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Barbara Bienias retweeted
15 Jun 2025
Incomplete set of playing cards, made c. 1684.
BM catalogue notes: 'The cards are accompanied by an envelope inscribed in pen and ink "These cards were used to play on the ice at Westminster when an ox was roasted in front of the Houses of Parliament"'. (British Museum)
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Barbara Bienias retweeted
Introducing TAMAR: our new open-access web tool lets you display digitised manuscripts side-by-side with transcriptions or additional info. Developed in a project on Biblia pauperum manuscripts, TAMAR is adaptable for a wide range of research purposes:
uhh.de/csmc-tamar
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Barbara Bienias retweeted
5 Dec 2024
Centuries ago, many astronomical books included moving parts to help readers interpret the world around them.
This biscuit recreates a diagram from Sacrobosco’s ‘De Sphaera’ (c.1550). It could be used to calculate the changing length of daylight hours through the year. 🍪
ALT Two biscuits stacked on top of one another, designed to look like a rotating diagram from an early modern astronomical book. The lower biscuit is circular and features a series of horizontal lines and tiny numbers in an early modern font. The top biscuit is roughly in the shape of boat: the 'mast' area reads 'zenith'; the main body of the shape features tiny figures in historical dress holding astronomical instruments and a Latin motto reading 'Nulla dies sine linea'.
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Barbara Bienias retweeted
26 Aug 2024
Want to see the changes that have been made to Shakespeare’s texts over the centuries the history of editorial and critical commentary on those texts, all in one place?
The (free, online) New Variorum Shakespeare is that place.
Do take a look:
newvariorumshakespeare.org/
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Barbara Bienias retweeted
11 Jul 2024
.@LindaHall_org in Kansas City, Missouri is now the only place in the world with all three original versions of #Galileo's 414-year-old Sidereus Nuncius!
Read more: kshb.com/news/local-news/its…
#RareBooks #Science #Astronomy
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Barbara Bienias retweeted
Oh my word ... a unique late Medieval/early Renaissance volvelle astronomical calendar, by Anonymous, 1455, yours for ***£1,275,000***
***the only object of its type to have survived from the Middle Ages***
crouchrarebooks.com/product/…
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14 Jun 2024
It's a wrap! Thank you @AcadScientiae for another great conference, and my stellar co-panelist @_sergio_oe for all things almanac. It's great to be a part of such a vibrant community *typed by Maciej Jasiński
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Barbara Bienias retweeted
The USTC has recently made a major update to our Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Belarussian and Russian data, including the addition of 162 new records and 600 new copies. Go and explore here: ustc.ac.uk/explore #USTCUpdates
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Barbara Bienias retweeted
4 Jun 2024
Woman's waistcoat of silk, 1610-1620, English; embroidered with blue silk & spangles.
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
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Barbara Bienias retweeted
31 May 2024
My favourite church memorial, in St Mary’s, Bury St Edmund’s. To a printer. “Like a worn-out type he is returned to the Founder, in the hopes of being recast in a better and more perfect Mould…”
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Barbara Bienias retweeted
2 Jun 2024
Another method for fixing an error in a medieval manuscript - This scribe employed the figure of a man using a rope to pull along the accidentally omitted portion of the text - 1st half of the 15th century, British Library, Arundel 38, f. 65r
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A database of Polish medieval manuscripts - including MSS in Polish repositories, of Polish origin/provenance, lost manuscripts, and fragments - has now launched!
Take a look 👀
manuscripta.pl/
#ManuscriptMonday
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Barbara Bienias retweeted
3 May 2024
i cannot tell you how i gasped—the original designs for t.j. cobden-sanderson’s doves type
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{ VAULT Case MS Wing Z 4035 .238 • @NewberryLibrary }
ALT Hand drawn (in black ink) designs for punctuation marks, including the paragraph mark (or, pilcrow).
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12 Apr 2024
#litsci3soc2024 It's a wrap! At least for me. Thank you so much @TheBSLS @_CoSciLit and @SLSAeurope for having me 💗 Excellent presentations, plenaries, and vibes! Special props for ceramic mugs. See you soon, dear colleagues and new friends
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10 Apr 2024
A sneak peek of my presentation today at #litsci3soc2024 @unibirmingham organized by three superb societies @TheBSLS @SLSAeurope @_CoSciLit If you're here, do join our panel (3G) at 4pm in room 118 #twitterstorians #earlymodernscience #earlymodernprint #astrology #astronomy
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