Tag: spotlight
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Spotlight: Catholic profiles (part 1)
Read more: Spotlight: Catholic profiles (part 1)This is another volume from our backlog of uncatalogued items. In this case, the small booklet was part of the former Community Library, which was a big library at the bottom of the building next to us. The Library served the members of the Jesuit Mount Street Community, when about 40 men were living in…
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Spotlight: Passion Play (1900)
Read more: Spotlight: Passion Play (1900)You might not believe how I stumbled across this one. I was searching for something on the database / online platform of Crown (one of our off-site store companies), and came across the following:
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Spotlight: 17th century book with marbled paper binding
Read more: Spotlight: 17th century book with marbled paper bindingI was drawn in by the labyrinthine marbling of this book (volume 5) in Heythrop Library’s collection: Author Niccolò, de’ Tudeschi, 1386-1445. Title Abbatis Panormitani […] / Quamplurium iurisconsultorum, qui robè hucusque aliquid iis addidisse apparuerunt, & nuno demum Alexandri de Neuo, adnotationibus illustrata. ; Hac omnium nouissima editione accurato studio recognita, atq; ab innumeris erroribus, quibus…