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Incunabula Project blog. In December 2013, Ed Potten and Laura Nuvoloni travelled to Japan, at the invitation of Keio University, to participate in the international conference Text and illustration in early books and manuscripts: A comparative study. The conference, held on 13 and 14 December, was organised by Professor Takami Matsuda and Dr Satoko Tokunaga of the EIRI Project, with the collaboration of Dr Mayumi Ikeda, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Keio University and Cambridge University have long had close ties. Cambridge’s copy of the Gutenberg Bible was the first to be digitized by the HUMI Project team in November 1998, led by Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya, himself a long-standing friend of Cambridge University Library and member of the Library’s Visiting Committee.
National Trust Lyme Park, Courtesy of the National Trust Inc.2.B.3.6d[4638], fol. A1r Other papers were of particular relevance to the Incunabula Project. Biblia Pauperum – Inc.3[4248], fol. a verso. Wellcome Library. Houghton Library Blog. April 10th, 2014 Ghost Detective This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. There are many spin-offs of Sherlock Holmes, and some excellent ones from the early 20th century are Jean Ray’s Harry Dickson, le Sherlock Holmes Americain. This series of pulp dime-novel’s originally started in Germany 1907 and continued until 1911. It underwent several different translations and versions and the one in the Santo Domingo Collection is one of the more interesting ones. Hired to translate the originals, Jean Ray, a noted French author, became tired of the stories and began writing new ones under the same series without signing them.
Widener has several more of Jean Ray’s works which can be found here: Le grand nocturne : Les cercles de l’épouvante, Les derniers contes de Canterbury, and Œuvres complètes. Two volumes of Harry Dickson’s adventures can be requested from Widener: Ray, Jean, 1887-1964, author. April 7th, 2014 April 4th, 2014. Memorial U. The Dog's Tooth. The Dog's Tooth is the wiki of the Special Collections unit of Memorial University Libraries. It will be updated regularly with news about acquisitions, donations, exhibits, lectures and other happenings in Special Collections, as well as interesting pickings and choosing from literature about special collections, book history and bibliography.
The wiki title refers to the medieval practice of burnishing gold leaf illumination with a dog’s tooth. 1. Koran. Glasgow: David Bryce, c. 1900). (824)pp. 1.0"x 0.75" From the collection of Hannah Rabinowitz, with her miniature bookplate to the front paste-down. Printed entirely in Arabic and representing one of the most famous of all David Bryce publications, these Korans were distributed to Muslim Ottoman soldiers fighting for the allies during World War I. Printed on thin tissue paper, with minute headers and ornaments throughout. 2. Jointly published with Henry Frowde in London.
Contains full-page illustrations of biblical scenes. 3. 4. 5. 6. Syracuse U. Behind the Scenes. By Bonnie Foster, Reference Assistant “Hey! Is that Syroco?” “What? What’s Syroco?” “I think it is. In recent months, the above conversation has occurred at least three times. “Since 1890, Syroco has been America’s foremost manufacturer of decorative accessories. What is meant by ‘decorative accessory’? There’s a Syroco accessory to suit every setting, every taste.” (1966 Wall-to-Wall Decorating handbook) They appeared in national advertisements, including magazines and newspapers, and featured Syroco Showrooms from New York City to San Francisco.
Their business began with your run-of-the-mill hand carved woodwork, crafting the decorative adornments that were common on coffins. Adolf Holstein, the company’s founder, was a master carver and the demand for recreations of his unique hand-carved designs soon led him to hire more carvers, and eventually create a unique method of compression molding, in order to mass-produce Syroco items.
. [1] Johnson, Donald-Brian (2005). 1 Comment » BL Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts. Today, February 1st, is the feast day of saint Brigid of Kildare (d. c. 524). Brigid or ‘Brigit’ or ‘Bride’ was a virgin and abbess, and is the patron saint of dairymaids, poets, blacksmiths and healers. She is one of the most popular medieval Irish saints, with numerous churches and shrines dedicated to her both in Ireland and elsewhere.
Her iconographical emblem is the cow. There are multiple versions of the life of Brigid in both Old Irish and Latin. The earliest, written in Latin, dates from around a century after her death. Many of these miracle stories mirror stories from the Gospels. Alongside the miracles associated with food and beer, there are also miracles involving amorous misadventures. One of the Latin lives has a different version of this story. A much later writer, Gerald of Wales (d. c. 1220) in his topographical guide to Ireland, dedicated to Henry II, has extensive descriptions of Brigid’s abbey and shrine. Mary Wellesley, Feast of Saint Brigid, 2016. Further Reading: