By Molly Banwart and Caroline Szylowicz Have you ever seen a book made entirely of silk? One item getting a lot of reading room attention recently is this French Livre de Prières: Tissé d’après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle (242.802 H446l). This book was manufactured with the Jacquard process, which relied […]
Month: July 2025
Livre de Prières : Tissé d’après les Enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle
July 23, 2025
Elizabeth Susanna Graham poems and drawings
July 1, 2025
By Elissa B.G. Mullins If seeking a little levity in lovely line and verse, look no further. Peek inside this slim volume of manuscript poems and drawings, bound in gilt-ornamented green straight-grain morocco… Past marbled end-papers like theater curtains, you’ll come to a hand-illustrated title page: “Poetry,” dated “MDCCCXV” [1815], showing two women in Greco-Roman […]