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Not over here much these days, but you can find my ongoing attempt at a doily-inspired, bookish advent calendar in these other formats:

Open book in strong shadow showing the back of a decoratively cutout page

IT'S MY Party... And I'll Stay (in this gloriously gilded dunghill*) If I Want To?

*By Dunghill, I probably mean piles of books, so if you have any birthday requests, lmk and I'll go looking for them!

Job, naked, in a surprisingly shiny pile of dung, with people shaking fingers at him

Which Merman or Mermaid Are You Today?

(They all live at the Newberry!
#OFMDS2)

Grid of 9 mostly square images of merfolk.

Pop-Up Propaganda?

USSR-printed book in Czech from 1982 normalizing socialism among cuddly animals who are just SO much happier living together after a big bear destroys their separate homes. Aren't they?

#MovableMonday #AnimalFarm @NewberryLibrary
https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/n9t4uq/alma9911642331105867

Last Day to See Wheels!

Near @NewberryLibrary? Stop in before 5 today to bid farewell to this fantastic mini exhibition about getting those wheels turning for research and fun!
#popup #interactive
https://www.newberry.org/calendar/wheels

Sky's the Limit!

I'll be starting as the (volunteer) director of the Movable Book Society in October, so I'm also premiering a new weekly series,
#MovableMonday!

The first one's a German 1909 postcard from the John High collection
@NewberryLibrary #popup #Movable #Balloons

Basque Broadsides!

Continuing this week's colorful trend with these 19th c lithograph sheets worthy of Sister Corita!

Part of the Bonaparte linguistics collection
at #NewberryLibrary.

Hand showing detail of very large, brightly colored broadsides

Tiny hand showing scale of very large brown portfolio holding the broadsides

@JeffreyJDean Yes, my point exactly. It looks like pre-19th c. paint rather than dye, but you never know...

Admiring the greenery at #NewberryLibrary... Now did I or did I not wash my hands?

Imposing looking books with green painted sides and gold and green brocade paper spines.

@libroraptor The 17th c Kilian/Remmelin sheets might give you more of a hint of the muscle behind the bones, especially in the Adam and Eve figures... here's a U Iowa copy with a digital resource:
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Ajmrbr_3007

Hands holding the paper body of a male figure open, showing lungs inside his chest

@libroraptor Too minimalistic?

16th c. Flap anatomy from the Wellcome Library showing rib cage

@libroraptor Hi there! You might have some luck with the image search on the Wellcome Library site: http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/2009/08/16th-century-anatomical-sheets-images.html?m=1 Those links are outdated, but "fugitive sheets" turns up quite a few in the search:

https://wellcomecollection.org/search/images?query=Fugitive+sheets

Now Open!
At the Newberry Library through December 30

Come visit us soon for "Seeing Race Before Race," a thoughtful and thought-provoking show about the ways race was depicted before 1800, from golden clockworks to playing cards, paintings to books and manuscripts. #SeeingRB4R #RB4R #AdlerPlanet

https://www.newberry.org/calendar/seeing-race-before-race

Generic Turkish figure with a turban on a horse, gilt, in front of a ragged sheet of playing cards on the wall.

Harangue Me Two Times

Harangue me two times baby
Harangue me twice today
Harangue me two times gryphon
I'm goin' away

Harangue me two times gryphon
French for tomorrow, Latin just for today
I'm goin' away

#NewberryLibrary https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma994952488805867

Title page of 1578 book with a gryphon printer device for Antoine Gryphus, title "Deux Harangues".

What Luck!

I got to play with this 16th century wheel of fortune lottery book with a rotating dial, implied dice, and a hidden compartment (which the Conservators there kindly opened up for me years ago) while I was @hab_wf! Here's the full video... https://youtu.be/dBJFllm54YI?si=4VnznmzUxwKUEYES

Secret compartment in the back of a 16th c. book, flap open.

Suzanne Karr Schmidt boosted:

Teachers across the country.can unpack a traveling trunk from Smithsonian Libraries, a bundle of interactive resources on themes like Latinx culture and US women’s history. https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2023/08/28/traveling-trunks-available-for-borrowing/

Two of the trunks, hard sided suitcases with foam lining, open to show the contents

@loyc @prachisrivas @hab_wf @carrideen

This sheet is part of a collection of 17th c. German death notices bound together, many of nobles. But this one, from Feb. 24, 1684, may be so unusually printed as it mourned Friedrich Georg Hamm, youngest son of the book printer at the "world famous" Julius University (Helmstedt). It's not clear how old FG was when he died, perhaps almost adult; his father, Georg Wolfgang Hamm, was 35. His mother, Anna Maria Matthies, is mentioned, and there's a poem.

Back to Black

This exceptionally rare 17th c. death notice is printed in white on black paper with a deep bite. Just ... stunning.

#NewAcq @hab_wf
#FoldoutFriday #MementoMori

Oh, Deer!

This 1590 hunting book (French but verteuscht) starts with the tracking basics, but ends up somehow with a cervine ghost on its hands... then there's the relic-like presentation of the disembodied horn trophies! #NewberryLibrary https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993571288805867

Woodcut of hunter with a spear bent over looking at deer tracks, including a truncated leg.

Detail of a set of deer tracks with a truncated leg on front to show what makes the tracks.

Woodcuts of pairs of antlers, with text and an ornate device below, presented as if relics.

Suzanne Karr Schmidt boosted:

What a great 45th International Summer Course at #HAB_WF! We have captured some impressions in a video: Stephanie Leitch, @DrKarrSchmidt and Michael Korey talk about the course, its contents and their favorite objects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJFllm54YI

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