"The traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, examines how author J.K. Rowling used historical sources from Renaissance medicine to illuminate her wildly popular books."
"The traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, examines how author J.K. Rowling used historical sources from Renaissance medicine to illuminate her wildly popular books."
"Lynne Thomas, Associate Professor and Curator, Rare Books and Special Collections, University Libraries, explores an exhibition of the important evolutionary ages of this popular art and literature form. Thomas’ chronological and sociological examination begins with the Golden Age (Superman, Captain America) when the earliest superheroes reflected a deep and abiding faith in the goodness of humanity, and continues through the Silver Age (Spiderman, The Fantastic Four) when the heroes were not perfect which encouraged readers to identify with their characters."
"An archaeological museum will house diverse collections and rare books reflecting the heritage of Pakistan in general, and the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan in particular. Epochs of primary interest for the museum include the early piedmont culture of Balochistan (particularly Mehargarh - circa 8500 - 1700 BC)."
"It may well be the country's oldest surviving book but it has taken almost 1,000 years for it to make its first proper public appearance."
"The Celtic Psalter will go on public display tomorrow when it forms part of a new exhibition – Masterpieces 1 – in the exhibition room at Edinburgh University's main library."
"On the first floor of the center, visitors can browse through a copy of the Magna Carta from 1350. There's a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence from 1777 and a page from a Gutenberg Bible printed sometime shortly after Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450."
" A two-day exclusive display of collection of rare and contemporary books on art, literature, culture, religion and social issues started at Nomad Gallery on Saturday."
"Items on display range from a 1502 printing of Ovid's Metamorphoses to a first edition of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn."
"The pieces are arranged in five galleries. (Note to anyone who visited LACMA for either of the two crowded King Tut exhibits — this exhibit is much more spacious.) The last gallery holding reproductions, paintings, rare books and early photographs that show the impact Pompeii had on 18th and 19th century art."
"The exhibit, called Fathers of Astronomy, also features the Nuremberg Chronicle, which presented a biblical view of the world. This predecessor to the works of Copernicus and Galileo is an illustrated world history from Creation up to the time of the book’s 1493 publication. Less than 400 of these books have survived."
"The institute is directed by Indiana University English Professor Christoph Irmscher and funded by a $200,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities through its Picturing America series of summer seminars and institutes for high school teachers. Alita Hornick from the IU Department of English helped organize the institute."
"The collection, which had been located in Hagerstown until about five years ago, includes 1,000 books, some more than 800 years old, that the Remnant Trust lends to universities across the country. It is focused on writings about human dignity and liberty and includes a 560-year-old page of a Gutenberg Bible from the first mass printing of books with movable type."
"The German Studies Department and the Mortimer Rare Book Room have teamed to present an exhibition of German cigarette card albums from the 1920s and 1930s, the first exhibition of its kind in the United States, in the Book Arts Gallery on the third floor of the Neilson Library."
"The Smithsonian Institution Libraries has unveiled exhibitions at two Smithsonian museums on the National Mall. 'Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration' showcases some of the world’s greatest pieces of illustration from the Libraries’ collection of rare books and is on view until Jan. 4, 2010, at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Gallery at the National Museum of American History."
"The 'Art of African Exploration' will be on display until Aug. 16 in the Constitution Avenue Lobby of the National Museum of Natural History."
"The University of St. Thomas' O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center and Center for Irish Studies will co-host their annual St. Patrick's Day Open House from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, in the library's Special Collections Reading Room..."
"The Victorians were interested in anything to do with the natural world, from insects to mammoths, microbes to trees. Many eminent naturalists visited Tenby, including Gosse, Huxley, Lluyd and Donovan, and wrote about their finds. Others were interested in archaeology, history and geology. "
"The Smithsonian Institution Libraries has unveiled exhibitions at two Smithsonian museums on the National Mall. “Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration” showcases some of the world’s greatest pieces of illustration from the Libraries’ collection of rare books and is on view until Jan. 4, 2010, at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Gallery at the National Museum of American History. The “Art of African Exploration” will be on display until Aug. 16 in the Constitution Avenue Lobby of the National Museum of Natural History."
"Bernard Shapero, reputed for showcasing rare books and manuscripts, will exhibit a complete set of the first edition of David Roberts’ six-volume first edition of The Holy Land. Priced at $480,000, the set is one of only 200 subscribers’ copies published, of which very few survive. "
"A small exhibit in the University of Georgia's Hargrett Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, "The Changing Face of Lincoln," shows how the 16th president was depicted in cartoons in American and British newspapers and magazines."
"The exposition includes rare editions of the 18th – 21st cc from collection of the Russian National Library. In particular, the visitors will see books and documents telling about the Embassy Order of the Moscow State, about establishment of the Collegiate Organ for Foreign Affairs, about diplomacy of the epoch of Catherine the Great and Alexander the First, about establishment of People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, and about the present-day structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "
"The year 2009 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin (1509-2009), one of the founding fathers of the Reformation, and the International Museum of the Reformation (IMR), Geneva, Switzerland, announces an exceptional temporary exhibition and series of events in honor of his contributions. "
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"Mickey and Donald were featured in some of 1975 alumnus Steve Rothman's favorite comics when he was growing up and now make up some of the 22,000 comic books and graphic novels he donated to Van Pelt's Special Collections Library."
"Jackson and a team of calligraphers and artists have spent the last 10 years writing and illustrating the manuscript by hand using quills fashioned from turkey, swan and goose feathers, natural handmade paints and inks, and silver and 24-karat gold on carefully selected calf-skin parchment. The Saint John’s Bible embraces the medieval materials and processes used in creating handwritten Bibles, but it also interprets and illustrates scripture from a contemporary perspective. "
"The exhibition features original documents and rare books from the Libraries' Special Collections, as well as some pieces from a private collector. Lincoln's ties to Iowa are explored through the stories these documents tell, such as a legal case involving the first bridge over the Mississippi River between Rock Island and Davenport."
"With the rising interest in Americana, local enthusiasts have an outlet in the Berkshires. Monday marked the anniversary of an exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art housing prints of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation."
"The roughly 60 prints by a generation of naturalists, including the most famous among them -- John James Audubon -- and Englishman Mark Catesby, who was a leading light of the movement in the 18th century. "
"Featuring illuminated copies of the 'Qur'an', ancient Egyptian papyrus texts, beautiful calligraphy and rare artistic gems, the 'Arts of The Book' exhibition spans several continents and a wide range of artists."
"“Olive Pierce: Forty Years of Photographs (1963-2003)” runs through Dec. 14 in the Mary Duke Biddle Rare Book Room of Duke University’s Perkins Library. "
"The display explores the story of Darwin's work with plants and his study of biological influences in how they have changed over time. It includes rare books, manuscripts, prints and more. "
"The Center for Book Arts is dedicated to the preservation of the traditional artistic practices of bookmaking, as well as encouraging contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object. Founded in 1974, it was the first not-for-profit organization of its kind in the nation. The Center organizes exhibitions related to the art of the book and offers an extensive selection of educational courses, workshops and seminars in traditional and contemporary bookbinding, letterpress printing, fine press publishing, and other associated arts."
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"The National Library of Korea opened a special exhibition this month, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the founding of modern Korea. The exhibition is called ''1948 to the Present'' and highlights Korea¡¯s achievements over the past 60 years."
"Hundreds of history buffs and experts in Patna on Tuesday paid a visit to the Khudabaksh Library to view rare books and manuscripts written during the Mughal period after the library, to mark the Khudabaksh Day, put them up for day-long public display."
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"It's also rare for its collector to take the priceless, frail books from their Georgia home."
"But James Porter has packed about 120 books and prints from his 3,000-plus collection into his blue minivan for a stop Saturday at the Reef Relief Environmental Center in Key West."
"Assembled from the collection of Santa Barbara resident Zora Charles, the exhibit was created in collaboration with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass., the only museum in the U.S. devoted to the art of children's books."
"Rennes launches the first ever major exhibition on the legend of King Arthur on 15th July 2008. In partnership with The French National Library the exhibition traces the cultural history of the Arthurian myth and has been nominated as an 'Exhibition of National Interest'".
"An exhibition of Persian Manuscripts and rare books inaugurated Thursday in New Delhi at Dr. Zakir Husain Library of Jamia Millia Islamia university as part of Iranian Cultural Week in India organised by the university. "
"The exhibit reaches back to an era when scholars from the Middle East were translating the works of ancient Greek scientists, making science of their own, and preserving a legacy of knowledge that would one day help power the Renaissance in Europe."
"This bold display of work ranges from Matisse to Rauschenberg to Hirst. It includes great surprises, such as the saturated totemic prints of abstract Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida. There isn’t an overriding theme but the curators have selected works which demonstrate great craftsmanship, which is appropriately so very V&A. "
"An exhibit of artifacts and documents related to the life of Napoleon I of France, from the collection of Don and Rubye Kraft, will open at 3:30 p.m. today in Kent Library at Southeast Missouri State University."
"In addition to the paintings on the walls, gems from Yale's extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, atlases, and globes convey the history and context of the period. And interesting surprises abound: The map of North America from the 1630s shows "a branch of the south sea not yet discovered" — just west of the Appalachians."
"Blessed with the avid Miltoniana collecting by two of its founders, the library has mounted a small but rich display of rare books, documents and illustrations related to the man who laid down 10,550 lines of 'Paradise Lost''"
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"Deep within the Foley Center library, between the endless rows of bookshelves and the scholarly students, reside precious and ancient treasures of the past. These "Treasures of the Vault" can only be found on the third floor of the Foley Center, nestled in a public, yet unfamiliar place to many students: the Cowles Rare Books room."
"ATLANTA – Former NBA star Mike 'Stinger' Glenn, a curator of rare books and original documents, will showcase a segment of the Mike Glenn Collection, 'The Liberated Life and Turbulent Times of Frederick Douglass' at the Douglas County Public Library, February 9 – 29, 2008. "
"In today's market single pages alone go for $25,000 each, and several years ago just 1 volume (it's a 2 volume set) sold for $5.5 million."
