#ThingsInBooks

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

1 month ago

Detail of velvet bound book with pearl encrusted bookmark top, and gilt gauffered edges. Owner is oddly wearing one glove as he pretends to read.

Green gilt leather book binding with a metal bookmark ribbon holder.

Mark My Words...

This multi-ribbon, bejeweled bookmark book bling craze has gone far enough! And don't get me started about those gloves!(Left, Amberger portrait of Charles V; Right, portfolio of 16th c. documents from #NewberryLibrary (VAULT Case MS folio J 035 .182))
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

3 months ago

Book spine reading (inside down) Ancient Common Place Book.

Interior of spine showing bands of floral fabric, red and brown.

Book Guts AND Fabric Swatches?! 🥰

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Steven Van Impe

@svanimpe.bsky.social

4 months ago

#BookHistory #ThingsInBooks

#Technically,ThingsNoLongerInBooks

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

4 months ago

Smashed but identifiable fly in a red and black printed 16th c. gradual service book with music.

Full Gradual service book with music and fly.

Oh, to be a Fly...
In a Choirbook?

#ThingsInBooks

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

7 months ago

Frontispiece with SS. Mark (with his lion!) and Theodore holding a hat over an added St Lucretia, which is above ak 'portrait of the author at age 79.'

Frieze of Muses surrounding a pasted in saint, name undecipherable ..

Collage Craze

Here are the end pages of the 1553 Venetian book from yesterday, at the Newberry. None of these composite images seem original to the book, which is all woodcuts, not engravings. These aren't just single engraving, but very layered, with bonus saints in the middle.
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

7 months ago

Flower, possibly once pink, in the gutter.

Rosettes stamped on the binding.

Beautiful Inside and Out!

#ThingsInBooks #NewberryLibrary
(Greenlee folio 5100 D92 1505)

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

9 months ago

Gutter of 15th c. book with sone text visible as well as a (coarse) long hair and a fluffy bit of fiber and dirt.

Almost flower like, view from further back.

Full page for scale.

Dust Bunny Sunday?

15th c. (maybe) #ThingsInBooks #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 5396)

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

11 months ago

Everything's Coming Up... Pansies?

Our massive 1893 World Fair Scrapbook contains THE MOST pressed flowers I've ever seen! (Case oversize R 1832 .222)
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#NewberryLibrary
#NationalLibraryWeek
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

11 months ago

#BooksInBooks
#ManuscriptWaste
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

11 months ago

#ThingsInBooks
#Plants

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

1 year ago

How about .... 👻✂️
A 1493 Sewing Scissors Ghost?
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

1 year ago

Detail of pounced decorative border in a blank page including crowned hearts

Open book with Italian text in ink on right and embroidery or fabric pattern in graphite on left.

More Fabric Things!

This Italian manuscript (Case MS 104) at #NewberryLibrary (from the 15th to 18th c.) has several patterns drawn or punched into its pages! The text at right even discusses the lengths of wool required for a bishop's "episcopal chair"...
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

1 year ago

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

1 year ago

#ThingsInBooks

#Insects #Arachnids

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

1 year ago

19th c. tooled black leather binding with an insert miniature of the Madonna seated on a chair, holding the baby Jesus. The background is light blue, and she's facing to the left.

Original roundel (tondo) painting by Raphael c. 1514, now in the Uffizi in Florence. The composition is the reverse of the one on the book, and it shows that an infant St. John has been edited out of the miniature.

What's IN This Book?

Hope to restart my exhibition catalogue writing spree today, so I'll tell you more for every 500 words.
Hold onto your seats, that's a miniature Raphael "Madonna della seggiola" in the cover! #ThingsInBooks

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

1 year ago

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

1 year ago

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

1 year ago

Wine O'Clock? #Manicule points to YES

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

1 year ago

Detail of a hand holding a leather volume, with fabric green bookmarks peeking out

Missale Romanum engraved title page, Venice, dated 1658. Ornate frame with biblical elders and cherubs

Pressed rose in missal page next to green fabric bookmark

Other side of rose, same bookmark

Reader, I GASPED!

#ThingsInBooks #Bookmarks
1658 Venetian Missal at #NewberryLibrary (Case folio C 866 .658)

Suzanne Karr Schmidt

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

2 years ago

Bright red velvet book with gold sculptural additions and fabric bookmarks

Spine of bright red velvet book with gold sculptural additions and fabric bookmarks

Back Cover of bright red velvet book with gold sculptural additions and fabric bookmarks

When your Breviary needs to be catholic with a capital C?!

#NewberryLibrary #Bookmarks #Bling #ThingsInBooks #ReliefSculpture
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