Jason W. Dean

@svanimpe.bsky.social I know you're not the Keeper of this, but, any idea when the STCV manual will be back? I use the formats page every day... and am thankful for it as a resource!

youtube.comA River Runs Through It (7/8) Movie CLIP - We Can Love Completely (1992) HDYouTube video by Movieclips

Skerritt's character in A River Runs Through It brought me some solace in times of great loss: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfGm...

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social

RIP Tom Skerritt, a reliable and enduring actor who you probably remember from...everything, basically. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

hollywoodreporter.comTom Skerritt, Star of ‘Picket Fences’ and ‘Alien,’ Dies at 93Mentored by Robert Altman in 'M*A*S*H,' the Emmy-winning actor later stood out in 'Top Gun,' 'The Turning Point' and 'A River Runs Through It.'

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And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding."

youtube.comA River Runs Through It (8/8) Movie CLIP - Haunted by Waters (1992) HDYouTube video by Movieclips

I, too, am haunted by waters www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJF7...

youtube.comA River Runs Through It (7/8) Movie CLIP - We Can Love Completely (1992) HDYouTube video by Movieclips

Skerritt's character in A River Runs Through It brought me some solace in times of great loss: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfGm...

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social

RIP Tom Skerritt, a reliable and enduring actor who you probably remember from...everything, basically. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

"For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. ...

Joseph Wolff clearly thought a lot of himself: placing his initials on the shield of Athena AND on one of the books she is protecting. 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

Thanks for confirming that's Athena, @sibyllacumae.bsky.social !!

twohalfsheets.substack.comOn AuthoritiesTheme (And Variations)

The latest issue of the newsletter @sibyllacumae.bsky.social and I write is out, and this issue is “On Authority”: please share and subscribe if you don’t already, pretty proud of this issue! top fav: 📜 #libsky #rarebooks twohalfsheets.substack.com/p/on-authori...

youtube.comDr Steve Brule - Horse soundsYouTube video by David Fox

genre name of horse www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLiy...

Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮@malicedafirenze.bsky.social

Genre: HORSE ❤️❤️❤️

"excessively titled" indeed! A choice phrase I'm adding to my lexicon.

The Society of Antiquaries of London@antiquaries.bsky.social

Looking for some Halloween reading? The excessively titled 'A Book of Spirits Containing the Names Nature offices appearance & Seals of Fifty Good & Evil Spirits, with The Conjuration & Invocation for Constraining them to Visible Apparition Transcribed from the Goetia of Solomon' might be for you.

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"It's on Sharepoint" might be the least helpful combination of words in the language.

youtu.beConversing with the Starry MessengerYouTube video by The Linda Hall

Thanks to @bhgross144.bsky.social I am pleased to share that ALL of the LHL videos and programs are back online! Let's celebrate with some favorite ones I did, and this, with Nick Wilding on Galileo's Sidereus is still my top fav: #HistSTM #histsci 🗃️📜🔬 #libsky #rarebooks youtu.be/0pkJVR_C7XU?...

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youtube.comRobert Oppenheimer’s Quantum Mechanics Textbook – A Linda Hall Library Paper CutYouTube video by The Linda Hall

And then I'll close with two of the Paper Cuts that Jamie Cumby and I did - first on Oppenheimer's quantum mechanics "textbook" www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8N4...

youtu.beJamie and Jason’s First Acquisitions – A Linda Hall Library Paper CutYouTube video by The Linda Hall

And a more personal one - our first acquisitions! youtu.be/esueZYA9eAo?...

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youtu.beAfter Hours with Flamsteed's Burned Star AtlasYouTube video by The Linda Hall

That research had an update in my final program before leaving LHL, that I presented with my collaborator Emma Louise Hill (we've learned a TON since we did this, and we're excited to share more in the future): youtu.be/Hn6FeZ2UlZo?...

youtu.beAfter Hours with Medieval ScienceYouTube video by The Linda Hall

Honored to have shared the virtual stage with the peerless @sebfalk.com as we talked about books and medieval mathematical and astronomical books! youtu.be/z2aX1Q2P_JY?...

youtu.beConversing with the Starry MessengerYouTube video by The Linda Hall

youtu.beAfter Hours with Historia CoelestisYouTube video by The Linda Hall

I also loved talking about Flamsteed and his Historia Coelestis with the legend, Adrian Johns. This was the beginning of my current phase of my research program here at KU: youtu.be/-RZ3YQqeUGs?...

youtube.comWhat Did Galileo See? Inside the 400-Year-Old Books that Changed Everything | Sotheby’sYouTube video by Sotheby's

Glad you all can join in on the fun of Nick Wilding Riffing On Books #HistSTM #histsci 🗃️📜🔬📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4-S...

Seriously, one of the biggest joys (and educations) for me is looking at books with people who are brilliant and interested in the material and physical evidence embodied within books.

Morning Prayer this AM included a collect for Tyndale. Love it when my liturgical practice overlaps with my scholarly interests.

