“Verrassend bruikbaar!” Dat vond @roosabelman.bsky.social van de middeleeuwse adviezen uit ons boek ‘Het Ministerie van Middeleeuwse Zaken’. Met Justyna Mrozewicz was ik bij @nporadio1.bsky.social om te bespreken wat een kabinet kan leren van de geschiedenis. www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/s...

Singing for the sick? 🎶 Our latest post by @marikakyrannafox.bsky.social (Antwerp) dives into a fascinating Graduale Romanorum - the largest 15th c music print?! Discover this beautifully made book & find out how the plague influenced its contents & appearance! 🐀 #REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #Printing

Zeer vereerd door deze laudatie van Gunther Van Neste. Sommige mensen zien wat je hebt willen doen, misschien wel meer dan wat daarvan nu werkelijk gelukt is. neerlandistiek.nl/2025/10/een-...

Het is alles bij elkaar vooral toch ook een mooie tijd om te leven. Dankwoord bij de aanvaarding van de Visser Neerlandia-prijs. neerlandistiek.nl/2025/10/vraa...

It's not always easy... This #FragmentFriday is about an unidentified Latin text, B 255483:fragm.306. The text is difficult to read and overprinted with red ink - indicating that the original sheet of #parchment was used as a #Frisket sheet for printing a book in red and black ink.

✨ We’re excited to share that part of our team will be at the #fbm25 ! 📚 If you’re curious about #REBPAF, want to know more about what we do, or simply want to connect - feel free to reach out to arrange a meet up! See you in Frankfurt! #MSCA #FrankfurtBookFair #Networking #Publishing #BookHistory

Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access. Looking much forward to your reactions! www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

VACATURE voor een doctoraatsonderzoeker aan de VUB (onderzoeksgroep Social History of Capitalism) en de UGent (Vakgroep Geschiedenis) in het FWO-project “Beschuldigingen en smaad op de dorpsvergadering: rurale perspectieven op sociale controle in Vlaanderen, ca. 1400–1600”.

Een kolomwijswieltje boundforhistory.com/2024/06/30/h...

Een vraag voor #bibliofielen en #codicologen 📚 In dit Nederlandse manuscript met preken (#sermoenen) uit de 17e eeuw 📖 zit een lint met een wieltje waarop de cijfers I en II staan 📌 Komt dit vaker voor? 🧐 Waartoe zou het dienen of functioneren? @lindevde.bsky.social

De Standaard (NL) on Flemish Gov’s plan to cut IOB. Diplomats warn this endangers strategic knowledge & global networks for Belgium & Flanders 👉 https://www.standaard.be/buitenland/diplomaten-ongerust-na-drooglegging-gereputeerd-onderzoeksinstituut-centraal-afrika/94510414.html

Ik begrijp dat er bespaard moet worden. Maar fundamenteel onderzoek en de sociale en humane wetenschappen niet meer naar waarde schatten, is een keuze die onze toekomstige innovatie en maatschappelijke inzichten ondermijnt. Een opinie: www.linkedin.com/pulse/opinie...

#Chance | Full-time doctoral scholarship for a PhD thesis on "Intersections of Jewish and Working-Class Emancipation" | University of Antwerp | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #workingclass #emancipation #phd #scholarship Deadline for applications: October 13, 2025

Unnoticed fragment from a medieval martyrology in German! One full MS is preserved in Jena (hence Jenaer Martyrologium), two other fragments are known. This one has many variants in the German dialect. Specialists' comments welcome! fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6... handschriftencensus.de/werke/181

Inspirerende en fijn geïllustreerde #blog over de #biografie van #taalkundige en #columnist Hugo Brandt Corstius op @neerlandistiek.bsky.social Zie neerlandistiek.nl/2025/09/hugo...

Maar Paul Otlet was zonder meer visionair door rond 1930 systeem voor raadpleging van boeken etc. op afstand te bedenken via televisieschermen

On Monday, I will share a small discovery concerning the Jenaer Martyrologium with you. Do hope that the announcement will make some of you already curious! martyrologium.editionenportal.de/martyrologium

I've updated the record. The fun is that now the text under the paper pastedown becomes legible (the left column is the continuation of the Daniel passage with the column break op en|de). Also, those stubs are formed by folding the leaf over itself and glueing it, since r/v are the same columns.

I solved a nice puzzle this morning: unidentified Middle Dutch religious text on @fragmentarium.bsky.social (Antwerp, EHC, cf. @svanimpe.bsky.social ) turns out to be a lectionarium, comparable to the 1348 Lectionarium Amstelodamense (but with interesting variants). fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-8...

Wat een plezier was het om weer te kunnen starten met de colleges Literatuur en diversiteit, en dat voor een geheel gevulde aula. Nu tijd om na te genieten @uantwerpen.be

I'm excited to share that the paper I co-authored with @sofiemoors.bsky.social, "From a Computer-Assisted Stemma to a Phylogenetic Tree: The Medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy by Jacob van Maerlant," has been accepted for the #CHR2025 conference! Thanks to the anonymous referees for their kind feedback!

The marks from over a thousand supposed nailheads in the Catholicon (Mainz "1460") recently discovered by Paul Needham were, in fact, left by sand grains that fell on inked type and were crushed by the platen into the type. Revised article on this analysis at: www.academia.edu/143660455/Th...