"The Grolier Club will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, curated by Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Delaware, will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators."
"The premier elements of a $7 million collection of minerals and rare books will go on display at the University of Arizona Mineral Museum Feb. 9. "
"The collection, which includes 871 mineral specimens covering 64 species and more than 300 rare books on mineralogy, was donated to UA by the estate of Hubert Charles de Monmonier. "
"The Waldseemueller map, purchased by the library for $10 million in 2003, is believed to be the only one in existence. It had languished for four centuries in a German castle but now is on view in a hermetically sealed custom-made case that took nearly a year to design. And for the first time, it is paired with Waldseemueller's 1516 Carta Marina, or Navigators' Chart, thought by some to be the first printed nautical map of the entire world. "
"A new online collection at the University of Louisville Libraries’ makes it easy for Louisvillians to see what their neighborhoods looked like 100 years ago and compare them to present day."
"Kentucky Maps, which has atlases from 1876, 1884 and 1913, is one of two collections recently added to University Libraries’ digital collections."
"This ravishing exhibit, which includes the first book printed in color (the 1579 marriage of the second duke of Tuscany to his Venetian mistress) is as much an engrossing history lesson as it is an examination of the human impulse to be remembered."
"It's tempting to think of these 60 exhibited volumes from across Italy as Renaissance scrapbooks, but they were much more. They were political documents, lavish self-promotional billboards aimed at asserting the wealth and stature of the host."
"The curators, S. A. Mansbach and Wojciech Jan Siemaszkiewicz, have pulled rare books, journals and ephemera from the library’s Slavic and Baltic division. Tattered, date-stamped and marked with the names of immigrant readers, these materials show new and reconstituted countries embracing the aesthetics of Modern art and design (though not always the radical politics.)"
"PRAGUE (AFP) — Czechs got the chance to examine the world's biggest medieval manuscript, the "Codex Gigas" or "Devil's Bible," for the first time in almost 359 years on Thursday when the precious work went on show as part of a four-month-long exhibition."
"The unusual collaboration of so many cultural organizations around a single topic was the brainchild of the Field Museum, the Newberry Library and private collectors who for years had dreamed of launching an exhibition of history's "100 most important maps," said Chicago industrialist Barry MacLean, a map collector."
"This month, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library features a captivating display on piracy, the "villains of all nations," whose greatest sins may have been the transgression of behavioral norms."
"The best part of being a pirate, after all, is the freedom it engenders."
"Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture during the Spanish Civil War, on view at the International Center of Photography (ICP), from September 26, 2007 through January 6, 2008, places a selection of these publications in relation to the posters and other forms of ephemera in which photography was used to record the war’s main events and to create dynamic propaganda."
"Festival of Maps Chicago, which starts November 2, is organized by a board of high-powered map connoisseurs (former Rand McNally chairman Andrew McNally IV and Field prez John McCarter are two of 10 members). Because Chicago is the first city to host a major maps exhibition in 50 years, the offerings reach far and wide: More than 25 participating museums and institutions will host cartography-related exhibitions, lectures and events."
"'Paradise in Print' showcases 500 years of Caribbean history and culture through beautifully printed folio editions, rare books, and original watercolors from the library's own archival treasury. The sheer wealth of information conveyed, together with the splendor of the roughly 65 individual plates, maps, and frontispieces, testifies to the crucial function of art in the history of medicine, agriculture, and exploration."
"Spirit and Life Exhibition will include miniatures from one of the finest illustrated manuscripts ever produced, the Persian epic masterpiece of Shahnameh (The Book of Kings), and an extremely rare copy of the Canon of Medicine of Ibn Sina also known as Avicenna, Persian physician, astronomer, logician, mathematician, philosopher, physicist, scientist, and theologian, whose book use in Europe and the Middle East as the standard medical textbook for over 500 years. "
"This exhibition on view at The New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx, will present rarely seen Caribbean-related illustrated works and will run through July 29. Bringing to life 500 years of Caribbean history and culture, this show features lavishly printed folio editions, rare books, and original watercolors assembled from the Mertz Library collection."
"Another insight, into a different culture, one still struggling to find its roots in a new world. "Sacred Legacy," an irreplaceable record of North American native culture has come to China. "Sacred Legacy" consists of work first published a century ago by renowned American photographer and ethnographer Edward Sherriff Curtis."
"Among the treasures of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia's Rare Book Department are twenty-five elaborately illustrated folios from a centuries-old Mughal manuscript known as the Razmnama ( literally, 'Book of War' ). The manuscript dates to around 1598?99, and was produced under the Muslim Mughal Dynasty, which founded a kingdom in India in or during the early 16th century. "
"The display, titled "From Bacon to Bits: 400 Years of Science," includes a first edition book by Francis Bacon, second edition books by Charles Darwin and John Locke, and a book published in 1726 by Isaac Newton. Also displayed are the issue of "Nature" that announced the molecular structure of DNA and a Commodore 64 Computer. The Guinness Book of World Records called the computer the best-selling single personal computer model of all time, with 17 to 22 million sold world-wide."
"The exhibits are categorized chronologically into different research spaces: black pottery pieces in Lung-shan Culture (2600-2000 B.C.); oracle inscriptions on bones and shells from the capital of the Shang dynasty at the Ruins of Yin (late 14th century-mid 11th century B.C.); a bronze kettle and pots of the Chou dynasty (1122-221 B.C.); wooden military documents of the Han dynasty from current Gansu frontier fortresses; journal, woodblock prints on rare books from the Sung dynasty (960-1279); and imperial tribute documents dating from the Ming (1368-1644) and Ching (1644-1911) dynasties. "
"Museum curators and IT managers in Taiwan are digitising the world's largest collection of ancient Chinese art and artifacts."
"The goal is to make the massive collection available online. Researchers will be able to find rare documents in an easy-to-use database, while teachers will be able to download information and images they can use in course work."
"Unpublished and Uncensored: Sex, War & Dogs is a collection culled from the 62 Thurber drawings donated in 2005 to The Ohio State University's Rare Books and Manuscripts Library by the estate of Nora Sayre. The drawings have been organized into seven series for the exhibit. "
"The Audubon exhibit features more than 60 of the original large hand-colored engravings from "The Birds of America", selected from the collection and archives of the John James Audubon Museum at Henderson, Ky."
…Cloistered, celibate printers at the Ephrata Cloister in the 1740s.
…Hot-headed, colonial printers.
…Printers’ apprentices become media moguls.
…The most successful American woman printer of the 1800s.
…and lots of Amish and Mennonite letterpress history:
(To help reclaim Germanic, Fraktur fonts for my Amish grandparents.)
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"An introduction to herbals assembled by librarian Charlotte Tancin places the exhibition in historic context and includes one of the largest such books printed in English (John Parkinson, 1640) and a circa 1759 work by Timothy Sheldrake that was one of the last generalist volumes made."
"The archives also has the box in which Gandhiji’s ashes were kept for 46 years, from November 1950 to January 1997. The archives also display the notes issued by the bank from 1806 to 1862 after which the government came up with a standard currency. "
"Last weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the Boston Public Library's main branch in Copley Square to see their miniature books exhibit entitled 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures. While I have always considered handmade books pieces of art, I have to say that the miniature versions are awe-inspiring."
"The marvel is not the content of the book, or the idea of publishing it, but that it is only 18 by 13 millimeters -- about 3/4 inches by 1/2 inch. In its day, it was the smallest book ever printed with movable type, using 2-point type called "Fly's eye." As Galileo suffered for his science, so legend says the 1896 typesetter went blind from making his masterpiece."
"An exhibition featuring ancient scripts belonging to Islam, Judaism and Christianity opens at the British Library in London on Friday. "
"A valuable collection of the original religious texts, sources and documents relating to the special rituals and ceremonies of these three major world religions will be put on display for the public to visit. "
"At the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, people can see the reach of trees in print -- botanical prints, book illustrations, photographs, single-sheet broadsides -- in a wonderful exhibit titled "Trees in Fact and Fable," which will be on display through May 25."
"The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., will have a related exhibition, which will include the 1640 Massachusetts Bay Colony Psalm Book, the first book ever published in America, as well as other historical hymnals–two with words to the line-singing service in the Creek language. At 3 p.m., Friday, the three congregations will sing at the Beinecke from texts on display there. "
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"The British Library is proud to announce that HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, are the royal patrons of its forthcoming exhibition, Sacred: Discover what we share, which presents some of the world’s earliest-surviving, most important and beautiful religious texts from the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths."
"On Friday, March 30, Canaday Library's Special Collections staff will host a reception to mark the opening of a new exhibition of artists' books, tilted "reBound: Contemporary Artists' Responses to 18th and 19th Century Ticketed American Bindings." The reception, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the lobby of Canaday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibition will be on display through May 11, during regular library hours. "
"Among the objects to be exhibited at the institute are vases from almost five thousand years ago, sets of artefacts from Syrian prehistory, Byzantine icons, Greek and Roman vases, rare books from the 18th and 19th centuries, stamps from Mesopotamia and fossils of the whole world. "
"Original maps of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region from 17th-century drawings concocted from travelers' accounts to 21st-century images captured by satellites are on display through June 29 in the Department of Special Collections in Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison."
"The University of Delaware Library has been named a co-recipient of the 2007 Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award for the exhibition catalog, 'Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond: The Influence of Ezra Pound on Twentieth-Century Poetry.'"
"The exhibition will open in the Milberg Gallery of Firestone Library on campus in advance of the production of Alexander Pushkin's play about the Russian tsar Godunov, which will premiere April 12 at the Berlind Theatre."
"The Leipzig Book Fair has emerged as Germany's second largest exhibition after the internationally renowned Frankfurt Book Fair as more than 2,200 exhibitors from 36 countries will showcase their latest works in the east German city of Leipzig from March 22-25."
