The John Russell Bartlett Society

08/21/2020

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/oxburgh-hall-artifacts-trnd-style/index.html

An archaeologist unexpectedly discovered medieval manuscripts, 16th-century clothing and Tudor books beneath the floorboards of Oxburgh Hall.

08/19/2020

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/theft-carnegie-library-books-maps-artworks-180975506/

Precious maps, books and artworks vanished from the Pittsburgh archive, and the caper’s final chapter was just written

07/17/2020

From mushrooms to cheese to mini books - here's six of the stranger books to be found in the collection of the Bodleian Libraries Rilke's mushroom spores Mushroom spores growing out of the pages of a book are usually the...

07/06/2020

The bookwheel helps readers browse eight texts at once. The only problem? It weighs 600 pounds.

06/25/2020

This copy of the Diamond Sutra is the world's earliest complete and dated, printed book. See this and more treasures of the British Library.

06/25/2020

An ancient-book collector is offering a rare glimpse into a Sino-Tibetan book that's believed to have been printed as early as 1410 in Beijing. A self-described bibliophile known as Incunabula, the collector shared a thread containing dozens of images showing inside spreads full of red ink drawings

05/11/2020

Medieval scribes protected their work by threatening death, or worse.

05/05/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/science/the-thinnest-paper-in-the-world.html

The process of making tengujo is fairly simple, but the nearly transparent product that results is almost magical.

04/27/2020

Presswork: A Documentary by Rare Book School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJPRV-V_WE

RBS presents Presswork: A Documentary, chronicling RBS’s commissioning of an eighteenth-century style wooden rolling press, and the program that ensued which...

04/21/2020

They actually serve a very specific purpose

04/17/2020

Dirk Obbink called claim about bible fragments a ‘malicious attempt’ to harm his career

03/18/2020

A researcher accidentally found a first edition copy of the groundbreaking book hidden in a Corsica library’s shelves.