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Mapping Books: Mapping pre-1600 European manuscripts in the U.S. and Canada
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Thursday, November 6, 2014. Mapping pre-1600 European manuscripts in the U.S. and Canada. Pre-1600 European manuscripts in the United States and Canada (detail). Today marks the beginning of the 7th annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. Can be used to track manuscripts over time. But in short their work began as a way to update the censuses of American manuscripts created by Seymour de Ricci from 1935-40. And supplemented by Faye and Bond in 1962. Their census includes ent...
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SelectedWorks - Arthur Mitchell Fraas
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View other faculty profiles. Selected Works of Arthur Mitchell Fraas. Curator, Special Collections, Kislak Center for Special Collections. About Arthur Mitchell Fraas. Co-Director, Penn Digital Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania. Affiliate my profile with this Institution. Curator, Special Collections, Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania. Affiliate my profile with this Institution. Library and Information Science. Kislak Center for Special Collections,. The Languag...
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Mapping Books: May 2013
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Friday, May 31, 2013. First Editions of Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Following on last week's post which mapped books based on some longer-term research, I wanted to show what kinds of simple geographic visualizations are possible using data that's already extant and well-curated. Given that today is Walt Whitman's 194th birthday I thought I'd post something related to the Walt Whitman Archive. The survey, published in the Walt Whitman quarterly in 2006. Came with a downloadable data set. So-called "flat" ...
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Mapping Books: Mapping pre-1500 Printed Books Today
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Monday, July 29, 2013. Mapping pre-1500 Printed Books Today. Last week the Penn Libraries hosted a Rare Books School course. On the 15th century European book in print and manuscript taught by Will Noel and Paul Needham. As someone interested in the history of libraries and the movement of books over time, I've long been impressed by the volume of detailed information available in digital form about early European printed books. Online catalogs like the Incunabula Short Title Catalog (ISTC). Gyulafehérvá...
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Mapping Books: October 2013
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Thursday, October 10, 2013. Library Markings from Looted Books. Bookplate of the Komite zur Förderung Thoradienst Gemeinden in Palästina. Here at Penn, the rare books cataloging team has been working for the past several years to put images of bookplates, bookstamps, and other provenance markings online. Even George Clooney is getting in on the action with his upcoming movie. Who was an adviser to the State Department with a tireless focus on returning looted WWII property. Does not work in IE]. In all I...
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Mapping Books: The Dispersal of the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013. The Dispersal of the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain. Movement of books from medieval libraries in the MLGB3. Medieval locations (red), Current locations (blue). Today I'm teaching a workshop on using "screen scraping" in the digital humanities. No workshop is really useful without practical examples so last week I decided to try out my screen scraping chops on an exciting new database of book history data. The Kislak Center at Penn. Project ( now at fifteen volumes).
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Mapping Books: Library Markings from Looted Books
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Thursday, October 10, 2013. Library Markings from Looted Books. Bookplate of the Komite zur Förderung Thoradienst Gemeinden in Palästina. Here at Penn, the rare books cataloging team has been working for the past several years to put images of bookplates, bookstamps, and other provenance markings online. Even George Clooney is getting in on the action with his upcoming movie. Who was an adviser to the State Department with a tireless focus on returning looted WWII property. Does not work in IE]. In all I...
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Mapping Books: Tracking the Rare Book and Manuscript market
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Saturday, June 28, 2014. Tracking the Rare Book and Manuscript market. This past week I attended the annual conference of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. It's fantastic to be around so many wonderful book people and hear their take on the state of the field. As part of the program, RBMS hosted panel on "the market" with Nina Musinsky. Top 10 Auction houses in 2013 by number of the top 500 lots sold. Number of items in top 500 by century. In looki...
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Mapping Books: June 2013
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Friday, June 14, 2013. Don't Believe that Imprint. Boston, 1792) [i.e. Heidelberg]. Title pages can be deceiving. Bibliographers have long learned not to trust colophons and other declarations of place and date. The image above, for example, declares that a book was printed at Boston in 1792 while in fact it was printed in Heidelberg Germany. As well as Marino Parenti's Dizionario dei luoghi di stampa falsi. There are of course many more false imprints to be discovered and I can't pretend my dataset is a...
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Mapping Books: January 2014
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Friday, January 24, 2014. Charting Former Owners of Penn's Codex Manuscripts. Today is the American Library Association midwinter meeting LibHackathon. Here at the Penn Libraries. I thought Id share a project using library data that Ive been working on for a little while now in the hopes that it will be not only useful to scholars but also might generate some conversation over how libraries and archives distribute their valuable descriptive information. MARC record for UPenn Ms. Codex 465. Ive been playi...
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