Book Owners Online

BOO is an expanding directory of historical book owners, initiated by David Pearson, published by @livesandletters & shaped by its users. Tweets by Mhairi.

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It's #InternationalWomensDay2023 on March 8th, so we're going to be sharing women book owners throughout this month. To start us off here's the bookplate of Mary Booth (1704-1772), who was added to BOO through our recent #BOOathon! https://t.co/srCDuqOxbD

[CILIP Library and Information History Group @CILIP_LIHG]

We are delighted to announce (free!) tickets are now available to our 2023 online conference: Work in Progress: Growing Libraries, Evolving Libraries.

Check out the panels and get your ticket here: https://t.co/0JLpWoY1o1

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@JohnGillibrand Glad you're enjoying it!

[Dr Liam Sims @liamsims]

Copy of Polydore Vergil’s Adagiorum (Basel, 1521) shared by two Cambridge friends - Christopher Burlingham & Christopher Warner - both from Norfolk & both students @CaiusCollege in the 1580s. @theULSpecColl O*.3.25(C).

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New nonjuring and Jacobite book owner on BOO - Donald Macintosh, the last nonjuring priest in Scotland, who bequeathed 1200 volumes to the town of Dunkeld, many of which are full of additional Jacobite provenance! https://t.co/Wm1xVJhm3w

[Dr Emerson S. F. Richards @emstrich]

Provenance Twitter (is there such?): has anyone come across this stamp in other books?

Here, from a 1741 pamphlet printed in Florence.

[Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) @nhknowledge]

New article: Estate Management, Practical Knowledge, and Agency among Aristocratic Women.

In this article in the journal “Early Modern Women”, Anna Nilsson Hammar and Svante Norrhem discuss learning and knowledge circulation in the early modern period.

https://t.co/hg10llm7L6

[Harris Manchester @HMCOxford]

Today's #ArchiveFind, 'The True Doctrine of the New Testament', signed by its owner Anne Bayley in 1773. Anne was a member & supporter @CrossStChapel. Qs about our Archive? [email protected]
#BookHistory #HerBook @BookOwners #WednesdayWisdom

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New BOO entries for two 17th C. Scottish owners, father and son, Charles Lumsden/Lumisden!
https://t.co/JHKL09CJMp
https://t.co/ehJdkqYuGu

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The Arms of Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich (1525-1583), on vol.2 of the German reformer Phillip Melanchthon's 'Selectarum declamationum' NLS R.H.S.94 (BOO article coming soon!)