How Hungary’s 1,000-year-old library is tackling a beetle infestation to save 1 lakh books | World News https://www.byteseu.com/1197480/ #AncientBooks #BeetleInfestation #BenedictineMonastery. #BookDamage #BookRestoration #ClimateChange #CulturalPreservation #DrugstoreBeetles #HistoricalRecords #Hungary #LibraryConservation #MedievalCodices #NitrogenEnvironment #OldBooks #OxygenFreeTreatment #PannonhalmaArchabbey #RuleOfSaintBenedict #UnescoWorldHeritageSite
a stop-motion-picture from 1550!!! ChronoLink animation 
https://mprove.de/chrono?q=-0.4822,-0.68452&z=8.87&m=IFbtv1b10050049w-11&d=0&s=1&iiif-content=https://gallica.bnf.fr/iiif/ark:/12148/btv1b10050049w/manifest.json&c=h,wwwwww,4*wwww,wwwwwwww,wwwwww,wwwwwwwwwwwwww,a
Smart Drag’n’Drop #BnfGallica links from Mastodon to Chronoscope. 
Left: https://piaille.fr/@teol03/114461412476068322
Right: https://mprove.de/chrono?q=48.83269,2.37262&z=13.7&r=-33&t=48&m=HK1056&o=0.85&d=0&i=all
Shiny new notebook design: The Lilac Fairy, based on the 1844 published fairytale bundle book by Andrew Lang. Which you can read at the Gutenberg project and the Open Archive.
https://lydiavvinters.com/2025/04/10/grimoire-the-lilac-fairy/
#ScribesAndMakers 10, Book cover you like.
I'm absolutely smitten with Andrew Lang's original 1900s fairy book covers, charmingly illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. So much so, that I've taken to recreating and restoring the covers in detail so I can make them into notebooks and preserve them.
Currently, I have three restoration designs, and I am working on the lilac one. For which I really could use some more detailed images, so if anyone has one.
Auch Alexander von Humboldt hätte das Chronoscope World empfohlen! 
#ChronoLink https://mprove.de/chrono3d?q=0.03689,0.1284&z=9.28&m=IF1795641363-44&s=1&iiif-content=https://digital.iai.spk-berlin.de/viewer/api/v1/records/1795641363/manifest/
found an old book with German "kitchen songs" and updated my relevant blog entry:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-kitchen-song.html
Am browsing a Victorian sewing manual, as I am wont to do. Have one of those little decorative multi-tier tea service or cake stands taking up space in the cupboard, unused? Well, do the Victorians have a solution for you!
Embellish the heck out of the contraption and put some sewing things on it. 
Beautiful old magazine-books for four pence, over 130 years old. So nice!
"In the 1890s British publisher S. W. Partridge & Co. of London took the unusual step of publishing Isabella Alden’s novels as pamphlets." #Pansy
Printed by Hazell, Watson &Viney, Ld. London and Aylesbury.
Just read about them:
#OldBooks
https://isabellaalden.com/tag/four-girls-at-chautauqua/
“I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.”
— A very spiffy owner’s bookplate found inside a copy of My Three Years With Eisenhower: The Personal Diary of Captain Harry C. Butcher, 1946.
'Found this Wichita Eagle cookbook in my dad's old collection of cookbooks. Second printing 1962. That chocolate pie IS very good!'
https://www.reddit.com/r/wichita/comments/1h7jfvz/copyright_1961
Yesterday, looking for vague or definitive answers about the width and widening point of Victorian bicycling trousers, I also came across this book from the 1970s. "I'm just gonna leave this until morning", I thought, thus leaving myself a surprise because I forgot about it.
Shall delve into it and see if there's valuable data for us all in there!
Ladies, gentlemen and persons with gender beyond the ken of cis minds: I am firmly back on my bullshit, browsing Victorian sewing manuals.
Sure, I already found what I wanted, but I also have a dozen other tabs open!
OMG THIS IS AMAZING
#OldBooks
#AncientManuscripts
#medieval
#MedievalNerdery
#history
#literature
I'm unclear as to when this all happened, as the Medievalists article is undated (my phone doesn't display a date anyway). If I find out more, I'll amend.
Can't wait to see what tidbits of thought make their way from this find into the world at large.
https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/lost-medieval-library-found-romanian-church/
EDIT: further info, as promised! https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113533648115575353
I bought, and read, a book that was over 100 years old. It cost me £3.
Honestly I'm amazed by this. We must never not make books.
I love my e reader. But blimey. Paper books lasting 100+years and just being fine. Wonderful.
#bookstodon #books #oldBooks
I came across this delightful gem not long ago and had to share it. A lovely, tactile book, this Dictionary of Advertising & Printing was published in 1930 by Pitman.
