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houghtonlib:Manuscript of Icelandic sagas, 1789.MS Icelandic 32Houghton Library, Harvard University

The Llangattock breviary, manuscript, between 1441 and 1448.MS Typ 301Houghton Library, Harvard Univ

In Kerry James Marshall’s work on paper entitled “A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow o

Leaf from the Koran : Manuscript, circa 11th Century.MS Arab 45Houghton library, Harvard University

The Arabian nights, 1802.Lowell 4211.30Houghton Library, Harvard University

An Account of several late voyages and discoveries, 1711. XP 9225Houghton Library, Harvard Universit

did-you-kno:Harvard has a pigment library that stores old pigment sources, like the ground shells of

University Library, University of Maine, Lynne Cohen, 1977, Harvard Art Museums: PhotographsHarvard

Circulation slip, with checkouts between and 1977 and 2006.From the back matter of A Theory of Pure

Welcome Back, Friends!Harvard Divinity School Library is reopening to visitors on Monday, October 4t

New Name, Same Great LibraryThis fall our library, known since 1911 as Andover-Harvard Theological L

Coming Soon…Renovations are wrapping up, and shiny new shelves for archives and rare book

Ever have one of those classes?Idle page number doodles.From p. 131 of John Keats: A Literary B

Annotation: “Not So!!!” and “Stop!” See entire text for more,

optais-amme: Preserving Bi Women’s History Bisexual activist and scholar Robin Ochs just annou

harvardfineartslib: Happy Hina-Matsuri 雛祭り (Doll’s Festival or Girls’ Day in Japan)! In

Bookplate Beauts: JeromeWe love this bookplate, in use in the mid-20th century at Andover-Harvard Th

20aliens:Monroe Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Benjamin Thompson Associates,

~ Woman’s Home Companion, February 1900 via Harvard University Library

houghtonlib: Cigar box labels, late 19th century. H 5444.25.3 Houghton Library, Harvard University

~ Allen, Brock, & Smith, Inc., 1913 via Harvard University Library (click to enlarge)

Library decadence. Harvard. #nofilter

Much of Widener’s most impressive marbling comes from books bearing the bookplate “From

#marbledmonday #library #books #swirly (at Harvard Yard) www.instagram.com/p/B6-4lsbnf8D/?ig

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