Book of the Week — Memorie di Matilda la Gran Contessa…
Memorie di Matilda La Gran Contessa...
14 June, 2022
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Book of the Week — The Tarot Pack: Its Mystery and Fascination
Le Mat (The Fool) The flesh, the sensitive life, the spirit in search of experience — and atonement. A young man, breathing and savoring the freshness of the morning of life. The "dreamer" that is a part of every creative person. Lithographed on Linweave L'Aiglon. Color: Flame....
26 July, 2021
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Rare Books Virtual Lecture — World Without End: From Macrocosm to Microcosm
Die Cosmographia des Claudius Ptolemy Ptolemy (100-170) Zurich: Belser Verlag, 1983 G1005 1883 Facsimile The Rare Books Department invites you to view is most recent virtual lecture, World Without End: From Macrocosm to Microcosm. In this virtual visit to the Rare Books Department we take a literary journey through the early...
31 March, 2021
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Rare Books Digital Exhibition — Ornaments: Beautiful Books Beautifully Reproduced
Facsimiles are meticulous reproductions that convey the spirit and power of often-inaccessible, original books. A facsimile is a replica of an original book, created to look as closely the same as possible to the original through state-of-the-art electronic, digital, and conventional techniques in bookmaking. The...
24 December, 2020
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Donation adds to Latin hymn fragments: “He himself shall come and shall make us saved.”
(ip)se veniet et salvos no- s faciet. Co. ecce virgo concipiet et pariet fili- um et vocabitur no- men eius hemanuel. Off(ertoriu)m prope es tu domine et omnes He himself shall come and shall make us saved. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel. You are near,...
25 March, 2019
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Rare Books Goes to Utah State University!
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...
23 January, 2018
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