laudatory review of Jeff Jarvis. The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of #Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the #Internet by Pritha Mukherjee in – SHARP NEWS @sharporg
Calling overdue attention to women in #BookHistory and #design
Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904) was one of the first American artists to make a career of book cover design. From 1880 to 1904 she designed around 300 book covers, mostly for Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Her covers sold books so well that the publisher mentioned her name as the cover designer in its advertisements.
@KarenStrickholm@bookhistodons@histodons It’s a leaf in a carefully-copied collection of medieval English common law texts. A reader added the manicule to mark a passage of interest. 😊
Oh I see, so a different person made the "manicule" to the margin, probably later in time. Manicule is not in dictionary dot com, but once again, #Wikipedia has me covered!
Early medievalists: does anyone by chance have a copy of Frank Carey's typewritten list of MSS from St. Germain d'Auxerre? I've seen a dozen footnotes citing it but only as a photocopy at IRHT in France or the Vatican Library
-- Catal. I. 26.9 (int 22).
"MSS from the Scriptorium of Saint-Germain d 'Auxerre" (1956) 5pp
WorldCat doesn't know it. Not in IA or Google Books. Thanks!