Member Catalogues

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A catalogue of medical items all relating to the body

18 items; all pertaining to German fascism.

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Approximately 95 books on spiritualism, ghosts, medical history, medical oddities, and more.

It is simple-minded perhaps to propose the example of Japanese tourists from the recent past as a proof of the cultural importance of travel in traditional Japan...

A short-list of items.

Text by Matthew J. Westerby The Satellite Series enables us to explore topics at the edges of our core inventory, looking ath the big picture and connections across media. It is fitting that the first "satellite" is focused on neo-Gothic books woven with silk. Matthew J. Westerby excellent essay presents new findings on five books programmed with punch cards and produced with Jacquard looms in Lyon for submission to the 1889 World's Fair.

A list particularly heavy in Architecture, Medical and Children's books, with a selection of autographs in the fields of Art, Law, Religion and Military.

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35 items, with full-color illustrations

Our books for the fair, in four categories.

Manuscripts are, by definition, made by hand, and one of the thrills of studying them is connecting with the many people who made them, from the parchment or paper maker, to the scribe, the illuminator, and binder, and the many people who owned and read them down through the centuries. At times, though, these people can seem abstract and are often unnamed. It is thus exciting when the personal comes into focus and we meet the “I” in a manuscript, as it does in the case of each of the ten manuscripts in this varied list. Here we have scribes and original owners known by name, owner-produced books (or as we have called them, “selfie-books”), and biographies that by definition focus on the personal. For the collector and in the classroom, these manuscripts bring the Middle Ages and Renaissance alive.

In April 2019 we reached TM 1000 on our website www.textmanuscripts.com. The present publication was created to celebrate both this remarkable milestone and the success of our newest program, Manuscripts in the Curriculum. Sixteen manuscripts from our past inventory and sixteen manuscripts from our current inventory (on an insert of separate cards) together illustrate sixteen major categories of manuscripts for teaching.

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A varied list of ten manuscripts that with a focus on the personal (named scribes and owners, owner-produced books, and biographies).

European illustrated books, 1508-1600

Text by Laura Light with an introduction Christopher de Hamel, and essays by Dennis Dutschke, Stephen Mossman, Emily Runde, John Van Engen, and Mary Beth Winn, fully illustrated, in English The thirty-six manuscripts included in this catalogue provide viewers unique access to the authentic, spontaneous vision of people in medieval France, Italy, Germany, the Low Countries, and Britain.