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LJS 185 contains the unbound leaves of an Egyptian psalter from the monastery of Saint Anthony on th

We couldn’t resist sharing one more #boatsinthelibrary image as the summer seems to float away

#tinytuesday treasures, a diminutive #detail from a Flemish book of hours. Taken from one of many la

Detail of blueprints from an experimental investigation conducted on the use of magnetic coils carri

Playful figures and creatures spring to life among the foliate borders of this beautiful manuscript

This fascinating piece of our Indic manuscript collection was featured in the 2015 exhibit *This Boo

Here, in a copy of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Ethics, the scribe appears to have gotten somewhat di

LJS 46 is a manuscript that contains very little text and many botanical illustrations, mainly consi

Everyday is a great day for an herbal, especially one featuring what appear to be two serpents happi

#bottomsup How many steins can you fill from one barrel? Learning is always more fun with colorful d

#manuscriptmonday, secret text hidden within a philosophical#manuscript of great beauty. Here, the #

In this book of hours from the mid to late 1400s, an elegantly illuminated initial letter P contains

LJS 454 is a Japanese scroll from the early 1800s containing many illustrations of Western ships and

In 1905, a general store in Loch Katrine in Nova Scotia purchased a blank ledger book from A. &

What is red, crisp, and delicious in so many dishes? You got it, red apples! Today, and every Decemb

An article over on @urichmond ’s Bunk History site has recently been brought to our attention. Check

The first page of this Thai astrological and medical manuscript displays some gestural studies of ca

*Curious experiments in natural magic and cabalistic from Albertus Parvus* is an 18th-century magica

This fuzzy friend (or fiend?) may look innocuous at a glance—but this a carpet beetle, which many ho

Spread of a manuscript on the languages of Chiriuqi and Darien from the Berendt-Brinton Linguistic C

Captain George A. Q. Miller was a Civil War veteran and a special agent in the United States Post Of

This coat of arms held by a crowned eagle is from a 19th-century facsimile of the justification pres

It never ceases to amaze us how utterly pleasing #simplicityindesign can be. Primary palette, curvil

A beautiful painting of Saint Francis of Assisi before a vision of the Virgin Mary standing atop a d

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