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For Dante Day, get lost in this illuminated initial from our 1472 Mantua edition of the ‘Commedia’ or take a trip to stars with Dante and Beatrice. Explore these and more in our 2006 exhibition, ‘Visible language: Dante in text and image’. https://t.co/MDdok6vsJ3 #Dantedi @theUL
A little dog on the loose in the old @theUL, chaos everywhere! #PuppyDay
Regulars at @theUL will recognise those bookcases from the North and South Fronts.
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Our most fun new #acquisition for some time: c. 1890s French #seaside #poetry shaped like a crab, of which no other copies are known to survive. Now available to consult (shelfmark 8000.c.1244(14)). #crustacea #newacq #specialcollections
Christmas greetings: the story of Christmas cards, from the @theUL's European languages across borders blog: https://t.co/sVC428b9S7
Lovely afternoon showing @biblesociety members treasures from their library, held @theUL. Henry VIII on the title of the Great Bible never fails to amuse.
This week the Map Department is celebrating a recent cataloguing retrospective conversion project covering Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal and Japan https://t.co/3oqHoo1dHk. View the record for this 1944 map of Yokohama here https://t.co/RYQmup9QDz #maps
One of @theUL's greatest donors, Richard Holdsworth, died #OTD in 1649. His 10,000 books included the C10 Juvencus Gospel narrative made in #Wales (Ff.4.42), a C13 English bestiary (Kk.4.25) & a Middle English copy of #Boethius' De consolatione (Gg.4.18). All online @CamDigLib.
We have reached 2000 followers! Have this 'celebration of triumph' from one of our thirteenth-century Apocalypses, which came to us in 1715. Earlier it belonged to Cuthbert Tunstall (Bishop of @durhamcathedral), who gave us books #otd in 1528. Online here https://t.co/4OxQiEJ85n