Nothing says fancy like a pineapple! This is a detail from the 16th century binding of 'Liber trium virorum', printed in Paris in 1513. The book is from the library of Henry VIII and has been on our shelves since 1707.
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Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars. Registered Charity RCN 20000752
The wonderfully elaborate mark of Parisian printer Berthold Rembolt, from the title page of John of Salisbury's Policraticus, printed 513 years ago.
My copy of Manuscript Studies arrived today 🎉 It contains an essay on how medieval manuscripts ended up in @marshslibrary.bsky.social to accompany our new catalogue. Also available online: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56871
In our latest blogpost, recent Maddock Fellow Dr Thomas Matthew Vozar looks at how early readers responded to John Milton’s radical prose writings marshlibrary.ie/encounters-w...
Encounters with Milton at Marsh’s Library - Marsh's Library
During his recent Maddock Fellowship at Marsh's, Dr Thomas Matthew Vozar looked at how early readers responded to John Milton’s radical prose writings.
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The beautiful Indian roller, or 'Indian Jay' as it was called in the 18th century. This beauty was painted on vellum by naturalist Eleazar Albin nearly 300 years ago, as an exemplar for his Natural History of Birds (1731-8) #birds #watercolours
A unicorn (sort of?!) watermark from endpapers of Bernard Von Breydenbach's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, printed in 1486 and rebound in the 20th century. The countermark shows the initials JGL #paper #watermark
Peek-a-boo! An illuminated miniature marking the beginning of 'Numbers', from our 13th century Bible made in Italy or France #ManuscriptMonday
Word of the day : Sammelband - from German, meaning a volume of separate printed items bound together. This one has two pamphlets that belonged to poet John Donne, both bearing his motto 'Per Rachel ho servito & no per Lea' and his signature.
Don't forget that the closing date for our Maddock Research Fellowships is the close of business next Thursday, 30th July: marshlibrary.ie/about/news-e...
The frontispiece of Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius' 'Machinae coelestis' from 1673 shows his predecessors Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Copernicus & Tycho Brahe who laid the foundations of astronomy.
Our Maddock Fellowships for 2026-7 are still open until Thursday 30th July!
Dr Emma Lyons@ehlyons.bsky.social · 4w agoMany thanks to the Maddock Research Fellowship at @marshslibrary.bsky.social and the Fitzpatrick Family Foundation UCD School of Law, for supporting my research on women's inheritance in #c17th #Ireland. This support has been invaluable and is greatly appreciated.
A doodle with the tongue out - must be a particularly noteworthy section? Or someone got bored! Marginal notes in our 1503 copy of Cardinal Bessarion's defence of Plato, printed in Venice by Aldo Manuzio #MondayMarginalia #Readers #Doodles
Really delighted to have an essay on Multilingual Books and Multilingual Readers in the marvellous new volume Multilingual Print in Early Modern Europe, just recently published by Brill and edited by Chloe Akers-Brewer, Arthur der Weduwen, and Andrew Pettegree. brill.com/edcollchap/b...
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A slightly ferocious looking beaver, from a 1555 Spanish translation of Materia Medica, the compendium of medicinal plants by the ancient physician Dioscorides.
The 32 wind directions, from Philippe Briet's 'Parallela geographiae', 1648-9
In our latest blog post, Dr Alexandra Ballová examines books in Marsh’s on the Czech reformer, Jan Hus (1369-1415). She finds sympathisers and detractors among early readers, and shares what that can tell us about their views on the ideologies of their times. marshlibrary.ie/the-goose-at...
The Goose at Stake - Marsh's Library
Dr Alexandra Ballova examines books in Marsh's on the Czech reformer, Jan Huss. She finds sympathisers and detractors among early readers, and shares what that can tell us about about the ideological ...
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Some really fun design on this invoice for the Library's purchase of the 'Erin' fire extinguisher in 1938.
A map of Norway, and detail of Oslo, from Blaeu's Atlas Major, 1662-5
Pangolins from Guy Tachard's Second Voyage ... au Royaume de Siam, 1689.
Europe from an unusual perspective! From Sebastian Munster's Cosmographiae universalis, 1554.
A woodcut illustrating the geometry of the proportions of the body. From Albrecht Dürer's 'Della simmetria dei corpi humani, libri quattro', printed in Venice in 1591.
The printer's mark of Pietro Perna has really captured the surprised owl look! From the title page of Ludovico Castrelveto's 'Correttione d'alcune cose del dialogo delle lingue ...' printed in Basel in 1572.
"When you have a library and a garden you have everything you need", said Cicero. Maybe nowadays that should be a library, a garden, and a plunge pool?
In our latest blog post, recent Maddock Fellow Dr Marc W. S. Jaffré explores how the French court of Henri IV navigated religious tensions in the wake of the Wars of Religion @courtstudies.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk marshlibrary.ie/debate-bros-...
'Debate Bros' at the French Court After the Wars of Religion - Marsh's Library
Dr Marc Jaffré explores how the French court of Henri IV navigated religious tensions in the wake of the Wars of Religion.
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The marvellous weighing machine of Santorio Santori! For 30 years the Italian physician weighed himself, everything he ate & drank, & everything he...expelled. From his experiments he discovered insensible perspiration, the loss of excess weight as water & carbon dioxide via the skin & respiration.
Good wine for good health! Dietary advice from 'Regimen sanitatis Salerni', *the* Medieval guide to good health. This is from an English translation printed in 1624.
A very nice piece by Olga Taranova about our new exhibition to mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Gulliver's Travels: www.rte.ie/culture/2026...
Why Gulliver's Travels still speaks to the modern world
Olga Taranova from Marsh's Library celebrates the 300th anniversay of Jonathan Swift's literary masterwork Gulliver's Travels, the subject of a new exhibition at Dublin's oldest public library.
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A manicule, or pointing finger, added by an early reader to an important passage in Pope Gregory's Moralia, printed 546 years ago. The section reminds us to look on the bright side of adversity & not rest on our laurels #ManiculeMonday #MondayMarginalia
