumanities
Jonah making an appearance
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 003; The Dover Bible, Volume I.; 12th century; f,262r
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
Such cool work!
Welcome Ray! So good to see you on this platform.
A medieval document with one or two lines of handwriting visible at top, dark colored wax seal attached to a strip of parchment at the bottom of the document
Medieval document with seal attached to bottom of document by a parchment strip, fully covered by a piece of cloth tied at top and bottom with red ribbon
Medieval document with handwriting in black ink visible at top right, dark colored wax seal attached to bottom of document by a parchment strip, partially obscured by a cloth covering that has come loose, with two pieces of green ribbon once used to secure it.
Early modern document with cursive handwriting visible. A magnifying glass enlarges a small black wax seal on the document.
A day of archival fun with @etreharne.bsky.social and colleagues. Pulled out a selection of medieval and early modern documents and all agree we wish we knew more about seals - like these in various states of covering.
So proud to have co-written this newly published book w/my brilliant friend Anne E. Lester; I just remembered the book came into being largely b/c of an #NEH grant Anne received in 2020-2021, allowing us to follow up on our pandemic zoom calls together.
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Not yet, though I do keep hoping he’ll blog about it someday. This is a good incentive, though, to get the record updated.
