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[Kees Teszelszky  @Teszelszky]

One of the first #earlymodern '#lost #child' advertisements, 1646. @DelpherNL @KB_Nederland #verhalenvoornu https://t.co/yPrHwSxBRY See also: Arthur der Weduwen and @APettegree, The Dutch Republic and the Birth of Modern Advertising, https://t.co/WihhjVSg15

[Mitch Fraas @MitchFraas]

No surprise this went for far over estimate. A document box with 18thc. American mercantile documents - folded and tied in packets for storage: https://t.co/eDbLPvf6e9

[Marsh's Library @MarshsLibrary]

Were smiley-face emojis a 'thing' in the sixteenth century?
This was spotted by our youngest helper, Nina (8), yesterday....

[Marsh's Library @MarshsLibrary]

They've made it so difficult to get into this #rarebook by leaving the wrapping on, you'd think they don't want us reading it.

[The Hannah Arendt Network @ArendtNetwork]

Posted withregram • @Arendt_Center

Happy #MarginaliaMonday! This week’s edition comes from Arendt’s copy of Immanuel Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason.” #HannahArendt #humanities #marginalia #HAC https://t.co/KOImrOnypt

[Cambridge UL Special Collections @theULSpecColl]

Another of our lovely researchers (@samuscript) has blogged for us about her #research into the work of the C17 #Arabist William Bedwell & his donations to @theUL. A fascinating view of how scholarship worked nearly four centuries ago. https://t.co/8UEUW3ELDo [pictured MS Hh.5.7]

[BL Printed Heritage Collections @BLprintheritage]

Manicules; children’s scribbles and doodles; “Cat Nuns”, Christ as a Lion; snails (obvs); censorship of Copernicus; thoughts from Shakespeare on drunkenness; Wynkyn de Worde’s inky fingers?
☞ *Wonderful* video post from @Library_Vic on #marginalia
https://t.co/ew93vyalOg

[Cambridge UL Special Collections @theULSpecColl]

Some excellent marginal #doodles (f. 31r) in this printed herbal, compiled in the C14 by the Italian #medical writer Matthaeus Silvaticus & printed in #Venice in 1499. Turn the pages at your leisure @CamDigLib https://t.co/9zWj09FsV7 #marginalia #incunabula

[The Winthrop Project @WinthropProject]

Once more for #marginaliamonday: check out our new article @PastPresentSoc on 3D-reading and the Winthrop Family in Early America 👇#twitterstorians #bookhistory #historyofreading

[Michał Choptiany @MichalChoptiany]

@ReIReStudies #marginaliamonday #Jesuit #BUW @UniWarszawski

[Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College @Arendt_Center]

For this week's edition of #MarginaliaMonday: Hannah Arendt reflects on happiness and the aim of politics in her edition of 'Nicomachean Ethics'.

#HannahArendt #BardCollege

[The Winthrop Project @WinthropProject]

We are delighted to announce that our article, "Passing The Book: Cultures of Reading in the Winthrop Family, 1580–1730" is now out @PastPresentSoc : https://t.co/CASHuM6Cc7 📚👈✍️

[The Winthrop Project @WinthropProject]

Special thanks to Jean Bauer, Alex Bevilacqua, Ann Blair, Katherine Grandjean, David Hall, Stuart McManus, William Newman, Nick Popper, Sarah Rivett, Sarah Ross, David Sacks, @neilsaf , Bill Sherman, Arnoud Visser, Alexandra Walsham, Wendy Warren and @waltwould for feedback!

[AnnotatedBooksOnline @AboBooks]

Read #Erasmus through his censors' eyes! New on ABO: Arias Montano's master copies, thanks to Sabbe Lib Leuven.... https://t.co/zZ8grQ6eZc

[AnnotatedBooksOnline @AboBooks]

Read #Erasmus through his censors' eyes! New on ABO: Arias Montano's master copies, thanks to Sabbe Lib Leuven. #marginalia @ICTS_KULeuven

[AnnotatedBooksOnline @AboBooks]

Retweeted Jaap Geraerts (@JaapGeraerts):

New AOR blog: Matt Beros on Dee's copy of Firmicus Maternus'... https://t.co/gYArY0o9Ma

[Jaap Geraerts @JaapGeraerts]

New AOR blog: Matt Beros on Dee's copy of Firmicus Maternus' Astronomicon! https://t.co/6DX4godUsx #marginaliamonday #earlymodern

[AnnotatedBooksOnline @AboBooks]

Retweeted OUHOS Collections (@OUHOSCollection):

#GalileosWorld Image of the Day: Page from 1506 Pierre d'Ailly... https://t.co/0HCMKRRSSq