Fiona Kells

Rare and interesting books; pulp fiction; manuscripts; bookbinding; art.

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

📚 Attention word nerds! We asked @latrobe's @StuartKells, a historian and bibliophile, to review the new book 'The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary'. https://t.co/TuWVQPARyW

[Aoife Clifford @aoifejclifford]

Local campaign launch for The Voice today! Campaigning, community and cupcakes!! @yes23au #VoiceToParliament

[Dr. JoAnn Palmeri @PalmeriJoAnn]

#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day📚🐉
“His Armes spred wider then a Dragons Wings” Henry VI, Part 1 (1632 #SecondFolio) paired with #dragon from 1589 Schlangenbuch by Conrad Gessner (#SpecColls @OU_Libraries) #ShakespeareSunday https://t.co/qmyULFUTST

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

First Folio of William Shakespeare, complete work digitized, more: https://t.co/2W1j2NLhvx

[MENAFN Business @MENAFN]

Philologists, Pedants And Obsessives: How Crowd-Sourcing Created The Oxford English Dictionary #MENAFN #Bitcoin #LatestNews #BreakingNews https://t.co/zJ4UHSyEW0

[Scott Hamilton @SDHamiltonVIC]

@StuartKells @citybasement My freaky find today 😊

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Worshipful Company of Shipwrights: charter dated 10 Sept. 1612. MORE: https://t.co/atZLMiT2l8

[Stella deVulder @stelladevulder]

Love this, more photos of bookshelves please - everyone not just @StuartKells #books #booklovers

[State Library Vic @Library_Vic]

❣️ The heart of the Dome!

The ornate wooden dais in the La Trobe Reading Room was once an elevated seating area for @Library_Vic attendants.

After more Library legends?

Read today's blog: https://t.co/usFAfpqzLZ
Wander: https://t.co/szJwSw6Djf

📷 https://t.co/RMFW21cQPX

[Stuart Kells @StuartKells]

Philologists, pedants and obsessives: how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English Dictionary ⁦@ConversationEDU⁩ ⁦@latrobe⁩ #LibraryPlanet #OED #booksaboutbooks https://t.co/Phz1ODgVPA

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

Frontispiece to 'The English Hermite, or Wonder of this Age, Being a Relation of the Life of Roger Crab' (London, 1655)

Crab went vegan aged 20 in 1641. He was also a celibate & known as a herb doctor. He advised patients to avoid alcohol & meat.

He died Sept 11 1680 #otd
(BM)

[Stuart Kells @StuartKells]

Nice find at City Basement Books today ⁦@citybasement⁩ #Melbourne #Bloomsbury

[Marlene T. Diaz @academicknight]

Since #medievaltwitter is trending...
@britishlibrary

[Ron Clinton @ron_clinton]

KODIAK!, Malachy McCoy, 1978. “…demented & insatiable hunger.”
@MuchAdoAboutNil @StefanDz11 @joelansdale @atters1000 @Pulpcurry @memizon @lay_jim @Weird_Friction @Sulli864 @Charrlygirl @MightStephen @SSheil @GavinWoltjer @OzNoir @kresby2 @WilliamTchuggs @StuartKells @hitch_josh

[Ennius @red_loeb]

A beautiful initial 'A'(rma) at the beginning of the Aeneid
#Vergiliusbnfmslatin16236
BnF MS Latin 16236; Publius Vergilius Maro, Eglogae, Georgicae, Aeneis cum glossa; 11th century (first quarter); France; f.61r @GallicaBnF

[George Palmer @george_palmer7]

A surprise guest today at Churchill College!

[Stuart Kells @StuartKells]

The library at night. #LibraryPlanet

[Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristinesr]

A beautiful copy of Chaucer’s ‘Treatise on the Astrolabe’ alongside an example @ParkerLibCCCC

Written in the 15th century, lovely script and paper, and largely based on the work of Ibn as-Saffar.

#IslamicManuscripts #EnglishManuscripts #AnchorlessBodies #EmiiAlrai

[Allie Alvis (mostly on 🦋 now) @book_historia]

Me trying to figure out what to post on which app when