May 25, 2019 Book of the week — A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno.

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May 16, 2019 Student Response — Literary Analysis Spanish 3070

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In Spring 2019 students from Spanish 3070 Literary Analysis attended the Rare Books Classroom to consider the physical aspects of literary texts and to decipher first-hand the impact of examining a book and text as physical object. The viewing offered students a chance to see...

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May 15, 2019 Notre Dame, Notre Paris

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"Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages." -- Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame Construction of the Notre Dame de Paris began between 24 March and 25 April, 1163. Notre Dame burned a month ago today. Its history, like that of...

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May 02, 2019 We recommend — Shakespeare’s Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment: The Early Modern ‘Fated Sky’

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Apr 19, 2019 Book of the Week — Le Nouveau Cuisinier Royal et Bourgeois

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May 29, 2018 Stop and Smell the Flowers

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“But I must gather knots of flowers and buds, and garlands gay; For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The May Queen”...

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May 26, 2018 Rare Books Help Illustrate VERVE, Season 6, Episode 1

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Several pieces from the rare book collections were used to help illustrate “What Makes A Book So Special,” episode 1, season 6, Its All About the Book, from VERVE, featuring Marnie Powers-Torry, director of the Book Arts Program....

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Mar 15, 2018 Book of the Week — Atlas céleste de flamsteed…

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“Newton’s design was to make me come to him, force me to comply with his humors, and flatter him and cry him up as Dr. Halley did. He thought to work me to his ends by putting me to extraordinary charges. Those that have begun...

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Jan 23, 2018 Rare Books Goes to Utah State University!

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Last semester, Rare Books loaned six of its medieval manuscript facsimiles to the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University in collaboration with an art history course taught by Professor Alexa Sand. The upper-level course, “Special Topics Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Rare Books...

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Nov 27, 2017 Book of the Week — Los Espanoles pintados por si mismos por varios autores

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El Ama del Cura “Dear reader, it will not have escaped your insightful sensitivity that you are the friend to whom I have written from the beginning.” — Jose Maria Tenorio, loosely translated by Luise Poulton Los Espanoles pintados por si mismos por varios autores Madrid: Gaspar y...

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