"The Judicial Museum is the brain child of the present Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court Justice Bashir Ahmed Khan. It was on his initiative that Srinagar Judicial Museum came up in July and was inaugurated by the then Chief Justice of India Justic Y K Sabharwal. "
"A rare book by the naturalist Charles Darwin is going on display today at the State Library of New South Wales."
"The first edition of On the Origin of Species, once owned by Darwin's great-grandson, was acquired by the library at auction in London for $191,000."
"The University of Iowa Libraries and the UI History of Medicine Society will sponsor an open house of one of the finest collections of notable anatomical illustrations in the United States from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in the John Martin Rare Book Room of the UI Hardin Library for the Health Sciences."
"The explorers and sailors of the 15th century were well aware that the Earth was round, but only on September 6, 1522, a ship completed the circumnavigation of the globe. It was the Victoria, one of the ships that had sailed under Ferdinand Magellano..."
"A trio of items from the Department of Special Collections in KU's Kenneth Spencer Research Library will be featured alongside 10 scrolls, some of which have never been seen before in the United States."
"The Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., in Winter Park, will open the first comprehensive exhibition of its seldom-seen collection of rare books and works on paper, beginning Tuesday. Pieces presented in the show include many by notable artists, such as Hopper, Whistler, Cassatt, Cezanne, Renoir, Gauguin, etc"
"A new exhibition titled Bound and Determined: Identifying American Bookbindings, will open Tuesday, Jan. 30, in the Rare Book Room in Canaday Library. Preceding the opening will be a lecture by Daniel Traister, curator of research services at the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania, and a prolific writer and speaker about the history of books and English and American literature. His talk, You Can't Tell a Book by Its Cover; or Bindings? – Why Bindings?, will be at 4:30 p.m. in Carpenter Library 21."
"In the last five years, Stern had just begun exploring other forms of letterpress art, stretching his talent and testing his artistic grit. 'His latest work shows him beginning to explore the brilliance of his talent," says Sandra Kroupa, a friend of Stern's and Book Arts and Rare Book curator at the University of Washington. "In that type of printing, he was at the top of the game.'"
"''The Voyage of Alex Haley: Notebooks and Memoirs of an African-American Writer'' marks the 30th anniversary of the blockbuster miniseries about Haley's enslaved ancestors."
"The January 1977 debut of Roots drew 130 million Americans -- nearly half the nation's population at the time and about 85 percent of the television viewing audience."
"That's book binding, the avocation of husband-and-wife team Monique Lallier and Don Etherington. They live in Summerfield, and they're known worldwide for their handiwork."
"The books they help create are downright beautiful. Matter of fact, you can see their work on exhibit through Sunday at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem."
"The Corcoran Gallery of Art presents Joan of Arc, an exhibition that celebrates the cultural legacy of the French medieval heroine Joan of Arc (c. 1412-1431). Her extraordinary life has inspired generations of writers and artists, and her image has been used for centuries to promote a variety of political, cultural and religious views."
"Brainard's writings fall into several categories: memoir, diaries, Pop Art, short essays and verbal-visual collaborations. Drawing from the University at Buffalo Poetry and Rare Book Collection's vast assortment of journals, magazines, broadsides and first-edition books, this exhibition will capture the freewheeling and generative excitement of New York City in the 1960s and 70s. "
"Ben Ness, manager of John K. King Used & Rare Books in Ferndale, said his store is receiving an upswing in sales."
"Some of the business' recent sales were a first edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway and a copy of James Joyce's Ulysses that was illustrated and autographed by the artist Henri Matisse. Customers have also bought rare copies of children's books like The Wizard of Oz and The Little Prince."
"A new exhibit of rare books at the Boston Public Library (BPL) highlights one of the earliest rises in pop culture in London with pamphlets, broadsides, and rare books telling stories of criminals, ghost, shipwrecks, and pirates."
"Five hundred years ago an artist's brush finely stroked a vellum page with liquid gold, rendering highlights on the regal clothing of the Virgin Mary, her infant son and an angel. This glorious image and other rare book illustrations will go on view in a special exhibition "The Christmas Story: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Stark Collection" at the Stark Museum of Art Thursday, Nov. 30."
"BALTIMORE - For the first time, The Walters Art Museum of Baltimore, is exhibiting as a collection its illuminated missals, liturgical manuscripts and early printed missals."
"November 29 will see the opening of the Antique Book Fair in the Central House of Artist, Moscow."
" It will present monuments of Russian and foreign culture, including historic treatises, book collections of Russian classics, art albums, unique editions, as well as books painted free-hand by Russian futurist artists."
" Under Krain's gentle massage, they pull the top layer of dirt from this historic artwork in the Maryland State Law Library's collection of original Birds of America prints by wildlife illustrator John James Audubon."
"Over the past two years, the prints have been leaving Annapolis for the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, a nonprofit workshop housed in a former ice cream factory. Here, they undergo a treatment that blends art, science and TLC."
"Dr Zahi Hawwas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities, said that artifacts include a mosaic of Virgin Marry while carrying baby Jesus Christ, a silver candlestick, a bronze cross in addition to rare manuscripts."
"Items from the Brotherton Collection, considered one of the finest collections of rare books and documents in the country, are to be opened up to public view in Leeds."
"Lord Brotherton of Wakefield amassed the collection before donating it and the magnificent building that houses it to the University of Leeds."
"Now the university is to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth by putting some of the finest items on show and inviting some of Lord Brotherton's relatives to a reception to celebrate his legacy."
"]I don't think it's been done,' Barringer says of the show, which combines works by such artists as J.M.W. Turner, James McNeill Whistler and William Hogarth, along with commercial art, lyric sheets, recorded music ranging from Handel to Gilbert and Sullivan, and period instruments - two pianos, a harp, a hurdy-gurdy and a serpent (a snake-shaped leather-covered wind instrument)."
"Some 10 rare, handwritten copies of the holy Qur'an have been put on display in this auspicious month of Ramadan and a press conference held Monday by the custodian of documents of Iran's National Library, Ali Akbar Ashari, who elucidated on these copies. "
"The manuscript section of the National Library houses more than 20,000 handwritten and rare books. It is one of the world's highly acclaimed libraries and research centers in the field, reported Mehr news agency."
"A copy of a seventh century Quran and Persian translations of the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana done during the Mughal period are among the around 500 rare manuscripts that will be displayed at the National Museum here after a gap of five years. "
"The manuscripts would be put up at a permanent gallery that will be created especially for such rare documents in two months. "
"In the pantheon of Founding Fathers, John Adams is usually considered an also-ran. There is no memorial to him in Washington, no portrait of him on US currency, no singular achievement that is drilled into the heads of schoolchildren from Maine to California."
"But opening today at the Boston Public Library is the first public exhibition of the second president's vast personal library, a priceless collection of 3,802 works whose breadth helps show why this Braintree farmer is gaining recognition as one of the true American giants."
"Currently in storage, Colgate's First Folio and 1663 Third Folio will go on display to the public in a rare show in fall 2007, when the Case Library, which closed in 2006 to undergo a $52.5 million expansion, reopens. "
"Colgate's First Folio has not been on public display since Carl Peterson became Colgate's Head of Special Collections in 1990. He told the Dispatch last week he couldn't even recall a time before that when the Folio had been on display at the university. "
"AMHERST, MA.- The UMass Amherst Libraries present “Renaissance at UMass Amherst” an exhibit of rare books, manuscript leaves, and illustrations from the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies on the Lower Level of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library through October 14. Along with other, more contemporary items, the exhibit will display the breadth of material represented in the Center’s extensive library. "
"A travel sketchbook of one of the greatest Japanese ukiyo-e print artists of the 19th century turns up at a Sotheby's auction after being missing for 110 years. An ukiyo-e museum curator flies to the United States to visit the new owner and verify the authenticity of the sketchbook. At the same time he convinces the owner to lend this rare book for an exhibition in Japan. "
"Sound like a great scenario for an exhibition? It is indeed, although the resulting exhibition--Hiroshige--Tokaido and Kisokaido: Ukiyo-e Master's Views of Scenic Beauty on Two Major Roads--now running until Oct. 9 at the Chiba City Museum of Art may not be quite the exhibition you expect. "
"Within the festival round table discussions, book fairs, presentation of new issues, meetings between writers and literary men, as well as the evening of Russian Poetry, the concert of art masters, and meetings with students and teachers of the Baku Slavic University are to be held within the festival. About 600 rare book-copies are expected to be given as a present to Azerbaijan."
"The Cape Cod Museum of Art will host "Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature," prints from a rare book collection of MBLWHOI Library, from Sept. 16 to Nov. 16."
"Haeckel (1834-1919) was the German scientist who first coined the terms "Darwinism" and "ecology." After reading Darwin's "Origin of Species," Haeckel became one of the more prolific and vociferous supporters of evolution, but was less supportive of natural selection as the mechanism by which evolution occurred. He was first to postulate a "missing link" between ape and man and was proven correct when Java man was found in 1891."
"PRICELESS books and documents about William Shakespeare and Stratford's rich history will be on display when the Shakespeare Centre opens free to the public."
"The centre, in Henley Street, is one of thousands of historic buildings across England throwing its doors open as part of Heritage Open Days 2006."
"New Delhi: A copy of a seventh century Quran and Persian translations of the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana done during the Mughal period are among the around 500 rare manuscripts that will be displayed at the National Museum here after a gap of five years. "
"The manuscripts would be put up at a permanent gallery that will be created especially for such rare documents in two months. "
"'The museum has around 15,000 manuscripts in its collection, out of which around 500 will be put up for display in the manuscript gallery,'" National Museum Director General A K V S Reddy told news agencies here. "
"The Virginia Historical Society was established in 1831. The first president of the VHS was Chief Justice John Marshall. In the beginning, the society's aim was to collect rare books and acquire rare Virginia memorabilia. The current building was built by the Confederate Memorial Association. In 1946, with the aid of historian Douglas Southall Freeman, the Confederate Memorial Institute and the Virginia Historical Society merged. Last month, the VHS celebrated its 175th anniversary."
