Marsh's Library

Some of the small (and not the easiest to read) Hebrew books that Dr Sarah Cusk from Lincoln College Oxford has been looking at this week as part of her Maddock Fellowship to examine the bindings on our founder Narcissus Marsh's books.

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Our 1628 edition of the works of Livy belonged to playwright Ben Jonson (1572-1637), who wrote his motto Tanquam exploratur ('like an explorer') in the top right corner #TitlePageTuesday #Readers

A manicule to point out this section is important & bonus eye to indicate that is what the remedy is for! From Ramon Llull's 'Libelli aliquot chemici', 1572 #readers #alchemy

An early reader left a heart emoji in Johannes Nider's commentaries printed in Paris 543 years ago #EmojiDay

Wild strawberries on a beautiful summer's day! From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.

Joyeux 14 juillet à toutes et à tous! This hand-coloured map of France is from Blaeu's magnificent 11-volume Atlas Maior, printed in Amsterdam 1662-5 #BastilleDay #14juillet

At the launch of Prof Lee Morrissey's book 'Milton's Ireland' in Marsh's Library on 8 July were the author (left), Prof Danielle Clarke (centre) & Dr Jason McElligott (right). #CambridgeCore Find out more about the book here: cambridge.org/core/books/mil…

Polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) would try his hand at anything & even claimed to have deciphered hieroglyphs long before the Rosetta Stone! From Sphinx Mystagoge, Kircher's last work on Egyptology, printed in 1676.

A celebration of chocolate from 1662 #WorldChocolateDay

A well used copy of Cordier's Latin dialogues inscribed and doodled on by Élie and Amateur, sons of our first librarian, Élie Bouhéreau (1643-1719) #Readers

A sunny binding for a sunny day! Detail from a Dublin binding on The Gentleman & Citizen's Almanack, printed in 1795 #Bindings

Welcome July! The month to enjoy fruit a plenty & to prune back the vines according to John Evelyn's 1664 Kalendarium Hortense #RareBooks #Horticulture

Some very classically inclined moths squished in the pages of Lucien of Samosata's 'The Fishers' #RareBooks #Critters

Did you know it's #NationalStitchDay? Disney's Lilo & Stitch, that is! Well this is a post from the archive, which is the best we can do on this topic. This is a flayhole in parchment that is 'stitch'ed up. #ParchmentRepairs #BookCovers #LiloAndStitch

A dullish binding you say? But hang on a second. Bling! Another beauty from our Farmleigh collection. #BeautifulBindings #Books #CannotTellABookByItsCover @FarmleighOPW

Two Hollywood A-listers walked into the library today unannounced for a tour. We would never be so crass as to mention their names....

Feeling like a kid in a sweet shop deciding which of our beautiful bindings from @farmleighOPW to put in our new exhibition! #Book #Libraries #BookBindings #Gold