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EnglishThe printer’s device of Nicolo Pezzana (162?-170?) recalls that of the Giunta printers where Pezzana carried out part of his apprenticeship in Venice and which he ended in 1657. Without an inscription or personalized device, this mark depicts…

Page couverture de l'ouvrage The Bold and the Brave de Monique Frize dont la première édition est parue en 2009.

Montage de quatre photographies de la bibliothèque mobile Cora. Les photographies sont issues du fonds Cora. Bookmobile (10-015).

Ensemble de macarons qui évoquent la thématique de la santé des femmes.

Cette photographie, du Fonds Imrich Stolárik (20-011), comprend une vue panoramique du monument, de la tombe et un portrait de Milán R. Štefánik, à Bradlo Hill (Slovaquie).

EnglishMany hands and many quills have annotated this work by Jerome de Hangest, a theologian hailing from Compiègne and a contemporary of Erasmus. The marginalias annotation, as is the text itself, are in Latin, which would indicate a certain amount…

EnglishThis work is open to the printer’s device of Swiss printer, Johann Froben (1460-1527). Based in Basel, Froben was a Humanist scholar himself, and was acquainted with Erasmus, as well as Hans Holbein the Younger, who would not only paint…

EnglishThe front flyleaf has an elaborate inscription that is quite illegible due to its flamboyant handwriting. We do see the initial sentence “Souvenir de Pierre Grospin, dit le vieux grognard à M. Ballard.” These novellas parodying the…

Englishhe smaller size of the comb that is passed through the coloured solution. The smallness of the comb allows for the creation of the spiral designs in this particular pattern. Adding to the aesthetic beauty of this item are the gilt edges.…

English The binding seen here is characteristic of the style of leather bindings where the calf leather is manipulated to give it texture. In this example, the leather is stained with drops of diluted acid to give the binding a mottled look. There…