Dorothy B. Porter is standing in front of window.
8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day
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Obras Selectas de la Celebre Monja de Mejico, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74087
#womenhistoryMonth #librarians #libraries
Dorothy B. Porter
Great photo, Jill! Wonderful to see them in the spring sunshine 🌞
Today in Brum, and delighted to see the new blue plaque in honour of John Baskerville, whose 3000+ typographical punches are in @theul.bsky.social in Cambridge (as well as being a key figure in the Midlands Enlightenment Baskerville was also Printer to the University of Cambridge).
The brilliant Future Nostalgia project @theul.bsky.social headed by our excellent colleague Leontien Talboom!
Digital and analogue preservation intertwined. It’s been great working with her in #CULconservation 💾 #DigitalHumanities
Puzzle Binding!
Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just...
Had One???
And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)
Light through arch windows at Cambridge University Library at twilight.
Twilight @theul.bsky.social. 📷 #photography
Close-up photograph of mauve Crocuses.
Crocuses spotted flowering under a hedge in Ely. 📷 #photography
A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.
This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
Montage showing Green alkanet, Petty spurge, Common chickweed, Red dead nettle, Shepherd’s purse, Daisy, Greater periwinkle, Red dead nettle again, White dead nettle, Green hellebore and Common field speedwell.
A Cambridge #TheWinter10. Green alkanet, Petty spurge, Common chickweed, Red dead nettle, Shepherd’s purse, Daisy, Greater periwinkle, Red dead nettle again, White dead nettle, Green hellebore and Common field speedwell. #WildflowerHour
Close-up photograph of Snowdrops against a white-painted wall.
Snowdrops in Cambridge.
📷 #photography
A stunning architectural binding, executed in Italy in the seventeenth century. On Gaspare Visconti’s ‘De Paulo e Daria amanti’ (printed at Milan in 1495), a poem centred on the false death of a lover, not unlike Romeo & Juliet. Bought by @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1966 & now Inc.5.B.7.23[4467].
The entrance to a library, photographed in the early evening, with an amber glow from lights inside, ‘Bibliotheca’ is carved above the door.
The old Cambridge University Library. @theul.bsky.social
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
Some book trade ephemera for the cold weather: a piece of frost fair ephemera printed on the frozen River Thames by (or for) Mrs Sarah Baker on 18 January 1715/16 and probably later pasted into a book. Part of a collection assembled by A. N. L. Munby and now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Munby.b.131.
A few favourites from Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature @norwichcastle.bsky.social
Process, proofs and prints in the beautifully renovated galleries.
See you next year @theul.bsky.social
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries #WinterSolstice #YaldaNight #Midwinter
Want to join the www.codicum.eu project?
3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.
#Medieval #Manuscript
Two days of Heritage Science and Manuscripts @ox.ac.uk with an excellent session @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Scientists, Historians and Conservators in conversation 📚
Dark, damp, but decidedly festive 🎄
@bodleian.ox.ac.uk and @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social looking beautiful in the rain this evening.
#UniversityOfOxford #OxfordGLAM
Autumn days in Cambridge 🍂
@theul.bsky.social @clarecollege @corpuscambridge.bsky.social
looking splendid on a crisp cold day.
#CambridgeUniversityLibraries
Details of a fragment from an Abbasid Qur’an 📚
Iron gall ink on perfect parchment 🐑
@theul.bsky.social MS Add.1118, 3/4th century AH/ 9/10th century CE
#IslamicManuscript #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #Parchment #JummahMubarak
#ManuscriptMonday from a flying visit to Words on the Wave @nmireland.bsky.social 📚
An exquisite show with wonderful archaeological objects, but always a joy to see books at the heart of an exhibition.
#NationalMuseumofIreland #IrishManuscripts #FaddenMorePsalter #KinaleBookShrine
She is holding a book! 📖
Currently writing a section on visual evidence for book use in medieval Scotland - so this could not be better timed...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New research may rewrite the story of the Book of Kells 📚 @tcddublin.bsky.social @tcdlibrary.bsky.social
Walnut (husk) ink in progress.
#NaturalDyes #NaturalInks #PracticeBasedResearch
Day to day collaboration between #CULconservation and colleagues in #CHIL @theul.bsky.social 📚 📷
Catching up on 1920’s week in @sewingbee.bsky.social and noticed a familiar backdrop!
@cam.ac.uk @caiuscollege.bsky.social
Looking glorious in the sunshine 🌞
Clean dry hands have greater dexterity than gloved hands, so are safer when handling delicate manuscripts 📚
Conserved c.20 years ago, and holding up pretty well 📚🧿
@theul.bsky.social Add. 1116, fragments of a Qur’an, 9th century
#CULconservation #ParchmentConservation
A fascinating treatment by #CULconservation @theul.bsky.social for Criminology #RadzinowiczLibrary 🦛
#Conservation #LibraryConservation #NotJustBooks
