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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Jan 12

More is More, Volvelle Style, Cut-Outs Awaiting!

Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · Jan 12

Great find! The Linda Hall Library also has two uncut volvelle sheets tucked into a 1553 Erasmus Reinhold edition of Georg Peurbach's Theoricae novae planetarum. (Assembled versions of the same volvelles are from their copy of the 1542 edition.) catalog.lindahall.org/permalink/01...

1st uncut sheet of volvelle parts, from the library's 1553 volume.

Same volvelle as in the first photo, but in its assembled version in the library's 1542 copy.

2nd sheet of uncut volvelle parts, with instructions for assembly printed below, from the library's 1553 book.

Same volvelle as in the second photo, but in its assembled version in the library's 1542 copy.

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Jan 12

Volvelle-in-Waiting. Make your own: Cut Out and Serve!

Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · Jan 10

Unexpected Friday find: a sheet bound in a Sammelband after a 1566 Antwerp edition of Joannes de Sacrobosco’s Sphaera with uncut parts of a volvelle diagram(!)

#earlymodern #rarebooks #bookhistory #woodcut #printhistory 📜 📚💙

Detail of the sheet of paper with parts of a woodcut volvelle diagram printed depicting solar movements

Sheet of paper with parts of a woodcut volvelle diagram printed depicting solar movements and below printed text in Latin

Title page of the book with the short title ‘Sphaera […] emendata’. The imprint below a printer’s mark with the motto ‘Fortuna rotat omne datum’ reads Antvverpiae apud Joannem Richardum 1566.

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Nov 25

#purplemanuscripts

Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Nov 24

Delicate initial 'P' with bird's head

BnF Latin 9451; The 'Purple Lectionary'; c.800 CE: North Italy (Verona or Monza); f.100v

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Nov 25

#medievalmanuscripts #recycledmanuscriptfragments

Eric J. Johnson @ejjohnson.bsky.social · Nov 24

Nifty 1501 edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger. But for me, the star of the show is the printed book’s manuscript binding: a recycled leaf from a ca. 11th/12th-century copy of Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Job. Lovely hierarchy of script! #fragmentology #ManuscriptFragment #BindingFragment

Close-up picture of Caroline minuscule script and Rustic Roman Capitals from a ca. late-11th or early-12th century manuscript copy of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob, recycled as the cover to a 1501 printed edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger.

Picture of Caroline minuscule script and Rustic Roman Capitals from a ca. late-11th or early-12th century manuscript copy of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob, recycled as the cover to a 1501 printed edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger.

Close-up picture of Caroline minuscule script from a ca. late-11th or early-12th century manuscript copy of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Iob, recycled as the cover to a 1501 printed edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger.

The title page for a 1501 printed edition of the letters of Pliny the Younger.

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Nov 14

#interlaceincluded

The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · Nov 14

For our first post on Bluesky, we thought we'd take a wee twirl around the Sun Stone, an early medieval standing cross carved in the lost Viking-Age kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons and found in our 1,500-year-old churchyard in Govan, located in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Nov 14

#booksinpaintings

Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Nov 14

Still life of a musicological library, likely commissioned by Bolognese music critic Giovan Battista Martini, c. 1725, Oil on canvas (Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna)

Trompe l'oeil still life of a musicological library with jumbled parchment-bound volumes, papers, inkwells, quills, and other items

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Jun 21

#animalsinmanuscripts

HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · Jun 20

How might sound determine the layout of a 15th-century #manuscript page?

Dr. Jennifer Carnell, cataloger of Western manuscripts at HMML, takes a gander in this look at #Animals in HMML's collections: hmml.org/stories/seri...

What Does the Fox Say? A Hierarchy of Animal Voices

“For thousands of years, languages around the world have attempted to capture the sounds of animals...”

hmml.org

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Jun 21

#historyofcollections

Mayor of Halloween Town @joshuajfriedman.com · Jun 20

Four NYPL branches had broken air conditioning this week amid 90-degree temperatures, despite being city-designated "cooling centers." Library officials blame $750,000 in deferred maintenance exacerbated by Mayor Eric Adams’s recent budget reductions.

After budget cuts, NYC's libraries can't fix broken air conditioners amid heat wave

The air conditioning was out in at least four New York Public Library branches on Tuesday, forcing two Staten Island sites to close.

gothamist.com

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Jun 14

#booksinpaintings

John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · Jun 13

St Catherine depicted on the 15c rood screen at Filby, Norfolk

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · May 11

#historyofdesign #medievalmanuscripts #manuscripts

Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · May 11

This 9th-century manuscript is called Claudii Caesaris Arati Phaenomena. Dealing with astronomy, these illustrations depict various constellations. Here you can see a Hydra, the ship Argo, Virgin, Aesculapius, Auriga, Big and Little Bear, Centaur and Hercules fighting the Hesperides dragon.

