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I'm not lovin' it. @McDonalds is continuing to do business as normal in Russia, which means the corporate and sales taxes it pays there DIRECTLY support Putin's illegal and murder...
The Museum of the Book and Printing of Ukraine (Музей книги та друкарства України) was established in Kyiv in 1972 in a 17th century building in the grounds of the Kyiv Pechersk La...
This is the stunning building of the National Library of Latvia @LNB_lv, now lit up in solidarity with the colors of the Ukrainian flag. It was designed by the Latvian-American arc...
The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Національна бібліотека України імені В.І. Вернадського) was established in Kyiv in 1918, and is now ranked as one of the world...
All six Ukrainian Presidents since 1991, including Volodymyr Zelensky, have taken the oath of office on this book: the 16th century Peresopnytsia Gospels [Ukrainian: Пересопницьке...
"A Magnum Opus Beyond Measure: Yongle's Encyclopaedia Enigma". This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Library of China in Beijing in 2018 and then at the Shenz...
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An "inscription in Hebrew" would be quite something on a Medieval English brooch, but contrary to what this article says, the letters AGLA on this brooch are in Roman letters not H...
The New Testament in Bengali, translated by by William Carey, and printed at the Serampore Mission Press between 1803 and 1806. This second edition is a substantial revision of the...
A 1697 Slavonic altar Gospels printed at the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev during the reign of Peter the Great. The binding is polished brass, the upper board showing Christ surro...
This is a simply breathtakingly beautiful book - an exquisitely hand-coloured edition of Marifetname or 'Book of Gnosis', an encyclopedic work in the Ottoman language, printed by t...
Both the script and binding are extremely odd here. Glagolitic has been suggested, but if it is, it's in an anomalous or at least very unusual form. This also doesn't appear to be...