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Illustration | Notabilia. For details about Boulter’s Museum see “Notes on an Eighteenth Century Museum at Great Yarmouth “Museum Boulterianum” and on the Development on the Modern Museum” by Thomas Southwell in The Museums Journal, October 1908, p. 110 ff [link] Call number: (Ex) 2014-0001M Box 1, item 98. Ephemera published in England, Scotland, and Ireland between ca. 1650 and 1850 : The general collection has 361 printed pieces of ephemera relating to commercial trade, institutional, entertainment, museums, medicine, etc. Ephemera from the book trade as well as some library labels and bookplates, chiefly British, 18th and 19th centuries. The book trade collection includes 416 printed pieces of ephemera relating to every aspect of the Book Trade — Booksellers advertisements, Bookbinder’s advertisements, Paper makers, Printers, Stationers, Lithographers, Circulating Library labels and advertisements.

Also included are some other library labels and bookplates of individuals. Bibliomaniacs - St. Columba. The most dramatic story of a bibliomaniac absconding with a book is that of St. Columba of Ireland (521-597 CE). Columba was trained as a monastic scribe and is famous for establishing monasteries in Ireland and Scotland devoted to copying texts. Before leaving Ireland in exile in 563, he established monasteries in Derry, Durrow, and Kells. Upon arriving in Scotland, he established the famous monastery at Iona which two centuries later is believed to have produced the famous Book of Kells. Eventually, the case was brought before the High King of Ireland, Diarmit, who stated that Finnian was the true owner of the book and its copy. Created by Sandra Anderson, March 2003. Unavailable in your country. Basilius Magnus: Homiliae super Psalmos (etc.) - GKS 18 folio. Search Results: All Fields equal to 'German' - ODL. Psalterium Latinum / ... E-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland.

BVMM - ANGERS, Bibliothèque municipale, 0018 (0014) La Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux (BVMM) constitue l'entrepôt de consultation des reproductions numériques disponibles à l'IRHT. Sauf mentions contraires, les reproductions numériques sont couvertes, conformément à la décision du Comité scientifique de pilotage de la BVMM, par une licence CC BY NC 3.0, autorisant la reproduction des données sous condition de citation et uniquement pour des opérations non commerciales.

La réutilisation commerciale des contenus de la BVMM (produits d’édition, publicité, supports imprimés ou électroniques, pages internet d’entreprises, banques de données commerciales et tous procédés tant actuels que futurs) est soumise à l'autorisation préalable des établissements détenteurs et doit faire l'objet d'une référence à la source de l'image. Les présentes conditions d'utilisation des contenus de la BVMM sont régies par la loi française. The History of “Loving” to Read - The New Yorker.

As a senior in college, I took a class on Jane Austen—a great class with, it must be said, a weird vibe. Almost all of the students were women (out of around a hundred people, only five or ten were men), and it was a hothouse of Jane Austen obsession. In the first lecture, the professor identified herself as a Janeite—a member of “the curious American cult of Jane Austen,” according to the BBC—and, when she asked if we were Janeites, too, scores of people raised their hands. The class, she reassured us, wouldn’t be wasted on Austen fanatics. Even if you’d read “Pride and Prejudice” a dozen times (starting, presumably, at the age of ten), there still was room to grow, if not in devotion then in discernment.

Knowledge could complement ardor, sense enrich sensibility. Even “Clueless” might reveal layers of sophistication. At the time, I found this off-putting. The invention that disrupted this rhetorical world was the canon. We, of course, are the inheritors of this bittersweet legacy. 100 novels everyone should read. The Provenance of a Book by Jean Calvin, bound in a Carolingian Manuscript Fragment in Amsterdam University Library (Band I E 22)  »  Brill Online. MyBook is a cheap paperback edition of the original book and will be sold at uniform, low price. Buy this article Price: $30.00+ Tax (if applicable) Germain Colladon (1508-94), a refugee from France and a prominent lawyer in Geneva, was the owner of a rare copy of the Ioannis Calvini in viginti prima Ezechielis prophetae capita praelectiones (1565), Jean Calvin’s last commentary, which discusses the first twenty chapters of the prophet Ezekiel.

Colladon may have met Calvin, the leading reformer of Geneva, already during their years as students at the faculty of law in Orleans and Bourges. Germain, his older brother Leon, and the latter’s son Nicolas frequented the public Bible studies of the Company of Pastors on Friday mornings, as is testified by a list of witnesses for the prosecution in the case against the physician Jérome Bolsec. Article metrics loading... 88029232.pdf. English Illuminated Manuscripts - Livres sur Google Play. Google Play. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Google Play. Google Play. Play. Google Play.