EL 26 C 9, Huntington Library, San Marino, California. An early fifteenth-century manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, known as the Ellesmere Chaucer. Gospels of Maél Brigte, or the Armagh Gospels, c. Edith Cragg, as part of the John Webb Bequest, 1925.Ģ9. Detail from Chardin, The House of Cards (1736/7). Detail from Gerrit Berckheyde, A Notary in His Office (1672). Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.Ģ7. Bartholomeus van der Helst, Portrait of Daniël Bernard (1669). The eighteenth-century library at Admont Abbey. A Flemish manuscript of Christine de Pizan’s The City of Women, 1475. Jan Gossart, Portrait of a Tax-collector (c. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Laud Misc 165, f.5r.Ģ3. The presentation of an index to the Gospel Commentary of William of Nottingham to the Archbishop of Canterbury. A fifteenth-century depiction of the trivium and the quadrivium. An advertisement for a copy press an 1890s office.ġ9. The New York Times newsroom in the 1920s. Macmillan Publishers International Limited.ġ7. A sample page from Bayle’s Dictionaire critique.ġ6. A page illustrating Locke’s indexing system for commonplace books.ġ5. An illustration of the typographical desk from Louis Dumas, La biblioteque des enfans, ou les premiers elemens des lettres, The Children’s Library, or, First Elements of Writing (1733).ġ4. Harrison’s Ark, as illustrated in Vincentius Placcius, The Art of Excerpting (1689).ġ3. A type case housing a printer’s metal type. A piece of specialist furniture for categorizing and displaying a collection, illustrated in Levinus Vincent, The Wonders of Nature (1706).ġ1. A writing desk belonging to either Henry VIII or Catherine of Aragon, c. Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp-UNESCO, World Heritage.Ĩ. Abraham Ortelius, Thesaurus geographicus, Geographical Treasure-house. Sion/Sitten, Archives du Chapitre/Kapitelsarchiv, Ms. A manuscript copy of the Decretum Gratiani dating from the first half of the thirteenth century. The Bakhshali manuscript, third to seventh centuries. A table showing some of Ralph de Diceto’s marginal symbols in his Abbreviationes chronicorum, Chronicles Précised. Old Babylonian clay tablet, c.1900–1700 BCE.

The first page of a letter in rebus form from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). A round robin letter of 1621, petitioning for the right of Huguenots to settle in the New World.

A place for everything judith flanders