This NYT article about the long-debated origins of the term "Underground Railroad" is a good example of how digitization of old newspapers is reshaping our understanding of the 19th century. An online search led to this discovery. https://tinyurl.com/4ezr27m6
#bookhistory #slavery #journalism

This is kind of #bookhistory interesting. Trailer for DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (1939). The cuts are shot as fingers turning the pages of the novel, with the next scene shown playing on the newly exposed leaf. This seems like a pretty high end special effects for 1939?

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklin wants to know whether the inflationary dragon he is crushing with interest rates is showing any signs of “twitching.” I’m equally interested to know why David Parkins’s cartoon has Macklin using a binding press as his crushing apparatus of choice. Baffled. (Editorial cartoon in today’s Globe and Mail, Toronto.) #bookhistory #mediahistory

A short manifesto about the importance, for students of the Victorian period, of finding out who wrote what in 19th-c. magazines and newspapers: https://www.curranindex.org/news/17/ #bookhistory #victorian

Curran Fellowships support research on 19th-c. British magazines and newspapers, and they have been a boon to scholars for years. All are eligible to apply. Applications open mid-September, due by mid-November. https://rs4vp.org/awards/curran-fellowship/ #victorian #bookhistory

🇸🇪 🇫🇮 Mikko Tolonen, Leo Lahti, Hege Roivainen & Jani Marjanen (2019) A Quantitative Approach to Book-Printing in Sweden and Finland, 1640–1828, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 52:1, 57-78, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2018.1526657 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #BookHistory #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Digital #Library #History #Histodon #Histodons #Publishing #Europe #Sweden #Finland #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

🇸🇪 🇫🇮 Mikko Tolonen, Leo Lahti, Hege Roivainen & Jani Marjanen (2019) A Quantitative Approach to Book-Printing in Sweden and Finland, 1640–1828, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 52:1, 57-78, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2018.1526657 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #BookHistory #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Publishing #Europe #Sweden #Finland @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

@overholt #BookHistory 👆

This phenomenon is highlighted because the #HTR model I've been training to recognize the text had too few characters in cursive in the training set. So they get misread, and I have to correct them, thus becoming hyperaware of these differences in the typesetting.
When I'm done, I will reconstruct the sheets and printing order to look at the distribution of spelling and other errors and typographical conventions. Exciting! #BookHistory #PrintHistory #AnalyticBibliography

While proofreading, I observed 2 distinct ways #Typography is realised in the 1674 #EthicaComplementoria print from Copenhagen. This happens when more than one worker is typesetting the print. Let's call them Villads & Emil. Villads has been doing this job for a while now; he routinely typesets all #Latin words w/ a beautiful cursive #Antiqua font. Emil, who's already having difficulty reading the #German text, uses #Fraktur for everything & only sets Latin proverbs in cursive. #BookHistory

A friend asks: "Is there a way that I can check how many pages a book has if I have its ISBN?" I should know, but don't, other than amazonianly. #bookhistory folks?

Early modern printers being early modern printers... Tracking "Ittem una historia de las llagas de San francisco 4o" to "Historia de las llagas de nuestro serafico padre San Francisco" by Antonio Daza wasn't too hard, but then there are 2 quarto eds in 1617 by diff. Spanish printers 🙄 #BookHistory

Huge #DigitalHumanities, #EarlyMusic, #BookHistory and #CulturalHeritage news! “The Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission” project, led by Dr. Jennifer Bain, just received a $2.5-million Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant!

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/08/29/dal-researcher-leads-unparalleled-global-project-to-empower-scho.html

#MusicalBookHistory #Histodons
@womenknowhistory
@histodons
@bookhistodons

Huge #DigitalHumanities, #EarlyMusic, #BookHistory and #CulturalHeritage news! “The Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission” project, led by Dr. Jennifer Bain, just received a $2.5-million Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant!

I am so excited to be one of the Co-Investigators of this grant as Co-Lead of the Manuscripts and Aretefacts Research Axis! 🤩

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/08/29/dal-researcher-leads-unparalleled-global-project-to-empower-scho.html

#MusicalBookHistory #Histodons
@womenknowhistory
@histodons
@bookhistodons

I've been able to identify four books in a row in an inventory down to their editions. Looking at the nicely complete database records just makes me happy 🥰 #BookHistory #Data

Oct. 11at 12pm I will be giving a talk on how I use digital methods in my research about booksellers and private libraries as part of IU Libraries' Wednesday Noon Digital Scholarship Series! It is hybrid, so if you're in Bloomington, IN stop by, but if you're not you can join from Zoom. And it will be recorded! Longer description and registration available here: https://events.iu.edu/libraries/event/1090581-1
#DH #BookHistory #Books #DigitalHumanities @bookhistodons @dh

Some #MusicalBookHistory for a Friday! From top left:

- A 17th C gradual in 4mo
- Another 17th C gradual, but in 1mo
- An early modern songbook in 32mo

Antwerp, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library 815850:1; 826128:2; C23965.

#BookHistory #EarlyModern #EarlyMusic #CulturalHeritage #Histodons #BookHistodons

@histodons @bookhistodons

so grateful for the #bookhistory and #mediastusies communities on here. Thanks, colleagues, for your brilliance and openness.

I thought I did an #introduction, but maybe that was way back when there were server issues at the very beginning? Anywhere, here I am:

Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia U, co-director Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, President @ Association of Jewish Libraries - I mostly post #hebrewmanuscripts and #jewishmanuscripts, Jewish #bookhistory, #dhjewish

A fascinatng article in today's NYT by historian Ellen Gruber Garvey about "Back Number Budd," whose collection of old newspapers was once said to be the largest in the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/obituaries/overlooked-no-more-robert-m-budd.html?unlocked_article_code=ve4NG8lqkOvpBJhb58YKYu1HjHOP7Yy1zlFKZEsbs0VWUWmZIARRZCj8Pyown-Y3A48OLQRIbOky4Brsw3O11FduEvkiU0xCdjm8IngUtff2AaYSvtzH6P3Qe_FliJoduZ2spqkikqtHKbQO9iOQTC7Q5UAyfRCem0MPk4WXKA1j1z7Bpg3EsEDyGuh7YhAPqS3eoWQMattr2Flst08ZHB2rTCNszLLGuP7IDoE_LQwZFiy_skdL13VmSZ2sJEdC55tz8OIXEGMy8PuXFElFtlYqTdcEyhZwjN4gpBVjB3hn-f55s0Ll0OTWvyGV-gfx_MiSHDFI5N9cZc-U26DWsxN0kCtk1d6_d9KWrw&smid=url-share #bookhistory #newspapers