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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Apr 14

This is how your email finds me.

A man sitting and looking towards the viewer of the engraving. The man leans his arm on a parapet and is surrounded by female personifications of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture as well as a winged angel with fanfare trumpets (Glory), Father Time with his scythe and the skeletal figure of Death clutching an arrow; a putti holds aloft a wreath and carries a palm. The image is part of a larger engraving, made around 1600, and nowadays at the BM 58490001 (Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/58490001 ).

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 9h

Eine Verlustgeschichte des Befristens - das wäre wirklich sinnvoll.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 9h

#LostScience

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 9h

Das wäre eine Idee für Deutschlands Feuilletons: Was können Wissenschaftler:innen nicht weiter erforschen bzw. entdecken, weil das #WissZeitVG existiert oder weil wir keine Tenure-Track-Verbindlichkeit haben?

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 13h

Brilliant Colleague's
New Book Alert!

Buy Chris Fletcher's latest,
hot off the presses or read the OPEN ACCESS version online!
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096...

Arc Humanities book cover for "Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis."

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 14h

#skystorians

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 15h

Ich mag ja besonders die Handyschatten in solchen Archivfotos.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 18h

Flächendeckende Entfristung klingt ein bisschen wie eine obrigkeitlich verordnete Strafmaßnahme à la “Sie müssen alle hierbleiben”! Alle.

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19h

➡️ Mit 80 Rezensionen; including about 80 reviews for #skystorians in open access from around the topic of #mediahistory #bookhistory #communicationhistory #histknow #digitalhistory and some more

➡️ Inhaltsverzeichnis / table of contents: medien.davlink.de/978351514024...

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19h

Das "Jahrbuch für #Kommunikationsgeschichte", Band 27 (2025) ist erschienen. Volume 27 (2025) of #JbKG has been published!

➡️ Print: www.steiner-verlag.de/Jahrbuch-fue...

➡️ Digital: biblioscout.net/book/10.2516...

Mehr zum Jahrbuch und zur Beihefte-Reihe: www.steiner-verlag.de/brand/Jahrbu...

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Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte 27 (2025)

Im Forum zeigt Teresa Schröder-Stapper, wie die Beschäftigung mit Inschriften zu einer Kommunikationsgeschichte der vormodernen Stadt beitragen kann...

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19h

His face is hilarious!

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 1d

St Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, holding onto a chunky tome (complete with metal bosses) for dear life. In a copy of his works, printed at #Venice in 1471 by Wendelin of Speyer, one of a pair of German brothers. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.2.B.3.1b[1331].

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19h

Honestly, I like the idea of insect larvae ("book worms") having a party in an old book and starting to binge eat the papers and binding materials ... #bookhistory #booksky #bookworms

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 20h

Here is a digital access to the book: nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

Digiviewer V 0.6.5

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 20h

And the obvious typo (*partly eaten, not party eaten) is included as a fun service for #skystorians with an interest in #bookhistory and typos in general.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 20h

Storytelling with an #earlymodern book:

➡️ printed on paper in 1640
➡️ bound in a recycled medieval parchment page (likely in the 17th century)
➡️ had contact with water while being stored (stains!)
➡️ party been eaten by book worms (my guess: 18th century)
➡️ digitized in the 3rd millennium

tunnels and small holes in a paper page and the parchment binding. These tunnels are caused by insect larvae - "book worms".

the printed title page of the book from 1640: VD17 384:717724N (copy from UB Augsburg: 02/XIII.8.4.702angeb.14).

the parchment binding of the book: a medieval page

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 22h

Agreed.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Dec 8

Seasonal greetings for both the #bookhistory and #digitalhistory folks: a keyboard waffle iron. 🗃️

A waffle iron that forms keyboard waffles.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Kein Veggie-Wurstschlitten!

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Jan 17

Why not learn a German word today, #skystorians?

"Wurstschlitten" - literally a sausage sledge. Like the Basle version of these sledges, a #Wurstschlitten was a sledge used in the eighteenth century with a seat bench running round the inside of the body.

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Screenshot of a Wurstschlitten from the website of the Historisches Museum Basel: https://www.hmb.ch/museen/sammlungsobjekte/einzelansicht/s/basler-wurst-schlitten/

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Auch keine Veggie-Wurst.

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Sep 26

The Verwurstung of books.

In 1974, the artist Dieter Roth experimented with the materiality of books - and made, among other "literature sausages", Hegel's complete work to 20 sausages using traditional sausage recipes, replacing the sausage's meat with book paper.

#skystorians #bookhistory

Dieter Roth's "literature sausages" in an exhibition: Hegel's complete work looking like 20 sausages.

4 of Dieter Roth's "literature sausages"

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 1d

Typographic apparitions 👻

Spotted in a 1498 Cologne missal: a case of off-set printing, where ink from the forme (or from another printed page?) accidentally transferred onto these printed page.

#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Detail of a page with musical staf printed, added music by hand, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

Detail of a page with liturgical text printed, and off-set printing of other type in the margins

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Stimmt!

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Satire aus.

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Um die Verwechslungsgefahr zu minimieren, soll nur das Papierbuch im Kodex-Format als Buch bezeichnet sein; alles andere sind #Buchersatzprodukte.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Das wird dem aufstrebenden ebook-Anteil im deutschen Buchhandel einen heftigen Schlag versetzen.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

Die "Initiative Buchersatzprodukte" reibt sich die Hände und bereitet im Stillen nun eine Klage auf Umbenennung aller Bücher, die nicht aus Papier sind, vor. #ebooks

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