For those of you who might be in _Berlin_ tomorrow, I will be talking about "Selling Printed Books: The Circulation and Distribution of Books in Europe (1450-1650)" at the _Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften_ @humboldtuni.bsky.social at 6.15 pm at the kind invitation of Prof. Dr. Matthias Pohlig

A small fragment of a very early edition of Flavius Josephus's works printed in the Low Countries in around 1475. The elegant pen-flourished initial probably saved this fragment... (GW M15163 - @enssib.bsky.social collection) #incunabula #incunable #fragmentology #fragments #bookhistory

Nice case of a fake '1584 Viterbo' edition, undoubtedly printed in Paris in the 1620s. The give away ? The coat of arms of Marie de Medici engraved on the title page with the royal crown of France... #bookhistory

"CONCLUSIONS I will refrain from drawing any real conclusions." Ah, ok. #academia

Very pleased to be hosting the 13th Sammelband 15-16 event in Nicosia from tomorrow, co-organised with @lankian.bsky.social You can take a look at the programme here: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2810

To end the week, a few lines of an unknown 16th-century song jotted down on the cover of a notarial register in Le Puy en Velay: 'Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / La petite Jannetton / Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / Sur le chemin de Lyon'

I have just noticed that it is now available as an eBook for just under € 12 - a tariff-busting deal 😂

Delighted to announce the publication of my latest book on the distribution and sale of printed books in Renaissance France... (cheap at just € 25 😉) pur-editions.fr/product/1027... #bookhistory #history #renaissance

Très heureux d'annoncer la parution aujourd'hui aux @editionspur.bsky.social de ma dernière monographie: 'Entre l'atelier et le lecteur. Le commerce du livre imprimé dans la France de la Renaissance' Vous pouvez vous procurer un exemplaire ici: pur-editions.fr/product/1027...

A chaque année son livret... Le Master d'histoire 'Cultures de l'écrit et de l'image' @enssib.bsky.social reprend la semaine prochaine. Bonne rentrée à toutes et à tous!

Sigh ... 🫣 we need different types (and amounts) of funding AND NOT more concentration of research money!

A story of Insults and reconciliation in 16th-century Auvergne in my latest blog post (it had been a while...) from the archives of the Puy-de-Dôme in Clermont-Ferrand: renarchives.hypotheses.org/4179

The 7th issue of the Sammelband flyleaf is out... with the latest information on the Sammelband 15-16 project You can read it online @archive.org : archive.org/details/samm... Or download it via the Sammelband 15-16 website: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2762 #bookhistory

Tomorrow, I will be talking about what an early 17th-c factum can tell us about the world of Lyon book merchants: "Des apports d’un factum sur la librairie lyonnaise. Du Puys, Gabiano, Renaud, Roville et d’autres" www.enssib.fr/en/node/54287 You can follow it live on Enssib's YouTube channel!

Next up is @lankian.bsky.social on the importance of Sammelbande in how we understand how texts were read and used. Crucially for this collaborative project is how to work with other projects to create an interconnected database #bookhistory

I will be speaking this afternoon at the CERL conference in Brussels about 'Re-using Retrospective Bibliographies and the Sammelband 15-16 research project: opportunities and limitations' - looking forward to seeing some of you there! www.cerl.org/services/sem...

Demain matin, je proposerai une véritable approche archéologique du livre au colloque sur les 'Nouvelles voies des études sur la Renaissance' à Paris (colloque FISIER à Sorbonne Université). Je serai ravi d'en discuter avec vous! Voici le programme: lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/defaul...

For those who have not seen it, researchers at the University of St Andrews are testing a device that can identify through light the presence of arsenic in old books: news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/new-... The research poster is a great recap: @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @universalstc.bsky.social

Interested in the latest research on Renaissance Lyon book history? The annual one-day Biblyon conference will take place on 4 July with the following line-up: (and you can follow it online on the @enssib.bsky.social youtube channel!)

Le dernier numéro de _Balisages_ sur le livre et l'événement, du manuscrit au numérique, est désormais en ligne. Sous la direction de @nicolasbeaupre.bsky.social et de Susan Kovacs, il est en libre accès, bien sûr, sur @openedition.bsky.social ! journals.openedition.org/balisages/

A couple of photos of the exhibition 'Livres et chercheurs en réseaux' on networks in the Renaissance printing world at the Diderot library of ENS Lyon...

The thirteenth international event of the Sammelband 15-16 project is organised in Cyprus... A call for papers:

Interested in learning more about rare books? I offer two summer school courses @allardpierson.bsky.social in Amsterdam in the first week of September: 1. Expert approaches to Book Archaeology 2. Identifying and understanding different types of bindings #Bookhistory #bindings #books ⬇️

A 16th-century German binding in the collections of the University of Cyprus in Nicosia @ucy1.bsky.social decorated with the medallions of great reformers and pre-reformers, notably Erasmus, Luther and Melanchthon: #bookhistory #bindings #reformation

This is this evening - do join us online!

