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EnglishA binding of parchment on cardboard, this binding has had its blind-stamped ornamentations coloured black. Its title has also been handwritten in ink on the spine. Note the demi-lune shape of the textblock’s fore-edge: this is a technique…

EnglishThe page on display, the reverse side of an engraved portrait of the author, Andrew Marvell, offers a wonderfully clear and visible example of the watermark embedded into the paper. Watermarks were designs woven into the mould used by…

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…

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