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...
“…yours until the final ghosts from darkened fires rise like filaments on the low blue-grey edge of light and air, to shine like music must, momentarily, to the blind.” Autumn’s End Christopher Buckley Lagniappe Press, 1992 PS3552 U339 A98 1992 Printed in October 1992 with 12 point Dante. The poem first appeared in “Hubbub,” Fall 1992....
“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.” La Divina Commedia Angelica Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Castel Guelfo di Bologna, Italy: Imago la Nobilita del Facsimile, 2016 PQ4301 A1 2016 Facsimile. MS1102 from the Biblioteca Angelica, this late fourteenth century Bolognese codex...
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...
“Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.” HERBERT’S REMAINS. OR, SUNDRY PIECES OF THAT SWEET… George Herbert (1593-1633) London: Printed for Timothy Garthwait, 1652 First edition George Herbert was a clergyman with the Church of England. He is known to this day...
“o Prince of Poetry” Dhikrá Shaksipīr Aḥmad Zakī Abū Shādī (1892-1955) Egypt: al-Maṭbaʻah al-Salafīyah, 1926 First edition PJ7808.S5 D55 1926 The Egyptian poet Aḥmad Zakī Abū Shādī was a man of many talents. Not only was he renowned as a poet and man of letters, he was also trained as a...
