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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Nov 29

To be honest, with the world falling apart and ww3 not being just fictional any more, i think often about Star Trek and really really hope one day that future will be possible. If we can imagine it, it must be possible ... Right? At least let me dream, for my son...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Nov 27

Or a lost binding around ms binders waste? See this article about reused bindings in bindings. Friday in my lecture i talked about the possibility of reconstructing lost bindings around ms fragments. There are options. www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Nov 24

The @bookbindings.bsky.social conference was a succes. Lovely to be there, talking about reused bookbindings with my colleague @daniel-ermens.bsky.social

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Nov 22

So often i see a relevant pic for my research and need to ask the signature or location... Hoping i get an answer. Frustrating

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Nov 16

Yes! The Netherlands & Flanders now have their own fnd patient organisation. Proud to be the chairwoman 💙 and hopeful to help other patients in their lives with fnd. fnspatientenvereniging.com

FNS patiëntenvereniging

De stem van Nederlandse en Vlaamse FNS-patiënten

fnspatientenvereniging.com

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Aug 6

Who does not want a book page on the wall?
Manuscript on parchment, 40x58cm.

Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Jun 9

For sale in The Netherlands today: arabic bible .... 🤔

Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Jun 6

strugling to understand these lines on this binding: are these deliberatly made in the wood, or are these just imprints from the blindtooling in the leather that once (?) covered these boards?
polona.pl/item-view/6e...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · May 31

14th./15th c bosses from bone or ivory with wooden peg.
polona.pl/item-view/2a...

Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · May 26

Some intriguing Polish Capitals, 13th c. polona.pl/item-view/0a...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · May 26

ghostprint? How would you name these imprints of binders waste?

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · May 9

"I have my hat, my boots ... why do I have the feeling I forgot something...?"
polona.pl/item-view/43...

Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · May 3

just amazing
www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/doublevie...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Mar 28

I wrote more, but these are still in dutch. when i have the English translations ready i post these also.

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Mar 28

How to recognize the reuse of bookbindingmaterials in a bookbinding? Here are some hints for you (In Dutch and English)
boundforhistory.com/2024/03/26/b...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Jan 18

an intruiging see-through... not only medieval text but some old map ....
www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Jan 11

survey-request!
Anyone who works with book(binding)s and regularly comes across reused fragments, would you be so kind to complete this small survey? (in Dutch or English)
English:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Dutch:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Jan 3

beasty initial
access.ecodices.nl/universalvie...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Jan 3

amazing background
access.ecodices.nl/universalvie...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Jan 1

Thanks! Nowhere in the add it says it is a postcard. The writing at the bottom made me think it was from a book.

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Dec 31

I know they cut up manuscripts to sell the illuminated letters.
But this dude cuts up a modern book about manuscripts and is selling the illustrations... As 'illuminated letter L' for just 2 euro.

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Dec 13

reused bookbindings in bookbindings. A common practice but until now slightly forgotten in the study of bindings. So a series of blogs about 'bindings in bindings'. #1: reused wooden boards. boundforhistory.com/2023/12/07/b...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Dec 4

'you wanted some gold on the page as well?'
Walters art museum, W437, f108

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Nov 11

If you don't have a tray, just use a book...
painting, 1490.

www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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Astrid Beckers @astridbeckers.bsky.social · Nov 11

Woh, what a find. A wax tablet in action. Love to see this. Thanks @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Nov 10

Manuscript lesson of the day!

Wax tablets were a common medium for note-taking well into the Middle Ages. One advantage was that it only required hands for the tablet & stylus, whereas writing with a quill required a surface, quill, & ink pot. Here we see a painting showing a wax tablet in use.

Detail from a painting in the Met, showing a man standing in a crowd and looking down at a set of wax tablets bound like a codex. We can see the top of his stylus, which is flat for the purposes of erasing the words written in wax. I shall link to the painting in the next post in the thread.

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