- From Erin Blake for The Collation, "Rediscovering Three-Cornered Notes."
- Over on the BL's Medieval Manuscripts blog, it's the "Great Medieval Bake Off"!
- Mary Yordy writes for the Duke Libraries Preservation blog, "Sewing Models: Pandemic Edition."
- New from the Courtauld Institute, an open-access book edited by Jack Hartnell, "Continuous Page: Scrolls and Scrolling from Papyrus to Hypertext."
- From Maddy Smith for the BL's Untold Lives blog, a look at pre-1620 English colonial settlements in North America.
- A 1634 edition of Shakespeare's "Two Noble Kinsmen" has been identified in the collections of the Real Colegio de Escoceses in Salamanca.
- Michael Caines and Lindsey Tyne write for the Morgan Library & Museum blog about "Taming the Wild Things: Storage Considerations for the Bequest of Maurice Sendak."
- Rachel Fletcher is in the "Bright Young Collectors" spotlight.
- "Fakes and Forgeries" over on the Exeter Working Papers in Book History.
- The AbeBooks podcast talked to the warden of Gladstone's Library this week.
- On the Peter Harrington blog, Tomas Elliott on Leibniz and computing.
- Over on Past and Present, a look at the intensely complicated "Conservation of a Fragmentary Early Menagerie Poster."
- Shira Perlmutter has been named the Register of Copyrights.
- From Neely Tucker for the LC blog, "Darkness and Light: The European World of 15th-Century Woodcuts."
- New from Books & Borrowing, "Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow."
- Wolf von Lojewski has written an account of his four-decade quest to collect a complete Nuremberg Chronicle by acquiring disbound leaves (scroll down for the English translation).
- The NYU Abu Dhabi Library has acquired the archive of Egyptian poet/doctor/scientist Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi.
Reviews
- Ariel Sabar's Veritas; review by James Lansdun in the LRB.
- Serena Zabin's The Boston Massacre; review by Breck Baumann for the Colonial Review.
Upcoming Auctions
- Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs, Including the Trevor Dawson Magic Collection at Lyon & Turnbull on 30 September.
- Fine Literature at Doyle on 30 September.
- Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books at University Archives on 30 September.
- Fine Golf Books, Clubs & Memorabilia at PBA Galleries on 1 October.
