A recipe for creating the elixir from Raymond Lull #alchemy #LindaHall

The skeletons are shown most frequently, so here is the nervous system from the 1453 first edition of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica at the Linda Hall Library.

A poem by John Dee in the 1623 2nd edition of Robert Record’s “Ground of Arts”, a guide to arithmetic.

“One cannot at the same time affirm and negate”, taken from the chapter “On Rhetoric” in Martianus Capella’s “On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury” at the Linda Hall Library

Illuminated initial capital in the 1472 Jensen edition of Pliny’s Natural History at the Linda Hall Library

1515 first Aldine printed edition of Lucretius’ De rerum natura at the Linda Hall Library

I’m excited to start a fellowship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, working on alchemy.

So it turns out that there is a Proto-Shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham (a major medieval and contemporary site of pilgrimage in the UK) at an Episcopal church in Sheboygan, WI!

At Green Acre in Maine for the conference of the Corinne True Center for Baha’i History. Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a paper on Medievalism in the Baha’i sacred Writings and historiography.

A useful source for early modern Iceland, the 1780 “Letters on Iceland” from the Alfred Knight Collection of the Burton Barr Public Library in Phoenix #earlymodernsky #Iceland #publiclibraries

Edgar Allan Poe’s essay entitled “Marginalia” in the 1850 first edition of his “Literati”. This essay is foundational for the study of readers’ annotation, a practice which Poe describes as a defiance against Utilitarianism.

From a visit to the Rare Book Room in Burton Barr Public Library in Phoenix, an incunable of Hilduin’s Life of St. Dionysius, where he crosses pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite with St. Denis of Paris. #medievalsky #publiclibraries