On Monday at 6:30 pm CET (7:30 local), I will be setting out a new comprehensive approach to the way we think about heritage books to the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus: "The Archaeology of the Book: rethinking how we analyse books" 1/2

Pour ceux qui sont à Paris et qui s'intéressent à l'histoire du livre: Je vais parler ce vendredi (13h30-15h30) d'un exemplaire de l'édition parisienne de 1617 du _Persiles_ de Cervantes conservé @enssib.bsky.social. Pour plus d'infos, voir l'affiche⬇️ Vous êtes toutes et tous les bienvenus!

PO = POT Watermark used in Rouen in 1555. From a manuscript volume of documents @archives76.bsky.social

Delighted that my paper 'La survie improbable: les livres sauvés par leur matérialité', published in the _Revue de la BNU_ in 2020, has been included in the anthology: 'Histoires matérielles du papier', a thematic issue of 'Living Books About History': livingbooksabouthistory.ch/en/book/mate...

On 9 March 1522 the Swiss #Reformation kicked off with an ‘ostentatious eating of sausages.’ ✍️ @mathewlyons.bsky.social explains buff.ly/lrBC8bg

Never seen this done to fore edges. It's a school geography primer - perhaps one very bored pupil.

Venez faire de la recherche avec les chercheurs de l'Enssib... Appel à candidatures !

Talking in Lyon this morning about the first edition of Jean de La Bruyère's 'Caracteres' as part of a one day event on preparing a digital edition of the text: www.mshb.fr/event/journe... Do come and exchange with us!

The archaeology of a printed edition and its copies... Presenting my findings on 'Les faitz de Jésus Christ et du Pape' to the SETAF project of the Université de Genève and the Institut d'histoire de la Réformation this morning : www.unige.ch/ihr/fr/journ...

I am delighted to present the cover of my forthcoming monograph on the French Renaissance book trade ⬇️ It concentrates on what happens after the sheets are printed, but before the books are read. It is with the publisher, the Presses universitaires de Rennes, and will be out in September 2025.

Dans le cadre des Nuits de la lecture, je vais parler ce soir de l'histoire du livre à l'Université de Rouen en compagnie de Philippe Brunet, Yvan Leclerc et Christelle Quillet. Entrée libre et gratuite Merci à Alice Bryk et Julien Beal pour leur invitation !

Of interest to the @greci-eu.bsky.social project!

Our project is finally on BlueSky! Visit our website, give us a follow, for exciting updates, including the CFP of our upcoming conference in October 2025 ... (soon to follow) #skystorians #earlymodern #bookhistory

I will be speaking in Lyon about the archaeology of the Renaissance book on Monday 13 January at 6pm for more information, see www.imprimerie.lyon.fr/fr/actualite... (all welcome) - Lecture organised by the Friends of the 'Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique' -

An isolated woman, an unexpected illness and even the death of an ox... An accusation of witchcraft in late 16th-century France on my blog 'Renaissances: archives and discoveries' renarchives.hypotheses.org/3796 ➡️ without the 16th-c engraving of a witch that bsky deemed to be 'sexual content' ^^

An isolated woman, an unexpected illness and even the death of an ox... An accusation of witchcraft in late sixteenth-century France on my blog 'Renaissances: archives and discoveries': renarchives.hypotheses.org/3796

A varied cheese board in the Renaissance? My latest blog post on finds in the archives is all about cheese 🧀 in Rouen at the end of the 16th century: renarchives.hypotheses.org/3567

Mi contribución se ha centrado en la singularidad de los múltiples centros editoriales de la Península Ibérica en los siglos modernos y los circuitos de distribución del impreso.

Call for papers for the Sammelband 15-16 San Daniele conference entitled « In uno volumine » that will be organised from 10 to 12 April 2025: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2267 At the bottom of the page there is a pdf that has the text of the call in English, French and Italian.

An open access publication on the history and conservation of bindings ⬇️

Jeudi 12 décembre à 17h, le Centre Gabriel Naudé accueille Caroline Moine pour parler de 'Littérature jeunesse et guerre froide: l'histoire de la malle joyeuse, entre Bridgeport et Versailles' Venez à @enssib.bsky.social ou participez en ligne en vous inscrivant ici: www.enssib.fr/seminaire-CG...

The latest 'Sammelband Flyleaf' is out! Highlights of issue n°5 include an extended English version of the introduction of 'Perdite e sopravvivenze del libro antico', a Petrus Mosellanus unicum discovered by Ester Camilla Peric and a portrait of Nicholas Pickwoad! sammelband.hypotheses.org/2256

If you are in Lyon on Friday, I shall be talking about a copy of the 1617 Paris edition of Cervantès's Persiles as part of the 'Journées cervantines': comod.universite-lyon.fr/modernites-h...

How to make a fortune? Rip up your books and sell them by the leaf. An age-old practice... Not exactly genius @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

If you are interested in the destruction of books, I am giving a broad take on the subject at the national library of France (BnF) this afternoon (in French) It should be available on-line afterwards: www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/de...