Tag: Penn Rare
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Cataloging Conundrum: Unidentified Coat of Arms
We haven’t been able to identify the coat of arms in this bookplate. It is found in our copy of Bernardino Campelli’s Delle historie di Spoleti : sopplimento di quelle del regno d’Italia nella parte, che tocca al ducato Spoletino, à principi di esso, & alla città, che ne fù capo (Spoleto: Giovanni Domenico Ricci,…
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The Bedchamber is Not As Safe as You Thought: “A Startling Apparition in Edinburgh–The Fall of a Sweep Comfortably Broken”
Days’ Doings, Volume 2, Number 31, Page 80, February 25, 1871
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Incunable Week
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is cross-posted here and at the Unique at Penn blog. One week a month is devoted to cataloging incunables, the first books printed after the invention of movable type in the second half of the 15th century. Incunables are a joy to catalog. There is so much to describe: rubrication and…
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Watery Grave of the Week: “Breaking the Ice After a Wedding–A Bridal Party in the Ice”
Days’ Doings, Volume II, Number 31, Page 76, February 25, 1871.
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Conundrum of the Week: Unidentified Inscription
Can you help identify this inscription? If yes, please comment! This is what we have thus far: Prof. Osiander Gött[ingen] 1800 Call Number: GrC Ar466 Ef1 1538 Folio
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