Armadillos & their cherub tormentors on a map of central and west coast Mexico, from Blaeu's Atlas Major, vol 10, 1662-5.
Marsh's Library
Good luck to everyone starting their leaving cert today! A little bit of addition to warm the brain, from 'Records Arithmetick', a manual to teach simple & practical maths.
Whatever you're up to this weekend, may you be as entertained as these swans and fish!
The latest round of our Maddock Research Fellowships has just been advertised. Come and work in our exciting research collection: marshlibrary.ie/about/news-e...
The best kind of book owner: Edward Lightbourne left not only his lovely signature, but also the year he bought this collection of John Milton's pamphlets, and the cost.
Hmm, this might be a bit controversial: 'The purgatory of modern men', from 1619. As for that subtitle ...
No more Rivals until November?! We'll just have to occupy ourselves with medieval romance until then! From Le rommant de la rose, 1526.
Oh no, Rupert Giles (aka the actor Anthony Head), everyone's favourite school librarian, has passed away. We were only talking at lunch yesterday about how Giles was the best TV representation of a librarian ever. RIP, Anthony Head.
Gutenberg's Cradle" is a book about the gorgeous books in our collection published in the decades after the invention of printing. It has been nominated for the prestigious ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography. You can buy a copy of this beautiful book here: marshlibrary.ie/product/gute...
Before anyone gets too enraged it is an anonymous satire related to the 17th century 'Querelle des femmes' a debate on the capabilities of women and their role in society.