"IT’s more than just a space to pore over textbooks or hunt down dusty reference volumes for a college research project. The University of Mumbai ’s Rajabai Tower Library is more a book museum, boasting some rare and valuable tomes. The exhibition of some of these interesting volumes at the Rajabai Tower, to celebrate the University’s 150th year, is the perfect way to marvel at some of the treasures that the library preserves."
"Most of the special collections in the library today were received from private donors. Among these are a stack of letters and newspaper articles by Dr B R Ambedkar, the East India Company’s books received in 1864 by the British Government, ex-vice chancellor Dr John Wilson’s collection of books on Oriental Studies and Dr Aroon Tikekar’s 2,100 antiquarian books, which he donated to the library last year. "
"Celebrating 150 years, the University of Mumbai has organised an exhibition of ‘Rare Books And Artifacts.’ All the rare and ancient collections of books and photographs are placed at the Rajabhai Tower Library. This collection will be made available for public viewing from today to July 25 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The exhibition will exhibit ‘Peregrinatio Hierosolymitana Et Montis Sinai’ which is the oldest book in the University Library. It was published in the year 1490 and was written by Bernhard Von Breydenbach. Providing a description of a pilgrimage from Germany to Jerusalem this book is remarkable. Peregrinatio Hierosolymitana Et Montis Sinai is regarded as the first illustrated travel book. It contains the earliest known instance of the painter, Erhard Reuwich of Utrecht."
The Pakistan Muslim League "said that a Quran Museum was also being set up in Quran Complex to preserve old and rare manuscripts of the Quran. He said that a Quran library would also be established to preserve translations and interpretations of the Quran."
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“Most rare books libraries own some Bibles, but as far as I know, there are few Bible collections in America as large, carefully compiled and active as that at Baker University,” says Alexandra Mason, a retired librarian at Kansas University.
"The St. Louis Art Museum owns about 13,000 works on paper: 8,500 prints, 3,000 photographs and 1,500 drawings, watercolors and collages. Together, they make up nearly half of the museum's collection by number."
"The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center will kick off "Treasures of the Caribbean" with a reception 7 to 9 p.m. at the library, 2650 Sistrunk Blvd. The community is encouraged to dress in Caribbean attire. Island food and music will be provided. "
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"The Bible came to the heart of Russia’s political life when an exhibition held in the State Duma in Moscow displayed ancient and rare manuscripts to politicians for the first time in the modern history of the Russian Federation."
"The exhibition, ‘The Bible in Russia’, was held to mark a number of significant dates in the history of the Bible in Russia - the 950th anniversary of Ostromirov's Gospel, the oldest preserved manuscript in Russian, the 130th anniversary of the Synodal Bible, the first translation of the Bible into Russian, and the 50th anniversary of the first mass edition of the Bible in Russian, produced by the Russian Orthodox Church after the Communist revolution."
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"SPOKANE, Wash. -- It is considered by some to be the United States' first home-grown fairy tale: "The Wizard of Oz," a fantastical story that began as a book and became one of the most popular movies of the 20th century."
"The shoes Judy Garland wore in the 1939 classic film are enshrined in the Smithsonian. The Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and the Wicked Witch of the West are among the most well-known characters of the cinematic world."
"The Pre-Raphaelites, a group of artists and poets from the mid-19th century who were dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals and methods and to observing and portraying nature, included such well-known artists and writers as Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris and Oscar Wilde."
"Carleton’s special collections houses many of these masters’ works, from miniscule gift books to larger, torso-sized books, such as the Kelmscott Chaucer, an illustrated and extraordinarily beautiful version of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales."
"t would literally take decades to see everything. Only about 4,000 objects are on display at any given time, with the rest stored in honeycomb-like caverns tunnelled into the mountains behind the three-storey museum."
"Every three months, the treasures are rotated under heavy guard. Only a handful of people are authorized to enter the connecting tunnels and make the switch."
"Archival documents and rare books make up the bulk of the collection."
"It is considered by some to be America's first home-grown fairy tale: "The Wizard of Oz," a fantastical story that began as a book and became one of the most popular movies of the 20th century."
"The shoes Judy Garland wore in the 1939 classic film are enshrined in the Smithsonian. The Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and the Wicked Witch of the West are among the most well-known characters of the cinematic world."
"More than a century and a half after his death, Audubon's works are soaring in popularity, thanks to recent biographies and exhibits, including "Audubon's Aviary," showing at the New York Historical Society through May 7. Similarly, the rarity of Audubon's original engravings means that collectors who flock to rare-book and print dealers pay hundreds of thousands for certain prints.
"'I've sold 15 to 20 different birds in the past five months, prices ranging from $3,000 to $175,000," said Harry Newman of Manhattan's Old Print Shop. "Last year, when they rediscovered the supposedly extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the phone calls we got for Audubon's Ivory-billed ... Whoa, amazing.'"
"The quincentenary of that first publication from a Scottish press is almost two years away, but on the 30th of this month, at the National Library of Scotland, a rolling programme of celebratory events for 2008 will be announced, aimed at involving the community as broadly as possible in celebrating the 500 years of printing in Scotland since that modest volume left the Cowgate printing shop."
""Incunabula: The World of the Fifteenth Century," a free public exhibit, will run through Aug. 31 in Wilson Library. "Incunabula" refers to books printed from just after Johann Gutenberg invented movable type, about 1454, through the end of that century, said Roberta Engleman, assistant curator of Wilson's Rare Book Collection."
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"We all know Sigmund Freud as the father of psychoanalysis, but there is another side of Freud that remains unfamiliar to many: the neuroscientist."
"Before identifying the id and the Oedipus complex, before laying the groundwork for millions of patients to take to the couch, Freud spent years investigating nerve transmission in fish, brainstem function in humans, and other hard-core neurological pursuits. Much of the time, Freud recorded his observations by drawing pictures of what he saw through a microscope - and those drawings will soon be on display for the first time in the United States at the New York Academy of Medicine. "
"AHMEDABAD — A rare 800-year-old book made entirely out of cloth is one among thousands of historic manuscripts housed at the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology in Ahmedabad, where ancient book preserving techniques are being used."
"'The book Dharamvidi Prakran, written in 1,200 AD, is a rare book written on pages made from cloth by a religious scholar who lived during that period,' Jitendra Shah, the director of the LD institute, told PTI."
"MIDDLETOWN - Written by Irish monks during the Dark Ages, the Book of Kells is credited by scholars with helping to save modern civilization."
"A copy of the 680-page illustrated book, considered a national treasure in Ireland, was recently on display at Middletown Library, on loan from resident Richard Roden. "
"The first phase of the complex measures about 3800 square meters. It provides facilities for people to set up their works in this hall, said an engineer present on site. The entire area is air-conditioned. The library shall have a special section devoted to rare books and also provide computer connectivity. The auditorium has special vents for air-conditioning at the floor-level and has a capacity of 400 and boasts of a specialised projection and sound system."
"SALT LAKE CITY Two first-edition copies of the Book of Mormon were among a dozen rare books that could be worth more than $300,000 stolen from a museum, authorities said."
"The theft at Pioneer Memorial Museum on Capitol Hill was discovered early Wednesday, and investigators believe someone used a hammer to shatter a glass case where the books were stored, said Lt. Tony Garcia of the Utah Department of Public Safety."
"Stolen were 11 copies of the Book of Mormon, the central text of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a Tibetan wood printing block, said Garcia."
" A Perfect Vision: The Rare Book Collection of William Holland Wilmer, an exhibition of works from a collection of more than 400 books on astronomy, medicine, optics and ophthalmology that have been out of public view for nearly three-quarters of a century, opened on April 1 and will run through June 30 at the George Peabody Library."
"William Holland Wilmer, pre-eminent physician and founder of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins, was also a passionate bibliophile who amassed an exceptional collection during the 1920s and 1930s. "
"Visitors can view 54 world-renowned historical documents, including the Declaration of Independence, Emancipation Proclamation, Magna Carta and a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible."
"The rare-book collection is on loan from The Remnant Trust, a public educational foundation headquartered in Hagerstown, Ind."
"The Trust shares original and first-edition works dealing with the topics of liberty and dignity. Park Tudor is the first elementary/secondary school to house the collection, which generally is available only to universities."
"It is seriously cool stuff most people will never get a chance to see in real life, but for the next several months, it is all on display at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum."
"Bancroft Library officials have selected more than 350 of the library's rarest and most historic holdings for an exhibit celebrating the library's 100th year."
"Running through Dec. 3, the exhibit combines pieces of California history with first editions of Copernicus and Galileo, ancientEgyptian papyri with images of the Beat poets, mementos of the Black Panther movement with an extremely rare and fragile 16th century scroll illustrating the life, loves, wars and rituals of Cuicatec rulers who lived in what is now Oaxaca, Mexico. The scroll, called the Codex Fernandez Leal, is probably the most valuable item in the library's collection."
"During these times of renewed saber-rattling in the name of God, every Christian, Jewish and Muslim extremist should be required to spend a day at the exhibition "Livres de parole. Torah, Bible et Coran", which is showing at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) in Paris until the end of April."
"Considering that religious fundamentalism again is playing a geopolitical role - in the West as well as in the East - the BNF curators took a brave initiative when they put together a show which traces the history of the three monotheistic religions from their common cradle in Mesopotamia (i.e. modern Iraq) to the present. They have managed to steer away from any potential invitation to polemics, however, by taking a strictly historical and bibliographic approach to the texts and objects on display."
"Today, everyone who is interested can learn more about plants at a library or on the Internet. But at one time, plants were considered objects of magic and mystery and only scholars and monks had access to books about botany."
"'Plants in Print: The Age of Botanical Discovery' is a collection of rare books that traces how the modern perception of plants developed. The 34 volumes will be on display through May 20 at the Kenan Research Center, which is part of the Atlanta History Center."
