Earlier this year the rare books team acquired a significant, and rather pretty, addition to its developing Bible Collection. This Bible, a 1589 folio… Read More »New Acquisitions: Hand-coloured 1589 Luther Bible
Earlier this week, our Muniments Archivist, Rachel Hart, was browsing our early print collections for images of Easter for another publication. You can imagine my… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 41: gorgeous early 16th century French clasps
Thorlak’s Bible, the second edition of the Bible in Icelandic, bound in contemporary leather with beautiful clasps and endpapers I stumbled across this fascinating book… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 24
