Murray & Hong Special Collections at MSU Libraries

The Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections at Michigan State University.

[Newberry Library @NewberryLibrary]

Us: There’s a 1st ed. Don Quixote in our collection.

Also us: And this illustration of heads shaking hands.

[Sarah Peters Kernan @sarahpkernan]

Do you research early modern recipe books? @mullneritsch and I are editing a collected volume on early modern European and colonial recipe books, and we welcome your proposals! The call for contributions is available at https://t.co/e4oi2iNn9g Proposals due 30 September 2021.

[Murray & Hong Special Collections at MSU Libraries @MurrayHongSPC]

Copy 2, part of the Chase Collection, had once been in the library of Daines Barrington, antiquarian, lawyer, and friend of naturalist Gilbert White. A memorable day for this cataloger! 📚🫖🐝

[Murray & Hong Special Collections at MSU Libraries @MurrayHongSPC]

Joy of a cataloger, part 457: While recataloging our copy of Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities, it was discovered that Sir James Richard Thursfield, one of Oscar Wilde's Oxford tutors, once owned it.

[Murray & Hong Special Collections at MSU Libraries @MurrayHongSPC]

It then passed from Thursfield's widow -- a friend of Wilde's mother -- to her brother, John Alexander Herbert, Deputy Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum.

[Murray & Hong Special Collections at MSU Libraries @MurrayHongSPC]

A cataloger discovered some great odd and ends laid in to our copy of "Sanders' new speller, definer, and analyzer" (1854). A former owner was a school teacher near Flint. Was the doodle of a lady with bustle, hat, and parasol, pursued by a creature, confiscated from a student?

[St John's College Library, Oxford @StJohnsOxLib]

On #HedgehogAwarenessWeek we celebrate the lovable, spiny mammal that we have come to appreciate in Europe 🦔

But #DidYouKnow that in medieval bestiaries #hedgehogs were often shown thieving fruit from gardens, to teach readers not to neglect their duties!

#manuscripts

[Murray & Hong Special Collections at MSU Libraries @MurrayHongSPC]

@IrwellEdition @JamesPomar Thank you for this, @IrwellEdition!

[Murray & Hong Special Collections at MSU Libraries @MurrayHongSPC]

Jumping on the Shakespeare birthday bandwagon, here's a new acquisition: "The World William of Shakespeare" by Anthony Burgess (of "A Clockwork Orange" fame). The binding by Zaehnsdorf includes a delightful onlay depicting the Globe Theatre. HBD to the Bard! #ShareYourShakespeare

[MSU Libraries @msulibraries]

And a reminder that when you return your books you get to see spring blossoms. #ReasonEnough

[Paperology RAG @PaperologyRAG]

Emily Dickinson's envelope poems https://t.co/45W5SFQmHi

[Mr. Jewish Bookery @Jewish_Bookery]

Baking maztos

[Allie Alvis (mostly on 🦋 now) @book_historia]

Obsessed with this “Schweine Album” at @typepunchmatrix , an autograph album which encourages your friends not to sign their names, but... to draw a pig with their eyes closed 😂

[Simon Beattie @simon_beattie]

A blog post for #StPatricksDay: https://t.co/cVMbAwG5V4

[Newberry Library @NewberryLibrary]

Girls rule. And kern. And justify. And...you get the picture.

[1870 broadside promoting a typesetting school for girls, l'Internat professionnel de composition typographique de jeunes filles] #WomensHistoryMonth #womenwhomakebooks

[Folger Research @FolgerResearch]

Join us on Thurs. 18 Mar at 3pmEDT as Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson (@jmjafrx) & Dr. Cécile Fromont (@CecileFromont) discuss "Reading, Writing, and Teaching Black Life and Anti-Black Violence in the Early Modern World" 3pmEDT. #vastearlyamerica https://t.co/GuZWS16Q5N

[Simon Beattie @simon_beattie]

Your afternoon dose of brocade paper. #giltypleasures

[British Library @britishlibrary]

In this beautiful Javanese manuscript of Serat Selarasa, dated 1804, Prince Selarasa kneels before a holy man, who has stayed in one place for so long, smelling flowers and praying to God, that a vine has grown up around his body. #ManuscriptMonday
📜MSS Jav 28, f. 8r

[Murray & Hong Special Collections at MSU Libraries @MurrayHongSPC]

We will sign off this fine #PiDay with a serendipitous discovery from our Chase Collection: "The Oxford Sausage" (1764). To quote the immortal ode to Ben Tyrrell's mutton pies, "But hold - no more - I've said enough - / Or else my Pies may prove - a Puff." Happy #PieDay! 🥳

[Murray & Hong Special Collections at MSU Libraries @MurrayHongSPC]

@RecipesLost @FolgerResearch You've got a great eye, @RecipesLost! We're impressed 👀

[Murray & Hong Special Collections at MSU Libraries @MurrayHongSPC]

We're excited that @FolgerResearch invited us to participate in celebrating Pi(e) Day tomorrow, when we'll be showcasing some beautiful pie content from our extensive cookbook collections. Stay tuned! 🥧