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Come one, come all! To the 5th floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich library! These circus posters, hanging out

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

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This elegant title page with octagonal border epitomizes the beauty of restraint in design. Inside a

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A universal message of encouragement from the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporati

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Dedicated to the doge and senate of Venice, this treatise on shipbuilding, cartography, and astronom

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Sometimes #manuscripts are so beautiful that we simply must celebrate all of their pleasing aspects.

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Manuscript illuminations serve to enhance the works they live in and bring beauty to the world as wo

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The gentlemen depicted here are Buchsenmaister, or cannon-masters, members of a distinguished guild

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It’s #titlepagetuesday, and boy have we got a cutie for you! This beautiful, colorful and whim

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

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We love Nelson, the regimental dog! This is an excerpt from the ship log of Captain Joseph Watson, c

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If you want to know how the avid #bibliophiles of the #kislakcenter keep in shape, this may be a clu

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Music in the Pavilion, a free Friday night concert series held in the Class of ’78 Orrery Pavilion,

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This shocking (by 19th century standards) illustration is from a book titled “Letters and Recollecti

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Petrarch and his muse Laura decorate the frontispiece to this delicate pocket edition of his sonnets

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Join us next Wednesday, September 27th for the Philadelphia Launch of *The Great Nadar: The Man Behi

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Welcome to LJS 24, a #manuscript that contains a collection of standard 13th-century medical texts.

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This florid illustration is the front cover of “Recollections of an Equestrian Manager”. Its table o

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“Everything in the world exists to end up as a book.” — Stéphane Mallarmé* * *Currentl

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