The @bookbindings.bsky.social conference was a succes. Lovely to be there, talking about reused bookbindings with my colleague @daniel-ermens.bsky.social

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...

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...

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

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...

Boekbandje jongens! Boekband van rood marokijn en wit papier met goudstempeling, Dublin, Hillingdon Binder, 1780-1790. Om The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New [...]. Birmingham, J. Baskerville, 1769-1771. @KB, nationale bibliotheek van Nederland (KW 1747 D 8)

So happy with my newest aquisitions! Guess what bindings i am researching the coming year?

#booksinpain #tapeonbooks

When did we stop making these amazing initials? 4x the letter N, all so different 💚🧡 www.manuscripta.se/ms/100320

some lovely silk curtains in this early 16th c Swedish ms. also, look at those fore edge tabs :) @mmmiriammm.bsky.social www.manuscripta.se/ms/100211

I think we all need this type of words in our books... www.manuscripta.se/ms/100982

astonishing edges on this small missal from 1855. for only 195€ www.marktplaats.nl/v/antiek-en-...

nomnomnomnomnom www.manuscripta.se/ms/101154

Just putting my dragon back in his box, after a nice stroll ... diglib.hab.de/mss/1-9-aug-...

Curtain is gone, but the little sewing holes tell the tale ... diglib.hab.de/mss/11-2-aug...

a (reused) karolingian board with a peculiar number of lacing paths: 2x5 holes. Can't find any reference for this type of attachment, not even Szirmai. Trying to figure out how this would have worked out... but it can't. Wish i could see the other side of the board. Cod Sang 205

Auch das ist eine Jahresangabe in einem Impressum: "Gedruckt in diesem Jahr, da alles verkehrt war." A slightly unusual printer's imprint: "Printed in the year when everything was wrong". #bookhistory #skystorians

world animal day Engraving by Jules Chevrier in 'Les Amoureux du Livre' from François Fertiault (1877).

I wish every book nowadays has this kind pages.... www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0454/24

Just a lovely D from the 10th century, to make you happy. www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/...

I use my old books as a coaster... don't you? 😖

Enjoying my bookish licorice, a 'thank you' gift from the Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging after giving a digital lecture about my article about 3d printed books.

'Dark Ages'. Btw. 2018-21, I posted a series of cartoons on Twitter, based on my research in (early) Medieval History. I've drawn very little since then, but I hope to repost some of the older ones here & perhaps to add some new ones as well... feel free to use them for your research, teaching etc.

No better place to sleep than a sewing frame

Just found 2 lovely dried Clover-4 in 2 newly aquisitions. 2 small, dutch bibles from 1884 and 1881.

A lovely chemise binding, with a border of decorative stitches. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/hall-portraits

i really despite some booksellers. Mentioning this book is from 1618 (what is the date of the synode!), while you keep your finger over the actual date: 1884.

The earliest depiction of a bookbinders sewing frame, ca 1130. Bamberg State Library Msc.Patr.5; f.1v