An interesting post yesterday by @sbschliep over on the Collation blog at the Folger Shakespeare Library, about the acquisition of the Vincent copy of the First Folio.

The eponymous Vincent is officer of arms Augustine Vincent, who eventually rose to the position of Windsor Herald at the College of Arms, though at the time he was gifted a copy of the First Folio (1623) he was still Rouge Croix Pursuivant. (He succeeded John Guillim in this office on Guillim's death in 1621).

A large collection of Vincent's heraldic manuscripts are still held by the College of Arms. MS Vincent 87 and 151 are on my list to consult; the latter because it contains an image of Guillim in the funeral procession for Prince Henry in 1612, the former because Guillim either wrote or copied it, and his son later sent out copies of this material as Christmas presents.

#Heraldry #Guillim #Vincent #Manuscripts #FirstFolio #Folger #Earlymodon #EarlyModern

https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/vincent-first-folio-part1/

TIL that Muriel St Claire Byrne, editor of the Lisle letters, was also a graduate of Somerville College Oxford (my alma mater) in this nice piece by How To History

https://howtohistory.substack.com/p/editing-the-lisle-letters

#Tudor #LisleLetters #EarlyModern #EarlyModon #SomervilleCollege #HowToHistory

There's a free one day conference coming up on July 14th about William Camden and his world, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his death. In person in London, and also online.

More info at https://www.sal.org.uk/event/william-camden-and-his-world/

#Camden #heraldry #antiquary #EarlyModern #EarlyModon #BookHistory

Renaissancemenschen hatten es schwer in diesen (früh)modernen Zeiten!

#earlymodon #earlymodern #histodon #shitpost

A fantastic poster for what looks like an amazing exhibition on Renaissance heraldry in France. (Though I won't be flying half way round the world to see it in person!)

Very curious as to what the artifact is, though. Doesn't seem to be a clock or calendar as the dial goes up to 18.

There also seems to be a mistake in the Latin, it should be "orbem" surely, not "orben".
This motto (donec totum impleat orbem) is very similar to that of my alma mater, Somerville College (donec rursus impleat orbem)

#heraldry #héraldique #EarlyModern #EarlyModon #Exhibition #GLAM #Latin #motto #SomervilleCollege

Deadline fast approaching to sign up for one of these fantastic seminars at our biennial conference on #DifficultPasts in July. Come one, come all. It will be #SRSlyGood! #RenSoc23 #Histodons #EarlyModon #EarlyModonEvents

https://hcommons.social/@SRSRenSoc/109506957515808564

Palaeography and popular culture:

I was just watching episode 4 of Shipwreck Hunters Australia on Disney+, in which they are diving the wreck site of The Trial, an East India Company ship which sank off the coast of Australia in 1622.

Towards the end they showed a couple of manuscripts with the accounts of the survivors, and I will admit to pausing the episode to read part of one out loud to my wife.

#Palaeography #Paleography #ShipwreckHunters #EarlyModern #Earlymodon #EastIndiaCompany

Time for v. 0.2.0 of Early Modern Danish Postils. Changelog in following post.

https://github.com/DT-UCPH/early_modern_danish_postils

#EarlyModon #SermonStudies #DigitalHumanities @theologidons @dh @digitalhumanities

"Schema Elephanti" from a 1595 festival book documenting the visit to Antwerp of Ernst, Archduke of Austria. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990035459060203941/catalog

#EarlyModon