“A seemingly idyllic, rarely seen American past comes to life like a fairy tale — some land before time, before film, before death.”...

10 July, 2017 /

“But I know,” I know that they’ve got me in the wrong place! I know it! I know it! I know it!” PRELUDE TO EDEN: A DRAMA FOR MARIONETTES William Addison Dwiggins (1880-1956) Hingham, MA: Püterschein-Hingham Press, 1956...

03 July, 2017 /

“Here follow some chronicles excerpted from some ancient registers and other teachings of certain ancient kings, princes and several holy persons from the very noble and ancient house of Burgundy.” THE FLEMISH CHRONICLES OF PHILIP THE FAIR Quaternio verlag Luzern, 2015 DC611 HB776 F5 2015 Facsimile. The Flemish Chronicles...

26 June, 2017 /

“Mult ad apris ki bien conuist ahan.” (He has learned much who knows the pain of struggle.) — stanza CLXXXIV, line 2425, Song of Roland The Song of Roland Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1906 PQ1521 E5 B8 1906 The Song of Roland is a French epic dating from...

26 June, 2017 /

“The legend’s popularity is a tribute to its ability to make the plight of individual salvation tangible and visible at a time when that salvation must seem highly uncertain.” — from the Introduction The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text & Image Jerry Root Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017 PN687...

21 June, 2017 /

“That which is not said aloud often speaks louder (and, in instances, clearer) than that which is.” — from The Cave Protection Act of 2013 Emily Tipps, Program Manager and Instructor for the Book Arts Program is presenting a paper at the Association for the Study...

20 June, 2017 /

‘kabīkaj, kabīkaj, kabīkaj, yā kabīkaj iḥfaẓ al-waraq’ اختصار مختصر المقاصد الحسنة زرقاني، محمد بن عبد الباقي 1168 [1754] Ms Or. 12.48 An abridgement of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqīal-Zurqānī’s Mukhtaṣar, itself an abridgement of al-Sakhāwī’s al-Maqāṣid al-ḥasanah, a collection of ḥadīth; the present work is anonymous, but al-Jabartī (in ʻAjāʼib al-āthār,...

12 June, 2017 /