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Close-up of an antique map with the text 'TERRA INCOGNITA' and illustrations of faces representing the winds.

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 / 0 Comments

A close-up view of the title Paper is Fundamental and the first stanza of a poem on aged paper.

Rare Books Digital Exhibition — Paper is Fundamental

“The most fundamental thing about a book is to find the right paper, because it’s the whole ground of the being of the book, and the quality of the paper is in some ways the most elusive … Critics of the book generally focus on...

04 December, 2020 / 0 Comments

Close-up of two manuscript pages featuring intricate gold and blue floral borders surrounding central panels of Arabic calligraphy.

Book of the Week — Arabic prayer book with Quranic verses

"And with Him are the keys of the Invisible. None but He Knoweth them. And He Knoweth what is in the land and the sea. Not a leaf falleth but He Knoweth it, not a grain amid the darkness of the earth, naught of wet...

01 October, 2019 / 0 Comments