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In the Middle Ages, it was very common to wear a book case on the belt. Book of Hours, Bible, Breviary etc and they were thus at your fingertips.

This one is Italian, made between 1465 and 1485, in nicely worked leather.

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ILLUMINATED MINIATURE QUR’AN IN FITTED BOX (Turkey, Ottoman, dated 951 H/1544 AD).

Arabic manuscript on paper consisting of 325 leaves plus 2 flyleaves. Written in black ink, ruled in black, gold and blue. Completed 3 Safar 951 AH (April 1544 AD) and dedicated to Shams al-Din Yusef Qabji.

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Lost in the Pages

Between Two Tomes

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Early Medical Library, Franciscus Philippus Florinus, 1722.

Interior view of early 18th century medical library showing the arrangement of text by author, also indicated are those authors considered important. A large table with several open books on it fills the foreground; a man is returning a book to a shelf.

Is part of: Oeconomus prudens et legalis, p. 125.

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Binette Schroeder.

#art

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After books had been accessioned, library staff cataloged the materials, adding authors, titles, and subjects, and then describing the books physically, by size, format, and length, so the content of these publications would be known to both staff and researchers, ca. late 1940s.

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my heart calls for arrakis

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I love how in Dune part 2, they made Chani literally the voice of Franks Herbert, deeply suspicious of governments, charismatic leaders and organized religion and prophecy, she has to watch all that she feared would shackle her people come to bind them with the chains held by the very person she trusted and loved and who promised her he didn't want to be a leader, and then a bunch of guts on the Internet call Chani, "a stuck up, pouting, over dramatic teen," Sir, that is your author avatar.

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at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.

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"Read Banned Books" a new full page cartoon essay published in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section today.

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paul atreides and feyd-rautha harkonnen

dune: part two, dir. denis villenueve // dune, frank hubert // the illustrated dune, illustrations by john schoenherr // kerri maniscalco // the double in gothic fiction, alex heath // kittos epoiesen // dune: part one, dir. denis villenueve // fire & blood, george r.r. martin

#dune part two #this was so good!!!!

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― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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"A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection."

-The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente

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Ya know, I tend to see a lot of reactions that paint Lucy's Vampirism as a punishment for something, or something inherent to her nature.

But isn't it more terrifying if it's not?

Lucy isn't portrayed as an evil character. She's a woman in a nontraditional situation, but I think we're supposed to see her through the eyes of Jack Seward and Van Helsing. Her biggest "flaw" is loving too much, and even then she isn't punished for it.

And still Dracula comes for her. Never are Dracula's attacks tied to her love for the suitors, in fact it's that love which saves her over and over again. It's not fair that she dies, and the moment when we realize that the Vampirism took over Lucy's dying body and she almost bit Arthur is one of the most TERRIFYING moments in the story. Because that's NOT Lucy, she even says so in her dying moments.

And now she's alive again. But it's not her. Lucy would never attack people. She would never want to hurt people. Her body is being driven by a hunger that can never be filled. And maybe it remembers being something called Lucy Westenra. Maybe it remembers Van Helsing and Arthur. But it doesn't love them anymore. That love died the same day Lucy did, and now there is only hunger.

Cause really, what's more terrifying? A bad person having their badness revealed to all, or a good person whose memory is corrupted by a monster inhabiting their flesh?

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The only acceptable ads should be shit like "groceries on sale" and "free event at the local library"

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I’m losing my fucking mind there’s a whole god damn online database full of illustrations for illuminated manuscripts, you don’t need a subscription or anything. And it has a search function so you can enter key words for whatever you want to see. Right now I’m looking for fucked up illustrations of the apocalypse in Revelations, like so;

If you click the images on the website they come out super high def too. They also have a couple bestiaries, as well as some illustrations of the Divine Comedy. This is my new best friend I’m so fucking excited