Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! https://buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern
Early Modern Female Book Ownership
#HerBook
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December 4, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! https://buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern
Absorbed in a good book: Quintilia Fischieri of Bologna in 1600. Painted by Federico Barocci, whose day is today.
January 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#WomensHistoryMonth
women reading/reading women:
- earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com #HerBook
- earlymodernwomensmarginalia.cems.anu.edu.au
- www.emwmlibrary.com
- franceswolfrestonhorbouks.com
- recirc.universityofgalway.ie
women reading/reading women:
- earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com #HerBook
- earlymodernwomensmarginalia.cems.anu.edu.au
- www.emwmlibrary.com
- franceswolfrestonhorbouks.com
- recirc.universityofgalway.ie
Early Modern Female Book Ownership
#HerBook
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Woman reading,
After Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Il Guercino, b. #otd 8 Feb 1591, d. 22 Dec 1666)
Albertina, Vienna.
After Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Il Guercino, b. #otd 8 Feb 1591, d. 22 Dec 1666)
Albertina, Vienna.
February 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Cranmer's 'A Defence of the True and Catholike Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of Our Saviour Christ, 1550'
Annotated by Elizabeth I.
(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)
Annotated by Elizabeth I.
(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)
February 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Buy the book. @mollycrabapple.bsky.social speaking at today's Baltimore Book Fest
September 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Buy the book. @mollycrabapple.bsky.social speaking at today's Baltimore Book Fest
Reminder in the new year: Call for Paper is open until 31 March 2025. #BookHistory #HerBook 💙📚
#CallForPapers: The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade (5-7 November 2025, Antwerp). #Bookhistory #HerBook #WomensHistory #Herstory
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Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade Conference 2025 is organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University as part of the FWO rese...
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January 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reminder in the new year: Call for Paper is open until 31 March 2025. #BookHistory #HerBook 💙📚
It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
Gender and the Book Trades
"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.
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January 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A special kind of #HerBook
Forget library fines. We’re all about #LibraryFinds! Here are some gorgeous pressed flowers discovered by our Rare Books Cataloguer in a 1687 edition of Katherine Philips poems!
View the item record here: lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/9a621...
View the item record here: lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/9a621...
December 13, 2024 at 9:35 AM
A special kind of #HerBook
Holding her little book (a bible I would assume) #HerBook #EarlyModern
Frans Hals,
Portrait of a woman aged sixty, 1633
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Portrait of a woman aged sixty, 1633
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
September 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Holding her little book (a bible I would assume) #HerBook #EarlyModern
Sounds familiar! #HerBook
#earlymodern I spent hours photographing Isabella Twysden marginalia in the BL only to realise when back home that BL has digitised all the Twysden almanacs
December 1, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Sounds familiar! #HerBook
Woman reading a Book of Hours,
Ambrosius Benson, Southern Netherlands, c. 1520-1530 (Musée du Louvre)
Ambrosius Benson, Southern Netherlands, c. 1520-1530 (Musée du Louvre)
March 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Bonus: the Greek book was owned by Mary Clement, daughter of John Clement, the former tutor of Thomas More's children.
![Title page of the Greek edition on paper, with a handwritten note on top that reads "Sum Mariae Cleme[n]tis.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hoi7rsxw4y2k74pdmuqwxfhp/bafkreifabpssea6j2qgnfeqzdjkxtegcprhj4gjfevmixeiifuuhcouxly)
January 21, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Evidence of French female book ownership, possibly early/mid #16thc (albeit crossed out by an eager male colleague) @martinevanelk.bsky.social
I’ve just finished upgrading the catalogue record of this cracker, with its nice #herbook inscription (thanks to @shantigraheli.bsky.social for the transcription input). A big 👏 to my conservation colleagues for the fab rebind to make this accessible again eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b4202...
January 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Found poetry signed by a Mary Middleton Lynn (?) on the back flyleaf of a 1778 translation of Messiah by Klopstock. Googling hasnt turned up the text yet, so maybe original. I love finding women's names!
This was in CWRU's special collections 831.62 M21.
This was in CWRU's special collections 831.62 M21.
July 31, 2026 at 10:26 PM
A rare 1691 French devotional book for religious novices. Belonged to Roesbrugge Abbey, home to a group of Augustinian canonesses. Founded 1239, moved to Ypres in the 16thC, destroyed 1744, rebuilt, sold 1798, destroyed in WWI & rebuilt. Truly #nuntastic! @theulspeccoll.bsky.social CCE.81.24.
December 13, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Woman with a prayerbook, looking rather sad, as you would be too if you were wearing that unfortunate headgear. By Barthel Bruyn, 1560. Today is his day.
February 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
A wonderfully elaborate binding for Mrs Elizabeth Colles, from the early seventeenth century. It contains three linguistic works, including Thomas Thomas’s Dictionary (Cambridge, 1610). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Rel.d.61.2. #herbook
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A wonderfully elaborate binding for Mrs Elizabeth Colles, from the early seventeenth century. It contains three linguistic works, including Thomas Thomas’s Dictionary (Cambridge, 1610). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Rel.d.61.2. #herbook
A bit late for our blog but this gift inscription is lovely www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40462042... #EarlyModern #18thc #HerBook
November 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM
A bit late for our blog but this gift inscription is lovely www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40462042... #EarlyModern #18thc #HerBook
The amendments are wonderful evidence of women, communal book use, and liturgical agency. #herbook
Women religious books are not always conventionally pretty, but are quite #nuntastic. This is ceremonial for Discalced Carmelite sisters (Antwerp, Plantin, 1656), property of Discalced Carmelite nuns of Kortrijk (Belgium), with their manuscript amendments and some probably in-house binding work.
December 10, 2024 at 8:58 PM
The amendments are wonderful evidence of women, communal book use, and liturgical agency. #herbook
Vittore Carpaccio The Virgin Reading, c. 1505
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Today, 8 Sept is the feast of the Nativity of Mary
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Today, 8 Sept is the feast of the Nativity of Mary
September 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Mary with an enormous book #EarlyModern #HerBook
The end & the beginning: Resurrection & Annunciation at the second level of Grünewald's astonishing Isenheim Altarpiece, 1515. Today is his day.
August 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Mary with an enormous book #EarlyModern #HerBook
For everyone interested in examples of early modern female book ownership, I've created a HerBook feed bsky.app/profile/did:... #EarlyModern #BookHistory #C17 #C18
January 16, 2024 at 5:07 PM
For everyone interested in examples of early modern female book ownership, I've created a HerBook feed bsky.app/profile/did:... #EarlyModern #BookHistory #C17 #C18