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The remarkable Hildegard of Bingen died #OnThisDay in 1179. This German Abbess was a visionary, composer, philosopher and polymath. She founded two monasteries and wrote the earliest medieval morality play, musical compositions and almost 400 letters, as well as books on her visions, natural history and medicine. Her portrait comes from 'The holy state' by Thomas Fuller, printed in 1648. [H5133.F85] #hildegard #hildegardvonbingen #hildegardofbingen #abbess #remarkablewomen #portrait #otd #philosopher #mystic #mysticism #visions #rarebooks

This exquisitely-bound Roman Breviary (1556) has also been finished with finely gauffered edges. Gauffering is a technique where the edges of a book, usually gilded, are decorated further by means of heated finishing tools or rolls which indent small repeating patterns [H2000.Q8**]. #ForedgeFriday #foredge #gaufferededges #gauffered #giltedges #gilded #edgegilding #edgedecoration #giltedge #gilt #foreedgefriday #foreedge #bookbinding #finebinding #binding #traditionalcrafts #booklove #bibliomania #rarebooks #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram

Our shelves at Lambeth Palace Library are full of beautiful books. Come visit them! #shelfies #lambethpalacelibrary #library #rarebooks #bookbindings #bookshelves #bookshelf #greathall #lambethpalace #librariesofinstagram

At just 10 centimetres tall this 19th century edition of the Book of Common Prayer makes a perfect #TinyTuesday. It was published in London and is bound in morocco goatskin with ornamental gilt corners and clasp. [H5943.A1 1849]

The Great Fire of London started on this day in 1666 in a bakery in Pudding Lane. The fire consumed much of the medieval City of London, destroying St. Paul’s Cathedral, 87 parish churches, and more than 13,000 houses. Image from 'Jacob's ladder', 1749 [G4831.H2J2] #OTD #OnThisDay #GreatFireOfLondon #GreatFire #fire #rarebooks #engraving #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram

This wonderful woodcut of a scholar in his study is from ‘Catho moralizatus alias speculum regiminis quo ad utriusque hominis reformationem’ [LPL ZZ1497.1], a commentary on the works of Marcus Porcius Cato (234 B.C.-149 B.C.) #woodcut #woodcutwednesday #rarebooks #librariesofinstagram #bookstagram #scholar #study #books #library #student

Happy #InternationalDogDay! This little dog who is being watched warily by the local wildlife can be found in the margins of the 14th century Vaux Psalter [LPL MS233] #manuscript #medievalmanuscript #dog #deer #illuminated #illumiantedmanuscript #librariesofinstagram #library #bookstagram #vauxpsalter #psalter

For #FridayKnight, here’s a colourful 19th century engraving entitled “A knight armed for the bond”. It is one of many to be found in Samuel Meyrick’s “A critical inquiry into antient armour” [B99/1M57], which includes 80 handcoloured plates illuminated in gold and silver. Meyrick based this study on his own collection of weapons and armour, much of which is now in the Wallace Collection in London. #books #illustrations #bookstagram #library #libraries #librariesofinstagram #specialcollections #speccolls #rarebooks #knights #medieval #wallacecollection #handcoloured #weapons #armour

This is the title page to the ‘Report of the Committee appointed by the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania to translate the inscription on the Rosetta Stone’. In 1858 three Pennsylvania students produced the first complete translation of the Rosetta Stone from into English. They had spent two years deciphering the ancient Hieroglyphics, Greek, and Demotic text from a plaster cast of the Stone and their findings were privately published in this volume, the first American book printed entirely by lithography. (KT62.R6 [**]) #hieroglyphics #lithography #lithograph #chromolithography #rosettastone #translation #librariesofinstagram #rarebooks #bookstagram

For #ManuscriptMonday we have a decorated leaf from a 12th century manuscript copy of a work by Bede the Venerable (673-735), considered to be the father of English history. [LPL MS148] #illuminatedmanuscript #medievalmanuscript #bede #manuscript #venerablebede #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram #rarebooks #history

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