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Library porn
Oct. 16th, 2020 04:14 pmDurham University offers an online introduction to the Treasures of Palace Green Library.
Actually, as library porn goes, it'd disappointingly soft-core: not close enough, or deep enough to satisfy. There's a tantalising "pinch to zoom if viewing on mobile" but since I'm not viewing on mobile, I can't find a way to get any closer to that glorious volume from the Kelmscott Press: ymmv.
Still, a letter from the Oxyrhynchus papyri (which they summarise but don't translate); a first edition of More's Utopis; Bishop Cosin's own copy of the First Folio, "distinguished by having the longest single continuous ownership of any first folio" - which makes me wonder whether there is any copy of the First Folio extant which is not distinguished by some feature of this kind - and whether, as with the mathematical paradox, this is in itself a distinguishing feature?
Anyway, book! And a pretty picture of the library itself - though not one of the areas to which I had access as an undergraduate, back in the days when Palace Green was still the main university library.
Actually, as library porn goes, it'd disappointingly soft-core: not close enough, or deep enough to satisfy. There's a tantalising "pinch to zoom if viewing on mobile" but since I'm not viewing on mobile, I can't find a way to get any closer to that glorious volume from the Kelmscott Press: ymmv.
Still, a letter from the Oxyrhynchus papyri (which they summarise but don't translate); a first edition of More's Utopis; Bishop Cosin's own copy of the First Folio, "distinguished by having the longest single continuous ownership of any first folio" - which makes me wonder whether there is any copy of the First Folio extant which is not distinguished by some feature of this kind - and whether, as with the mathematical paradox, this is in itself a distinguishing feature?
Anyway, book! And a pretty picture of the library itself - though not one of the areas to which I had access as an undergraduate, back in the days when Palace Green was still the main university library.
