Is this signature written by hand directly onto the book, or is it a printed version of a handwritten signature? I want it to be the former, but my colleague thinks it's the latter.
It's of Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature
@prabirkc@histodons thank you for your reply. Somebody on here replied to say they found a copy at New York public library, so I have contacted them to see if they can send me a photograph to compare the signature. It certainly looks different to the signatures that you found...It was published in 1938 and is a memorial address to Jagadish Chandra
As a historian I am of course tickled pink that muslin, the cotton fabric at the center of the Industrial Revolution, has been given its own research center. 😜 @histodons#histodons#histodon#history#typo
@bibliolater@bookstodon@histodon@histodons@linguistics I suppose everyone thinks their hometown is unique. But New York is the only place in America that can claim a true Dutch heritage in almost every element of its society. Let’s remember who built the wall, whose namesake street is the world capital of finance. I believe the spirit of the Dutch is still alive here, and helps make NY…or at least NYC…what it is today.
@bibliolater@histodon@histodons@science Was excited about this until I saw it was the same article I’d seen from 2021, an absolute age in the incredibly fast-moving world of population genetic. Looking forward to new findings!
@Passamezzo@histodons@histodon@earlymusic@earlymodern it's interesting to see how some words are different than how French is now (as someone who learns french at school). Elles se nomment sounds more latin than modern french.