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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 13d

Lovely double manicule !

(And Charles VI 😉)

The Edward Worth Library, Dublin @edwardworthlib.bsky.social · 17d

Edward Worth Library is delighted to announce that our newest online exhibition, which is on early modern books about birds, is now available:
birds.edwardworthlibrary.ie

Enjoy and please share! @rspb.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @bto-gbw.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 18d

Glad it's made it north of the Channel!

Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 18d

Frankly, I would use whatever helps...

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 18d

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

Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · 23d

Sure! If you dm me your email address, I will send you some information and photos!

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Sep 12

A lovely series of fragments in the binding of this Genevan imprint - so much to research about circulation from these manuscripts survivals (especially for works that should have been technically banned and are nevertheless in Catholic areas)!

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thank you!

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Sep 11

Here is an English synopsis of the book:

Full text: The printing and reading of Renaissance books have been extensively studied. But what happened between the printing of the pages in the workshop and the moment a reader picked up a volume has not attracted much attention. Yet this movement from the workshop to the reader was a crucial stage in the life of any publication. The analysis of this stage allows us to understand the true impact of printing. Local, national and international distribution, as well as the methods of selling printed matter, are fundamental to explaining how people gained access to books in Renaissance France. Drawing on previously unknown archival sources scattered throughout France and beyond, as well as the examination of tens of thousands of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century books preserved in numerous European libraries, this study offers a radically new approach to the first century and a half of the circulation and sale of printed books in France. It is the result of more than twenty years of research in the field.

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Sep 11

Vous trouverez sur l'introduction et la table des matières en suivant le lien!

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Sep 11

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...

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Sep 11

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!

Les livrets des quatre dernières années du Master CEI

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Sep 8

A pratical compromise ;-)

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Sep 8

But also: a perfect example of why 2A should not be used... Aa / AA / aA (etc)

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 27

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: Nobel laureates call on EU to concentrate research funding.

Panel warns against “sprinkling money” as Europe loses innovation ground to China and US.

@lindanordling.bsky.social reports from Germany.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Nobel laureates call on EU to concentrate research funding - Research Professional News

Lindau panel warns against “sprinkling money” as Europe loses innovation ground to China and US

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

An engraving of a man and a woman involved in a brawl

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jul 10

It includes, amongst other things, information about forthcoming events in Nicosia (organised by @nconstantinidou.bsky.social ) and Rome ( @rozanneversendaal.bsky.social )

you can sign up to receive the Flyleaf as a pdf by emailing the project (address to be found here: sammelband.hypotheses.org)

Sammelband15-16

The Sammelband 15-16 project Sammelband 15-16 is a project that studies the creation and use of Sammelbände in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. The extraordinary initial development of the p...

sammelband.hypotheses.org

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

Front page of the Sammelband Flyleaf n°7

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jul 4

A new link:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p6T...

Journée d'étude Biblyon: Livre, littérature et illustration à Lyon au XVIe siècle

YouTube video by Enssib

www.youtube.com

Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jul 4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ma0...

Currently live!

Journée d'étude "Biblyon: Livre, littérature et illustration à Lyon au XVIe siècle"

YouTube video by Enssib

www.youtube.com

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jul 3

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!

Biblyon: Livre, littérature et illustration à Lyon au XVIe siècle | Drupal

www.enssib.fr

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jun 26

And, to end the first day, @ninalamal.bsky.social starts with an 'i spy' game to talk about privileges through retrospective bibliographies.

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Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jun 26

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...

Conference poster on 'Mapping knowledge'

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jun 25

Nice e-
xample

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jun 18

I like the metric... @enssib.bsky.social would come in with over 2000 hours of sunshine per annum 😎

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jun 10

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...

https://lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/sites/default/files/media/2025-06/Programme%20-%20Nouvelles%20voies%20des%20études%20sur%20la%20Renaissance.pdf

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jun 7

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

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Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social · Jun 4

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!)

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