19000 images from Walters Art Museum added to Wikimedia Commons

19000 art images from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, USA have been added to the Wikimedia Commons website under creative commons licenses.  There are digitial images of paintings, sketches, books and objects.  You can limit your search on Wikimedia to this collection only by searching for by entering “Walters Art Museum” and any [...]

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Lyell Lectures 2012

The Lyell readership in bibliography at Oxford University is endowed by a bequest from James Patrick Ronaldson Lyell (1871–1948), a solicitor, book collector and bibliographer. Each year since 1952, a distinguished scholar has been elected to deliver the lectures, usually six in number, on any topic of bibliography, broadly conceived. Lyell Lectures 2012 Lukas Erne, [...]

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Book conservation talk today at Christ Church Library using Remmelinus’s anatomical atlas

Location: The Upper Library at Christ Church, at 5.15 pm today (Tuesday 21 February 2012). Speaker: Victoria Stevens (Oxford Conservation Consortium) Title: Conservation issues, conservation solutions: illustrated through a description of the treatment of Remmelinus’s “Catoptrum Microcosmicum” This is the first anatomical atlas to use dozens of engravings superimposed as a series of opening flaps [...]

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OBS Lecture by Brian Cummings 23 Jan 2012

Details of the next Oxford Bibliographical Society lecture Date: Monday, 23 January 2012 Location: Taylor Institution, Seminar Room 3, at 5.15 p.m. Lecture: The Book of Common Prayer and the History of the Book – Brian Cummings Brian Cummings  is currently Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He specialises in many aspects of [...]

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Rare Books in the History Faculty Library

This is a guest post from Clare Bristow, the HFL’s Graduate Trainee in 2010-11, on her final day: Over the past year, I have been working on a project making an inventory of the HFL’s collection of antiquarian books, which are kept in closed stacks.  This involved looking through over 500 volumes and recording their [...]

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ARTstor / Warburg Inst. Library: 10K images of Renaissance and Baroque book illustrations

ARTstor has collaborated with the Warburg Institute Library to share more than 10,000 images of Renaissance and Baroque book illustrations selected from the rare book collection in the Digital Library. Warburg collection in ARTstor  

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VD17: now able to locate digital German early printed books

VD17 (Das Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts)  is the national union catalogue for German imprints of the 17th century.  Since February 2011 is is now possible to locate digital copies of German early printed books via VD17.  >More on this.

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