Een nieuwe blogpost en een nieuwe website, want belofte maakt schuld: mijn collectie wrijfsels van boekbandstempels, gebruikt op boekbanden van de Librije te Zutphen, is nu ontsloten via Omeka-S en herbruikbaar via IIIF.
- https://cannedit.org/blog/ruim-veertig-jaar-oude-dataset-opnieuw-in-the-picture
- https://wrijfsels.cannedit.org/s/librije-zutphen/page/introductie
Werk je in een archief, bibliotheek of museum in België of Nederland - misschien als beschrijver van archieven of collecties - en kom je een interessante boekband tegen, waarvan je denkt dat die wel wat breder onder de aandacht mag worden gebracht, maar je weet niet hoe en waar, dan kun je die via deze nieuwe website registreren: https://boekbanden.cannedit.org
Zie ook: https://cannedit.org/blog/een-eenvoudige-boekbanden-registratie-website
@overholt According to the story, there are 40 or so surviving manuscripts of this text. While I do find fascinating this photographic technique to re-create what the manuscript looked like (and the technique has been used on other manuscripts), I also kept thinking about all those texts for which we have one surviving copy (or none), and how hopefully we might find even rarer gems inside these Renaissance bindings.
The Paris institution identified the offending copies after US researchers discovered publishers in the #VictorianEra had used the chemical (arsenic) to colour #BookBindings.
The arsenic-containing green pigments were called Paris green, emerald green or Scheele’s green after a German-born chemist. #PoisonBookProject #Libraries
French #NationalLibrary quarantines books believed to be laced with #arsenic | #France
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/french-national-library-quarantines-books-believed-to-be-laced-with-arsenic
Rare books #shelfie to say happy weekend to you all!
Delightful bindings, some with extensive handwritten titles: it is an invigorating experience to stand in front of shelves like these, every time again.
Pics of 16th-18th-century bindings from visits to York Minster library (1), Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (2) and the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge (3).
#BookBindings #medieval #printing #RareBooks #libraries @histodons @book_historia
Damaged books can be quite pleasing, visually, or perhaps that is just me. Also, this particular damage reveals a tiny fragment of a medieval book hidden inside a 16th-century bookbinding. Binders of this era would recycle old fashioned manuscripts and used them as support material. (LocarnoBM MdS2Ca3).
Zoom and more info: https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-sydv.
#books #BookBindings #medieval #ManuscriptFragment #history #manuscript
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