"Some images from exhibition depicting medical illustration through the ages are macabre, but on the whole beautiful."
"A torso is slit open, intestines spill into a bucket and a knife punctures the eye socket. For good measure, a dog munches on a heart nearby. Reward for Cruelty is not something you’ll see in modern medical textbooks but it’s one of the gruesomely fabulous images on display at Ars Medica: Medical Illustration Through the Ages at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library."
" Created in 2003 to mark the 400th anniversary of her death by Chicago's Newberry Library, the national touring exhibit "Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend" is making a stop at John Carroll University's Grasselli Library and Breen Learning Center for a six-week stay."
"The exhibition, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vance Family Fund and the University of Illinois at Chicago, showcases more than 100 photo reproductions of books, paintings, manuscripts, letters, maps and other artifacts associated with the Virgin Queen."
"Some of the library’s greatest treasures are on display, including an illuminated Book of Hours dating from the 15th century. Drawings, watercolors and prints from the E.A. McIlhenny Natural History Collection include works by John James Audubon, Mark Catesby, Edward Lear, Elizabeth Gould and Margaret Stones. First editions of “Principia Mathematica,” Lewis Carroll’s “The Game of Logic” and John Quincy Adams’ “Lectures on Rhetoric” exemplify the breadth of Hill’s Rare Book Collection."
"The Penn Library marks Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday with an exhibit on the history of Philadelphia-area schools - Educating the Youth of Pennsylvania: Worlds of Learning in the Age of Franklin. Organized by Rare Book and Manuscript, the exhibit is on view now through May 31, in the Rosenwald Gallery, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library."
" Although there are many indicators of prestige among modern educational institutions—from Nobel prizes to faculty ratings to research dollars and private donations—university libraries remain one of the enduring benchmarks of excellence in higher education."
"Among the many library gems at the University of California campus in Berkeley, the most unique and precious may be the Bancroft Library."
"ARLSBAD – Yet another gem has been added to the treasure troves at the Gemological Institute of America, which this year is celebrating its 75th anniversary."
"Two manuscripts dating back to the late 19th century were donated to the nonprofit educational and research institute late last year."
"The books contain more than 2,500 personal notes and business letters written by American diamond-cutting pioneer Henry D. Morse during the 1870s and 1880s. "
"A one million pound grant from English Heritage, will help save rare books and manuscripts at Durham Cathedral. The grant will be shared by twenty five cathedrals across the country, and the money for Durham will be used to help save transcripts dating back to medieval times."
"Lost behind the headline-grabbing announcements at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was Google's decision to march on with its controversial Google Book Search project (previously known as Google Print) in the face of stiff resistance from rights-holder groups in the US."
"Google has reportedly responded to the action for copyright infringement brought by the Author's Guild, which represents more than 8,000 writers, by telling a judge that the writers do not own the rights they claim, that Google has a licence to reproduce the works in question and that the suit is prohibited by the US's First Amendment. Meanwhile, the Association of American Publishers has brought a separate action against Google."
"From the herbarium I wandered upstairs into the William D. Rondina and Giovanni Foroni LoFaro Gallery, where there is (through Jan. 22) a luxurious show about the French botanical illustrator Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Redouté, who inspired Audubon, learned from Dutch still life artists, and was the draftsman to Marie Antoinette. He produced books of roses and lilies from Empress Joséphine's Château Malmaison that are among the greatest of all botanical illustrations. Many of these come from the library's own rare book collection."
"For 300 years it has been a book without a beginning, middle or end."
"But thanks to scholarly detective work, a 15th century Book of Hours, written for King Louis XII of France, has been pieced back together and will go on display for the first time at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in February."
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"One of the top five museums in the world, the National Palace Museum is renovating and expanding in celebration of its 80th birthday. All the better to show off its 650,000 art works, the largest collection of Chinese art in the world. Renovation is on schedule, to be completed in June 2006. Three special exhibitions of Ju ware ceramics, painting and calligraphy and rare books from the Northern Sung Dynasty (960-1279) will go on display from July through September."
"Rice runs Moving Parts Press, a publishing company that has created high-end limited edition books since 1977. COSMOGONIE INTIME An Intimate Cosmogony combines the poetry of contemporary French poet Yves Peyré with the art of Felicia's late father, Ray Rice, also using translations by Elizabeth R. Jackson and Rice's own talent as a book artist, editor and publisher. This book, like Rice's others, belongs to the exquisite, expensive world of high art and rare book collections."
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The Australia State Library is putting on display many of the treasures of its rare book collection. Ray Cassin reports on an offering that provides countless insights into human culture.
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"The Victorian classic "Jane Eyre" was a comic book written in modern Greek."
"Most bibliophiles would disagree. But the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia can prove it."
"Through April, visitors to the Rotunda's Dome Room can explore "Eyre Apparent: An Exhibition Celebrating Charlotte Bronte's Classic Novel," which displays many of the items inspired by "Jane Eyre," one of the most popular novels ever written. The exhibit is timely: 2005 marks the 150th anniversary of Bronte's death."
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" "The physicality of language is writing," says Steve Clay, founder and director of Granary Books, "the book is in some sense reliving and reviewing its former life like the proverbial dying person."
"There is no definition of an artists' book. Clay, founder and director of Granary Books, a New York based publishing company specializing in poetry and artists' books, describes them as linking, "the verbal and the visual into a seamless hole."
"The rare book will be on show to the public for the next two years as part of the library's new permanent exhibition, Mirror of the World: Books and Ideas, opening on December 9."
"Also on display is a novelty Midget Library, published in Scotland in 1895, of 12 small-scale reference books and magnifying glass, worth a few thousand dollars."
"Sometimes the New York Public Library can seem like the world's most interesting attic. Its well-known treasures include a Gutenberg Bible and Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. But who knew that it had one of the country's greatest collections of illuminated manuscripts?"
"WHO KNEW THAT THE NATIONAL Gallery of Art possessed one of only two complete, never-bound, original sets of John James Audubon's Birds of America? The other such set reportedly is in Moscow."
"A selection of the National Gallery's hand-colored etchings--some fifty marvelous works printed between 1826 and 1838--is being shown with a modicum of fanfare in the West Building's ground-floor Central Gallery through March. The last time the National hung its Audubons was in 1984, when, again, a small fraction of the set of 435 prints went up on the walls; and the last exhibition before that was in 1969. Hundreds of prints remain in drawers in the gallery's storerooms, shown only by appointment."
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"An 1897 McLoughlin Brothers edition of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" has been republished in its original form by the State Historical Society of North Dakota."
"Firestone Curator of Manuscripts Don Skemer has organized an effort to digitize about 200 Islamic manuscripts and electronically catalog more than 10,000 Islamic manuscripts in the Rare Book Division's collection during the next four years."
"The collection, the largest in North America, ranges in age from the earliest Islamic texts in the ninth century to pieces written in the early 20th century during the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire."
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" A rare book that holds the earliest surviving examples of written Welsh is returning to its roots after 10 centuries away."
"The Llandeilo Gospels Book, a beautifully illuminated Biblical manuscript, is coming back to Wales in virtual form thanks in part to Carmarthenshire County Council."
Lawrence, Kansas. "Nearly 10,000 books, pamphlets and periodicals and more than 100,000 fliers, brochures, mailings, clippings and bumper stickers -- will celebrate its 40th anniversary next month at the University of Kansas.
The Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Political Movements at KU's Spencer Research Library was established in 1965 when the university purchased student Laird Wilcox's collection of pamphlets, books, periodicals and other materials on contemporary political activity."
"Only the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, has an emblem book collection larger than the University. The large size of the University's collection owes largely to one man, Professor Henri Stegemeier, one of the first scholars to study and write about emblem books. When he arrived at the University in 1942, the library had only 25 emblem books, and "not all of them were what we today would call an emblem book," Stegemeier later said in a library document. The University now has a collection of over 600 emblem books."
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"National Library exhibition marks 100th anniversary. A stone inscription that is 1,366 years old, centuries-old Khampee Bailan – sacred writing on palm leaf – and a royal harp and piano will be just some of the exhibits put on show as part of the National Library of Thailand’s centenary celebrations, which start tomorrow.
To promote public learning, a number of important pieces from the country’s intellectual heritage have been selected to make up the exhibition featuring nine “treasure troves” at the library, said Orapin Limsakul, director of the National Library."
"The oldest surviving manuscript of Euclid’s Elements, probably the most influential work in the history of mathematics, has been published in digital form for the first time thanks to a collaboration between the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, the Clay Mathematics Institute and Octavo Corporation."
"Johannesburg - Ancient manuscripts from Africa's desert north, appearing in public for the first time, have gone on display in Johannesburg after South African President Thabo Mbeki launched an appeal for funds to save a vital element of African cultural history.
The manuscripts are from the National Ahmed Baba Centre for Documentation and Research in Timbuktu in Mali, which was once an important cultural crossroads that attracted scholars from far afield in the African and Arab worlds."
"Google's internet library project will face competition from Yahoo!, but also from a less predictable rival: the European Commission announced its own plan on Friday. And it has an advantage: if copyright laws interfere with its plans it can change the laws."
"The National Archives Experience announced that the "Americans in Paris" exhibit, showing at the Lawrence F. O`Brien Gallery in the National Archives building on Constitution Avenue, is open through October 10, 2005, and that the Magna Carta Exhibition is now open in the West Rotunda Gallery."
"Washington -- Many of the most iconic 19th-century images of American Indian peoples are the work of renowned photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952), whose extensive documentation of indigenous tribal life in the United States and Canada produced compelling pictures that continue to shape popular perceptions about the Western frontier."
"Medieval manuscripts usually live tucked away in the world's libraries, and are seldom seen in public, leaving medieval art lovers with expensive facsimile editions as a disappointing substitute. But in the Dutch town of Nijmegen, 60 km southeast of Utrecht, there's a rare opportunity to see the real thing.
