@Samvega@bookhistodons
Yes! I see, great word. Do you know the word "parasocial", as in the artificial feeling of friendship one might feel toward a podcast host? Perhaps this is a form of "paraphilia". We don't know the subject of this drawing is an aquaintance or a historical saint.
@KarenStrickholm@bookhistodons@histodons It’s a leaf in a carefully-copied collection of medieval English common law texts. A reader added the manicule to mark a passage of interest. 😊
Oh I see, so a different person made the "manicule" to the margin, probably later in time. Manicule is not in dictionary dot com, but once again, #Wikipedia has me covered!
florid poem by Col. J. J. von Scheler in honor of the 54th birthday [when you're an enlightened despit, it doesn't have to be a round number] of Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg
Small folio from the presses of Court Printer Christoph Friedrich Cotta the elder, Stuttgart
Among the beauties of traditional printing, as book historians know, are the distinctive character and robust materiality.
Note here, the tactile quality of the rag paper (photo 1), the deep impression of type and ornament (2) and the way the border is assembled from individual ornamental pieces (3)
laudatory review of Jeff Jarvis. The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of #Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the #Internet by Pritha Mukherjee in – SHARP NEWS @sharporg
Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants | Lewis Walpole #Library:
operated by Yale University, the library holds the greatest collection of books and manuscripts associated with Horace Walpole as well as outstanding collections of 18th-century British literature and graphic art
Calling overdue attention to women in #BookHistory and #design
Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904) was one of the first American artists to make a career of book cover design. From 1880 to 1904 she designed around 300 book covers, mostly for Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Her covers sold books so well that the publisher mentioned her name as the cover designer in its advertisements.
Some #BookHistory: French lawyer & author Marc Lescarbot (d.1641) (‘ML’) had a client involved in an expedition to Acadia, New France. He invited ML, who accepted. 1606 July: They reached Port Royal (now in #NovaScotia )… with ML’s #books in tow: the 1st known library* in what is now #Canada.
Depending on your definition of ‘library’, of course. Let’s say, ‘Lescarbot’s books are regarded as the first known collection of European-style codices in what is now Canada’. @bookhistodons