Category Archives for CABS
Featured Book: Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
Choosing a ‘favourite thing’ from the Book Library is very difficult because we have such a wealth of items in our Special Collections and also on our main shelves. Since I began working here I have come across tiny, fragile … Continue reading
Categories: CABS, Courtauld Book Library, Uncategorized | Tags: Arts & Crafts, bookplate, Books, Edmund Spenser, Special collections, Walter Crane, William Morris | Leave a commentGood news for Raphael lovers…
The cataloguing of the John Shearman library is proceeding apace and a jewel of the library is his Raphael collection. The Raphael books number just over 250 volumes and are, except for the occasional stray volume, fully catalogued. The … Continue reading
Categories: CABS | Tags: Bindings, CABS, provenance, Raphael, Shearman, Special collections | Leave a commentSpecial Collections Projects Underway
2012 is proving to be a big year for the Special Collections at the Courtauld Book Library. We now have two dedicated Special Collections Librarians – Erica Foden-Lenahan (Tues & Sat) and Hannah Thomas (Weds-Fri) – who will be working … Continue reading
Categories: CABS, Courtauld Book Library | Tags: provenance | Leave a commentProvenance help with a bookplate
Descrizzione delle imagini dipinte da Rafaelle d’Urbino nelle camere del Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano, a work by Giovanni Pietro Bellori. We are fortunate to have two copies of this work and the copy that was part of the John Shearman bequest … Continue reading
Categories: CABS, Courtauld Book Library | Tags: bequest, biblioteca galletti, bookplate, Books, provenance | Leave a commentBook cleaning CABS book of the month – November
As a conservator you know why it is important to clean books, but sometimes it feels like you are not making any appreciable difference. Until you take a photograph half way through a cleaning job and you see the value … Continue reading
Categories: Book-of-the-month, CABS | Tags: Conservation, Smoke Sponge | Leave a commentEmblemata, Emblemata, Emblemata – May
What is an emblem book? It is a form that was tremendously popular during the Renaissance. It is believed that the Italian lawyer Andrea Alciato devised the first such book. The books themselves contained small illustrations (a bit like a … Continue reading
Categories: Book-of-the-month, CABS | Tags: alciati, book history, emblem, provenance | Leave a commentCABS book(s) of the month- February
Beginning with the opening line ‘A tear is better than a word’, ‘Das Tränenmeer’ (‘The Sea of tears’) and ‘Dars Wähnen’ (‘The Delusion’) by Dieter Roth are three poetic artists’ books accessible from our CABS collection. The item is classed … Continue reading
Categories: Book-of-the-month, CABS, Courtauld Book Library | Tags: artists books, Books, Dieter Roth, poetry, prose | Leave a commentCABS book of the month – January
It may be our smallest book L’immortalita e Gloria del pennello : Catalogo delle pitture insigni che stanno esposte al pubblico nella città di Milano (1728) . The original was published in 1671 and, as you can see from the … Continue reading
Categories: Book-of-the-month, CABS, Courtauld Book Library | Tags: Antonio Santagostino, L’immortalita e Gloria del pennello | Leave a commentDid you know we hold the Cicognara Library?
Conte Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834) was, among other things, an artist, a patron of the arts and an art historian. In addition to his publication Storia della scultura dal suo risorgimento in Italia sino al secolo di Napoleone, he also amassed … Continue reading
Categories: CABS | Tags: Cicognara, microfiche | Leave a commentCABS book of the month – October
A review in the magazine Nature of Studies in the history and method of science, described Charles Singer’s book as “a notable contribution to certain branches of medical history and evolution.”1 We, in the Book Library, didn’t realize we had … Continue reading
Categories: Book-of-the-month, CABS, Courtauld Book Library | Tags: Books, history, Lord Conway, method, science | Leave a comment