For the first time since the 15th century, brothers Herman, Paul and Jean Limbourg's brilliant and colorful miniature illuminations will be shown together at the Valkhof Museum in "The Limbourg Brothers, Nijmegen Masters at the French Court (1400-1416)" until Nov. 20."
"The University of Buffalo Libraries are about to offer the public an opportunity to see some of the greatest treasures in its magnificent Rare Books Collection, an assemblage of priceless books and other material dating back to the 15th century.
"Rare Books: An Exhibition," curated by John Edens, assistant director of the libraries for technical services and interim director of the Archives, will be held in the Special Collections Research Room."
"The original handwritten manuscript of what became Alice in Wonderland has been put online using software to virtually turn the pages.
Alice's Adventures Under Ground, by Lewis Carroll, is the latest 3D addition to the British Library's Turning the Pages collection of books."
"Buffalo, New York - It is known as the map that changed the world, William Smith's 1815 charting of Great Britain's underside.
The London Geological Society keeps its rare copy behind blue velvet curtains, which are swept open three times a week for visitors.
The Buffalo library keeps its copy folded up in a box. At least it did.
This week, the map became the centerpiece of the first of a series of exhibitions meant to showcase the library's 30,000-title Rare Book Collection, its multimillion-dollar pride and joy."
"The Grolier Club, founded in 1884, is America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts of the graphic arts. Housed in a smart brownstone on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the club is playing host to a moving reunion of manuscripts and materials belonging to Plath and Hughes."
"The Moveable Books Society, a group of international book collectors, brings its unique array of pop-up books to Columbia College this week in a showcase entitled "Stand and Deliver: Engineering Sculpture into Book Format." Originating in Connecticut, the traveling exhibit intends to challenge preconceived notions of what a book must look like, with pieces taking various shapes, such as a birthday cake, a ukulele and an iron."
"Writings by well-known poets, artists’ eye-catching illustrations, the expressive work of calligraphers and the ancient art of paper-makers come together in “How the Ink Feels: A Traveling Exhibit of Letterpress Broadsides by Distinguished Artists and Writers,” an exhibit currently touring Alaska. The first stop in this six-city tour is the gallery of Homer Council on the Arts."
University of Hawaii: "Less than a year after Manoa's Halloween flood ripped through Hamilton Library, treasures from the collection are now on display at an unusual exhibit titled "Making Connections."
The clean-up from the flooding was a daunting task. But little by little, piece by piece, the work continued. Much of the detail work was done on the fifth floor of Hamilton Library on the UH Manoa campus. Now, nearly 400 treasures, many of them recovered from the flood-ravaged lower floors, have been prepared for display at the UH Art Gallery."
"A rare 15th -century Hebrew Bible, held by Yeshiva University’s Mendel Gottesman Library, will be on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from September 20, 2005-January 3, 2006 as part of its “Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437” exhibition. Valued at $3 million, the 1489 Bible is a Hebrew manuscript written and dated in the city of Prague. The late Ludwig Jesselson, former chairman of the YU Board of Trustees, together with his wife, Erica, arranged for the Bible to be presented to Yeshiva University (YU). Mrs. Jesselson is chair of Yeshiva University Museum Board of Directors. The Jesselson family is well known for its philanthropy and communal leadership, and family members are avid collectors of Judaica."
"PHILADELPHIA: This fall, a new exhibition at the Rosenbach will highlight a large group of drawings by the Renaissance painter and architect Girolamo da Carpi (1501-1556). His intricate depictions of antiquities such as the Roman Colosseum, or of the art of his time, such as Raphael's frescoes at the Vatican, are a sumptuous guidebook to the art treasures of 16th-century Italy. The exhibition opens to the public Sept. 8 and will be on display through Dec. 4, 2005.
Drawn Together: Two Albums of Renaissance Drawings by Girolamo da Carpi, the first ever exhibition on this topic, features 29 drawings from the collections of the Rosenbach and the British Museum in London. The exhibition is also accompanied by a bilingual catalogue with 45 full-color entries and new research on the artist that will help to give Girolamo the reputation he has long deserved. Dr. Gudrun Dauner, an expert on Italian Renaissance drawings, has written the catalogue and serves as guest curator of the exhibition."
"COLLEGE PARK, Maryland: Nancy Drew is one of the most famous figures in American popular fiction and one of the most successful: More than 80 million copies of her mysteries have been sold since "The Secret of the Old Clock" was published in 1930. This year the spunky sleuth celebrates her 75th anniversary in print and to mark the occasion the University of Maryland Libraries present "Nancy Drew and Friends: Girls' Series Books Rediscovered."
This exhibit, which opens Sept. 1 in Hornbake Library and runs through the end of the year, examines the impact that girls' series books - from Nancy Drew to Trixie Belden, Cherry Ames and many more - have had on the life and culture of America, and showcases the Rose and Joseph Pagnani Collection of more than 300 books from 33 different series published from 1917-1980."
"A rare handwritten copy of the Holy Quran transcribed in the Safavid era by female calligrapher Marjan al-Kateb Eslami is currently on display at the Astan'e Qods Razavi Museum in Mashhad.
The deputy curator of the museum said on Monday that the holy verses were transcribed with a unique style of calligraphy and illumination on 20 x 31.5 centimeter sheets of Samarkand paper."
"Rare books, engravings, paintings, film posters, crafts... And the list goes on. All under one roof - for the Capital’s art lovers to see and appreciate. As Neville Tuli, the force behind the exhibition puts it: “It’s 200 years of fine and popular arts, from Tipu Sultan to Amitabh Bachchan and more.” The 17-day exhibition which opened on August 17, courtesy Osian’s Archive and Library Collection, showcases India’s cultural heritage from the past three centuries."
FARMINGTON, Maine --"A collection of rare books and documents that helped shape Western civilization has arrived at the University of Maine at Farmington, where it will be placed on display for the first time in New England.
The collection includes rare editions of the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation, and a hand-copied edition of the Magna Carta dating to about 1350. Rare books include Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and Plato's "Republic."
"But now anyone with access to a computer can learn a great deal about "Roman de la Rose" by visiting the website rose.mse.jhu.edu. Launched by Johns Hopkins University as a prototype for testing ways to present medieval manuscripts in digital form, the site offers rare and valuable works in the collections of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in England — providing opportunities for side-by-side analysis of texts and illustrations."
"LONDON - A rare handwritten copy of the Holy Quran transcribed in the Safavid era by female calligrapher Marjan al-Kateb Eslami is currently on display at the Astan-e Qods Razavi Museum in Mashhad.
According to MNA, the deputy curator of the museum said on Monday that the holy verses were transcribed with a unique style of calligraphy and illumination on 20 x 31.5 centimeter sheets of Samarkand paper."
"A children’s literature centre will show off rare Harry Potter memorabilia when it opens to the public later this month, it announced today.
Author JK Rowling has lent the new Seven Stories centre in Newcastle upon Tyne a hand-written draft of chapter six of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone which is titled The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters."
""Jazz in Los Angeles: Photos From the Music Library Special Collections," featuring a selection of images taken by Howard Morehead and Mark Weber, is on view in the lobby of the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA through Sept. 30.
Born in 1926 in Topeka, Kan., Howard Morehead trained as a pilot for the Air Corps in the Tuskegee Airmen. After leaving the service in 1946, he moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA, then transferred to Los Angeles City College, where he earned a degree in photography. He also studied journalism at Los Angeles State College (now California State University, Los Angeles) and the University of Southern California, and motion picture photography at UCLA."
"Some of these stories are told in "The Cultures and History of the Americas," an exhibit at the Library of Congress that has just been extended until Sept 23. The show features 50 highlights from the 4,000 rare books, maps, documents, paintings, prints and artifacts of the Jay I. Kislak Collection recently donated to the Library of Congress.
The collection focuses on the early Americas from the time of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean through the period of European contact, exploration and settlement. Since it broadens the focus of "American history" from just the Anglo-Saxon heritage, it will engage the growing Hispanic population of the United States as well as provide a basis for new scholarship."
"A visit to "What's Cooking in Delaware," the new exhibition at the Willingtown Square Gallery at 505 Market St., showcases everything from the history of grocery stores to restaurants in the state from roughly 1750 to 1998.
The exhibition, housed in four glass cases inside the Historical Society of Delaware's Research Library, is more of an appetizer portion of nostalgic history rather than a comprehensive look at Delaware's culinary past."
"BOISE - The Idaho Center for the Book, which is housed on the Boise State University campus, is looking for Idaho artists' submissions for its biennial touring books exhibit, Booker's Dozen. The center will accept donations until Aug. 31."
"NEW YORK — On a quiet, sunny Sunday morning, when many Christians are in church, visitors trickle into the new Museum of Biblical Art — called MOBIA for short — on the corner of Broadway and 61st Street, not far from Lincoln Center in New York.
The silence lends an air of sanctity to the second-floor gallery, contrasting with a lighthearted and eclectic exhibit of religious folk art from the American South."
"CAMBRIDGE, MA.--This August, the Harvard University Art Museums will present Degas at Harvard, an exhibition examining Harvard University's distinguished holdings by Edgar Degas-one of the most important collections of the artist's work in the United States. The exhibition will draw together more than 60 works by Degas from the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, together with promised gifts to the Fogg, as well as works from The Houghton Library at Harvard and Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. Organized by the Fogg Art Museum, the exhibition encompasses drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, and photographs, and will be on view at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum through November 27, 2005."
"CHARLOTTESVILLE Leaf through the 11 editions of the Boy Scout Handbook -- the first was published in 1911 -- and you'll see a mirror of the country frozen in time.
The oldest editions taught Scouts how to build a log cabin and stop a runaway horse, about wireless telegraphy and chivalry -- skills and virtues that still sound good to me today."
"It's one of the rarest pieces of medieval English art ever discovered and now it's about to go on show.
The Macclesfield Psalter is a tiny book of psalms, written in Latin and lavishly illustrated.
