Daniel Bellingradt @[email protected]さんのイラストまとめ

All eyes on Paul M. Dover's new book that highlights the known "information revolution" but this time by paying more attention to the circulation of information "chiefly on newly available and affordable paper". #PaperHistory! #CommunicationHistory!

https://t.co/9uV3HyZPcx

This is the commonly known part of using papers in early modern Europe: writing with a quill, supported by an inkpot, fixing your codes into an open book (in this case: likely an accounting book).

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At the wall: a few prints. Printed images produced using usually a carved woodblock or an engraved copperplate. These popular prints of the time, available from peddlers and book sellers alike, were produced and sold around 1800 in Europe in their millions. #bookhistory

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Eyeglasses were part of the material history of reading in early modern Europe, as this painting from 1403 (Conrad von Soest) indicates. Some images reflect where to buy these glasses, like the one from Johannes Stradanus' 'Nova reperta" (c. 1590). #bookhistory #mediahistory

Meet me holding a sword impaling books. Greetings from St Boniface. #bookhistory

Attention to the document bags. As @EricKetelaar's great "Archiving people" is explaining in detail, these bags were full of written pages. The opening and closing of the bags was at court a formal procedure; however, it was a paper exchanging business.

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How to make fun of the Leipzig book fair in 1800?

A thread for #bookhistory and #communicationhistory that uses the satirical print "Der Jahrmarkt zu Plundersweilern". Come for the bookish stuff, stay for the pornographical bestsellers of late eighteenth-century Germany.

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As the title says: much drinking causes pain, as the stomach explains.

Magengifft: Das ist/ Eines alten Schlemmers Klage über seinen bösen Magen / deß Magens Verantwortung durch seinen Anwalt die Vernunfft/ und der Herren Richter darauff erfolgtes Urtheil (VD17 1:620340U)

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Reference K refers to these two persons kissing each other.

Die Gvatter Grein ihrn Gevatter Koch
Nimbt in die Arm vnd küst ihn noch.

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Reference C and D are connected:

The priest's maid was unfortunate and dropped things, but a guy called Hans "helps" by trying to knock her over.

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