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Archive: March 2016 (2 Posts)

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Becoming the Plutarch of Renaissance Lawyers

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

Quid sit quod multi vitas principum and ducum… diligentissime conscripserint atque inde genus hoc scribendi profectum, paulatim ad eos homines pervenerit, qui leniores quodammodo virtutes profitentur, Philosophos dico, Medicos, Oratores, Poetas… donec ad Rhetores ac Grammaticos deventum est, nemo adhuc extiterit, qui sibi Legumlatorum et Iurisprudentum vitas in argumentum iusti et peculiaris operis desumpserit… How …

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Manuscript Waste Bindings at the Library of Congress – Pic of the Week

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

In this week’s pic of the week post, we catch up with Library of Congress employee Dan Paterson, who is a senior rare book conservator in the Conservation Section of the Library’s Conservation Division. Since 2013, Dan has been surveying book bindings in the Library’s special collections, looking for bindings that incorporate manuscript waste. Manuscript …