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Conserving the Baillieu’s dragon
Funding from the Miegunyah Bequest enabled the Baillieu Library’s most requested work of art, The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus (c.1588), to be conserved. Treatment …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2017/11/29/conserving-the-baillieus-dragon
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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
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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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Apollo Transformed: exploring connections between the collections
From cuneiform tablets to Renaissance and Baroque prints, thousands of gems are nestled in the University of Melbourne. Many of these historically charged yet often whimsical …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2017/09/04/apollo-transformed-exploring-connections-between-the-collections
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