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Exploring interconnections of book history and art history. Independent scholars in alliance with the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Univ. of Penn

Durham, NC USA
Joined September 2015
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@Ajprescott
Andrew Prescott
2 years
British Library announces that it is aiming to restore access to digitised manuscripts by September 2024:
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bl.uk
Get the latest stories and updates from our curators, cataloguers, reference staff and guest contributors. Find out more about amazing items in our collection.
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@RSAorg
The Renaissance Society of America
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@ReadingWomenSDU
Reading Women
2 years
Lots of reading women at Art Institute of Chicago #RenSA24
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@BasiraProject
BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
2 years
Everyone on the BASIRA team thanks the RSA for giving us the opportunity to present our workshop on our database of book imagery. Wonderful conference; deep & wise-ranging book history. Kudos!
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@milanofotografo
Enrico Engelmann
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@DCComm
DCCommentaries
2 years
Great to see that The Classical Review will start publishing reviews of digital classics project.
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cambridge.org
Classical Review is now including reviews of digital projects in Ancient World Studies
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@SpColl_KULeuven
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections
2 years
We start the new year with a gift: a list of 20 open access books on the Middle Ages from https://t.co/5y5HsIwEWy. Lovers and researchers of manuscripts will certainly be interested in the second title, volume 1 of "Touching Parchment" by Kathryn Rudy.
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medievalists.net
Here are twenty recently published books that medievalists will enjoy and are free to download and read.
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@APettegree
Andrew Pettegree
2 years
Delighted to have received a CBE in the New Year Honours List. With thanks as ever to all my colleagues in the St Andrews Book History Group, whose companionship and intellectual engagement has made writing such an enjoyable experience.
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@universalstc
Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) 📖🔍
2 years
NEW UPDATE BLOG! Click here to read about our efforts to expand the USTC to 1700, this time with new data from the Northern Netherlands: https://t.co/k7FrUrDcev
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@dscriptorium2_0
Digital Scriptorium
2 years
Excited to announce the publication of this article in the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage by the DS 2.0 team on building and implementing the DS Catalog prototype. Great summary of the 2-yr @US_IMLS -funded DS 2.0 project. @mikko_koho @lpc359 @dpwbeast
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@red_loeb
Ennius
2 years
A joy not a burden #NationalBookLoversDay BL Add 15275, f.141r @BLMedieval
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@KR21org
KnowledgeRights21
3 years
📢🔬📢 Delighted to say that our two reports on Author Rights Retention and Secondary Publishing Rights are being presented this morning to European national open science coordinators @CoNOSC_Council #OA #OS #SPR
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@BasiraProject
BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
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Looking forward to 3 days exploring #DH, computing & humanities, ACH2023 https://t.co/CRjH2Xc7fF 29 June til 1 July. Check it out.
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@BasiraProject
BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
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SO excited about this masterwork, just arrived in the post! Raising a toast to Georgios Boudalis, to the intricacies of textile history, #bookhistory, #bookbinding, the material text.
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@BasiraProject
BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
3 years
Intrigued by creative uses of DH in the classroom. Only one of many engaging encounters here at ⁦@KzooICMS⁩. Am already looking forward to next year.
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@BasiraProject
BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
3 years
Oh dear: 1475-1480
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@BasiraProject
BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
3 years
The Image of the Book: Representing the Codex from Antiquity to the Present | Penn Libraries. Coming this fall!
library.upenn.edu
This year's symposium examines the means by which the premodern book, and in particular the manuscript, is described across a wide variety of media, from painting and sculpture to digital media and...
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@BasiraProject
BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
3 years
Wondering if the appearance of books will outlast their physical utility? If we conducted a survey about this, what would be your opinion?
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