Abigail Connick

On a quest to uncover the voices of the past through books & manuscripts. See what else I am exploring: @yirahphoto

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Thei did the Mash! Thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smasshe!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on most fast
- Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

[UCLA Library @UCLALibrary]

Library Special Collections fellowships are BACK! Applications for the 2023 fellowship cycle are due Oct. 31. We encourage grad students, early career scholars, artists and the public to apply. #UCLALSC

Learn more at 🔗https://t.co/mhDmJjnnmi🔗

[Juliet Sperling @julietsperling]

Please stop what you are doing and look at Chiura Obata's gorgeous woodcut prints of lakes in Yosemite, c. 1930

[Gastronomic History @GastroHistory]

'Maccarony cheese' has been around a long time.

[Connor Dunning @CDunning929]

Therapist: “How are you this week?”

Me: “Steve came back to Blues Clues and now I’m an emotional wreck.”

Therapist: *Pulls out handy dandy notebook*

[Smith College Special Collections @archivalagents]

How delicious is this juxtaposition of centuries-old rare books and the ultra modern compact shelving that holds them in #NewNeilson!?

Photo by Jim Gipe.

[typepunchmatrix @typepunchmatrix]

✨Come with me, and you’ll be, in a world of pure imagination✨

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

In today's blogpost, we reveal the discovery by @CDrieshen of a lost medieval miracle collection

https://t.co/W9BwUPtIId
#HarleyMSS

[Abigail Connick @bibliosleuth]

🤓👌🤦🏻‍♀️

[Stephanie J. Lahey, PhD 🇨🇦 @SJLahey]

How did the Vikings describe the monasteries they plundered?

By burning all their #books, parchment, and pens.

(Get it? Describe = de-scribe. 😆
…
😶 I’ll show myself out.)

#Puns #Manuscripts #ManuscriptJokes

[Smith College Special Collections @archivalagents]

Our reading room remains closed while we move, but our copies of Kelmscott's Chaucer still wanted to join in on today's #KelmscottPressDay fun. Here's to being 125 years young! [LINK] https://t.co/OATnZvYrYj.

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Panoramic photograph of the San Francisco business district, 1906. File: https://t.co/Y7uwgUSys8

[The National Archives @UkNatArchives]

Stop scrolling.

We’ve found something a little bit special in the archive and we had to share it with you all …

[Kristof Selleslach @kristofselle]

Births and deaths, journeys, but also the dates when she stopped #breastfeeding her children, Theresa Mathilda Schilders noted everything down in her #almanacs. Read all about it in my latest blog post at https://t.co/YbdGRqvetQ

#18thCentury #Antwerp #PlantinMoretus

[A V Hudson @wyrdwritere]

Scribes debating the worst weekday at the bottom of a page, c 1564:

“A dinnerless Tuesday is a cold thing, Domhnall- right before Christmas too!”
"Not colder than Wednesday, Manus..."
"I think worse of Saturday, Domhnall, + Monday"

BL Egerton 88, f82v https://t.co/Ks6Rzg56aG

[Abigail Connick @bibliosleuth]

Cataloging for @archivalagents Watermarks by Riemke Ensing w/ prints by Claire Van Vliet. The prints are vitreographs, so naturally I had to look up what those were. They’re illustrations drawn on a roughened piece of glass & then printed (w/add’l steps in btwn.) 👌 #bibliophile

[Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz (she/her) @nkivilcimyavuz]

One of my biggest accomplishments in 2020 (second only to sewing and donating hundreds of masks via @masksnoworg) was writing about a manuscript from the Spencer Library collections of @kulibraries every month.

Find them all here: https://t.co/TGu3GnuvC1

Safe reading! ✨📚😷

[British Museum @britishmuseum]

We journey deep underground to the Museum’s X-ray lab with Scientist @danoflynn to take a closer look at six objects – including the Discobolus sculpture – and learn what X-rays can reveal about them: https://t.co/ScnilVFWAN #BritishScienceWeek

[Fine Books Magazine @finebooks]

New Book Shines Light on Early Color Prints https://t.co/azT9FTrfHY via @finebooks @shedworking @leusavage @britishmuseum