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Good luck to everyone starting their leaving cert today! A little bit of addition to warm the brain, from 'Records Arithmetick', a manual to teach simple & practical maths.

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Have a lovely bank holiday weekend! Whatever you're up to, may you be as entertained as these swans and fish!

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It's very lovely to see all the irises in bloom around Dublin 8 at the moment. These lovely hand-coloured ones are from a mid-16th century herbal.

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A happy looking dog at court! From the engraved title page of Hugo de Groot's Introduction to Dutch jurisprudence, printed in 1636.

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An impressive bouquet of flowers from Paul Contant's 'Le Bouquet Printanier', printed in 1600 in La Rochelle.

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@anwit07 A good idea, we'll give it a go!

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Somebody went to real efforts to erase what was written on the title page of this work on Roman obelisks from 1589. They scribbled out the inscription and pasted a slip of paper over it. Must've been scandalous!

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In our latest blog post, recent Maddock Fellow Dr Joe Borsato @TheEcoAlchemyst looks at how Indigenous peoples shaped Huguenot colonization in the seventeenth century.
https://t.co/qpE9OgFpxW

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The binder used a fragment of printed music to line the spine of the letters of Aldo Manuzio the younger, from 1592. Music was tricky to print & the page may have had an error, or perhaps it didn't sell. Whatever the reason, it ended up in the waste pile #Fragments #Bindings

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On Newstalk's Talking History, Marsh's Director Dr Jason McElligott joined Prof Daniel Cook, Prof David Kenny & Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir to talk about the continuing impact of Gulliver's Travels. You can listen back here: https://t.co/JHjof2Dnwe

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The pamphlet was printed during the Venetian Interdict of 1606-7, a quarrel between the Roman Church & Venice which led to a temporary excommunication of Venetian Catholics.

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A tiny map of Venice from the title page of a pamphlet printed in 1606.

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A later owner tried to wash out a scribble on the title page of this Byzantine novel, but still the ownership inscription remains. A good thing too, as it tells us the book belonged to poet & playwright Ben Jonson.

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A very relatable look of 'can I just get five minutes peace with my book'. From Le Rommant de la Rose, a hugely popular Medieval poem, printed in Paris, 500 years ago.

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A lovely piece about Jonathan Swift in the current issue of The New Yorker. Lots of references to Marsh's Library in it: https://t.co/wh6GbJcnBX

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Lily of the valley blooms in May, as an early reader indicated in this herbal from 1552 #spring #flowers

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The printer's mark of Huguenot printer Conrad Badius from 1562 showing a printing press and a quote from Genesis 3:19 reminding us that to labour is the lot of mortal humans: 'by the sweat of your brow you will eat'. A fitting sentiment after the bank holiday!

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Happy #MayDay ! Falalas from Thomas Morley's 1595 'Balletts to five voyces' and birdsong from Marsh's Library garden, 2026!