This flyleaf comes with real flies!

This early 18th century book has four flies preserved between the paste-down and the flyleaf.

We wonder how they got there!

[Sion A61.4/Ex1]

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Happy October! This woodcut of a cat with a mouse is the printer's device of the Venetian printer Melchior Sessa, and was used by his heirs in this 1598 book of sermons.

(Sion A66.0/OS5)

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Image of a page from one of our Greek Gospel Lectionaries, showing a colourful border and Greek writing.

Created c.1150 -1200, this manuscript from one of our Greek
Gospel Lectionaries features some lovely borders, known as
pylai, around the headings for the first lection of weeks
for Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

[Sion L40.2/G1 f117]

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