Harry Spillane@harryspillane.bsky.social

490 yrs ago today, William Tyndale was strangled and burned, having produced the English New Testament we celebrate 500 yrs of across 2026 His is a story that shows the violence and messiness of the early English Reformation and it opens my own study of how the English Bible became a bestseller

sothebys.comGalilei, Galileo | Il Saggiatore …, Rome, 1623, first edition, a fine<p>Galilei, Galileo</p><p>Il Saggiatore nel quale con bilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderano le cose contenute nella Libra Astronomica e Filosofica di Lotario Sarsi. <em>Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1623...

Always a treat to see mine and Nick's article on Galileo's *il Saggiatore* put to good use #HistSTM #histsci 🗃️📜🔬📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky : www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...

gal-studies.museogalileo.it Assaying Il Saggiatore, with a delicate and precise bibliographical balance | Galilæana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science

If you, too, want to read and use our article, it's free online: gal-studies.museogalileo.it/index.php/ga...

lindahall.orgThe Linda Hall Announces Leadership TransitionThe Board of Trustees announced today that Eric Dorfman, PhD, has resigned as president and CEO, effective this month. Anne C. Dema, PhD, chair of the Board of Trustees, will serve as interim presiden...

The board of trustees at LHL has announced the resignation of my former boss. I only hope the institution can find itself again, pick up the pieces, and repair the damage he did to the library. www.lindahall.org/about/news/t...

I'm also hoping that they will re-post the video series (After Hours) we did, as well as the Paper Cuts series, which were among the most viewed videos on their channel, and are important additions to our knowledge about books in the LHL collection.

The Bibliographical Society

I'd be glad to say more offline, but working there during his tenure was one of the most unpleasant and negative experiences of my career. I am glad we got some good folks out, and I hope that the good folks still there can resume their great work with little interference.

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2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliographical Society is hosting a series of videos from libraries in the UK and around the world introducing viewers to items printed by Caxton ...

youtube.comCaxton 550 - YouTube2026 is the 550th anniversary of England's first printer, William Caxton, establishing his printing press in Westminster, London. To celebrate, the Bibliogra...

18 Sept

Ben and I have confirmed it’s not in Keynes, BTW. Birch, maybe?

Ben Gross@bhgross144.bsky.social

History of science & #BookHistory friends: What was the size of the initial print run of Hooke's Micrographia? (I've frequently seen the 1st edition referred to as a bestseller, but haven't found a source that confirms how many copies the Royal Society commissioned...) #HistSTM #histsci 🗃️📜🔬

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Ben Gross

@bhgross144.bsky.social

A belated Spencer Library #newacq thread here: a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, created in circa 1430 (Pryce MS D1). A wonderful addition to our MSS holdings, and a good companion to the Vosper Hours. Let's start with the Crucifixion and the opening line of text: 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

Ok the text is cool too:

blogs.lib.ku.eduKenneth Spencer Research Library Blog » Meet Our Newest Manuscript: A Luxury Book of Hours from 15th-Century BrugesBlog - Kenneth Spencer Research Library - KU Libraries

Here's the blog post about it: blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/meet...

Last Judgement: fol. 84v (look at the dead rising!)

ku.locate.ebsco.comEBSCO LocateEBSCO Locate

Ok, that's it, other than to say here's my catalog record, and there's WAY more about this new MS there! ku.locate.ebsco.com/instances/1c...

One of my patrons, St. Jerome! fol. 93v, and the MS Jerome with my retablo of St. Jerome at my desk (loved this).

the bones at the base of the cross, whoa

Ownership inscription reading “liber Johannis Pullani ex dono Rechardi Bellarses" [John Pulian or Pulleyn of Scorton (1559-1618); Richard Belasyse of Great Haswell, Ludworth, and Owton, county Durham (d. 1599)]

THIS ONE IS COOL. Burial service: fol. 67v

Acquired from Jörn Günther Rare Books, my friend Sara Öberg Strådal was a HUGE help with description and cataloging (work which I did, building on Sara’s work). It was likely commissioned by an English patron (Kalendar with Thomas Becket’s feast day struck through and the Latin word “vacat” added.)

14 Sept

I'll be in Geneva next week, and would welcome your recommendations for eating, drinking, and seeing! I'll be at AIB so I think we will probably see every interesting book in the canton...

9 Sept

I had the good fortune of having a sneak peek at @sibyllacumae.bsky.social's article she mentions below - well and truly worth reading! 📜 #libsky #rarebooks #booksky

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31 Aug

Currently cataloging a French revolutionary pamphlet, dated "L'an deuxieme de la liberte" e.g. 1793 (best I can deduce). But then the imprint statement at the end gives the year 1790 COME ON THE FRENCH LETS GET IT TOGETHER.

27 Aug

Yesssss. My brother @jamesdean595.bsky.social turned me on to LaTeX and the Tufte handout format is one of my favorites…

KU Libraries@kulibraries.bsky.social

Another way KU Libraries supports research. 📚💻➗ Free access to Overleaf, the leading online LaTeX editor, is now available to KU Lawrence/Edwards students, faculty & staff. Workshops and 1:1 help available too. 🗞️ rockcha.lk/overleaf 📝 lib.ku.edu/overleaf

drive.google.comGalileo__Sidereus_Nuncius.pdf

27 Aug

Example one, my long-form piece on Sidereus Nuncius: drive.google.com/file/d/1jg7V...