Aaron T. Pratt

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The Catholic Scotsman John Barclay (1582–1621) was responsible for an international bestseller that few today have heard of & that even fewer have read: Argenis.
First pub’d in Paris in 1621—the year of Barclay’s death—the prose romance quickly found its way from Barclay’s Neo-Latin into European vernaculars. It was a hit, in (large?) part b/c it reads as an allegory of recent European politics. M

31 views The Catholic Scotsman John Barclay (1582–1621) was responsible for an international bestseller that few today have heard of & that even fewer have read: Argenis. First pub’d in Paris in 1621—the year of Barclay’s death—the prose romance quickly found its way from Barclay’s Neo-Latin into European vernaculars. It was a hit, in (large?) part b/c it reads as an allegory of recent European politics. M

Here's one for the medievalists and early modernists.
Eadmer's Historia novorum in Anglia, written in the 12th century, first saw print under the editorial care of the great John Selden in 1623.
The Harry Ransom Center's copy preserves the entirely standard, unassuming boards of its original 17th-century binding.
The title-page, though, reveals it to be a special copy, indeed:
At the top, the poe

30 views Here's one for the medievalists and early modernists. Eadmer's Historia novorum in Anglia, written in the 12th century, first saw print under the editorial care of the great John Selden in 1623. The Harry Ransom Center's copy preserves the entirely standard, unassuming boards of its original 17th-century binding. The title-page, though, reveals it to be a special copy, indeed: At the top, the poe

Huh—a copperplate print I acquired for the Ransom Center & photographed for Twitter is featured in the new Christian Bale thriller-horror movie, The Pale Blue Eye (2022).
The print of the Witches' Sabbath is from Laurent Bordelon's anti-superstition satire, L’Histoire des imaginations extravagantes de Monsieur Oufle (Paris, 1710) but has been extracted & bound w/ a copy of Pierre De Lancre's very

29 views Huh—a copperplate print I acquired for the Ransom Center & photographed for Twitter is featured in the new Christian Bale thriller-horror movie, The Pale Blue Eye (2022). The print of the Witches' Sabbath is from Laurent Bordelon's anti-superstition satire, L’Histoire des imaginations extravagantes de Monsieur Oufle (Paris, 1710) but has been extracted & bound w/ a copy of Pierre De Lancre's very

The Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin is now home to a credit-card-size fragment of the Gospel of John (ca. 250–350 CE).
It is /unique/ among the early New Testament manuscripts that survive: it appears to have been originally designed as a scroll, not a codex (i.e the form of the book that's most familiar to us today).
Those familiar with the early history of the book will know that the spread of

10 views The Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin is now home to a credit-card-size fragment of the Gospel of John (ca. 250–350 CE). It is /unique/ among the early New Testament manuscripts that survive: it appears to have been originally designed as a scroll, not a codex (i.e the form of the book that's most familiar to us today). Those familiar with the early history of the book will know that the spread of

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Avg engagement / post

5.1%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: The Catholic Scotsman John Barclay (1582–1621) was responsible f · 31 likes + reposts

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Posting cadence

0.41 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

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Mostly images

Recent: 5 text · 7 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

3.2×

Follows 73 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

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🔥 Top post The Catholic Scotsman John Barclay (1582–1621) was responsible for an international bestseller that few today have heard of & that even fewer have read: Argenis. First pub’d in Paris in 1621—the year of Barclay’s death—the prose romance quickly found its way from Barclay’s Neo-L… ★ 31

Whoa, this thing’s still on. Anyone having fun? ★ 6 They did it! Huge congrats to all of the graduate students at Yale who finally pushed this through—hell, everyone who's fought for this, past and present! https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/yale_union_ballot_count ★ 23

For reasons somewhat beyond me, the kids over on Twitter are keen on this full-page colophon from the Pforzheimer copy of Skelton’s Why come ye nat to courte (London: Richard Kele, 1545). Would be a shame to deny you all similar pleasures: ★ 7

Skylton poyet. (HRC Pforz 495 PFZ) ★ 1

Guys, I accidentally* bought what appears to be a 17th-century alternate version of Adriaen Brouwer’s famous tronie, The Bitter Draught. A classic Aaron Pratt move. It’s presumably by another artist than Brouwer, so now I’m in the fun posi… ★ 6

Huh—a copperplate print I acquired for the Ransom Center & photographed for Twitter is featured in the new Christian Bale thriller-horror movie, The Pale Blue Eye (2022). The print of the Witches' Sabbath is from Laurent Bordelon's anti-su… ★ 29

Here's one for the medievalists and early modernists. Eadmer's Historia novorum in Anglia, written in the 12th century, first saw print under the editorial care of the great John Selden in 1623. The Harry Ransom Center's copy preserves the… ★ 30 📢All in-person spots for Geoffrey Smith's Ransom Center lecture on the newly acquired Willoughby Papyrus are called for—folks apparently love Christian antiquities—but anyone can watch it live at 4:30pm CST today: https://www.youtube.com/… ★ 3 This is the kinda content that keeps me paying for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/magazine/cardboard-international-paper.html ★ 1 Oh hey—busted two-factor on the server has kept me from logging in for the last few days. Miss anything good? ★ 2

The Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin is now home to a credit-card-size fragment of the Gospel of John (ca. 250–350 CE). It is /unique/ among the early New Testament manuscripts that survive: it appears to have been originally designed as a… ★ 10

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Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 12 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.4× per week.

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80/100

Excellent Credibility score

97%

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Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~5.1% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Established account (3+ years old).

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Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center; Lecturer in English, The University of Texas at Austin. Bibliographer, book historian, early modernist, and VHS guy. Only the coldest of takes here. #rarebooks #bookhistory #bibliography #libraries #VHS