First #bookhistory post of the year. Some books simply scream for a thread! We have two copies of the same #EarlyModern edition. Why would we want to collect two copies of the same book, you ask? Read on! EHC Antwerp, K 54092 copy 1 and 2. [1/16] 📜 💙📚

Have just finished this book & in complete agreement with the TLS review; highly recommended. Congratulations @pittsmike.bsky.social on a splendid achievement.

I want to compliment Sam Regal, Editor of Printing History (the Journal of the American Printing History Association) for being braver and franker in his introduction to the current issue about American democracy than nearly all mainstream media in this country.

If you’re looking for something to do this Saturday, come on by the Winterthur Library for our second annual Tattoo Inspiration Open House! 💪 It runs 11-2, and dozens of gorgeous special collections items will be on show: www.winterthur.org/calendar/art...

Illuminator at work, surrounded by the tools of his trade BnF MS Latin 4915; Mare historiarum ab orbe condito ad annum Christi 1250, authore Joanne de Columma; 15th century; f.1r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Carving of HMS Agamemnon on a Clydebank tenement. Built by William Beardmore and Company, when it was launched in 1906, it was the largest warship built on the Clyde up until that point. #glasgow #clydebank #architecture #sculpture #publicart

I love this category of typographic blunder. I blogged about my favourite one of these I’ve seen: universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/b...

That letter ‘S’ after the apostrophe on the top line is a bit of an afterthought, J. Boyle, printer of Aberdeen. He perpetrated this typographical horror in 1788 so I’ve probably left it a bit late to complain.

Next week, we'll be launching a new call for applications for the #Nottebohm travel fund for #bookhistory research in Antwerp. Keep your eyes open!

Prof. Pedro Rueda received a Nottebohm scholarship to research the #EarlyModern trade in movable type between #Antwerp, Seville and Spanish America. He focused on the bookseller Tomás López de Haro, who had connections in Leiden, Antwerp and Seville. #bookhistory

Giving a lecture on some ideas about provenance and (un)writing names in books at the @obs1922.bsky.social next Thursday. Zoom link also available for anyone keen!

Audited one of my favourite drawers today. As far as I can tell there was an entire generation of past mollusc curators who communicated entirely by means of passive-aggressive drawer notes to each other

Job alert! 📢The Library of Trinity College Dublin is seeking an experienced #Archivist to work on the archive of the war correspondent and author Robert Fisk. Search "Project Archivist" on lnkd.in/epe82VKC to apply. Closing date 12:00, 27th May 2026.

A wall of crypto money is powering Nigel Farage, both politically and personally. And much of the British media just shrugs app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73421/...

The author sent me a copy, and it's really something to behold in person.

word is out! contributors have been getting their copies while I was on annual leave and EHOBS v. 1 (parts 1 AND 2) are now out in the wild! Huge thanks to @edinburghup.bsky.social , my co-editors and ALL the contributors to this multi-decade endeavour edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-e...

This is cool! A copy of Bede's History, written in Nonantola, Italy in the early C9th, with an Old English version of Caedmon's hymn in the main body of the text rather than in the margins. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

If you want learn more about my research and the repatriation, check out this blogpost: www.associatesbpl.org/2023/12/12/h...

I came across this while looking for something else, but look at the folio hanging up to dry and the ink splatters where the scribe has absent mindedly refilled his quill and missed the ink horn...so good! [Paris. Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms-638 réserve, f.17v]

First hill of the year. A beautiful day up Beinn Fhionnlaidh

Secret Letter Detailing Late Medieval Britain Fully Decoded www.medievalists.net/2026/04/secr... #history #medieval #England #Scotland

It seems that books are a bit like buses... 'Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe' edited by Christine Ott, @jillburke.bsky.social and me is out now!! #EarlyModern Also including contributions from Alex Pyrges, Andrea Baldan, @scarlettgauthor.bsky.social, Pablo García Piñar, and Roberta Colbertaldo

"Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy" www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

We are now accepting submissions for the Mitchell Prize for research on British serials! 📖🏆 Awarded every three years, the prize brings a cash award 💵of $1,000 and a year’s membership in the Society. Link to learn more and submit in bio 🔗

A feather in the opening of an incunable. Would be very interested to know what bird this came from.

