That's the "Breaking News" reference of early modern Europe: "the Newest of the Newest".

You see a German news pamphlet of 1618 with the meta title "Nova Novorvm Novissima ..." (in English: "the Newest of the Newest") followed by the title of the very news item ("Das ist Zeytung von ...").

Access: https://digital.ub.uni-leipzig.de/mirador/index.php

A catchy phrase that made sure everyone noticed that you are selling something worthy helped selling news. The news business was always a business. #NewsHistory #Histodons

Reading a #newspaper in the past, was for centuries often a candlelight experience. And fire was potentially dangerous for papers, as you can see here: a tiny part burned while reading this paper copy of the Hamburgische Unpartheyische Correspondent in September 1794. Fun fact: the burnt part fits perfectly into the lion’s vignette logo of the newspaper, and makes the lion a fire spitting animal. #NewsHistory #histodons

Frage an die deutschsprachige #histodons -Community: Wie normal/selten war es in den 1910er und 1920er Jahren im deutschen Kaiserreich und in den Anfängen der Weimarer Republik, als Privatperson Zeitungsperiodika zu sammeln und zu archivieren? Für Hinweise auf private Zeitungssammlungen oder deren Erforschung bin ich dankbar. #Presseforschung #Mediengeschichte #Kommunikationsgeschichte #NewsHistory

Here are the details and links:

The periodical titled "Relationes curiosae oder Denckwürdigkeiten der Welt" and was published by Happel in #Leipzig and #Hamburg. Here is a digital copy if you are interested in seeing the motto vignette on a full page:
http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=periodica/ae-73-v1&pointer=4

The debate about the pros and cons of news media started in German speaking Europe as early as the first printed newspaper were available - that is early seventeenth century. #NewsHistory #History

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Selling the news was always a business that needed distribution strategies. Here, you see a mobile seller of early modern printed news. Let's focus on the details of this image, a woodcut print of 1631 covering a small pamphlet published in German speaking Europe during the middle of the #ThirtyYearsWar, in a thread for #bookhistory and #newshistory experts, and of course all #histodons in general.

Access the digital copy of the pamphlet @SLUBDresden here: https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/86300/1

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The road to success for an author was directed towards the inspirational Mount Helicon. The road's name ("Sentimenteele Weg" - sentimental way) however is mocking the author's sensibility on this creativity path. Fun detail, #bookhistory: a "brieven laan" (letter avenue) nearby. This refers to the postal networks of the time: Amsterdam was a well connected hotspot of the postal services, and a city full of letters. #NewsHistory

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The road to success for an author was directed towards the inspirational Mount Helicon. The road's name ("Sentimenteele Weg" - sentimental way) however is mocking the author's sensibility on this creativity path. Fun detail, #bookhistory: a "brieven laan" (letter avenue) nearby. This refers to the postal networks of the time: Amsterdam was a well connected hotspot of the postal services, and a city full of letters. #NewsHistory

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Of course, when entering the port city of Amsterdam, as many ships did on a daily basis, you had to be aware of the dangerous "Nonsens-Gebucht Klippen": the cliffs of nonsense rumors! As a hotspot of the #earlymodern European news networks, Amsterdam was full of rumors that were present in songs, talks, printed images and texts. #NewsHistory

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Of course, when entering the port city of Amsterdam, as many ships did on a daily basis, you had to be aware of the dangerous "Nonsens-Gebucht Klippen": the cliffs of nonsense rumors! As a hotspot of the #earlymodern European news networks, Amsterdam was full of rumors that were present in songs, talks, printed images and texts. #NewsHistory

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Call for papers: "La presse périodique suisse dans le contexte médiatique européen / Die periodische Presse in der Schweiz im medialen Kontext Europas" (April 18-19 2024).

https://www.sgeaj.ch/aktualitaet/call-for-papers/die-periodische-presse-in-der-schweiz/

#MediaHistory #NewsHistory #CommuncationHistory #BookHistory

Call for papers: "La presse périodique suisse dans le contexte médiatique européen / Die periodische Presse in der Schweiz im medialen Kontext Europas" (April 18-19 2024).

https://www.sgeaj.ch/aktualitaet/call-for-papers/die-periodische-presse-in-der-schweiz/

#MediaHistory #NewsHistory #CommuncationHistory #BookHistory

All this and more is #bookhistory nowadays: #newshistory, journalism from handwritten to printed to digital news transmission, #maphistory, visual mapmaking by humans on whatever material, #printinghistory, using global printing technologies, #manuscript usages ...(and more). Too much, isn't it? Remember the riot reference?