Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social | Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
The crest of Jesus College Cambridge, with the rebus (a cockerel) of its founder Bishop Alcock of Ely, in John Scott’s ‘Foundation of the Universitie of Cambridge’, written in the 1620s and based in part on John Caius’s printed history of the University (1574). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social MS Gg.5.21.
The gilt arms of Thomas Morton (1564-1659), latterly Bishop of Durham. He gave £600 for a new but never realised new University Library in 1638 & gave nearly 500 books to St John’s Cambridge. This copy of the ‘Talmudis Babylonici codex Middoth’ (Leiden, 1630) is @theulspeccoll.bsky.social K*.6.16(D)
An engraved vignette showing a scholar in his study: books lining the walls & busts looking down. From the title page to Charles de Rochefort’s ‘Histoire naturelle des îles Antilles de l’Amérique’ (Lyon, 1667), on the geography & natural history of the Caribbean. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social S.5.65-66
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Dr James Alexander CameronSt Peter, Barton-Upon-Humber, Lincolnshire. The surviving tower and baptistery block of rendered rubble with sandstone dressing which pre-date (... obviously) the Early Norman belfry of coursed limestone. Likely built as a cemetery chapel inside the manorial enclosure c. 1010-5.
CILIP (by which I mean hard-working librarians on the ground) does a lot of great work but do have a peek at its new website if you want an AI-based giggle...
AlanFrickerNew CILIP website is a mess of AI slop images. Check out the images of senior professionals and try and imagine the prompt that generated them. All backed by walls of fake books that look like the ones sold by the yard to furnish pubs www.cilip.org.uk/learn-develo...
