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Dante, The Divine Comedy - one of the very earliest surviving witnesses to Dante's text, likely written within a decade of its composition in 1321, seen here under UV light as the...
This is the first edition of the statutes of 1529, the 21st year of Henry VIII's reign and the first legislative session of the Reformation Parliament; this volume originating from...
Two papyrus letter fragments in a fine Sahidic Coptic uncial book hand, circa AD 600. Acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps from the collection of the notorious Guglielmo Libri in 1862...
That's not an ostracon, THIS is an ostracon... An exceptionally large ostracon written in Sahidic Coptic, 45 x 20 cm, with a near complete transcript of the First Epistle of Peter...
Dai Weiji Shiji 代微積拾級 咸豐已未孟夏之月墨海刊行 Elements of Analytical Geometry and of the Differential and Integral Calculus, by Elias Loomis, translated by Alexander Wylie a...
This large initial S showing St Marcel of Paris was originally part of the Gradual of King Louis XII of France and his wife Anne of Brittany, commissioned most likely on the occasi...
A GLOW IN THE DARK BOOKBINDING This is Megan Rosenbloom's "Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin" bound by the acclai...
Sutra of the White Lotus of the True Dharma, Kyoto, 1827. A miniature copperplate printing of the Lotus Sutra, engraved throughout in minute characters. Printed on tissue-thin pape...
From the Sanskrit mádhu (honey). Russian is mjod, Polish is miód, and Czech is med. Latvian is also medus. Classical Greek is méli, and Latin is mel, from which derive most Romance...
The geographical dispersion of surviving papyrus manuscripts from Antiquity is far wider than is usually realized. This is the most WESTERLY papyrus yet found - from BRITTANY. It...
A calligraphic facsimile by Jacques Fucien Lesclabart of the circa 1470-74 xylo-typographic Speculum humanae salvationis, executed circa 1770-1780. Lesclabart, one of the most bril...
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low r...