The inscriptions trace Hillensberg’s travels from Nuremberg and Passau to Venice, Rome, Basel, Poland and Hungary. This remarkable album amicorum remains largely unstudied. Can we reconstruct the network of this 16th-c. licentiate in law? #albaamicorum #EarlyModernStudies #BookHistory #Manuscripts
August 21, 2026 at 11:38 AM
The inscriptions trace Hillensberg’s travels from Nuremberg and Passau to Venice, Rome, Basel, Poland and Hungary. This remarkable album amicorum remains largely unstudied. Can we reconstruct the network of this 16th-c. licentiate in law? #albaamicorum #EarlyModernStudies #BookHistory #Manuscripts
These books ( #albaamicorum ) were invitations for future usages: to write into them, to draw, to collect stuff, to insert ideas and other paper objects. The invitation is symbolized by the blank and opened book on the table and the godly hand presenting it. The message: use me.
January 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
These books ( #albaamicorum ) were invitations for future usages: to write into them, to draw, to collect stuff, to insert ideas and other paper objects. The invitation is symbolized by the blank and opened book on the table and the godly hand presenting it. The message: use me.
Not only an interesting thread about paper and book storage in #EarlyModern periods, BUT ALSO a cool nod toward #InteractiveMedia in the form of friendship books ( #AlbaAmicorum ), which look to be a neat combo of commonplace, guest, and autograph book, an early equivalent of low-content publishing
How to do with books, and paper, in #earlymodern Europe?
This is a 🧵 for #paperhistory and #bookhistory experts and #skystorians in general. The thread is about storing objects in a paper consuming culture. So follow me and this thread to investigate what do we see here in this printed image?
This is a 🧵 for #paperhistory and #bookhistory experts and #skystorians in general. The thread is about storing objects in a paper consuming culture. So follow me and this thread to investigate what do we see here in this printed image?
January 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Not only an interesting thread about paper and book storage in #EarlyModern periods, BUT ALSO a cool nod toward #InteractiveMedia in the form of friendship books ( #AlbaAmicorum ), which look to be a neat combo of commonplace, guest, and autograph book, an early equivalent of low-content publishing