This is a Swedish #almanac for the year 1662, a translation by the German calendar maker Stephan Fuhrmann. Also on this page is a library stamp at an unusual place: in the empty space between the sun and moon. Of course, you see another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series. #bookhistory

When your library stamp (left) is as big as Christ on the cross, then you better stamp again on the right side to avoid an odd empty space. Of course, you see another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series. #earlymodern #BookHistory #skystorians

Hard to imagine the mental strength and stern discipline of the librarian not to attempt to put the library stamp where most other librarians would - evidentially - have put the stamp to. Of course, you see another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series. #BookHistory

Our library stamps are bigger than you think! Take this little (title page) angel! This is, of course, another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series.

And what about using a red ink library stamp to make the stamp almost disappear on the title page printed with red and black ink, mumbled a smiling librarian once and stamped this #earlymodern #Schreibkalender. This is, of course, another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series.

Why not make the angel on this title page of an #earlymodern pamphlet touch the library stamp and make it look like the angel is holding the stamp?, mumbled a smiling librarian once and used his mighty library stamp. This is, of course, another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series.

Hiding the library stamp within the illuminated floral borders of a medieval manuscript was considered to be a difficult task for librarians of the past. You see just another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series. 🗃️ 📚📜

It was of the magic tricks of librarians to make a library stamp hardly noticed within a title page. Here, the god Mercury is almost holding the stamp naturally. This is, of course, another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series. #bookhistory #libraryhumor

And so we will have the last word in this book, said a smiling librarian in Munich once stamping his blue library stamp on top of the last word "ENDE". This is another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series. #booksky #libraryhumor

Well, almost hiding your library stamp behind initials was a tricky sport. As you can see for yourself in this bible from 1485. And, of course, this is just another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series. #bookhistory #libraryhumor

Stamping rules, as friends of the #LibraryStampMadness series know. Here is a big library stamp on the title page of a newspaper collection from 1666, almost touching Mercury, the symbol of the #earlymodern news system, and on top of this, another library stamp "Ungültig", meaning invalid in German.

Just another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series: integrating a library stamp smoothly into the layout of the title page. #bookhistory #booksky #libraryhumor

"No one will notice our second library stamp", said a librarian in Vienna once, and then stamped the special "Musikabteilung"-signature "685221-A" next to the date of print reference on this title page from 1783. This is another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series.

If you find a library stamp on an #earlymodern title page as big as the frontispiece nextby, you are sure seeing another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series. 🗃️📚📜

Rule number 7b: Make sure to use a library stamp that is big enough to a) fully cover the space of the forgotten initial, and b) match the size of the manuscript page's water damage. Of couse, this is another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series. #libraryhumor

Well, sometimes stamping was an art of itself. On this title page, stamped in #Helmstedt, two identical stamps were used: one upside-down and the other in a normal way. What were you trying to tell us, dear librarian? #BookHistory This is from the #LibraryStampMadness series.

And this happens when a book was bought, stamped by the owning library (1) and then someone realized we already have the book, and want to sell the new copy. Then one need a special "Tilgungs-Stempel", a library stamp designed to liquidate (2). Welcome to the #LibraryStampMadness series.

And we have a first winner. This is a golden contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series, with special greetings from an unknown librarian at the British Museum, who happily stamped right under the private parts. #librarysky #booksky

Here is another golden example from the #LibraryStampMadness series: featuring a thoughtful stamped horse connecting humans and the stars. Experts do know that this library stamp is from the HAB Wolfenbüttel. #bookhistory

The moment a librarian with a stamp in Wolfenbüttel heard about the trend of Indoor Flowering Plants, she or he knew what to do... Welcome back to the #LibraryStampMadness series. #librarysky #booksky #bloomscrolling

Where to hide a library stamp in an #earlymodern book? Well, there is often space in the ornament... This is a hidden stamp on the title page of a 1686 book from the library of the Franziskanergymnasium Bozen. Of course, this is just another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series.

More #LibraryStampMadness you say? Here is a nice library stamp fully covering an initial of a ninth-century manuscript. Well done, anonymous modern librarian of Sankt Gallen with a stamp looking for empty spaces. #librarysky

"Play it safe" mumbled the librarian. "Better make two stamps on the page. There is Jesus, six saints, the Pope, and a small entourage. One stamp only wouldn't match with this crowd." Of couse, this is another contribution to the #LibraryStampMadness series. 🗃️ 📜

Friends of the #LibraryStampMadness series, isn't it beautiful when a centuries old #manuscript page meets a library stamp, and this very stamp *exactly* fits into the empty space left over for a forgotten miniature? We may imagine the librarian smiling when stamping this at the Vatican Library.

Just a stamped sun in this etching, dear friends of #LibraryStampMadness. The librarian at the Bibliothèque Mazarine surely had fun stamping. #bookhistory #skystorians