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School of Advanced Study
Joined February 2016
From today, we are joining forces with @warburg_news!. For all the latest on our fascinating projects and collections, make sure to follow @warburg_news. This account will cease posting updates after today.
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NEXT WEEK: We are joining forces with @warburg_news!. For all the latest on our fascinating projects and collections, make sure to follow @warburg_news. Please note, this account will cease posting updates after 10 September.
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Let the Muses inspire you this #WarburgWednesday with our latest “From the Library” blog. Explore books relating to the Muses’ standard areas of patronage, here: #LibraryTwitter #inspiration
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📚 The new acquisitions table in the library has been updated! Discover recent publications on the #PanniTartarici, #MartínDelRío’s #MagicalDisquisitions, the #Vivarini family and Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment📚
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Don't forget - we are joining forces with @warburg_news!.For all the latest on our fascinating projects and collections, make sure to follow @warburg_news. Please note, this account will cease posting updates after 10 September.
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Ever wondered where our logo comes from? It is taken from a woodcut in the edition of the De natura rerum of Isidore of Seville (560-636) printed at Augsburg in 1472. Browse our holdings of Isidore’s works here:
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📢 Big news! . We are joining forces with @warburg_news! . For all the latest on our fascinating projects and collections, make sure to follow @warburg_news. Please note, this account will cease posting updates after 10 September 2024.
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📚The new acquisitions table in the Library Reading Room has been updated! Find studies on #GuidoReni and #GiordanoBruno alongside ‘Flying up the Edgware Road’ by Mark Amies, and ‘Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds’, in honour of Prof. Charles Burnett.📚
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Our #BookoftheWeek presents new research on the art of the Renaissance book, in honor of Lilian Armstrong, a scholar who focused on illuminated manuscripts and incunabula, plus woodcut illustrations in early printed books of Venetian origin. Find it at classmark NCI 450.
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#WarburgWednesday Did you know that we regularly add new books to the Warburg Digital Library? The latest book to be digitised is from the #ElizabethDavid bequest: The Compleat Housewife, London 1753. Browse it here: #food #cookery #cooking
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If you missed the #Africa & #Byzantium exhibition earlier this year at @metmuseum, then you can explore its aims and exhibits via the exhibition catalogue, our #BookOfTheWeek. Find it at classmark CCG 350. More here:
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With the #athletics in full swing at the #Olympics, you can find out more about the ancient origins of the Games this #WarburgWednesday at classmark DCK 30. Browse our catalogue here: #Olympics2024 #ClassicsTwitter
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Celebrate #summer with our #BookoftheWeek, Queen Summer. Written and illustrated by Walter Crane, it is a fairy tale allegory, representing a tournament between flowers. Find it at classmark NCM 970. More information here:
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It’s a blast from the past this #WarburgWednesday. Before the computer catalogue, there were card catalogues. Here are some of our old instructions for using these catalogues. The card cats will still be available when the Reading Room reopens. #LibraryTwitter
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🥇🥈🥉With the 2024 Summer #Olympics in Paris commencing today, our #BookoftheWeek celebrates the one thing that all competitors are after: the medal. Entitled A Simple Souvenir, this richly illustrated catalogue can be found in the Numismatic Library at classmark G1. VAN. 0587.
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With a new adaptation of #Boccaccio’s #Decameron about to hit screens, discover the book behind the series this #WarburgWednesday. Browse titles here: The example below is a French translation published in Paris in 1662.
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The catalogue to @staedelmuseum exhibition Outstanding! The Relief from Rodin to Picasso is our #BookoftheWeek. Find it at classmark CRF 75. Exploring artistic reliefs from the 1800s to the 1960s, it explores notions and meanings of the ‘relief’ in #art. #books #librarytwitter
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📚Discover all about the practice of binding early modern books with waste manuscripts via one of our rare books in this new blog by @LouisaMcKenzie: #BookHistory #RareBooks #LibraryTwitter #Monktastic #Books #EarlyModern #Renaissance #Manuscripts.
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We’re not quite there yet this #WarburgWednesday, but it won’t be too long before we’re back in the new and improved ground floor Reading Room. There are two old friends waiting to greet readers when we do return. #librarytwitter
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