When I hear "special collections" in a library in the states... I don't get that excited...but our lecture this morning was on the "the history of the book" which really just consisted of a librarian pulling out books from the special collections and showing them to us with a little bit about the actual construction of the book thrown in...what it was printed on, how certain things were printed and so on...very interesting. But they really have a fabulous collection of old, old material here. She had a Psalter from the 12th century, I think...and a first edition King James Bible. And also some quite amazing facsimiles...one was of Chaucer. Also, a collection of Sophocles plays from way back...that was an actual edition not facsimile. Anyway, it was all quite fascinating. I am excited about actually going and exploring the collection at some point. So cool! :) The end.
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Souinds pretty much like book heaven :-)
Ol Dad
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