Dr Liam Sims

That copy is just the usual blue boards. But our other copy is one of 13 on vellum, bound in white pigskin over oak boards...

ooh decisions decisions

Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

One of Edward Burne-Jones’s woodcut illustrations for William Morris’s Kelmscott Chaucer (1896), from the beginning of Troilus & Criseyde. Out for a visitor yesterday. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Syn.1.89.72.

Makes sense: this book is by Charles Holtzapffel...

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Montage showing pressed plant specimens from an 18th-century bound herbarium.

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look!

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

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What’s the lineage

Ha! You did not.

One of the first pieces of classical music I heard as a child. Still makes me tingle.

Sometimes I want to book a meeting room in the building I work in & sometimes the first thing the system offers me is the 'CL1 Microplate Shaker' which sounds much more fun...

Thanks!

Monday evening nosh with @aglmasters.bsky.social: pan-fried seabass with tomatoes, lime, ginger & garlic (plus tatoes & marinaded broc).

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Almost the 400th anniversary of the Cambridge bookfish!

Ah of course hehe

Ah bless you; don't worry too much. I'm fairly easy (if unadventurous)...

Manchester peeps. I will be in your fine city later this week. Where’s good to eat on a Friday that won’t be rammed?

those in Cambridge: I'm giving a talk on Wednesday to the Cambridge Bibliophiles on 'Obliterated Provenances in Early Modern Books' (Peterhouse, 8:45) ... and a talk on Thursday to the Material Texts Seminar on 'Halliwell-Phillipps, theft, and the problem of identifying manuscripts' (5pm)

exterior shot of the pavilion Chehel Sotun, Isfahan

decorated ceilings of Chehel Sotun

image of destruction

image of destruction

More destruction of the cultural heritage in Iran. Chehel Sotun in Isfahan, dating back to the 17th c, a UNESCO World Heritage site sustained damage in the war.

Are you wearing the...

...the red cabbage dress? Yeah I am.

COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It’s a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

White ground painted in red, yellow, blue and grey with two kilted Scotsmen, one with a musket and the other playing the bagpipes, in the centre of the plate, four scrollwork cartouches around the rim enclosing birds on flowering branches Catalogue (lightly edited): 'The figures in the centre depict a piper and a private from the 42nd Regiment of Foot, a predecessor to the famous Black Watch. The source print of the piper is discussed by David Sanctuary Howard, 'Chinese Porcelain of the Jacobites - I', Country Life, January 25, 1973. Howard notes that the piper was taken from an engraving by George Brickham and published in A Short History of the Highland Regiment, London, 1743; and the private was also after a drawing by Brickham of the same date. Members of the regiment deserted the Stuart cause, and on July 18, 1743, Privates Samuel, Farquar Shaw, Malcolm McPherson were executed at the Tower for the mutiny, and a Piper Macdonnel was sent to Georgia [in America] as a convict. These men were seen as Jacobite martyrs, and memorialized on plates and punch bowls bearing these figures.'

Chinese export plate (c1745) at Rob Michiels Auctions, Bruges (est. €8,000-12,000) #Jacobite #c18 #c18th #18thc

Evening in London ringing at St Giles in the Fields.

The mark of the Lyons printer Jean de Vingle, in his 1495 edition of Jacques Legrand’s ‘Sophologium’, a collection of moral maxims from poets, orators, philosophers, and theologians. Came to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1664 with the books of Richard Holdsworth. Inc.5.D.2.25[2710].

The arms of the 3rd Duke of Marlborough (d. 1758), on a volume containing three works by the Sienese writer Ventura Falconetti, a member of the city’s Accademia dei Travagliati. All three were printed at Bologna in 1563. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Rel.d.56.3.

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Well lah-di-dah Tesco 😂