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A large and luxurious finely-bound 18th century Qur’an, written in black and red in very fine naskhi in an austere, entirely undecorated style, described by Maggs in 1939 as "in t...
Kyffin: A Celebration - Gwasg Gregynog, 2007. Bound by Stuart Brockman in 2007 in translucent vellum over an original watercolour painting and tooled with chimney smoke in palladi...
ALBANIAN BOOKS One of the most interesting of all European languages, Albanian is an isolate within the Indo-European family, not closely related to any other Indo-European languag...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Le Déjeuner des Spads, 1881. https://t.co/zna9iIPAeh
Thrilled to add another Bamoun manuscript to my library - this manuscript leaf contains an illustrated version of the traditional tale "Le Lion et l'Homme" (The Lion and the Man),...
Here's a bookplate you don't see everyday.... 🧐 https://t.co/0pBO4C0Ihf
THE UZBEK RUBAIYAT The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, in Persian, Uzbek (in Cyrillic characters) & Russian, printed in Tashkent in 1971, with woodblock illustrations by a local artist. O...
An unusual Somali Qur’an section, copied in a script quite distinct from the majuscule Arabic scripts used either along the Swahili coast or in West Africa, carefully but austerely...
Joumana Medlej's @joumajnouna "The Canticle of Creatures", a calligraphic rendering of St Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of Creatures in Arabic, in the Eastern Kufic style and materi...
1. Gutenberg didn't invent movable type in 1439. 2. Most printing until the early 1800s wasn't letterpress printing. But otherwise 💯 🤣 https://t.co/EX2svjay09
Despite the usual hype, few academic books are truly groundbreaking. But @krisrich's new book is the real deal - a paradigm-shattering masterpiece, not least for her superbly argue...
The Portraits of the "Forty-Seven Ronins" with the Biographical Sketch of each "Ronin". Price One dollar. Published by Tanaka Mumesaburo, Yokohama, Meiji 18 (1885). Illustrated by...