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Book Guts AND Fabric Swatches?! 🥰

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Book spine reading (inside down) Ancient Common Place Book. Interior of spine showing bands of floral fabric, red and brown.
November 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Oh, to be a Fly...
In a Choirbook?

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Smashed but identifiable fly in a red and black printed 16th c. gradual service book with music. Full Gradual service book with music and fly.
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Collage Craze

Here are the end pages of the 1553 Venetian book from yesterday, at the Newberry. None of these composite images seem original to the book, which is all woodcuts, not engravings. These aren't just single engraving, but very layered, with bonus saints in the middle.
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Frontispiece with SS. Mark (with his lion!) and Theodore holding a hat over an added St Lucretia, which is above ak 'portrait of the author at age 79.' Frieze of Muses surrounding a pasted in saint, name undecipherable ..
August 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Beautiful Inside and Out!

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(Greenlee folio 5100 D92 1505)
Flower, possibly once pink, in the gutter. Rosettes stamped on the binding.
July 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Dust Bunny Sunday?

15th c. (maybe) #ThingsInBooks #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 5396)
Gutter of 15th c. book with sone text visible as well as a (coarse) long hair and a fluffy bit of fiber and dirt. Almost flower like, view from further back. Full page for scale.
June 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Everything's Coming Up... Pansies?

Our massive 1893 World Fair Scrapbook contains THE MOST pressed flowers I've ever seen! (Case oversize R 1832 .222)
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April 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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March 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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jillwhitelock.bsky.social Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · Mar 27
Coltsfoot, Tussilago farfara, in an 18th-century ‘Hortus Siccus’ connected with the Darwin family. MS Add. 8090 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social
Two pressed specimens of Coltsfoot, showings flowers and leaves.
March 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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How about .... 👻✂️
A 1493 Sewing Scissors Ghost?
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Art Institute Nuremberg Chronicle with letterpress, woodcut saints, and an impression of seeing scissors in the large gutter!
March 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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More Fabric Things!

This Italian manuscript (Case MS 104) at #NewberryLibrary (from the 15th to 18th c.) has several patterns drawn or punched into its pages! The text at right even discusses the lengths of wool required for a bishop's "episcopal chair"...
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Detail of pounced decorative border in a blank page including crowned hearts Open book with Italian text in ink on right and embroidery or fabric pattern in graphite on left.
February 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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mildakviz.bsky.social Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social · Feb 21
Delicate yet intricate: an early modern ornament made by piercing paper, extending through several pages like a hidden lacework woven into the book.

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February 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social Coffee & Donatus @coffeeanddonatus.bsky.social · Feb 2
I’ve started a bug collection. Here are a few of my faves.

This learned spider sought access to the classics using Edward Everett's translation of Philip Carl Buttmann's Greek grammar, entitled "Greek grammar for the use of schools" (Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Co., 1826).
February 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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What's IN This Book?

Hope to restart my exhibition catalogue writing spree today, so I'll tell you more for every 500 words.
Hold onto your seats, that's a miniature Raphael "Madonna della seggiola" in the cover! #ThingsInBooks

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19th c. tooled black leather binding with an insert miniature of the Madonna seated on a chair, holding the baby Jesus. The background is light blue, and she's facing to the left. Original roundel (tondo) painting by Raphael c. 1514, now in the Uffizi in Florence. The composition is the reverse of the one on the book, and it shows that an infant St. John has been edited out of the miniature.
January 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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rmidura.bsky.social Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · Jan 6
since I don't think I've shared it here yet, a reminder of one of my all-time favorite #earlymodern archive finds 🐾 🗃️ #catsofacademia
Two cat paws in ink show where a cat who had presumably walked through a spill sat on the edge of a seventeenth-century Italian document.
January 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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henninghansen.bsky.social Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social · Dec 20
This heavy 1652 folio Seneca volume has been repurposed as a makeshift herbarium, with the name of the flower noted in the margin. Dozens of flowers have been preserved, throughout the volume. In other cases, only the name of the plant remains. Here we have a plant sample of "Echinospermum lappula".
December 21, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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Wine O'Clock? #Manicule points to YES

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decorporis.bsky.social Elisabeth B @decorporis.bsky.social · Sep 27
Bringing back my favorite manicule, from a 1634 printing of the Salernitan Regimen of Health.
September 27, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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Reader, I GASPED!

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1658 Venetian Missal at #NewberryLibrary (Case folio C 866 .658)
Detail of a hand holding a leather volume, with fabric green bookmarks peeking out Missale Romanum engraved title page, Venice, dated 1658. Ornate frame with biblical elders and cherubs Pressed rose in missal page next to green fabric bookmark Other side of rose, same bookmark
September 13, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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When your Breviary needs to be catholic with a capital C?!

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Bright red velvet book with gold sculptural additions and fabric bookmarks Spine of bright red velvet book with gold sculptural additions and fabric bookmarks Back Cover of bright red velvet book with gold sculptural additions and fabric bookmarks
January 19, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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Bookiquary?!

#ThingsInBooks #Relics
zannavanloon.bsky.social Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · Oct 3
#Earlymodern books were more than just reading material.

Yesterday I visited the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven again where Lieve Watteeuw showed me this unique hollowed out book printed in the Officina Plantiniana in 1589 with relics inside! I'm in awe 🤩
The title page facing the endleaf with a pasted in engraving. The title reads 'Den Reghel, ende het testament onses heyligen vaders Francisci'. The imprint reads 'Antwerpen, by de weduwe van Christoffel Plantijn. 1589'. Hollowed out part with relics on the left in an enclosed garden composition and the names of the different saints listed below. An a velvet cover which can open to show more relics. Detail of the hollowed out part with relics in an enclosed garden composition and the names of the different saints listed below.
October 3, 2023 at 12:15 PM
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Say Hello To My Little Friend

#annotations #doodles #ThingsInBooks @NewberryLibrary (Bonaparte 2712)
Face doodled into 17th c book Book open to show doodle Vellum cover of book, closed on blue futon
September 27, 2023 at 4:34 PM
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Alvin and the Chipmarks? 🫣

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Rectangular fur bookmark in a book "The Shorter Catechism) with a white flag behind it labeled "Chipmunk" with an arrow pointing downward."
August 29, 2023 at 12:38 PM