natasha patrizia
@bibliologia.bsky.social
put on this earth to read books about books | rookie librarian and book history grad school student 🎓📜🪶 | they/them |
studying made decidedly more aesthetically pleasing by appropriate stationery picks (Paperblanks' early cartography and ancient illumination collections are decidedly my jam)
January 22, 2026 at 7:53 PM
studying made decidedly more aesthetically pleasing by appropriate stationery picks (Paperblanks' early cartography and ancient illumination collections are decidedly my jam)
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Manuscript volvelle with animal faces and a little bird cut into one of the dials 📚📜
search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9996...
search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9996...
January 22, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Manuscript volvelle with animal faces and a little bird cut into one of the dials 📚📜
search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9996...
search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9996...
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This, by @adamwithbooks.bsky.social in the most recent HLQ, is really excellent. "Bibliography tends to drain out affect— but it needn’t."
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This, by @adamwithbooks.bsky.social in the most recent HLQ, is really excellent. "Bibliography tends to drain out affect— but it needn’t."
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‘Centuries of printing preceded Gutenberg. As White is careful to describe, Gutenberg was born nine hundred years after printed texts were first produced in China by rubbing paper onto inked, carved woodblocks.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth · Slice It Up: Gutenberg’s Great Invention
Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
‘Centuries of printing preceded Gutenberg. As White is careful to describe, Gutenberg was born nine hundred years after printed texts were first produced in China by rubbing paper onto inked, carved woodblocks.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I've been toying with the idea of doing some deep dives on some curious characters I've learnt about lately
October 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I've been toying with the idea of doing some deep dives on some curious characters I've learnt about lately
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visited my favourite bookstore cat today 🐱📚
September 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
visited my favourite bookstore cat today 🐱📚
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[Call for papers] FuMaSt – The Future of Manuscript Studies Fifth edition, Firenze, 5-6 February 2026 (no later than 30 October 2025).
www.irht.cnrs.fr/sites/defaul...
www.irht.cnrs.fr/sites/defaul...
September 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
[Call for papers] FuMaSt – The Future of Manuscript Studies Fifth edition, Firenze, 5-6 February 2026 (no later than 30 October 2025).
www.irht.cnrs.fr/sites/defaul...
www.irht.cnrs.fr/sites/defaul...
slightly haunted view of my local monastery during my evening walk 🕯️🏰
September 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
slightly haunted view of my local monastery during my evening walk 🕯️🏰
...I got in!! and ranked quite high!! I'm going to specialize in book history & library studies for the next two years of my life!!
September 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
...I got in!! and ranked quite high!! I'm going to specialize in book history & library studies for the next two years of my life!!
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Sometimes at the end of a long day you need to carve out some time to hang out with tiny books
September 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Sometimes at the end of a long day you need to carve out some time to hang out with tiny books
haven't been very active on here lately but today I passed the written portion of the admissions process of the grad programme I'd like to attend - now for the oral next week 🤞🏻🍀
September 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
haven't been very active on here lately but today I passed the written portion of the admissions process of the grad programme I'd like to attend - now for the oral next week 🤞🏻🍀
went in search of the artisanal paper booth (they had Fabriano-made samples) but instead stumbled across this very nifty display at my local medieval fair!
September 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
went in search of the artisanal paper booth (they had Fabriano-made samples) but instead stumbled across this very nifty display at my local medieval fair!
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The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!!
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
August 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!!
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
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How to become a printer's apprentice in 1743. A boy is led by Carmenta, a Roman goddess who created the alphabet, up steps of a temple where the goddess Typographia awaits. Each step represents a skill that must be mastered, such as reading, writing, foreign languages, declensions, conjugation. 1/2
August 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
How to become a printer's apprentice in 1743. A boy is led by Carmenta, a Roman goddess who created the alphabet, up steps of a temple where the goddess Typographia awaits. Each step represents a skill that must be mastered, such as reading, writing, foreign languages, declensions, conjugation. 1/2
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Have you ever seen a book made entirely of silk? One item getting a lot of reading room attention recently is this "Livre de Prières." This book was manufactured with the Jacquard process, which relied on perforated punch cards to operate a loom, and is considered a precursor to early programming.
July 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Have you ever seen a book made entirely of silk? One item getting a lot of reading room attention recently is this "Livre de Prières." This book was manufactured with the Jacquard process, which relied on perforated punch cards to operate a loom, and is considered a precursor to early programming.
nothing quite as anxiety-inducing as emailing academic figures you admire for advice
July 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
nothing quite as anxiety-inducing as emailing academic figures you admire for advice
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Library of the Plantin–Moretus Museum in Antwerp. #BookWormSat
July 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Library of the Plantin–Moretus Museum in Antwerp. #BookWormSat
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Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1675 - I'm afraid the academic looking out of the window on the top right is ... me (Rijksmuseum)
July 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1675 - I'm afraid the academic looking out of the window on the top right is ... me (Rijksmuseum)
in other news, I have finished my read-through of the first text for grad school admissions (principles and issues in libraries and librarianship) and am close to finishing the second (history of latin script), hoping to begin the third (on the history of national administrations) in the coming days
July 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
in other news, I have finished my read-through of the first text for grad school admissions (principles and issues in libraries and librarianship) and am close to finishing the second (history of latin script), hoping to begin the third (on the history of national administrations) in the coming days
reading a novel that is a jaw-droppingly satiric and scathing criticism of how humanities faculties function in my home country and unsure if I'm finding it more compelling for how well it's written or horrifying for its plausibilities
July 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
reading a novel that is a jaw-droppingly satiric and scathing criticism of how humanities faculties function in my home country and unsure if I'm finding it more compelling for how well it's written or horrifying for its plausibilities
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No one warns you how much academia is just emailing people you’re scared of
July 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
No one warns you how much academia is just emailing people you’re scared of
a patron returned this book during my library shift yesterday, how could I not check it out out of curiosity? (the Voynich obsession is real)
July 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
a patron returned this book during my library shift yesterday, how could I not check it out out of curiosity? (the Voynich obsession is real)
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Ever wished someone would sit down and explain how to collate an early printed book? The marvellous @sianwitherden.bsky.social has done exactly that in a brand new series for Teachable Features: teachingthecodex.com/how-to-colla... #bookhistory #incunabula #teachingcodex
How to collate an early printed book
This mini series by Dr Sian Witherden (Rare books and manuscripts specialist) explains how to collate early printed books. These blog posts work through several practical examples from the Bodleian…
teachingthecodex.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Ever wished someone would sit down and explain how to collate an early printed book? The marvellous @sianwitherden.bsky.social has done exactly that in a brand new series for Teachable Features: teachingthecodex.com/how-to-colla... #bookhistory #incunabula #teachingcodex