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Ever wonder what an early 18th century cheesecake would taste like? You’re in luck: Elizabeth’s Maynard’s receipt book has one recipe. Though, as I learned, “cheesecake” is a tad misleading. 🧵🧵🧵
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@nestinthestacks
Assistant Curator of RB at @lindahall_org | M.A. History/M.L.S. @IUBloomington | trans/queer early modern history, science & society, books & bodies
he/him Katılım Ağustos 2019
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My latest piece is out in Library & Information History: click here for some hot Tauschhandel takes and sensational Dutch bookseller drama euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…
Huge thanks to the @books_borrowing team for hosting such a wonderful conference and editing this special issue!
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This one fully digitised: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-PEMBRO…
Dr Mark Purcell@CamLibResearch
Pembroke MS. 16. Gregory Homiliae and De mortalitate, Bury St Edmunds, mid-12c. Wonderful initials. From the abbey library, and given to @pembroke1347 in 1599. One of c.150 Bury MSS in the college collection. #PembrokeMSS
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Loving this from @Quaritch! Eighteenth-century MS history of a Gravesend-based erotic society. Its coat of arms was 'Three conies couchant, three Cocks rampant, crested and proper’!
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My colleague at @theUL built a cradle designed for digitizing Chinese rare books with restricted openings, especially those rebounded in western binding styles. How talented and creative my colleagues are! Thanks to @mmpawlikowski for showing me on how to use this cradle.
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Writing a formula for this miscellany today. It might be the first example I've seen of erotica being referred to as some version 'curiosa', and is also the only book I know of that claims to have been published by a ghost.
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Album of circa 1850s seaweed specimens, my beloved
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@sortalazysusan @blackwelloxford That worked, thank you!
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@nestinthestacks @blackwelloxford Oh that's annoying! I just opened it on my phone all right... the link is blackwells dot co dot uk /rarebooks/catalogues/Boston23.pdf if you want to try typing it out manually
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Any member of @blackwelloxford staff who has stayed still for too long in the Rare dept has been asked "DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE OWLS?"
Blackwell's Rare Books@blackwellrare
Our @BostonBookFair highlights catalogue is now live, and with it we can reveal our current obsession: OWLS, in an incredible, seemingly unpublished album of original studies of nocturnal birds by the preeminent German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach blackwells.co.uk/rarebooks/cata…
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As a Jewish person I think the words we use to describe the situation unfolding in Gaza is important
I personally use words like genocide & concentration camp because it’s both factually accurate & Jewish people don’t have a monopoly on the words we use to describe atrocities
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@book_historia This, and I think people are used to spaces that look old in real life being somehow constructed/reproductions, from historic house museums that use replicas for preservation purposes to theme parks!
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Questions like this are a great opportunity to meet a visitor where they are, and to discuss how “old” books are still used for research today! [3/3]
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I think this is less an issue of the physical vs. digital, and more that the main venue through which the majority of the public first encounters “old” books is in movies/video games/tv. It is understood that the books in those settings are props, and not “real” [1/?]
Marsh's Library@MarshsLibrary
"Are the books real?" This question is coming up more & more often on tours of Marsh's Library. Actual physical, in-person tours when people are 2 feet away from the books. It's as if some people are so used to living online that they can't quite understand physical reality.
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I’m not on here as much anymore, and I’ve moved my LHL #newacq tweeting over to The Other Place, where I’m @finchinthestacks. Today’s new acquisition to tempt!
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@FunkeBooks Ah, I was unclear—I meant any standout titles that I could locate other copies of and get on loan.
The entire lineage of all German nobility is certainly… a project I’d expect to take a few thousand pages, that’s for sure!
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@nestinthestacks I don’t think they let booksellers anywhere near ILL ;-)
I hope to get to the collection in 2024 and start by making a spreadsheet list. The prior owner also created a manuscript of a few thousand pp. where I think he tried to trace the complete lineage of all German nobility.
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Ben walked downstairs to me sitting in the dark, balancing my phone flashlight and a magnifying glass, and sketching out my best attempt at this (very shallowly stamped) crest.
Any leads, especially reference sources for German heraldry, are greatly appreciated!
Ben Gross@bhgross144
Is there a herald in the house? My colleague @nestinthestacks is looking for help identifying the coat of arms on the cover of this 1780 #newacq in @LindaHall_org's collection. #heraldry #rarebooks #speccolls #histSTM
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@FunkeBooks When you get to them (in 1 to 20 years), I’ll be curious to hear! Or, pending actual access to the books, might you have any titles that I can request via ILL?
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@nestinthestacks Last year I bought what may be the largest private library in the US on German heraldry- it’s 20 banker boxes. Of course it’s all in storage so it won’t do anyone any good. But I bet the answer is in there!
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☄️Launching! An old-fashioned listserv for all those interested in #QueerBibliography, book history and queer approaches to printed matter and the material text. Sign up at jiscmail.ac.uk/QUEERBIB or send SUBSCRIBE QUEERBIB Firstname Lastname to listserv at jiscmail dot ac dot uk
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