Next week the 650-year-old book will be displayed in public for the first time - as part of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge."
"Some of the greatest exponents of the manuscript art lived in East Anglia - and a spectacular exhibition of their work is going on show from next week at two venues in Cambridge, the Fitzwilliam Museum and Cambridge University Library.
The 200 manuscripts on display date from the sixth to the 16th Century and are drawn from the collections of the university museum and the library, as well as Cambridge's colleges, which between them have some of the finest examples of the art form on the planet."
"...examples of its most important artwork has been gathered in an exhibit that opens Saturday at the Peabody Essex Museum."
"The Kingdom of Siam: The Art of Central Thailand, 1350-1800," includes 80 items gathered from collections in Europe, the United States and Thailand. Among the pieces: a 6-foot high bronze Buddha head, manuscripts illustrated with rare art and an inscription on a stone relief that helped scholars discover the lost letters of the kingdom's alphabet."
"Williamstown - The summer exhibition in the Chapin Library of Rare Books, Williams College, features designs for theatre by Dutch-American artist Herman Rosse."
"Born in the Netherlands in 1887, Rosse first gained fame for his decorative interior designs in the Peace Palace at The Hague. Later he moved to California, and from there to Chicago and finally to New City in Rockland County, New York. He worked as a teacher of design, and as an architect, decorator, and book illustrator, and lent his talents to productions for stage and screen, most notably the 1930 film King of Jazz for which he won the Academy Award for Art Direction. Since 1988 members of the artist’s family have supported the Herman Rosse archive in the Chapin Library to document his work in its many aspects."
"A bibliophile for whom poetry was as essential as air, Matisse made 12 artists' books, in which the print illustrations are as important as the writing."
"By the time the Swiss art publisher Albert Skira asked Matisse to illustrate a group of Mallarmé poems in 1930, the writer (1842-98) was long dead. Not that having him around would have mattered: Mallarmé — perhaps best-known for "The Afternoon of a Faun," which inspired Claude Debussy's sensuous "Prelude" — was a leader of the Symbolist movement, a conjurer of highly personal images and metaphors that mystified even his wife and friends like Edgar Degas."
"A $1.4 million grant awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in June will fund a collaborative project in which Stanford University Libraries, the University of Cambridge and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, will make hundreds of medieval manuscripts accessible on the Internet. The Parker on the Web project will create electronic research tools and digitize library materials, including more than 500 manuscripts at the Parker Library dating from the 6th through the 16th centuries, as well as editions, translations and secondary works."
"A unique museum to showcase Nushu, probably the only female specific language in the world, is expected to be erected in 2007 in Jiangyong County, central China's Hunan Province, said an official with the provincial government Friday."
"With 209,000 US dollars sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the museum, with the aim to build into a culture base for Nushu, will solicit over 80 pieces of Nushu manuscripts, 1,000 pieces of songs, and other articles which can vividly present the charm of a language on the verge of extinction."
"The Miniature Book Traveling Exhibit will be on display until the end of June. Sponsored by the international Miniature Book Society, Inc., the exhibit features about 100 miniature books that were entries or winners in annual competitions held since 1987."
"LOS ANGELES, CA.- The close relationship between textiles and manuscripts, two of the most venerated items in the medieval world, is examined in Shrine and Shroud: Textiles in Illuminated Manuscripts, at the Getty Center, through October 2, 2005."
"Goodin's collection of 130 photos, 12 rare books and 60 articles will document the arrival of karate in Hawaii with the first 26 Okinawan immigrants and the visits of prominent instructors to the islands, including Kentsu Yabu (1927), Choki Motobu (1932), Mizuho Mutsu (1933), Kamesuke Higashionna (1933) and Chojun Miyaji (1934)."
""The premier piece in this collection is the Bill of Rights, an original from the first printing," said Gloriana St. Clair, dean of the Carnegie Mellon libraries."
"From June 17-September 4, 2005, the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) will present The Open Book: Photographic Publications 1878 to the Present, an exhibition of some of the most signi•cant publications in the history of photography. Produced by the Hasselblad Center in Sweden, it demonstrates the role of books as a primary communicator of photographic images."
"WASHINGTON - The culture and landscape of the arctic island Greenland are featured in new exhibits that opened Friday at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History."
"The Burns Library at Boston College looks at Virdung and the work he inspired in ''The Legacy of Sebastian Virdung: Rare Books and Music and Instruments From the Collection of Frederick R. Selch."
"When Hans Christian Andersen wrote the fairytale of the ugly duckling, he was speaking about himself."
"A new exhibition at the British Library reveals the strange and insecure man behind the stories that captivated generations of children."
"Museums throughout England are joining forces to pool resources, set up databases of their collections and share and display artefacts that in some cases have never been exhibited before, thanks to new grants totalling nearly GBP250,000 awarded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)."
"We not only have music treatises but also books on grammar, mathematics and more practical subjects like fencing and fishing. The surviving books point out the diversity and spirit of the Renaissance men and women doing the reading," said Weiss, a musicologist at Peabody. "In the days following the birth of printing, people were hungry for learning, building their libraries with theoretical and practical sources."
"The Idaho Center for the Book, also known as ICB, is also part of this building and probably the origin of Murphy’s guess. ICB hosts traveling book exhibits and from now until June 1 they are hosting a collection of books and drawings by autistic, self-taught Idaho artist/bookmaker James Castle (1899-1977). Castle created his art pieces utilizing scraps of paper and saliva. In the late 1940s, he made a series of drawings of colorful houses, referred to as “Dream Houses"
"NEW YORK.- Spanning nearly eight centuries, from scribal to print culture, the exhibition I Am the Rose: Passover Imagined in the Collections of The New York Public Library brings together a treasure trove of Passover-related manuscripts, books, and prints."
"NEW YORK (AP) -- The Museum of Biblical Art, one of the few in America to explore the theme, opens today with a striking show of works on scriptural motifs by self-taught, Southern folk artists."
"The Protestant museum uses original books, manuscripts, paintings and engravings to trace the history of the Protestant movement, initiated in the city by French theologian John Calvin in the 16th century."
"There was "almost a sense of panic" on the telephone lines during the final days of "The Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibition, as people called to find out how to buy tickets before it was too late, a Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center official said Sunday afternoon as some of the final patrons filed into the exhibit in downtown Mobile."
"Organized by the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office, this free exhibit shows how the queen transformed England into one of the most powerful countries in the world."
"Bythell, the 34-year-old proprietor of The Bookshop in Wigtown in Galloway, is an affable man, who looks a little like the shambling television chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s long-lost twin. Ordinarily, he is not the type to cause offence. Yet soon he will risk the wrath of his neighbours in this small town on Scotland’s south-west tip, when he holds a public bonfire of old and unread books."
"The printing press was widely used until the 1960s, when it was replaced with offset lithography and then computerized typography. No longer commercially viable, the old presses were dumped - only to be picked up again by the artists and bibliofiles who would carry on Gutenberg's tradition."
"Some 9,000 rare manuscripts are estimated to have been destroyed as Armenians were driven from their homeland in World War I, but about 30 books currently on display in Armenia’s Archive of Ancient Manuscripts are believed to have been rescued by fleeing peasants."
"Tirupati: The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) is planning to establish the `Sri Venkateswara Book Museum' to highlight the importance of books in the dissemination of knowledge and the spread of values."
"NEW YORK.- Yeshiva University Museum Presents: Printing The Talmud: From Bomberg To Scottenstein. This remarkable exhibit spans five centuries of Jewish history and assembles an unparalleled selection of Talmud texts published throughout the world."
"The maps have been drawn by those who know the places best -- artists. Using this colourful background for the maps, this unusual atlas of 24 maps has been displayed at an exhibition at the Oxford Bookshop in Connaught Place in the heart of Delhi."
"Pop-up books were a popular staple in the children's book market in the 1960s and '70s. What most people don't know is that the form has been around for 700 years."
"'A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books' is a handsome and informative exhibit that debuted at the Grolier Club in New York and features the Rosenwald collection of books from the Library of Congress. The collection is the library's "most important book collection after Jefferson's," says Daniel De Simone, curator of the collection. He is also curator of the traveling exhibition, which traces the development of the woodcut in Germany, Italy, and France from Medieval times to the Renaissance."
"This month, people can have their book and eat it too."
"The International Edible Book Festival takes place in April at various times and places throughout the world."
"On April 17, Zea Mays Printmaking, in the Florence section of Northampton, will host its second Edible Book Exhibit and Tea. Books will be exhibited at 3, followed at 4 by tea"
"An exhibition of drawings by the American cartoonist Robert Crumb has just opened at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London's East End. Crumb will be fondly remembered by those who read hippie comics in the late 1960s as the LSD-inspired creator of Fritz the Cat, Mr Natural, Schuman the Human, and numerous fit-looking, buxom young women."
"Strolling among the playbills, he confesses that it was hard to edit down his collection to 100 pieces, and he points out the hard-to-find broadside hawking the arrival of the first elephant in America in 1797, a rare playbill for renowned early-18th-century magician Isaac Fawkes, and a circa-1620 piece that beautifully depicts armless dulcimer player Pietro Stadelmann plucking his instrument with tiny feet. And then there's Jay's hero – and e-mail namesake – Mathew Buchinger, the armless, legless calligrapher, magician, trick bowler, and, according to the 1726 bill, 'greatest German living.'"
"The sepia-toned 1803 manuscript is a focal point of "Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America," a mind-expanding exhibit about westward movement that's beginning a 10-week run at the Montlake museum."
"Have you read the latest version of "S'mores and Peace" or perused the Ten Commandments in gingerbread form?"
"These are just some of the creations spawned around the world during the International Edible Book Festival, a fund-raising event created in 1999 for book centers and libraries. Participants make fantastic food creations in the form of their favorite books to be viewed, enjoyed and eaten during the April festival."
