Anna-Lujz Gilbert

@annalujz

book history | digital humanities | early modern Currently a postdoc on DORMEME project at KCL (Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe).

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Jul 22

Very on-brand moment in which I took my newly sewn up skirt (ft. nasturtium print) for its first outing (to the allotment) and promptly got it covered in courgette juice. (The entirely foreseeable sequence of events in which Nice New Clothes promptly got dirty is the most Anna-esque thing here)

Photograph of quite parched allotments in full sun in which the most prominent plants are verbena in the very foreground and climbing beans with orange flowers to the right.

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Jul 17

They're great aren't they! They appear sometimes in 16th century bindings, but it turns out they're super common in music part book sammelbands. I don't remember coming across coated shiny ones before, I think plain parchment is more common. Often they don't survive though, and look more like this:

Photograph of 16th-century printed music book, with damage to page edge where a tab has been ripped out

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Jul 17

Feels a bit weird to post book history when the world (literally) and academia (metaphorically) are on fire, but here are some some nice shiny coated fore-edge tabs from a set of sixteenth-century music part books. British Library K.3.c.2., Heinrich Isaac, Coralis Constantini (Nuremberg, 1550+).

Photograph of printed 16th-century music book showing fore edge with shiny red leather tabs protruding.

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Jun 8

Excited to learn that not one but FOUR of the books gifted to the Totnes town library in the 1620s and 30s, which I thought missing, have recently been unearthed. One was a gift of townswoman Elizabeth Wise, described here (please excuse blurry photo from the olden, pre-decent-phone-camera days)

Photograph of 1630s donor register describing the £10 bequest of Elizabeth Wise and listing the books purchased.
Ref: Devon Archives, 1579A/13/1.

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Jun 6

Fascinated by the placement of signature marks in this 1512 music publication. Surely so unhelpful for the binder, but I love how it pulls them into the text. 'Aus sonderer kunstlicher Art' (Augsburg: Öglin, 1512), Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, altus part, viewer.onb.ac.at/10044E73

Photograph of page of early printed music in mensural notation. The signature mark, "dd2", has been printed part way up the page, below the second to last stave, so that it is next to notation. The final stave is only partially filled with music.

Photograph of page of early printed music in mensural notation. The signature mark, "dd3", has been printed part way up the page, below the first stave, so that it is next to notation. The second stave is only partially filled with music and the third and fourth stave have no notation.

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· May 26

The user interface is designed for data analysis. It queries the data in real time, and you can filter on things like author, owner gender, date, and genre. You can visualise the results with a range of in-built charts, graphs, maps.

Screenshot of CEBEME interface showing map visualisation of place of publication of books in French owned in England c. 1500–1640.

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· May 26

A promotional post for cebeme.manchester.ac.uk/en, a platform for searching and visualising data across PLRE, Renaissance Cultural Crossroads, Plantin sales and provincial booksellers' inventories, c. 1500–1640. So, ownership, sales, and translations of books in #earlyModern England. #bookHistory

A screenshot of the Items perspective of https://cebeme.manchester.ac.uk, filtered by French language of publication and book owner social status of "middle class"

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· May 10

Early May is a lovely time to admire early medieval ruins/apparently I have to go back to work now?

Photograph of low stone walls/foundations in grass, covered in yellow and pink wild coastal flowers, in the foreground, with the sea and cliffs in the background

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Apr 20

Look I know I wasn’t meant to be taking more pictures of flowers but look at these beautiful bluebells! and this lovely apple blossom! (It’s Bradninch Black, from the Devon heritage apple orchard at Rosemoor)

Photo of bluebell carpet in woodland glade

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Apr 16

I did, however, find this gem which is a monument in Sherborne Abbey to the Great Hailstorme of 1709

Photograph of a stone monument commemorating a violent hailstorm in Sherborne in 1709

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Apr 8

Attention #earlyModern #bookHistory and #earlyMusic types! You have to the end of the week to register for the @dormeme16.bsky.social conference Marking Music: The Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe, at KCL. Registration and the brilliant programme are at www.tickettailor.com/events/aheve...

