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A late 11th cent. codex of Cicero's De inventione [Rhetorica Vetus], with t...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPaNvXYXIAMeFN1.jpg)
WARNING! BDSM CONTENT 🙄😅 A late 11th cent. codex of Cicero's De inventione [Rhetorica Vetus], with the inscription "Domus Dei Tridenti" and two drawings of a scourge or flagella, i...
In Feb. a new genizah was found in the ancient Jewish cemetery in Cairo. In the last weeks, members of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority have removed dozens of sacks of docs from...
The 8th Congrès International des Orientalistes was held in Stockholm in 1889, at the initiative of the Swedish orientalist Carlo Landberg. For the Gala Dinner on 7 September 1889,...
"I am a collector of rare books. I gotta lotta books." Enjoying this video from fellow bibliophile and rare book collector @machinegunkelly. https://t.co/nGeCFpyYXj
The Flateyjarbók is a colossal medieval Icelandic manuscript, comprising 225 written and illustrated vellum leaves. It contains mostly sagas of the Norse kings as found in the Heim...
![Собор Святого князя Владимира в Киеве [The Cathedral of Prince Volodymyr the Saint in Kyiv], printed...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOhQEguWYAM7ufh.jpg)
Собор Святого князя Владимира в Киеве [The Cathedral of Prince Volodymyr the Saint in Kyiv], printed in Kyiv, 1898. One of the most iconic buildings in Kyiv, now under threat fr...
Libraries worldwide illuminated in blue and yellow 🇺🇦 in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. 1/ https://t.co/K4jBiuChpQ
AFRICAN CARTOGRAPHY A manuscript topographic map of the Bamun Kingdom in Cameroon made in 1920 on the orders of King Njoya. This map is the first to reflect the way the Bamum peopl...
Tales of a Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Translated by Edward William Lane, and published by Whitehead and Co for Charles Knight, London 1838–1841. O...
There may be a more beautiful set of 18th century Japanese book wrappers, but I haven't seen them. 'Rekidai Meiko Gafu' by Master Gu Bing, the first illustrated history of Chinese...
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...
"Mapa estatistico e descritivo da villa Inhambane" An extraordinary survival - a poster-sized broadside, 63.5 x 88.5 cm (25 x 35 inches), printed in Goa in 1850, featuring a remark...