Jul 18, 2017 Rare Books Online Exhibition – La Parola Scritta: XVI Centuries of Italian Culture in Ink

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La Parola Scritta: XVI Centuries of Italian Culture in Ink   View the original article on the OpenBook Blog...

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Jul 17, 2017 Book of the Week — On Painting

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“Colour and light have an important relationship in the act of seeing…colours multiply among themselves, but, like the elements, there are only four true colours from which other species of colour are born. There is red, the colour of fire; blue, of air; green, of...

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Jul 13, 2017 Rare Books goes to Ghent!

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“It is a contract of sale concluded between parties whose anthroponymy shows that they were exclusively Coptic; it was found in the east of Fayoum, a region which was still largely occupied by Copts in the Fatimid period.” — Naïm Vanthieghem Naïm Vanthieghem took Rare Books...

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Jul 13, 2017 Rare Books Goes to Warsaw!

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P. Utah inv. 6o end of ninth century papyrus “J’ai pu y decouvrir une trentaine de documents juridiques arabes inedits de toutes epoques, parmi lesquels quelques beaux specimens de contrat de vente d’esclaves.” (I have discovered thirty legal documents in Arabic…, including some fine specimens of contracts for...

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Jul 13, 2017 Article on Utah Arabic Paper fragment added to Academia.edu

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“But in the end it was the eunuch Kāfūr, the slave of their father, who held the strongest political hand over the country.” P. Utah Inv. 1383 Cairo, abt 954 CE paper Arabic papyrologist Naïm Vanthieghem has added a paper to Academia.edu, publishing an Arabic paper fragment held in...

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Jul 10, 2017 Book of the Week — تاريخ راشد افندي

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تاريخ راشد افندي تاريخ راشد قسطنطنية : ابراهيم من متفرقه كان The first Turkish printing house was established in Istanbul on December 14, 1727. The director of the press was Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674-1745), a Hungarian convert to Islam. In 1726 Muteferrika sent a report on the efficiency of...

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Jul 10, 2017 The Risk of Being Less Free

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“The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their...

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Jul 10, 2017 We Recommend — One for the Books

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Jessica Peterson, book artist, letterpress printer, and graphic designer is the owner of The Southern Letterpress in New Orleans. She holds an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama and a BFA from The School of Art Institute of Chicago. While visiting the J....

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Jul 10, 2017 Rare Books Goes to Geneva!

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

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Jul 03, 2017 Book of the Week — Prelude to Eden

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“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...

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