Some abject book handling here from Isidore. Good grief man, put down the crook. Dear dear

Congratulations to the editors and all who contributed to this long-awaited first vol (2 pts) of the History of the Book in Scotland! Great achievement. Proud to be included on Esther Inglis in pt.2, with her portrait highlighting the cover of pt.1. #bookhistory @edinburghup.bsky.social

The Atlas of Early Printing has a new URL at the Folger. 📜 #BookHistory atlas.folger.edu

Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

The wonderful Alexandra Plane was the recipient of the Alasdair Ross Prize 2024. She has produced a blog post about how the funds helped support her archival research into 16th century royal book traders. Read all about it here: scottishhistorysociety.com?p=1323

Job opportunity with manuscripts and early printed books! Librarian at Lincoln Cathedral – Cathedral Library £43,722 - Full time applicaiton DL: 14 April 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQX901/l...

St. Cuthbert's Day has come round again and I'm very happy to be able to update last year's post with the link to the St. Cuthbert Gospel, which is back online. Catalogue entry here searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/032-... with link to the digitized MS from there. ⚓ @blmedieval.bsky.social

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the winner of our Digital Prize 2026: Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online (ECLO). The project is the result of a 5yr AHRC-funded project on the role of books in social, cultural & political change across the #18thC Atlantic. www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/rese... #skystorians 🗃️

wrote a short blog about one of my favourite images in the book - a figure of 'true' and 'feigned' ginger, and what it might mean for a plant to be false. cambridgeblog.org/2026/03/trea...

Some delights, even. No Dwights were present AFAIK

Some Dwight’s from today’s class @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Cross-Cultural Artistic Encounters in the Mediterranean, 1200-1700 HISTART5164 led by Anthi Andronikou. A 19c Ethiopic talisman scroll (an angel) and details from a cracking Andalusian Qur’an.

Some Dwight’s from today’s class @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Cross-Cultural Artistic Encounters in the Mediterranean, 1200-1700 HISTART5164 led by Anthi Andronikou. A 19c Ethiopic talisman scroll (an angel) and details from a cracking Andalusian Qur’an.

In 1787, Robert Burns acquired a diamond-tipped pen which he used to inscribe poems on windows & chimney-pieces across Scotland. “I Murder Hate” is Burns’s version of “make love, not war” #graffiti, & was etched into a window at the Globe Tavern, Dumfries #WyrdWednesday #C18 #poem #poetry

Something nasty on the bookshelf: my review of @tanyakirk.bsky.social's collection of stories about books and libraries for @blpublishing.bsky.social, ‘The Haunted Library’ drfrancisyoung.com/2026/03/04/s... 📚👻

Calling all #UofG students! There is less than 1 week to apply for the David Murray Book Collecting Prize! £500 will be awarded to the student with the best collection of books or printed materials 📘📕📙 To find out more and apply, go to www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li....

We all slip. In 1591, so did 1 of Mynken Liefrinck’s workmen quite literally. While printing engravings for this edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses published by Jan I Moretus, a stray paper slip seems to have been left between plate & sheet. Its edge blocked ink, leaving a defined unprinted corner.

Pleasingly meta to find some printed binding waste with a whole page of definitions of the word bind/binding. In a medical work by Leonart Fuchs, printed at Lyons in 1550 & bequeathed to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1591 by Thomas Lorkyn, Regius Professor of Physic. N*.13.49(G).

The “messy” course returns to London’s palaeography summer school, 8-12 June. A chance to make your own medieval manuscript. Places are limited so book now (tell your friends)! #medievalsky taught by the amazing @saracharles.bsky.social @stevelawesarts.bsky.social 👇🎨🫟 palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Call for applications! We are looking for a small press to take up a temporary residency at UCL! £5,000 to spend flexibly, an opportunity to work with outstanding collections & collaborate with brilliant students and staff! blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

Love opening up a box or two in the stacks to see what's inside and found two absolute treasures today. First up, a poor ruinous mid-sixteenth century primer which alas has not yet been mended, and doesn't appear in the catalogue. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 1/2