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This is very interesting! Do you have any idea where the paper was manufactured?

This letter, addressed to a spice merchant in Montpellier, is dated to the 1250s and written mostly in medieval Occitan. The most compelling part to me is that it's written on paper rather than parchment. Remarkably early example of paper in this region, especially among merchants! #medievalsky

"The Long Sixth Century "

From mid-February 2026, the MGH is able to make all articles from the DA and NA available in digital form, fully searchable and open access! #medievalsky

mgh.de/en/publicati...

handwritten list/index on parchment, numbered and in latin. Dark brown ink on paper

Diving into medieval #hospital books - an essay on #reuse of #objects in 14th century Florence is on its way based on a wide range of #archivalrecords from the still-operating hospital of #SantaMariaNuova. Thanks to @artandinequality.bsky.social and @glasgow.ac.uk for the support!

#medievalsky

That's a lot of contracts for a single day!

Congratulations David!

How inquisitive was medieval inquisition? Kaarel Sikk, David Zbíral, and Reima Välimäki have published a new study in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities that examines how Peter Zwicker's inquisition in Stettin (1393–94) utilised informatio...

#MedievalSky

Have you wondered how medieval inquisitors gathered the names of suspected heretics?

We have some answers based on a quantitative study of the Stettin inquisition (1393-94).

News on DISSINET home page:
dissinet.cz/news/article...

Link to the research article: doi.org/10.1093/llc/...

A review of two recent books on communications in the #earlymodern era on by Rachel Midura (@rmidura.bsky.social) and Joad Raymond Wren.

Return of the snow...

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

She worked precariously in the USSR between 1919 and 1956, being dismissed without notification on multiple occasions and taking on menial jobs, before obtaining a permanent position at the University of Leningrad (now St Petersburg State University) in 1956, where she remained until 1970.

The medieval historian Elena Skržinskaja (1897–1981)

The latest post in my series of overlooked medieval historians. This is the medieval social and economic historian Elena Skržinskaja. She studied the history of Italian merchants in the Black Sea during the late medieval period and also taught Latin paleography. #medievalsky

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

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The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

E. Any of the above.

London Review Bookshop mousepad is a handy reference guide for writers, editors and designers, outlining all the important keyboard shortcuts for special characters for both Macs and Windows PCs.

I'm really hoping this @lrb.co.uk mousepad comes back in stock! Every time it reappears in the store I miss out.

Looks like I'm a weak tie... but according to Mark Granovetter, that's good, right??

<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the title to browse this issue

The @echistsocreview.bsky.social has just published an online virtual issue in honour of Joel Mokyr, featuring a very nice introduction by @mdrelichman.bsky.social, available here:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

#econhist

I've always wanted to visit Trieste. I first became aware of the city because it was the home of Joyce for so many years, but now I'm more interested in it as the port city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Excited to see Maurits den Hollander’s Court, Credit, and Capital in print with Studies in Legal History at CUP. Court, Credit, and Capital uncovers how Amsterdam’s 17th-century insolvency court transformed insolvency law—from punishment to rehabilitation 1/3

The printing insignia of Aldus Manutius, a dolphin wrapped around an anchor.

In praise of Aldus Manutius, who died OTD in 1515. I did not know or had forgotten that he was tutor to two nephews of Pico della Mirandola before he set up shop as a Venetian printer: www.lindahall.org/about/news/s... #MedievalSky #BookHistory

Weekly reminder at @booksky.club #HistoryMatters @neglectedbooks.com If you haven't already - explore our story of War, Love and Survival in Indochina in the 1970's and 80's. Available audiobook, digital and paperback: THE LAST HELICOPTER: Two lives in Indochina.

I think that these cannot be accessed, unfortunately, unless you are registered with print-disabled access. I didn't realise this when I made the post. My apologies.

It appears that only the 2023–2025 issues are freely accessible in the Mirabile database, although it is difficult to ascertain as their site is not so intuitive.

I may delete my post since it is causing so much confusion, but it would be nice if the collection was made visible to all registered users of @archive.org

Medioevo Latino 2018: Vol 39 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

It turns out that my daughter can see the entries for the books on an individual basis (archive.org/details/medi..., for example) but with the message "Book available to patrons with print disabilities.". I'm not sure why the collection page was created if it is not visible to the majority of users.

I checked with my daughter's account and she cannot see them either. I do have print-disabled access which perhaps allows me to see the volumes while others cannot. I think this might be an error on the site.

Do you have an account at @archive.org ? I can see all of the issues when I am logged in, but when I logout they disappear. Perhaps they are visible only when you are logged in?

I am struck by the similarities, as well as the differences, in the form text (the printed text) as well as the iconography in the margins. A comparative analysis of these documents across European ports would definitely make for a very interesting article, if one has not already been written...

A bill of lading, drawn up in Bari, on 31 August 1772.

The second in Italian, drawn up in the Port of Bari on 31 August 1772, for a shipment of wine, oil, chickpeas, and grain bound for Livorno and Genoa.