Photo of the double spread of an open book of printed music, over which have been trodden cat-sized paw prints in ink. Reference: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, F. 1756 A LP, "Tomus secundus psalmorum selectorum" (Nürnberg, 1539).

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Mar 31

Gloomy here today, but on Saturday it was glorious (when it wasn’t hailing)

Photograph of landscape with gorse blossom in foreground and sea in background

Photograph of sea and sea cliffs under bright sunshine

Photograph of grassy cliff-top path with blue sea and sky in background

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Feb 22

STRANGE NEVVES of FIERY BALL over Exceter &c.

Photo looking up at cherry blossom against blue sky with clouds

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Feb 20

One hundred and eight, one hundred and nine, one hundred and ... ten? Ottaviano Petrucci's Canti C. N° cento Cinquanta (1503), from the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, viewer.onb.ac.at/100450FC

Detail of printed music showing printed folio number '108'

Detail of printed music showing printed folio number '109'

Detail of printed music showing printed folio number '1010'

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Feb 17

the vision | the execution (both from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 53.C.26, viewer.onb.ac.at/107A6269/ )

Detail of early 16th century printed book with manuscript flourish around signature mark in red and yellow.

Detail of early 16th century printed book with poorly executed manuscript flourish around signature mark in red.

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Jan 8

One of my favourite genres of Google Books is those with unlooked for but fun provenances. This copy of Bodleian librarian Thomas James's Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis, now in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, was owned by Sebastian Tengnagel (1/2) books.google.co.uk/books?id=MS9...

Screenshot of digitised page of a copy of Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis (London, 1600), with ownership inscriptions of Sebastian Tengnagel and Imperial Library of Vienna.

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Oct 8

A submission for early modern name of the day: Jewell Sparke, who subscribed in 1712, and signed his name with added sparkle

Close up photograph of eighteenth century manuscript, showing signature of Jewell Sparke with the ink forming glittery particles

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Oct 1

Procrastinating (never!) by browsing books in the library. Here’s a copy of Lewis Morris’s The Epic of Hades that was gifted in 1901 by Marie Muller to Ernest Newlandsmith, who would quote from it in The Temple of Art (1904). Then gifted to the Exeter University library by a Mrs W Wordsworth.

Photograph of title page of 1898 illustrated London edition of Lewis Morris’s Song of Hades

Photograph of dedication on fly leaf: “Ernest Newlandsmith August 1901”

Photograph of gift note from Marie Muller

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Sep 29

‘Tis the season for getting home and finding one’s pockets mysteriously full of perfect conkers

Close up photo of upturned hand holding 7 conkers

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Sep 12

Day two of conference two this week, and I’m happily soaking up the early modern public library goodness of Chetham’s

Photograph of historical library interior

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Sep 10

Day two of the Built With Books conference @livesandletters.bsky.social ! My paper this afternoon will be for demonstrating how the EBDO and CEBEME datasets can be used to find old and second-hand books in early modern England

Photo of Built with Books conference poster

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Sep 10

The walk through Hyde Park isn’t a bad consolation for not being able to get the tube

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Jul 22

A few allotment joys from this evening’s session, ft. rudbeckia from my mother in law, a compost slow worm and lots of blackberries

Photo of orange, pink and white flowers growing in a bed

Photo of slow worm half buried in dry clippings

Photo of ripe and unripe blackberries on a branch against a blue sky

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Jul 1

We'll also demonstrate querying the data directly, and I've been having lots of fun writing sample queries and working out just how much this dataset can do.

Screenshot of Apache Jena Fuseki interface for querying RDF data, showing panel at top with query code and results table below listing persons and what roles they have in the dataset.

Anna-Lujz Gilbert@annalujz· Jul 1

If you're coming to the Continental Books (CEBEME) panel at #RenSoc25 on Friday afternoon, you'll get a sneak preview of our project website (developed by Annie Zheng at Manchester using the Sampo-UI framework).