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AmazingMeagen

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Cassandra, immigrant, book & paper conservator, information magpie, culture sampler, flâneur, more tea and cake, please.
#Conservation #CollectionCare #BookConservation #Archives​ Searchable
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AmazingMeagen, to bookhistodons
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Happy #OakAppleDay

The key ingredient in #IronGallInk with which so much of Western European history is written.

Images: Lambeth Palace Library, Court of Arches/Bbb series

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Manuscript in iron gall ink on parchment with hand drawn notary mark in shape of a type of Celtic knot.
Manuscript in iron gall ink with hand drawn notary mark with diamond and curving shapes
Manuscript in iron gall ink with hand drawn notary mark in shape of a diamond with flourishing at each corner.

AmazingMeagen, to random
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A beautiful English summer afternoon
and ...

possible start to a fight.

#AfternoonTea

AmazingMeagen, to bookstodon
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A very good short story by Gillian Flynn.

The GrownUp

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AmazingMeagen, to random
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Help please.
Looking at #emf2024 camping locations. Which camping area(s) is/are considered quiet?

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vicgrinberg, to animals
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Being an adult means realizing that while you love cat-sitting, having an actual cat will not work for you, because OMG, a week and there is so much cat hair! Everywhere!

A black and white cat licking my hand.

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my life

#SerialCatSitting

masukomi, to random
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people: What's a good paper stock to use for a softcover binding? For me cheap and easy to acquire is more important than good looks.

I just want to make printed versions of long PDFs (or collections of) so that I don't have to read them on a screen.

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Ephemeral: standard photocopier paper

Archival: archival+lignan free

Premium archival: Ingres

dohanian, to histodons
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Can anyone recommend some things to read about how people (in any culture) used to find information among manuscript miscellanies when those miscellanies didn’t have tables of contents? Anything in English, French, , or Turkish would work. @histodons @medievodons @librarians

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The introduction...
Index
Dennis Duncan

AmazingMeagen,
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@histodons @medievodons @librarians

One of the amazing things about working with collections at #LambethPalaceLibrary is that you can take yourself up to the stores to see a figure featured in a volume.

In this case it is the decoration featuring Grosseteste in our MS522 described in Dennis Duncan's Ind x, A History of the.

#library
#CollectionCare

A person leaning over a bound manuscript on a desk in a reading room.

AmazingMeagen, to bookhistodons
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The season of hosted classes started at #LambethPalaceLibrary this week.

#MedievalManuscripts & Documents for #University_College_London

#Archives
#MiseEnPage
#Colophon

@medievodons
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@forestfern @medievodons @histodons @bookhistodons

Good question. They are a bean bag construction. The volumes need to be in good stable condition for me to use them as they can cause damage to particular types of bindings.

#CollectionCare

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On the conservation bench today, yes on Saturday for our once a month weekend opening, is a #book from 1552 for which I am writing an exhibition condition report.

The left endleaf is paper #ManuscriptWaste. Beneath the pastedown and just visible at the tail is a parchment manuscript #fragment.

Lambeth Palace Library
1552.1**

#CollectionCare
#BookConservation
#OnTheConservationBench
#Exhibitions

@histodons #histodons
@bookhistodons
@fragmentarium
#manuscriptfragment

Book open at left endleaf that is manuscript waste rotated 90 degrees. Manuscript is iron gall ink. Right page is the title page The Christen State of Matrymonye
Parchment stub made of recycled manuscript waste.

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On the conservation bench today is a #book from 1665 for which I am writing a condition report and applying a couple very small paper repairs.

Sometimes I get to spend time looking closely at wonderful things. In this case, preparing for the next exhibition.

Lambeth Palace Library
A82.6/M29

#CollectionCare
#BookConservation
#OnTheConservationBench
#Exhibitions

@histodons #histodons
@bookhistodons

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@dohanian @bookhistodons
Good question.

I professionally don't know but I've heard of people batch processing images so possibly.

Hoping the fediverse will provide an answer.

AmazingMeagen, to bookstodon
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A day of finishing things including #Middlemarch by #GeorgeEliot

#bookstodon
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PMKeeling, to history
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Sobering piece on the effects of the British #library cyber attack. Staff have had to get new passports, PhDs are on hold, researchers' careers are affected. Every historian I know has been impacted.

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/british-library-cyber-hack-rhysida-ransomware-tom-holland-b1131623.html

@histodons
#histodons

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@PMKeeling @histodons
Whilst the story mentions staff are changing bank details and passports, someone should ask whether the organisation is supporting the employees with doing these things...🔎

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On the conservation bench today are #ArchitecturalDrawings on tracing paper.