"The Prairie Book Collaborative is presenting an "Edible Book Tea" that consists of cakes, pastries and other treats that resemble famous texts. Enjoy "Tortilla Flats," the John Steinbeck book, in a version that tastes like a Mexican pastry. Sample "S'more and Peace," a graham cracker/chocolate/marshmallow version of Tolstoy's classic novel."
"Volcanoes, Slugs and Comets: Rare Scientific Books at UCL"
"UCL has a proud tradition of scientific endeavour and this is ably supported by the Rare Book collections. Our collections are particularly rich in astronomy, mathematics, natural history and medicine, with smaller specialist collections covering malacology, vulcanology, palaeontology and orthopaedics."
"Our nation's history comes alive within the stately walls of the American Antiquarian Society."
"Momentous events and forgotten incidents, from first reports of the Declaration of Independence to bawdy cartoons and old train schedules, are collected and preserved by the 193-year-old library and learned society in Worcester."
"Fans of rare books and birds had a unique chance to see one of the most treasured books in the world on Wednesday as Canada Post unveiled a new series of wildlife stamps."
"On the first and 15th of each month, Rowland, as did the other artists, boxed up and mailed a book to the next person on the list, kind of like a chain letter but without the annoying clause suggesting failure to participate would yield a fate worse than death."
"The exhibit, which contains dozens of Buddha images dating from the 5th to 6th centuries through the 19th century and examples of reliquaries spanning 10 centuries, was organized by the Phoenix Museum of Art. The exhibit also contains rare palm-leaf manuscripts and manuscript covers from a private collection and is the first major exhibition in the United States to present the entire history of Sri Lankan art."
"A manuscript album from 1851 which belonged to Jane Shelley has been acquired by Horsham Museum."
"The album consists of 33 songs and music written by Percy Florence Shelley, his wife Jane Shelley and their adopted daughter, Bessie."
"An exhibition of miniature works dating back to the Timurid and Safavid eras is to open at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art on March 5."
"Most of the works were collected from the Golestan Palace, the Reza Abbasi Museum, and the Shahid Motahhari School in Tehran and the Chehel Sotun Palace in Isfahan."
" The books exist online, since the goal of this unusual project is to make available in digital form some of world's best children's literature and have age-appropriate material in as many languages as possible organized under special categories for easy reference."
"Lasting Impressions: The Private Presses of New Mexico, which opens today, Feb. 18, at the Palace of the Governors, celebrates some 200 years of work by scores of writers, artists, and artisans — people who happily and doughtily hatched books, pamphlets, and artworks from their own presses."
American Philosophical Society: "On display: a 19th-century book bound in human skin, which, in Chinese, contains the first books of the Old Testament. Also see the patent models of the first paddle boat; Gilbert Stuart's 1797 portrait of George Washington, the same image that's on the $1 bill."
Use this site if you do not want to register to read the skin story.
Or see the society's press release of "Treasures Revealed" here.
"Mingana brought back mainly Arabic and Syriac Middle Eastern manuscripts but the collection also includes some Hebrew works as well as coins and stone tablets. The Mingana collection is the third largest of its kind in the UK."
"Now, as the Ink and Blood curator, he [Dr. William Noah]has helped put together the largest and most comprehensive exhibit ever on the history of the Bible. The exhibit, which begins with proto-cuneiform tablets and ends with the first American editions of the Bible, follows the evolution of writing and suggests that Biblical study is imperative for a complete understanding of the history of the Western world."
"It is now regarded as the most important English illuminated manuscript to be discovered in living memory and is to go on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge."
"John Adams has long been known as a president, lawyer, founding father and patriot. Now, another side of Adams is being revealed -- defender of British soldiers charged with murdering American colonists in the Boston Massacre."
"One of the country’s finest private collections of rare illustrated books is the subject of a special exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas"
"The Faces of Lincoln is installed on the fourth floor of the Indiana History Center in Downtown Indianapolis."
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"This is a hard exhibit to do. For a dinky little museum with just 15 staff, you've got to be either desperate or crazy to go after this."
"[Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein] sold the material they gathered while investigating the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon for $5 million (2.7 million pounds) to the University of Texas in 2003 and on Friday the first batch will be released for viewing at the school in Austin and on the Internet."
"Also included are sculptures, such as Bernini’s Crucifix, decorative arts, suits of armor, tapestries, scientific instruments used by the early explorers, early maps, and first-edition books, including a rare 1494 account of Columbus’s “discovery” of the Americas."
"The exhibition features an exquisite facsimile of one of the most visually stunning illuminated manuscripts produced in the Middle Ages, known as the Morgan Picture Bible."
"Accompanying this Bible will be other objects from the Gothic period, psalters and reliquaries, arms and armor, other religious artifacts, and everyday domestic items, many similar to those seen in the pages of the manuscript itself."
"The seductive, jewel-like quality of their shimmering pages stands in sharp contrast to the often gruesome subject matter being depicted, whether it be scenes of the Passion or vivid and precise images of torture, execution or war."
"Fragments of 12 Dead Sea Scrolls, part of the historic cache found in 1947 by a goat herder and now on exhibit at the Gulf Coast Exploreum, have lured a record-breaking first-week crowd of 9,200 to the Mobile museum."
Do the Grolier Club, Columbia University, The Armory Book Fair, Brooklyn Art Alliance, New York Public Library, Center for Book Arts, etc.
"Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay bought it three years ago for $2.43 million, a record for any manuscript. He wanted to share it with the world by putting it on the road in a 13-stop, four-year tour. Iowa's museum is the first to unroll it all the way."
"A medium-sized book with 160 pages required the skins from about 20 calves."
"The Saint John's Bible, the only handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned since the advent of the printing press, is going on national tour."
"Inscribed on vellum and ornamented with medieval-style illustrations and 24-karat gold leaf, the rare volume was commissioned by Saint John's Abbey and Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota."
You can see the St. John's Bible here.
"Many contain astonishingly detailed scenes and are surprisingly large..."
New Book argues against the The Da Vinci Code
"The Da Vinci Code refers to the Dead Sea Scrolls as one of Christianity's earliest writings.
..."There's nothing Christian about the Dead Sea Scrolls," he said.
"There are parts of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a Coptic fragment of the New Testament from the third century, a medieval Torah scroll and a page from the Gutenberg Bible."
"There is a first edition of the King James Bible in 1611, early Spanish and Latin Bibles, and the first Bible printed in America, which was produced in the native Algonquin language in 1663."
"In the 8th century, empress Shotoku had a short text printed onto a million paper scrolls and had each of them inserted in a wooden pagoda. Only a few of them have survived.
The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek owns one of these pagodas; it will be on show in the exhibition."
"When firefighters finally arrived on site, the building had been completely engulfed in flames."
"According to Jewish law, the Torah must be written by hand, a process that can take as long as a year."
"Dazzling gold and silver leaf and vividly colored paint superbly emphasize the beauty of patterns on these scrolls, dubbed masterworks of decorated sutra."
(It's shared by guys at the British Museum and L.A.'s Getty Museum.)
"They represent some of the great ideas in intellectual history"
"The scrolls contains, to this date, the oldest surviving copy of the book of Genesis, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Isaiah, and Jeremiah."
"Vigía prints and illuminates books by hand."
As described by a Connecticut newspaper.
But the newspaper guy listed a wrong link to the Australian wine site, unless he changed it by now. (The wine must have gone to his head.) He meant to link to CLICK HERE.
"Other items in the exhibit include clay tablets that are 5,000 years old."
Islamic heritage on display at Dubai Shopping Festival.
It's a book. It's an art object. It's both.
"The first-ever public exhibition of selections from the internationally-noted George Bernard Shaw Collection of Boston College's Burns Library is on view."
"Every four years the inauguration gives the capital’s archival institutions a chance to dust off some favorite pieces." (They probably aren't that dusty.)
"Ms. Wye picked a total of 71 prints and illustrated books for the opening installation from the more than 53,000 the Modern owns. It is the largest collection in the museum."
"Fair organizers insist they only displayed the Arab literature as a function of their commitment to global literary diversity."
"Visitors who cannot tell a goshawk from a falcon or Tom Cruise's Last Samurai from Toshiro Mifune's Yojimbo will find art that strikes the eye and stirs the soul."
Is the Declaration of Independence a secret code to buried treasure?
The scrolls include the earliest surviving texts of the books of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament.
Travel to Britain for Literary Anniversaries in 2005
"Britain will be celebrating the achievements of several of its literary ‘greats’ in 2005."
Charlotte
The World's Largest Book is in Mandalay
It's inscribed on "729 slabs of gleaming white marble."
Rare "Touchable" Manuscripts on Exhibit in Indianapolis
Part of the intent of the Remnant Trust is that they allow people to actually see them and touch them under supervision."
Important Collection of Illustrated American Books on Exhibit in Texas
William Reese's collection: "one of the most important of its type in the country"
Multi-Million-Pound Audubon Bird Books on Display in Liverpool, England
The books were almost lost in the 1941 Blitz bombing.
See Sri Lankan Palm-Leaf Manuscripts at Stanford University
In the first major exhibition in the U.S. to present the entire history of Sri Lankan art.
Return of the Rambam at The Jewish National and University Library at Givat Ram
"Moses Maimonides, known as the Rambam – for Rebbe Moshe Ben Maimon – died in December 1204, but he's never been more in vogue."
"The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University will share its extensive collection of Barrie manuscripts, photographs and documents during a three-month exhibition beginning in February."
Ancient Arab Manuscripts on Display at Frankfurt Book Fair
But they had to compete with the "nearly-nude woman" who "burst into the Arab wing."
2005: International Celebration of Don Quixote
"A travelling exhibit titled 400 Years of Don Quixote Around the World will feature publicity paintings, drawings and engravings for the novel and is slated to tour Spanish cultural centers and international book fairs."
Books by Picasso on Exhibit in Mexico City
The Museo Nacional de Historia - Castillo de Chapultepec presents Picasso: illustrated books 1944- 1969, BANCAJA collection, through February 28, 2005.
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