The green and yellow of a book with the title Search for Publication stamped in all caps, the series title (The Minds of Men) and an eagle's head design at the lower left corner
That's what I'm trying to do, book
There are hawks nesting outside of our top-floor stacks again this year, so I anticipate this but with squirrels!
The 2026 RBMS Conference Program Planning Committee is issuing a second call for proposals for virtual and short-form content, due March 6. Find more info and submit a proposal on the conference website! buff.ly/3cuaLh0
Ok, here’s a proof of the 2nd layer, which adapts a broadside published in April of 1854 to warn Black residents of Boston about slave-catchers in the city, following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act www.nps.gov/articles/000...
Initial 'L'(e) at the beginning of Bk 12 in which trees and their products are discussed.
Bodleian Library Arch. G b.6; Historia naturale di Caio Plinio Secondo, tradocta di lingua latina per Christophoro Landino; 1476 CE; Venice; f.148v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Colophon for Boris Pasternak and Thomas Merton, Six Letters, printed at the King Library Press, shown in natural light
The same colophon in my working, YELLOW light in the stacks.
I forget how bad the yellow lighting in this special collections storage area truly is until I photograph something in it 😬
cc @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social & @transbookhistory.bsky.social
Muppets tabling with people under the tables, and there's a cover of Postdoc Blues somewhere (Kermit believes in you and your powerpoint)
Someone is doing trans bibliography about this right
My bible's pronouns are Great He/Great Him
High on my list of tattoo inspiration!
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
I have talked about books upside down for an audience but not like this and not with volvelles 😬😬😬
I missed the Ides of December this year but I think Amerbach would agree December 23 has "dum pia virgo parit" vibes too
#MuppetBibliography
(also what great examples of personal and historical value being messy and interconnected to financial value! and in such things as the $10k Muppet Christmas Carol Rizzo bucket with puppeteering hole)
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The deadline for submitting workshop, panel, or poster proposals for #RBMS26 is December 12, 2025. 📜📚
Need another panelist? There is a spreadsheet for organizing panels here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape
Frontispiece portrait of Xavier Donald Macleod, a 19th century bespectacled white guy. He's wearing a cape and has one hand on his hip, which adds to the vibe. His signature is printed below.
![Title page of Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in North America, printed in New York without a date specified though there is a penciled-in [1866] below the New York imprint.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cnxnenlq5dzpvkhkro2grjrf/bafkreiam7ewc45d7mh42uyza3nhcmeegw44curar4h5hi7e3l5bvytyz7e)
Title page of Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in North America, printed in New York without a date specified though there is a penciled-in [1866] below the New York imprint.
This guy has the 1855 Whitman frontispiece of books about the Virgin Mary by Presbyterian-Episcopal-Catholic converts and priests (posthumous).
Headshots of eighteen professors with the text ‘The President’s committee of mostly white professors tasked with deciding on curriculum for the University of Texas (arranged by length of hair)’
everything is terrible apart from the University of Texas Austin students who, protesting a committee set up to review the humanities curriculum, have produced this graphic arranging committee members by length of hair
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
You can't find time to become an expert? We'll have a lunch and learn!
If you can afford it, a *monetary* donation (it goes a lot farther!) to your local food bank would be a most excellent thing to do right now.
Printer's device for Jamet Mettayer, a 16th-century French printer, depicting a textured cube in a landscape, with a fruits-and-flowers border surrounding an oval frame. The frame text reads "rectus ubique."
Jamet Mettayer, d. 1605, you would've loved Minecraft
A piece of music titled Notre-Dame de la Garde with an elaborate lithographed border spelling out MATER CHRISTI on the right with a crowned IHS in gold and yellow inks on the left
Music titled Notre-Dame des Champs with a metallic lithographed border in green, copper, silver, gray, brown, and violet, with a bird printed in silver on the left.
Printed music titled Notre-Dame de Colmar with a yellow, green, orange, and white lithographed illustrated border. There is a large shield with VIRGO POTENS and an M on the top right corner, and a baby (?) winged dragon along the bottom.
Detail of a lithographed portrait of a blonde Virgin Mary, eyes uplifted but printed such that it looks more like she's rolling her eyes.
More from this book (the lithography is mostly amazing, done on a Voirin press, but not always the best)
A blue lithograph border illustration below printed religious (Catholic) music. A regular kind of gargoyle is speaking/whispering to a cat-gargoyle hearing them out on what appears to be a scheme or plot.
The guy who tells cats to yell at 5 am
"PEN America identified 2,520 book ban cases... out of those, only 3% of the bans were triggered by a law requiring the removal of a book—the rest, 97%—came from bans caused by the fear that districts had of being out of compliance" #DontComplyInAdvance
www.wordsandmoney.com/pen-america-...
Thank you! Slowly but recovering.
MAYBE "nimbus" in the sense of halo/cephalophore martyr carrying their head so far and no further. Anyway time to up my neurowhatever and tamp down this fever with acetaminophen.
Caught covid for the first time 5 years in, shortly before annual shot. and I gotta say naming variants after clouds is underwhelming at best and 100% offensive to clouds
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, September 19, 1984, Former U. S. President Gerald Ford was stuck in an elevator in the Van Pelt Library at UPenn. Was there a medieval manuscript stuck in the elevator with him? Probably not, but we can dream. #medievalsky
