An old book is open to a two-page spread featuring a wide array of sea monsters. Black and white woodcut.

Sea monsters from Munster's Cosmographia, mid-late 1500s. With a kind of steampunk-looking whale, a tree with duck fruits, and a hapless sailor tossed about by a giant lobster. #oldbooks #rarebooks #earlyprintedbooks

Circle showing monk reading from a large book with moon and stars in background, blue ink on white greetings card

Monk reading by moonlight beneath the stars 📖🌙✨
Historical symbolic note: The diamond shape was often used as shorthand for the Bible.

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Adapted from David Kandel and Heinrich Petri woodcut print, illustrations to the Latin edition of Sebastian Münster “Cosmographia”,
Basle 1552-1550, Switzerland/Germany. British Museum 1850,1014.979

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In this copy (call number 7A3891), you can see a piece of paper that probably came from an English-language bookseller's catalogue. It mentions works by Byron and a work attributed to Byron, The Vampyre, but which was actually written by John Williams Pilodori. #maculature #earlyprintedbooks

Farfel leaf 011: Book of hours, France, 1400s. A single Latin manuscript book of hours page with heavily illuminated left border. Border was used to create the digital exhibit header in image 2.

Screenshot of digital exhibit header: A Glance into Manuscript & Printed Leaves from 1200-1700.

Farfel leaf 597: Psalter, Ethiopia, 1750-1850. A single manuscript psalter page written in the Ge'ez language in black and red inks.

Letters laid out. Sample of correspondence from some of the institutions Dr. Farfel wrote to regarding his leaves (top to bottom): University of Minnesota, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Hispanic Society of America, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Germany), The Cleveland Medical Library Association, and The New York Botanical Garden.

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"Microscopic" handwritten notes in a copy of Boethius (Florence: Giunta 1507). The height of the letters is about 1.25 mm. #Paleography #EarlyPrintedBooks #PostIncunables

Cheat sheet for Aristotle's de Caelo (I think). Pavia 1506. #postincunables #woodcuts #earlyprintedbooks