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Exciting News! 📚 My textbook "Ancient Art History: The Essential Book" preliminary edition is now available! 🌟 Dive into the world of ancient art with this comprehensive companion. Whether you're a student, scholar, or art enthusiast, there's something for everyone! Grab your copy today and let's explore the wonders of ancient civilizations together. 🏛️✨ #ancientart #arthistory #newbook #excitingtimes; #baruchcollege; #cuny; #cognellaacademicpublishing;

In celebration of earth day, I highly recommend this beautiful book. Learn about all the Amazing beautiful colors of earth 🌍 🌈🌿 # botanicalcolor https://lnkd.in/gNUykz9F

This week, the #CULconservation team will share their top 10 manuscripts from the the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries Project. Today's pick is one for the detail lovers: a Cistercian manuscript with an exposed medieval binding structure [CUL MS Add. 5368]. See it close up here: https://lnkd.in/ewKq6aEG All the manuscripts featured this week have received detailed conservation treatment during the #CuriousCures Project. #bookconservation #medievalmanuscripts #manuscriptconservation #paperconservation

Any book can be transformed into a digital masterpiece. Even the most delicate, ancient texts are no exception. With these 10 steps, digitization can safeguard history and catapults it into the digital era:

| Advice on the design of character | By Paul Horgan (1903—1995), twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History. "Design determines more than outline or limit. It governs proportions, and it illustrates growth in the sequence of events in fiction, and by its control of raw material it casts significance upon what it reveals, and permits the parts of the whole to exist together in harmony and justice. It makes atmosphere possible by making a segment of life seem as complete as life itself. If a good book is like a tree, then character is the genus, and design is the structure which embraces air, makes leafage, stretches its branches as far as it can and no farther, and in any season, stands clear in anatomy, whether bare in winter or clothed in full summer." From the essay originally published in America on May 25, 1957, titled "Character and Form in Creative Writing." #writingadvice #novelist #thenovel #storytime #inspirationalquotes #quotesonwriting #paulhorgan #pulitzerprize #historicalfiction

| Advice on the design of character | By Paul Horgan (1903—1995), twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History. "Design determines more than outline or limit. It governs proportions, and it illustrates growth in the sequence of events in fiction, and by its control of raw material it casts significance upon what it reveals, and permits the parts of the whole to exist together in harmony and justice. It makes atmosphere possible by making a segment of life seem as complete as life itself. If a good book is like a tree, then character is the genus, and design is the structure which embraces air, makes leafage, stretches its branches as far as it can and no farther, and in any season, stands clear in anatomy, whether bare in winter or clothed in full summer." From the essay originally published in America on May 25, 1957, titled "Character and Form in Creative Writing." #writingadvice #novelist #thenovel #storytime #inspirationalquotes #quotesonwriting #paulhorgan #pulitzerprize #historicalfiction

As a test of the hypothesis that the text of the Voynich manuscript is derived from source documents in medieval Galician: here are my early thoughts on the differences between two editions of Crónica Troiana: the Martis manuscript of 1373 and the first printed edition of 1490. https://lnkd.in/dzJce6b3 #Voynich #Galician.

Kathryn Rudy's "Piety in Pieces" is a truly fascinating monograph detailing how the medieval manuscript was lovingly pieced together throughout the object's enduring history. Adorned by an increasingly literate medieval laity in the 14th-15th centuries, one's Book of Hours went through revisions, updates, and personalizations (or depersonalizations) from owner to owner. The ability to alter one's Book of Hours changed forever with the advent of the print-press and the shift away from the "modular method" of manuscript assembly. Rudy's writing style is informative yet casual enough to make a highly academic text both enjoyable and consistently engaging. "Piety in Pieces" is a book I would recommend to anyone interested in the medieval period at large; but, especially those who admire the capability of a manuscript to serve as a memory receptacle. My own copy of this text is now, as medieval readers may have once done to their own copies, covered in annotations (and a sad attempt to replicate the manicule).

PRAISE FOR Murmuration by Erika Saunders With incredible scope and stunning lyricism, Erika Saunders’s poems intertwine the sea, stone, space, with a lens always focused on love: “we are the waves / crashing, we are the castle walls / we are both the seal / and the shark stranded there / together on the moonlit beach.” Erika’s poems argue for the interconnectedness of all things. She examines cells with microscopic precision “as cell recognizes cell and pulls / together, tugged by the moon rhythm / of salt tides to rebuild the (w)hole.” And she pulls out her telescope to examine the cosmos: “calcified remains of dying / stars litter the watery surface / like cosmic confetti.” These poems illuminate mystery, and point towards meaning: “If we can translate the murmur / into words, we’ll understand / destiny.” –Jodi Andrews, Skin Reverberations Erika Saunders’ poetry collection, Murmuration, is a paean to the gorgeous rushing swoop and torque of organic cycles: the baroque spiraling of starlings in murmuration; the departures and returns of birds in migration; seasonal birth and decay; gestational cycles; the ebb and flow of tides; the push and pull of the human heart. Here, the ecological interconnectedness of life on our shifting planet is celebrated as exquisitely precious, fleeting, precarious, and infinitely creative. This is a wonderful volume, in which Saunders’ attentive presence within small, seemingly ordinary moments seeded in time and place emerges as both an act of grounding and an ecstatic surrender to infinitude. –Lee Ann Roripaugh, Lee Ann Roripaugh Author of tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 Please share/please repost #flpauthor #preorder #AwesomeCoverArt #poetrybook #read #poems

Did you know? 🕰️ When the Domesday Book was compiled in AD 1086, the concept of paper was still foreign to Britain. Instead, the pages were made from parchment, which is a material crafted from the skin of animals like sheep. 🐑 Incredibly, to create enough parchment for the pages of this historic document, between 500 to 800 sheep were needed! Imagine the labour and resources involved before the advent of paper, which later revolutionised information sharing and record-keeping. History has shown that paper plays a vital role in preserving knowledge and shaping civilisation, but it wasn't until much later that paper found its way to England. 📚 #History #Papermaking #FunFact #DomesdayBook #Parchment #UKHistory #CPI