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Manuscript Digest: January – February 2024 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and ephemera, document conservation, and more news in this digest […]
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2023 Maass Research Grant: Application Open
2023 Maass Grant Application Window Is Open Who can Apply Only scholars attending institutions with memberships in the Manuscript Society as of January 1, 2023, will receive consideration for the grant. Check the list of member institutions here https://manuscript.org/projects/scholarship-activities/. If your institution does not now have a membership, consider asking [...]
MM On-Demand: Reading Silver Marks (09/05/22)
How to identity those marks. Sterling or silverplate? Domestic or foreign? Great Grandmother’s Silver. Now it is your silver, and you don’t know anything about it. What is its value? How is it valued? What do those marks mean on the base? Appraiser Leon Caster, ISA CAPP, will share a [...]
MM On-Demand: A Virtual Beach Party – You Ask! (08/01/22)
Keeping cool in August We’ll open up to a virtual gathering of friends, lively discussion, and a show and tell. Get your camera & mic ready (if you wish) - We’ll ALL be live! Show us a favorite item in your collection Ask questions about collecting Share a short [...]
LeNie Adolphson – 2022 Research Grant Winner
2022 Maass Research Grant Awarded This year’s Maass Research Grant goes to a scholar looking at the struggle for health equity through the long lens of one Chicago hospital. LeNie Adolphson is examining “Health Care in the Black Metropolis: A History of Provident Hospital, 1891–1960.” Provident was the first Black-owned [...]
Interview: Barton Smith on Collecting
Smith Interview - Collecting Manuscripts The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS) was founded in 1993 as a “society of societies” whose members are the clubs themselves. As members of The Manuscript Society, you have already “joined” FABS. You, as a Manuscript Society Member, receive the twice-yearly publication, the FABS [...]
Forgotten No More: Honoring Revolutionary War Veterans
Like many collectors, the Covid-19 pandemic forced me to stay home more than usual. I’ve re-read favorite books, completed nagging home projects, and delved deep into researching letters and documents in my collection.
Six Medieval Illuminations that Amaze
Medieval Illuminated Manuscript - credit: AJF and Almay Stock Photo Illuminations – 6 that will amaze you Beautiful Illuminations : A picture can indeed say more than a thousand words, and the humans of Medieval Europe knew this well! Works of religion, prayer, bestiaries, or herbaria all found [...]