These particular items are being prepared to enable cataloguing as their current state is too vulnerable for handling.

Lambeth Palace Library
Chancel plans ECE/11/4/791

#CollectionCare
#Presevation
#OnTheConservationBench

@histodons

AmazingMeagen, to books
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2023 Reading list:
-A Stroke of Malice, A L Huber
-Unwell Women, E Cleghorn
-The Death of Lucy Kyte , N Upson
-Assistant to the Villain, H N Maehrer
-The Tropic of Serpents, M Brennan
-Black AF History, M Harriot
-A Power Unbound, F Marske
-The Maiden, K Foster
-Fly Girls, K O'Brien
-Mary and Mr. Eliot, M Trevelyan & E W Farrar
-The Bell Jar, S Plath
-Fear in the Sunlight, N Upson
-A Natural History of Dragons, M Brennan
-Grave Robbery, D Raybourn

1/n

#Reading
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2023 Reading list:
-Deal with the Devil , K Rocha
-An Artless Demise, AL Huber
-A Brush With Shadows, AL Huber
-Echo Burning, L Child
-Two for Sorrow, N Upson
-A Suitable Boy, V Seth
-In Need of a Good Wife, K O'Connor McNees
-As Death Draws Near, A L Huber
-We Begin at the End, C Whitaker
-The Librarian Spy, M Martin
-The Bookseller of Florence, R King
-The Shadow Cabinet, J Dawson
-An American Beauty, S Abe
-City of Jasmine, D Raybourn

2/n

#Reading

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2023 Reading list:
-The Island of Missing Trees, E Shafak
-Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, J Q. Sutanto
-Her Majesty's Royal Coven, J Dawson
-A Power Unbound, F Marske
-Rubyfruit Jungle, R M Brown
-A Sinister Revenge, D Raybourn
-Mortal Arts, A L Huber
-Marple: Agatha Christie, N Alderman, L Bardugo
-Queen Lucia, E. F. Benson
-The Second Mrs. Astor, S Abe

  • Parisians, G Robb
    -The Anatomist's Wife, A L Huber
    -Lessons in Chemistry, B Garmus

3/n

#Reading

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2023 Reading list:
-The People on Platform 5, C Pooley
-The White Lady, J Winspear
-Born to Be Posthumous, M Dery
-From the Mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
-Angel with Two Faces, N Upson
-The Importance of Being Interested, R Ince
-A Sinister Revenge, D Raybourn
-How to Kill Your Family, B Mackie
-Act of Oblivion, R Harris
-Die Trying, L Child
-A Certain Darkness , A L Huber
-Agatha Christie, L Worsley
-Cloud Cuckoo Land, A Doerr

4/n

#Reading

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@bookstodon
2023 Reading list:
-Killers of a Certain Age, D Raybourn
-Killing Floor, L Child
-Trespasses, L Kennedy
-The Bullet That Missed, R Osman
-The Personal Librarian, M Benedict
-A Restless Truth, F Marske
-The Man Who Died Twice, R Osman
-The Last Bookshop in London, M Martin
-The Satsuma Complex, B Mortimer
-1989, V McDermid
-Mrs Death Misses Death, S Godden

5/End

#Reading

AmazingMeagen, to random
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Spring learning events for the
London & South region of Society of Bookbinders are now open to members, non-members, UK based and international. Join us to learn about:

  • Secret Belgian Bookbinding (online)
  • Popups (online)
  • Decorated Papers (in person)
  • Hakochitsu, Japanese box cases (in person)
  • Contemporary bookbinding decoration techniques (in person)

Register online: register: https://forms.gle/vhroGQ2MSy1nxdMP9
#bookbinding #archives #bookart

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An insight into preparing a giant Romanesque bible for an international exhibition loan including imaging and documentation at #LambethPalaceLibrary
#Manuscripts
#IlluminatedManuscripts

https://monumentoffame.org/2023/12/15/a-giant-task-digitising-the-lambeth-bible/

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@IHR_History

AmazingMeagen, to histodons
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Some lucky paper conservator will get to figure out how to remove light weight oil from tracing paper. Quite the conundrum since oil is used to make tracing paper transparent. Also, big dimensional changes if treated with water.

Please don't store your architecturally significant plans in a basement beneath paint tins and cleaning/mechanical repair supplies (before being accessioned).

#CollectionCare
#PaperConservation
#ConditionSurvey

@histodons

Grey/beige tracing paper with moving oil between layers.

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My talk "Reading unreadable special collections with X-Ray Microtomography" for The Rare Books and Special Collections Group is now online:

https://youtu.be/I77xHRKD8qo?si=D79u53WJ5hu6-yLf&t=5186

#history #conservation #books #parchment

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@Dtl
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