Open lecture, 23 October 16:00, Uppsala University Library. The Republic of Letters under the Hammer? Valuation and Pricing at Early Modern Book Auctions Lecturer: Dr. Elizabeth Harding, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. libcal.ub.uu.se/event/4451365

Uppsala University Library is hosting a two-day international symposium on Jesuit libraries. The symposium is part of a long-standing collaboration between Uppsala University Library and the University Library in Poznań, and is open to anyone interested. The programme: uu.se/library

Ny publikation ute idag, med texter om svenska latindiktare 🥳 Finns fritt tillgänglig i DiVA via länken www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di... Medverkande är: Krister Östlund, Arsenii Vetushko-Kalevich, Axel Hörstedt, Elena Dahlberg, Peter Sjökvist, Arne Jönsson, Astrid Nilsson, och Hans Aili.

Simon McKeown opening the 13th conference for emblem studies in Vienna this morning.

Alexander Winkler using bibliographical data for quantitative takes on Latin literature from the early modern period at #IANLS25

My latest article explores the Oxenstierna family Bible: an annotated 1646 Swedish Bible once owned by the diplomat and statesman Count Bengt Oxenstierna (1623–1702). Read it here (in Swedish!): urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=... #bookhistory #swedishhistory

Ny antologi om specialsamlingar publicerad idag, med undertecknad och Henning Hansen som redaktörer 🥳 Stort tack till de medverkande författarna! Boken finns fritt tillgänglig i DiVA, där fysiska exemplar strax också kommer att kunna köpas: www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

A new anthology published with articles on Retrospective National Bibliographies, in the CERL Papers Series. With a modest contribution by myself. www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/ddo/artikel/...

Conference ongoing on Dispersed Libraries and the fates of book collections after times of war at the beautiful Ossolineum in Wrocław

Excellent lecture today by @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social and Rebekah Ahrendt on the Brienne collection and 'Dirty Metadata and Clean Cataloguing'. This was the last lecture organised by the project. It couldn't have had a better ending!

Outi Merisalo lecturing on the dispersion of the library of Pico della Mirandola in the Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza of lovely Venice

Our lecture series continues! Welcome to Carolina Rediviva for an exciting talk by @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social & Rebekah Ahrendt.

Elin Andersson about to lecture on the country house library of Säbylund, which will soon be reconstructed at the Rogge library in Strängnäs

Time to document the books from the collection of this handsome fellow. Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie once owned the largest library outside of the royal family in Sweden.

Gustav III:s arkiv har använts så flitigt av forskare att det till sist var för slitet för att lånas ut. Sedan tre år tillbaka pågår ett projekt för att laga samlingen och digitalisera den. svenskhistoria.se/gustav-iiis-... #svhist

King Sigismund’s book collection at Uppsala University Library completed. Search the titles in Libris: libris.kb.se/hitlist?d=li...

Book owned by the eccentric philologist Marcus Meibom (1630-1711) located in the stacks of Uppsala University Library. Acquired directly from Meibom in Amsterdam in 1696.

Anna Peräla, who has an unsurpassable knowledge of early modern Nordic typography, giving the Georg Svensson lecture at the National Library of Sweden.

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