- The forged Oath of a Freeman sold at Heritage Auctions last week was acquired by Kenneth and Shirley Rendell for donation to the Grolier Club as part of the Collection on the Detection of Forged Handwriting. Excellent news for the future study and research potential of this piece.
- A UK consortium of libraries and museums will try to raise £15 million to keep the Honresfield Library from auction, and the first sale at Sotheby's scheduled for next month has already been postponed. See Alison Flood's report in the Guardian, and Jennifer Schuessler's in the NYTimes.
- The Letterlocking research group gets a nicely-illustrated writeup in BBC Future by Richard Fisher.
- Anna Burgess writes for the Harvard Gazette on the recently-completed Colonial North America at Harvard Library digitization project, which now includes more than 700,000 pages of material.
- On the digitization front, the Clements Library has recently digitized three collections relating to slavery and abolition.
- Over on the BL's Medieval Manuscripts blog, "Medieval Killer Rabbits: When Bunnies Strike Back."
- Coming up next month, "500 Years of Mexican Books: Colonial Book Bibliography in Indigenous Languages."
- Anna Willi's Manual of Roman Everyday Writing: Writing Equipment is available open-access via LatinNow. There's also a PDF.
- Elaine Treharne's recent talk "Uncertainty in Manuscript Technologies and the Potential of Computational Tools" is now available on YouTube, as is Alex Hidalgo's RBS lecture "The Book as Archive."
Upcoming Auctions
- Fine Literature at Doyle on 22 June.
- Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs at Lyon & Turnbull on 23 June.
- Éditions Originales Littéraires du XIXe au XXIe Siècle at ALDE on 24 June.
- Fine Books, Manuscripts and Photographs at Bonhams London on 24 June.
- Books and Works on Paper at Forum Auctions on 24 June.
- Illustration Art at Swann Galleries on 24 June.
- Antiquarian Books with Manuscripts and Food & Drink at PBA Galleries on 24 June.
- Livres et Manuscrits de Cervantès à Houllebecq at Sotheby's Paris ends on 25 June.
- American Historical Ephemera & Photography at Cowan's on 25 June.
- The Gentleman's Library & Bindery at Addison & Sarova on 26 June.
- Rare Books, Antiquarian Maps, and Manuscripts at Second Story Books on 26 June.
- Bookworm Auction at Addison & Sarova on 27 June.
