BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art

Exploring interconnections of book history and art history. Independent scholars in alliance with the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Univ. of Penn

[BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art @BasiraProject]

@ZacharyLesser @whitneytrettien @upennlib Thanks for making this so available. You give us a sense of sitting at your elbow as you sort & sift & discern. Reminds me of an Egger’s book title: “What Is the What?” Finding & constructing meaning. Lovely.

[BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art @BasiraProject]

@lisafdavis @MedievalAcademy very very well-deserved, Lisa. Congratulations!

[Andrew Prescott @Ajprescott]

British Library announces that it is aiming to restore access to digitised manuscripts by September 2024: https://t.co/2Ofo9VMVgW

[The Renaissance Society of America @RSAorg]

👀 New content is up on the @RSAorg Digital Resources page! Have a look: https://t.co/oEGCrHxRAh @maxson_brian @angeladressen @MaddenAmanda #RenTwitter #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #twitterstorians

[Reading Women @ReadingWomenSDU]

Lots of reading women at Art Institute of Chicago #RenSA24

[BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art @BasiraProject]

Everyone on the BASIRA team thanks the RSA for giving us the opportunity to present our workshop on our database of book imagery. Wonderful conference; deep & wise-ranging book history. Kudos!

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@RSAorg It’s grand to be here: looking forward to many fabulous presentations.

[Enrico Engelmann @milanofotografo]

#Legnano #Milan #Italy: Interior of the main chapel of the Basilica of San Magno. Exif, full size img: https://t.co/ByfIv2OHrC
Read more: https://t.co/x3VaxFQWQ4
#Lombardia #Lombardy #renaissance #rinascimento #art #arte #Kunst @MedRenaissArt @RENAISSARTS @BasiraProject @Italia

[DCCommentaries @DCComm]

Great to see that The Classical Review will start publishing reviews of digital classics project.
https://t.co/FixORb5XTy

[KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @SpColl_KULeuven]

We start the new year with a gift: a list of 20 open access books on the Middle Ages from https://t.co/5y5HsIwEWy. Lovers and researchers of manuscripts will certainly be interested in the second title, volume 1 of "Touching Parchment" by Kathryn Rudy. https://t.co/HJn0rWH2tJ

[Andrew Pettegree @APettegree]

Delighted to have received a CBE in the New Year Honours List. With thanks as ever to all my colleagues in the St Andrews Book History Group, whose companionship and intellectual engagement has made writing such an enjoyable experience.

[BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art @BasiraProject]

@YaleClassicsLib @upennlib @herman_nick_ Come and explore and send us your ideas and suggestions!

[Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) 📖🔍 @universalstc]

NEW UPDATE BLOG! Click here to read about our efforts to expand the USTC to 1700, this time with new data from the Northern Netherlands: https://t.co/k7FrUrDcev

[Digital Scriptorium @dscriptorium2_0]

Excited to announce the publication of this article in the Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage by the DS 2.0 team on building and implementing the DS Catalog prototype. Great summary of the 2-yr @US_IMLS -funded DS 2.0 project. @mikko_koho @lpc359 @dpwbeast

[Ennius @red_loeb]

A joy not a burden
#NationalBookLoversDay
BL Add 15275, f.141r @BLMedieval

[Dave Hansen @DigLibCopyright]

Fantastic move by @cambridgeUP to make OA publishing easier

https://t.co/rivSNNp7VM

[KnowledgeRights21 @KR21org]

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Delighted to say that our two reports on Author Rights Retention and Secondary Publishing Rights are being presented this morning to European national open science coordinators @CoNOSC_Council #OA #OS #SPR

[BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art @BasiraProject]

Looking forward to 3 days exploring #DH, computing & humanities, ACH2023 https://t.co/CRjH2Xc7fF 29 June til 1 July. Check it out.

[BASIRA Project:Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art @BasiraProject]

@sims_mss Web Gallery of Art: "... Mary Cleophas, is seated at Virgin's feet with James the Less, Simon, Thaddeus and Joseph, seen ... as her sons. A manuscript book, upside down on Joseph's legs, carries an illumination representing King David, an allusion to Christ's ancestors." ???