🐉⚔ Rude and imperfect - or Tudor treasure? @kaiyankele.bsky.social (Bristol) dives into Douce 261: a 16th-century handwritten remix of printed chivalric romances, with bold, woodcut-style images. 📖 Read the full story about knights and unimpressed librarians on the #REBPAF blog! #MSCA #BookHistory

WOinActie steunt de verklaring van de @knaw-nl.bsky.social . www.knaw.nl/nieuws/verkl...

Unnoticed fragment from Jean de Joinville's Histoire de Saint Louis. According to the Jonas database @irht-cnrs.bsky.social (jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/consulter/oe...), there is only one extant medieval witness. More study needed! www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

Open access available, but very happy with my paper copy. Thanks and congratulations Bart, Lisa and @hugenjelmar.bsky.social www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

*Feeling honoured and thrilled to have been awarded an #ERCStG grant for my research project CONSENT, to study the theme of sexual consent in medieval European narrative songtexts (c.1300-1550). @erc.europa.eu @radboudgender.bsky.social

Cécile de Morrée van de afdeling Nederlandse Taal en Cultuur van de Radboud Universiteit krijgt een Starting Grant van de European Research Council (ERC) – een subsidie van ongeveer 1,5 miljoen euro. neerlandistiek.nl/2025/09/erc-...

I have concluded that the supposed "nailheads" in the Catholicon (Mainz “1460”) that are as tiny as grains of sand are in fact ... grains of sand.

Dank 👏 Die in het Leids archief is mooier en beter bewaard dan dit exemplaar in de @ubleiden.bsky.social

📯Read #REBPAF Sara D'Amico's (Alicante) article for #PBSA (@bibsocamer.bsky.social), spotlighting the work of Sarah de Laredo - cataloguer, translator, & researcher - whose significant contributions have been largely overlooked until now. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #MSCA #BookHistory

✉️ We're back from our summer break with a new blogpost by Rosenn Nicolas (Galway),exploring a letter to Christopher Plantin that shows how 16th-century European book production depended on networks of publishers,printers, & intermediaries,shaped by commerce and censorship. #REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory

It's #FragmentFriday! Today a 15th-century Middle Dutch manuscript, possibly a sermon or Bible commentary. It's in a binding with 3 texts printed in Ghent, 1618-1619. Quote: "wat sal dat scaep doen alst onder die wolve es" (what will the sheep do when it's among wolves?) anet.be/record/opace...

Want to work with the FitMA-team? Here is your chance! Join our great project and get paid for it! Two postdoc positions open! #classicsky #medievalsky #philsky www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Ronduit beschamend! En hoe hypocriet: amper 2 weken geleden ondertekende onze rector nog een brief die de regering opriep om Europese onderzoekssamenwerking met Israël stop te zetten vanwege het leed dat baby’s en kinderen in Gaza wordt aangedaan….

Twee Middelnederlandse boerden bewerkt door mijn studenten Maïté Michiels en Vianne Cré faro.be/blogs/jacque...

I have posted The Catholicon (Mainz “1460”), The Myth of “Nailheads” at www.academia.edu/143660455/Th... This is a response to Paul Needham's recent lecture in which he claims to have found proof that the Catholicon Press books were printed by stereotype, not movable type. I conclude otherwise.

When Wenceslas Hollar etched his famous illustration of the Antwerp Cathedral in 1649, he also caught the bookshop of François II Fickaert, situated at the bottom of the North tower, near the famous well with the wrought iron covering forged by Quinten Metsys.

I just found out that there is a single photo of this house, which must have been taken before it was demolished in 1867 in order to 'free' the cathedral.

Staging nobility in urban space. Noble commemoration and representation in medieval towns. Cfp, Leeds IMC, 6-9 July 2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #medievalsky #nobility #urbanspace #imc Come and join us and present your research in one of our sessions at the International Medieval Congress!

Glad to see Lisa Demets’s good work highlighted and happy to have another nail pounded into the coffin of ´medieval women weren’t involved in warfare’.

Het Colloquium Neerlandicum, de hoogmis voor neerlandici wereldwijd, vindt na zestig jaar weer plaats in Brussel. “Ik wilde laten zien dat het Nederlands nog steeds belangrijk is in Brussel”

Wow—what a delightful review of Dagmar Eichberger's book on Joanna of Castile’s entry into Brussels in 1496! scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...

Two bifolia from the "Graecismus", with explanatory notes in Latin and in vernacular (o.a. participo = deilen; sapere = vroeden; confiteor = beken; properat = haesten; intendit = meinen). Zoom in for details! (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 471 & 472) www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus... www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

Italian paleography help needed please. Two 16th century inscriptions in a book printed in Venice in 1561. So far, I have - d'Andrea Iocieri (?) (L or I?) di Aquino Est (?) Becij (?Beni) mo(n)te fusculi (= Montefusco) neapolitani constat car(?)nis octo(?bre) 2 Mille grazie!

Small fragment from a Dutch psalter translation (Copenhagen, KB, Fragm. 1864) www5.kb.dk/manus/vmanus...

AND a stunning example of metalcut illustrations! What not to love about the fascinating history of the early printed book? Thank you for pointing this out @svanimpe.bsky.social!

Printed in Paris, paid for in Antwerp. In 1497, Parisian printer Johann Higman produced a richly illustrated book of hours in Dutch for Antwerp bookseller Willem Houtmaert. A perfect example of cross-border collaboration in the early print trade. #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Bourse – Call for Applications for a Travel Grant for Research into the History of the Early Printed Book rmblf.be/2025/08/12/b...

Moet een land zich voegen naar de nationale canon? Of moet een canon een representatie zijn van de cultuur die hij vertegenwoordigt? neerlandistiek.nl/2025/08/een-...