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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: warburg.sas.ac.uk/blog/libra… #LibraryTwitter #inspiration
Muses – Image of a restored frieze of the Muses based on an Antique sarcophagus panel, now located in the Warburg Institute’s foyer.

ALT Muses – Image of a restored frieze of the Muses based on an Antique sarcophagus panel, now located in the Warburg Institute’s foyer.

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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📚
General view of books on a table in the Warburg Library Reading Room. 

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General view of books on a table in the Warburg Library Reading Room. 

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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: tinyurl.com/2nymffww
Warburg Wednesday 289.jpg - A graphic of the Warburg Institute logo: a circle containing 8 rings of different sizes, culminating in a central circle containing the words: MUNDUS, ANNUS, HOMO. Interwoven through the rings is a ribbon which forms a regular pattern of 8 almond-shaped lozenges. Text inside the rings describes the elements and text inside the lozenges describes the qualities. Clockwise from the top: Siccus IGNIS (with Estas and Colera underneath) Calidus; Calidus AER (with Ver and Sanguis underneath) Humidus; Humida AQUA (with Hiems and Humor underneath) Frigida; Frigida TERRA (with Autumnus and Melancolia underneath) Sicca.

ALT Warburg Wednesday 289.jpg - A graphic of the Warburg Institute logo: a circle containing 8 rings of different sizes, culminating in a central circle containing the words: MUNDUS, ANNUS, HOMO. Interwoven through the rings is a ribbon which forms a regular pattern of 8 almond-shaped lozenges. Text inside the rings describes the elements and text inside the lozenges describes the qualities. Clockwise from the top: Siccus IGNIS (with Estas and Colera underneath) Calidus; Calidus AER (with Ver and Sanguis underneath) Humidus; Humida AQUA (with Hiems and Humor underneath) Frigida; Frigida TERRA (with Autumnus and Melancolia underneath) Sicca.

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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.📚
Detail view of books on a table in the Warburg Library Reading Room. 

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General view of books on a table in the Warburg Library Reading Room. 

ALT General view of books on a table in the Warburg Library Reading Room. 

General view of books on a table in the Warburg Library Reading Room. 

ALT General view of books on a table in the Warburg Library Reading Room. 

Detail view of books on a table in the Warburg Library Reading Room. 

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Readers, the ground floor has re-opened!
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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.
A double page spread from the book.

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A double page spread from the book.

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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: wdl.warburg.sas.ac.uk/object… #food #cookery #cooking
A screenshot of a double page spread from The Compleat Housewife, London 1753 within the Warburg Digital Library interface.

ALT A screenshot of a double page spread from The Compleat Housewife, London 1753 within the Warburg Digital Library interface.

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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: catalogue.libraries.london.a…
Frontispiece of the exhibition catalogue showing a mosaic of a lion next to a plant. The plant has a red flower.

ALT Frontispiece of the exhibition catalogue showing a mosaic of a lion next to a plant. The plant has a red flower.

Double page spread from the exhibition catalogue showing pp. 222 and 223. This is the catalogue entry for and image of an Ethiopian chain book dating to 1700.

ALT Double page spread from the exhibition catalogue showing pp. 222 and 223. This is the catalogue entry for and image of an Ethiopian chain book dating to 1700.

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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: shorturl.at/YS9vj #Olympics2024 #ClassicsTwitter
Warburg Wednesday 58.jpg - Five books of different sizes spread out in a fan on a blue desk. The books are all on the subject of the Olympics. Three larger books and open and two smaller ones are closed.

ALT Warburg Wednesday 58.jpg - Five books of different sizes spread out in a fan on a blue desk. The books are all on the subject of the Olympics. Three larger books and open and two smaller ones are closed.

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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: catalogue.libraries.london.a…
View of page from Queen Summer Book

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View of two pages from Queen Summer.

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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
A photograph of card catalogue instructions typed in black on white paper. The heading is ‘The Catalogues’ and the document includes information about the alphabetical catalogue of books and offprints, the alphabetical catalogue of periodicals and the subject catalogue. The periodicals catalogue no longer exists.

ALT A photograph of card catalogue instructions typed in black on white paper. The heading is ‘The Catalogues’ and the document includes information about the alphabetical catalogue of books and offprints, the alphabetical catalogue of periodicals and the subject catalogue. The periodicals catalogue no longer exists.

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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: shorturl.at/52XhQ. The example below is a French translation published in Paris in 1662.
Title page from Giovanni Boccaccio, Le decameron de maistre Iean Bocace, Florentin, translated into French by Anthoine le Maçon, Paris 1662.

ALT Title page from Giovanni Boccaccio, Le decameron de maistre Iean Bocace, Florentin, translated into French by Anthoine le Maçon, Paris 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
A view of the cover of the exhibition catalogue Outstanding! The Relief from Rodin to Picasso showing the sculpture Dynamic Construction (Construction dynamique) by Antonie Pevsner, 1947, brass on fibreboard, painted, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

ALT A view of the cover of the exhibition catalogue Outstanding! The Relief from Rodin to Picasso showing the sculpture Dynamic Construction (Construction dynamique) by Antonie Pevsner, 1947, brass on fibreboard, painted, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

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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: warburg.sas.ac.uk/blog/anato… #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
Two busts resting on a wooden card catalogue cabinet in front of some windows.

ALT Two busts resting on a wooden card catalogue cabinet in front of some windows.

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