Aanrader: dit boeiende vraaggesprek met Maarten Van Ginderachter, mijn collega aan de @uantwerpen.be, n.a.v. zijn boek Arm Vlaanderen (Horizon 2025) in de @standaard.be

www.standaard.be/media-en-cul...

First London Palaeography Seminar of 2026 coming up! Eyal Poleg, no less, speaking on 'The Science of Erasures' - Tuesday 3rd February, 5:30pm Senate House and online. To learn more and to register:
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Glad to have contributed to the Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures @degruyterbrill.bsky.social a fantastic resource for #BookHistory and #JewishHistory. I wrote a little piece on the Kennicott Bible, “the most lavishly illuminated Hebrew Bible to have survived from medieval Spain” (M. Beit-Arié).

"I'm off to Antwerp tomorrow to buy that Hebrew book". I've long wondered about the letters (late 1519) in which Erasmus tells his buddy Maarten Lips he's shopping for a Hebrew book for him. And - εὕρηκα! - a Hebrew Psalter, printed in 1519, with Lips's name and Greek initials beneath the colophon.

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Ancient Jewish History in Medieval Lombardy in Renaissance Florence

Boccaccio wrote > 1,000 marginalia in a MS of Josephus's Jewish Antiquities copied at Monte Cassino.

Silvia Finazzi (Roma Tre)'s critical edition of all of them, published by Olschki:
#bookhistory

www.olschki.it/libro/978882...

🥁🥁🥁Hello academic blueskyers, we are hiring again. We are looking for a proactive, communicative, motivated post-doc 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️ for our ISF project Josephus Christianus (sinowloc.wixsite.com/josephus-chr...). Feel free to circulate!

By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025)
pims.ca/publication/...

Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

First post on Bluesky...
Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues old and new, and even with non-historians.
Eens kijken of het in deze kroeg zo gezellig is als men zegt!