A heads up about an intriguing exhibition coming to the British Library (11 November 2011 – 13 March 2012.) Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination is the British Library’s first major exhibition to bring together the Library’s Royal collection, a…
Having just returned from my own library tour of Europe, I found this article timely and spot on. By GERALDINE FABRIKANT in the New York Times. EUROPEAN cities are feet-on-the-pavement destinations, where many of us find ourselves trudging along familiar…
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is hosting an exhibition entitled Renaissance City Views from Above and Afar. About the exhibition: Between 1572 and 1617, Georg Braun, editor, and Franz Hogenberg, engraver, produced the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, a multi-volume collection of…
No one is allowed to borrow from the Vatican Library, except the pope. And no wonder: the archive holds some of the oldest and most precious works of art and treasure known to man. Morley Safer gets to see the…
