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Middle Temple Library Exhibition: A Gentleman's Library

It was common for a learned gentleman to amass a private library consisting of thousands of volumes in the 16th and 17th centuries. Works on theology would have a dominant presence in these personal collections, but texts on history, literature, classics and the natural world would also be prevalent. Anyone engaging in society would accumulate material not only reflecting their professional life, but also the contemporary issues and discussions of the time. Although women were not excluded from education, men were more likely employed in professional fields, such as law, medicine and theology, which required access to books.  This exhibition displays some of Middle Temple Library’s rare books, including those donated from such private collections, visualising what a gentleman’s bookshelf looked like in these earlier centuries. The exhibition has been divided into subjects

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no heart

no face

no place

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Nick #1

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I ¿? haters

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rich mind corruption

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Johnathan

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the strange comforting place no one should be in

but it feels just right for you

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‘In my restless dreams

I see that town

Silent Hill’

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slash, dash, don’t lose your flash

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I can feel it

brewing inside the stone

whispering

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every being has its own complex beauty, and also its own complex insanity

Nehemiah Grew, The Anatomy of Plants, 1680 

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don’t invade my heart

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I have never been able to breathe so clearly, think so quietly, and stay so peacefully

Gustave Marissiaux • S. S. Giovanni e Paolo

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how much we’ve changed

Lock, 15th–16th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Medieval Art

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887 Size: Overall: 10 x 11 ¾ x 3 11/16 in. (25.4 x 29.9 x 9.3 cm) Medium: Iron

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/468891

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trickery is a good thing

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disappearing

1000 year old helical step well with 8 staircases twisting from 8 shrines, hidden for centuries, found in Maharashtra, India