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This scrumptious floral #endpaper is part of the 18th-century #vellum binding of a 14th-century manu

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What is red, crisp, and delicious in so many dishes? You got it, red apples! Today, and every Decemb

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The first page of this Thai astrological and medical manuscript displays some gestural studies of ca

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American novelist and poet Louisa May Alcott was born on this day in 1832 in Germantown. This gilded

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This is a collage made from various illustrations that have been cut out of several Medieval Breviar

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Here, in a copy of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Ethics, the scribe appears to have gotten somewhat di

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This is an astronomical diagram from a 1739 French manuscript on Physics. It demonstrates the phases

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Happy Thanksgiving! This gussied up turkey is from the Charles J. Fyffe greeting card collection.* *

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Thanks to the petitioning of magazine editor Sarah Joseph Hale, Abraham Lincoln set the precedent fo

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Detail from a French textbook on physics created between 1787 and 1788. This work includes diagrams

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Here’s an illustrated manual on the creation of yantras (i.e. geometrical diagrams used as aids to m

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Detail of blueprints from an experimental investigation conducted on the use of magnetic coils carri

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A beautiful painting of Saint Francis of Assisi before a vision of the Virgin Mary standing atop a d

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LJS 454 is a Japanese scroll from the early 1800s containing many illustrations of Western ships and

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This is an Arabic translation of an epitome or appendix to Euclid’s Elements, a Greek mathematical w

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This detailed, stylized depiction of the root system of an iris plant is from an herbal created by A

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The turn-of-the-century’s improvements in printing technology allowed World War I to become th

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Mezzo-soprano Meg Bragle will be here next Friday, November 17th as a part of our *Music in the Pavi

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These letterheads can be found in a spectacular book titled “The Letterhead: History and Progress”,

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Were you born a ramblin’ man? This woodcut vignette is from the title page to an early work on

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