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · May 11

Day 3 of 3 for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence at #2024icms #2024kazoo #https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2024-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program/

Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Apr 6

Congratulations to @rgmemss.bsky.social!

Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social · Apr 6

Gratefully, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (RGME) announces a 2024 grant for an integrated pair of Spring and Autumn Symposia dedicated to teaching in the Liberal Arts from Special Collections with original sources of many kinds and from a range of periods, languages, and cultures.

Grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for the RGME Library & Archives in 2023 -

The RGME announces a Research Library Program Grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for the RGME Library & Archives as a collection.

manuscriptevidence.org

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Apr 2

#historyofdesign #historyofcollections #pencils #writingmaterials

Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Apr 2

E-florescence.

Jesse Hurlbut @jessehurlbut.bsky.social · Mar 31

Fleuroned E
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@GallicaBnF

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Apr 2

#historyofcollections #miniaturebooks

Colleen [Redacted] @librarycolleen.bsky.social · Mar 31

📜 indianapublicmedia.org/news/lilly-l...

Lilly Library home to 16,000 miniature books

The Lilly Library at Indiana University brings a world of knowledge to your fingertips – literally. The library owns thousands of miniature books, measuring three inches or less.

indianapublicmedia.org

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Apr 2

#HybridBooks

Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · Apr 1

Excellent mini exhibition at the Bodleian on fakes! Here’s a medieval French chronicle with a miniature added in the 17th/18th c. I wouldn’t call an addition/supplement a forgery, except that it was perhaps intended to disguise the book as a copy for Philip VI? Very interesting!

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Mar 15

Fishes in books, Pisces Style, Manuscripts Included.

Anglo-Norman Dictionary @a-ndictionary.bsky.social · Mar 15

Today Medievalsky, let’s explore the Anglo-Norman Pisces horoscope:

"Qant la lune est en Pisce. Piscis est une signe commune, freyde e moyste, fleumatik, de la nature de ewe. Donke est il bone oure a vendre, e achater, la mer entrer e passer...
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[Illustration : Zodiac : Pisces (Paris, BnF, Latin 7330 f.33v)]

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Mar 5

Here is one of the things I am working on now. Co-organizing this event, hybrid, in April at my alma mater. Excited about the program. Great subject. Fantastic line-up of speakers.

Plus it's the Anniversary Year (25/35) for the RGME. Much to celebrate.
manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2024-sp...

2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College -

The 2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College celebrates accomplishments for manuscript and early-book studies in Special Collections at Vassar and elsewhere.

manuscriptevidence.org

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Mar 2

#interlaceincluded

Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Mar 1

Acrobatic initial with interlace and fish

BnF Smith-Lesouëf 2; Psautiers mozarabiques; 11th century; f.105v @bnf.bsky.social

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Mar 1

#turnedthepages #worththevisit

Emma Stanford @emmastanford.bsky.social · Feb 29

I'm teaching some students about digitization and thought it would be fun to estimate how many years it will take to digitize all our collections at our current rate. Apropos of nothing, this manuscript is 1200 years old and these images are 30 years old. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/783d...

Very yellow-tinted images of pages of Bodleian Library MS. Auct. F. 4

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Feb 27

#bipolar

Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Feb 27

Only a few weeks now until the Spring Equinox!

BL Add 18856; Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale; c.1420 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.5v

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Feb 27

State of Preservation. #recordingrecords #articlesincluded

Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social · Feb 27

Here's a recent article by @mpe.bsky.social, in which he surveys the state of preservation statuses of over 7 million articles: eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/51.... Sign up if you'd like to hear more on the topic this Thursday, 29 Feb at 1pm GMT: forms.office.com/e/7Jdm09BSMd

Birkbeck Institutional Research Online

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Feb 16

Skeptic #scribesatwork #manuscripts #medievalmanuscripts #devilinthedetails

Jesse Hurlbut @jessehurlbut.bsky.social · Feb 15

Working under duress
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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Feb 14

#GutenbergBibles #earlyprinting #booksatPrinceton

Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · Jan 11

Middle Ages for Educators has new content! If you are interested in print technology, check out this new video by Eric White on the Gutenberg Bible - featuring a real Bible from Princeton! It's a wonderful intro & discussion, meant for everyone : middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/gutenberg-bi...

A man in a library looking at an old book.

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Milly Budny @sparkle230.bsky.social · Feb 14

Congratulations!

Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · Feb 5

Tickled to announce that Middle Ages for Educators has won a @MedievalAcademy Centennial Grant! MAFE will host a Sweet-16 bracketed competition (w/cash prizes!) & the winner announced @ MAA 2025 in Boston. More details (& call for submissions) coming soon! middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu

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