Steven Van Impe 📚 PhD

@RareBookLibAntw
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Book historian and rare books curator in Antwerp. Opinions mine. He/him

Alors que le #rouleau des 120 journées de Sodome sera exposé au Musée de la #BnF à partir du 16 septembre, un colloque (22 septembre, site Richelieu) est l'occasion de raconter l'histoire de ce #manuscrit hors normes et de faire un point sur les recherches concernant le marquis de #Sade.

Programme :
https://www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/de-quoi-sade-est-il-le-nom-vers-leclipse-du-soleil-noir-le-rouleau-des-120-journees-dans-les

#Littérature #18e

De quoi Sade est-il le nom  ? Vers l’éclipse du Soleil noir ? Le rouleau des 120 Journées dans les collections de la BnF

BnF - Site institutionnel

BnF - Site institutionnel

I'm looking for old tourist guide books for Syria. Specifically from the 50s period. Does anyone know where to look?

Edit: I'm mostly trying to figure out what they have to say about #transportation #infrastructure. What maps do they include, etc...

#DigitalHumanities #archives

#TIH #OTD 03 Sep 1729: Death of Jean Hardouin, French priest & scholar now best remembered for his #ConspiracyTheory that all pre-14th century theology & nearly all ancient secular literature was spurious: counterfeited by ‘atheist’ monks in the 1300s. #BookHistory
@bookhistodons @medievodons
Why do all heraldic lions/panthers look like they just stepped on a piece of Lego?

Vital new feature has been added to Mastodon!

I just made my account widely searchable -- thank you to the Mastodon team for this!

Not available on all instances, but several large ones -- notably Mastodon Social -- have added it already.

It's in Edit Profile / Public Profile / Privacy & Reach and looks like this:

Some #MusicalBookHistory for a Friday! From top left:

- A 17th C gradual in 4mo
- Another 17th C gradual, but in 1mo
- An early modern songbook in 32mo

Antwerp, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library 815850:1; 826128:2; C23965.

#BookHistory #EarlyModern #EarlyMusic #CulturalHeritage #Histodons #BookHistodons

@histodons @bookhistodons

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I shared this privately before, but I just got the okay to share it in public. The Bluegrass Archive is online with a website and everything. This is a MASSIVE trove of legal live #bluegrass recordings from earliest days right up to now, which you can download and listen to for free. It is one of the greatest achievements of the fan-driven #music archiving community I've ever seen. I contributed a small number of filesets out of the thousands here. #music

https://bluegrassarchive.com/

RIP John Warnock.

Yesterday was the birthday of Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, a surprisingly important figure in the history of #EarlyModern worship and #BookHistory. So I wrote a blogpost in his honour!

https://mariannecegillion.wordpress.com/2023/08/21/happy-belated-birthday-to-a-musically-influential-cardinal/

@histodons
@bookhistodons

#Histodons #MusicalBookHistory #Printing #EarlyMusic #CounterReformation #CouncilOfTrent #Liturgy

Happy (belated) birthday to a musically influential cardinal!

Yesterday I was informed that it was the birthday of one of my favourite early modern prelates: Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle. He is perhaps best known for his political service to Philip …

Marianne C.E. Gillion