SJLahey , 3 days ago to BookHistodons group

Are any of you at London Firsts tonight? If so, let’s meet up! (I’m here in the queue…) @bookhistodons #RareBooks #MedievalManuscripts

davidboatymcboa , 4 months ago to Random stuff

Happy New Year one and all if you’re following my @neilhimself raffle we are now down to 495 raffle tickets left to go please see the full description as written by Lyra’s Books for this amazing edition of Neil’s 🌟STARDUST🌟 only 2 such books exist!
Link to the tickets also below

#NeilGaiman #RareBooks #charity

https://raffall.com/348278/enter-raffle-to-win-a-very-unique-copy-of-stardust-by-neil-gaiman-hosted-by-linda-silliman-millar

kimlockhartga , 4 months ago to bookstodon group

@bookstodon In my quest for physical copies of several out of print books, I have had some success with BookFinder, Abe, Thrift Books, Bookshop, and Better World Books. Are there other services I should try?

I'm trying to expand my Stephen Graham Jones collection in particular, and it's daunting, esp. finding THE LONG TRIAL OF NOLAN DUGATTI in print. Ha. Maybe it's my long trial.

#books #RareBooks #OutOfPrint #Bookstodon

SJLahey , 5 months ago to Law

Spent today looking at #MedievalManuscripts in St John’s College (Cambridge) Library’s Rare Books Reading Room—a wonderful space (📷 1: St John’s Chapel). This manuscript (📷 2) belongs to a group I discussed in my uOttawa MA thesis (sup.: Andrew Taylor); how amazing to see it in person. #LegalHistory #HistoryOfLaw #Law #RareBooks #Manuscripts
@bookhistodons @medievodons

Photo of a detail of a leaf in a medieval manuscript: folio 53 recto in Cambridge, St John’s College, manuscript A.7. 21 lines of French copied in black ink, in a precise, spiky hand, with the first 14 lines indented to accommodate an enormous decorative initial ‘E’ for ‘Edward’ (for this is England’s King Edward II). The letter is rendered in blue and white atop a black-painted square densely packed with fine, scrolling filigree vines in gold. At centre, superimposed atop the letter, is a painting of a king, his long brown hair and beard just beginning to grey beneath his golden crown. Clad in a pink, ermine-trimmed cloak over a vermilion robe, he sits enthroned—golden sceptre in one hand, golden orb in the other—gazing at the adjacent text with an expression of deep suspicion. Can the scribes be trusted? Only time will tell.

SJLahey , 6 months ago to BookHistodons group

A #Medieval #MyLittlePony! Painted in Bruges in the late 14th century, this one now lives in Cambridge University Library’s ‘Roberts Hours’. #MedievalManuscripts #Manuscripts #pink #horses #Critters #MedievalAnimals #RareBooks

@bookhistodons @medievodons

CitizenWald , 10 months ago to BookHistodons group

Hey, @bookstodon and @bookhistodons ! ICYMI @librarycongress has a new #RareBooks / Bibliomania / #Bibliophile blog,, launched at the start of last month:

https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2023/06/01/welcome-to-bibliomania-the-blog-for-book-lovers/

to which you can now subscribe

https://updates.loc.gov/accounts/USLOC/subscriber/new?topic_id=USLOC_193&loclr=earare

#BookHistory