Archive for: September 2017

  1. Bursting a bubble: Using prints to teach finance and economics

    Just what a hall filled with finance students were not expecting on their first lecture for semester two, was a print curator armed with printed images, …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2017/09/27/bursting-a-bubble-using-prints-to-teach-finance-and-economics

  2. The Overland Letter

    James Graham, overland letter, 12 July 1839

    Nathaniel Cutter James Graham’s Overland Letter provides a vivid account of the early settlement of Victoria and of the hopefulness of many of its settlers, and …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2017/09/18/the-overland-letter

  3. The Manicule: A Remnant of Readers Past

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57312771 Between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries, the manicule was one of the most common symbols inscribed by readers in the margins of manuscripts and inserted …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2017/09/11/the-manicule-a-remnant-of-readers-past

  4. Some Fascinating Early Woodcuts of Women from Boccaccio’s De Claris Mulieribus

    De Claris Mulieribus, or De Mulieribus Claris, translated as ‘Concerning Famous Women’, by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), is a prime example of one of the treasures contained …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2017/09/07/some-fascinating-early-woodcuts-of-women-from-boccaccios-de-claris-mulieribus

  5. Bound in History – Never Judge a Book By Its Cover…Or Its Spine

    Following the invention of the printing press, bookbinders in the 15th to 18th centuries cut up and recycled earlier handwritten manuscripts from the Middle Ages.[i] Take, …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2017/09/05/bound-in-history-never-judge-a-book-by-its-coveror-its-spine

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