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“Librarian reads the small print”:
A pop-up sampling of miniature books from the Evron Collins Collection
Diminutive size is the only feature uniting this throng of tiny tomes. Come and see the “Finger” New Testament; the “Kleinbuchs” distributed by the Winterhilfswerk; a sibling of the first book to travel to the moon; and many more!
Pop-Up Exhibit @ RBML
March 28 – April 8, 2022
Curated by Elissa B.G. Mullins
#specialcollections #rarebooks #minibook #exhibit #popupexhibition
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Our workshop is currently full, BUT we encourage visitors to stop by tomorrow to see examples from our medieval collections and make souvenir buttons!
#specialcollections #rarebooks #medieval #medievalmanuscript #champaignurbana
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This beautiful artist book was created by @joannakrobson in 2011. “The Tempest 1932: a visual re-telling of the first play performed at the famous outdoor Minack Theatre, Cornwall” is a wordless retelling of The Tempest and is gorgeous! (IUB03270)
#specialcollections #rarebooks #artistbook #thetempest #shakespeare
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It’s Old Stuff Day! Take a moment to enjoy the oldest item in our collection - a cuneiform tablet from about 2,000 BCE. It was excavated from Umma in Mesopotamia and is written in Sumerian. (Pre-1650 MS 0218)
#specialcollections #rarebooks #cuneiform #mesopotamia #sumerian #oldstuffday
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Happy birthday to Charles F. Lummis (1859-1928)! Author, editor, librarian, leading Indian [what we now call Indigenous] rights advocate, and cross-continental adventurer, his Birch bark poems (Collins 0182) were written and printed during his college summers in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
#specialcollections #rarebooks #poetry #happybirthday #birchbarkbooks
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Check out the newest addition to our Digital Library - the Charles E. Mudie Papers, 1816-1897.
The Charles E. Mudie Digital Collection is comprised of correspondence, visual materials, and documents. This gathering of materials shed light on the management of Mudie’s Select Library, an innovative library that pioneered the concept of a circulating system operated by membership, as well as Mudie’s wide network of subscribers. The correspondence between Mudie, his family, and prominent 19th century literary English figures provides an ample view of the literary and publishing milieu during the Victorian era.
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#specialcollections #rarebooks #archives #digitalcollections #mudie
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We hope you’ll join us, either in-person OR virtually, today, January 24th, from 3-5 pm, for the opening of our Spring Exhibit in RBML!
RBML, in collaboration with the Geology Department, presents “In Search of Lost Time: The study of Earth history and chronology from the 18th to the 21st century”, on view from January 24-July 22, 2022. The related concepts of time, chronology, and history form the lens through which Earth scientists view, understand, and interpret a dynamic planet. This exhibit will explore how the chronology of the Earth was established, with a focus on six themes that gradually led to the consensus view that the Earth is roughly 4.55 billion years of age.
For those who would like to attend virtually, Professor of Geology and exhibit curator, William Guenthner, presents a virtual guided tour and live Q&A. Register at
http://ow.ly/2lsY50HBt9a
to receive the Zoom log-in info!
#specialcollections #rarebooks #geology #exhibit #fossils #uiuc
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It’s Appreciate a Dragon Day! We appreciate this lovely specimen from Ferrari’s Hesperides…(1646)
Shelfmark Q. 634.23 F41h
#specialcollections #rarebooks #dragon #hesperides #appreciateadragonday
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Join the RBML curators as they recreate historical recipes from the collection in their home kitchen!
#specialcollections #rarebooks #cooking #recipe #historicalrecipes #lemons
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In honor of the winter weather, here are two books with covers that just say *brrr!* Both are from the Nina Baym Collection and are currently uncatalogued, so who knows what stories lie within?!
#PublishersBindingThursdays #specialcollections #rarebooks
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“A Man of Two Countries” by Alice Harriman, from our Nina Baym Western Women Writers Collection is unique in the fact that it is not only written by a woman, but also published by the author’s own publishing company!
#specialcollections #rarebooks #publishersbindingthursday
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This is an example of one of the most detailed publishers’ binding covers in the Nina Baym Western Women Writers Collection. The story is a classic example of the Western fiction in the Baym Collection.
#publishersbindingthursday #specialcollections #rarebooks
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Shiny! RBML recently acquired a facsimile of the Oxford Menologion – a mid-14th century prayerbook possibly from Thessaloniki. The text has a pictorial calendar of the saints for the full year, which are illustrated in 103 full-page miniatures and 2 texts in Greek.
Call number: IUQ05026
#specialcollections #rarebooks #byzantine #greek #medievalmanuscript #facsimile
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Check out our most recent blog post about the Schamp-Levin Collection, which contains the papers of Mable Schamp and her second husband, Meyer Levin. Mable Hall Schamp (1912-1951) grew up in poverty but earned a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1936, served as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, worked on male contraceptives, battled mental illness, and became the first female professor at the City College of New York’s Chemistry Department.
Link to blog post: http://wordpress.library.illinois.edu/rbx/2021/07/28/collection-highlights-the-story-of-mable-schamp-1912-1951/
Photo: Mable in Spain, Schamp-Levin Collection, MSS00057
#specialcollections #rarebooks #universityofchicago #citycollegeofnewyork #chemistry #womeninscience #womeninstem
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OTD in 54 CE, Emperor Claudius of Rome was allegedly poisoned by his adopted son and successor, Nero. Just in case, read up on methods of detection with “A treatise on adulterations of food and culinary poisons: exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles and other articles employed in domestic economy; and methods of detecting them”. This treatise was written by Friedrich Christian Accum and published in 1820.
Call number: 614.31 AC21T
#specialcollections #rarebooks #rarebooksofinstagram #otd #rome #nero #poison
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Happy Library Shelfie Day from a few of our rare books! https://www.instagram.com/p/CKjxjHRpd24/?igshid=k7xgplebrbjs
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My goodness, this is lovely!
A hand-colored plate from Maria Sibylla Merian’s 1730 De Europische Insecten.
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This engraving sure makes us feel a little closer to Halloween! It comes from the 1725 edition of “Todten-Tantz,” or Dance of Death. A common allegory in Christian Europe, the Dance of Death was meant to serve as a reminder that death comes for all people, no matter their social rank, age, or devoutness. The engravings in this book were originally made by Matthaeus Merian in the early 1600s, and each one depicts death leading off a different type of person, including a pope, a king, a merchant, a heathen, and a painter. Death with the Abbess is shown here. [N7720 .M47 1725] #SpineTingling #rubensteinlib #iglibraries #librariesofinstagram #rarebooks #danceofdeath
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Peek-A-Boo! Celebrating a month of spooky with Dutch-German anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus’ book “Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani.” First published in 1747, the book was Albinus’ attempt to create the most scientifically-accurate anatomical illustrations for the time. [QP88.2 .A435 1753]
#SpineTingling #rubensteinlib #iglibraries #rarebooks #historyofmedicine (at David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
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