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Romulus and Remus, engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) after Giulio Romano (1499-1546)
#art#art history#Wenceslaus Hollar#Giulio Romano#engraving#ancient history#Ancient Rome#Roman mythology#Romulus and Remus#Mannerism#Mannerist art#Bohemian art#Italian art#16th century art#17th century art#Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
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TIL that the Internet Archive has a massive collection from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
Dive in, especially if you watched this week’s Star Trek: Discovery! ;)
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Muppet Fact #1119
According to archival sources, Philo and Gunge used to be called Blotch and Sossle.

Source:
Dennis Lee Papers, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
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Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)
Illustration of a group of fur muffs and other women's accessories on a table, 1647
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
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The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library was opened in 1973 🔖 #libraries #librarylove #books http://dlvr.it/T2Bn56
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Fowler Quran: Sura āl-Imran (Q. 3), verses 17. fols 35v-36r. c. 1750-1850. Siyu(?), Pate Island (Kenya). Scribe unknown. Ink on laid paper. Image courtesy of the Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles.

Backlit page of a Qur’an on paper from Harar, Ethiopia. Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 05330.

Qur’an made in Harar, Ethiopia - source: https://hiddenstories.library.utoronto.ca/exhibits/show/ethiopia-coastal-east-africa/overview
#Ethiopia#art#orthodox#Ethiopian orthdox#African art#Ethiopian orthodox art#African#Ethiopian magic#magic#mysticism#art history#mystic history#talisman#talismanic art#East African art#East Africa#ethiopian healing scroll#ethiopian talismanic scroll#ethiopian art#amharic#islam#islamic#quran#holy quran#muslim
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Paper description: Block printed paper in brown and grey.
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher

Polisseno Fegejo - Il dottore, Imprint: Genova: Stamperia Gesiniana, 1765
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the stunning thomas fisher rare book library at UTSG 📚
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Hortus Cliffortianus Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné), 1737 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
Commissioned by George Clifford; written by Carolus Linnaeus; illustrated by Georg Dionysius Ehret
Photographs taken on Feb. 22, 2020, at the Royal Ontario Museum.
#av#botanical illustration#Hortus Cliffortianus#Carolus Linnaeus#linnaeus#Carl von Linné#Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library#University of Toronto#George Clifford#Georg Dionysius Ehret#Georg ehret#botanical#floral#plant#plants
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Mikhail Sytnyk Fonds at the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library [visiting date February 29th, 2024]
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland 📖📚
Original illustrations by Salvador Dali 🎨🖌
THOMAS FISHER LIBRARY RARE BOOK LIBRARY, Toronto 🍁🇨🇦
#alice in wonderland#lewis carroll#salvador dali#art#original art#illustrations#illustrated book#rare book#illustrated books#rare books#rare book library#thomas fisher library#olivia amores#alice in wonderland salvador dali#salvador dali alice in wonderland#alice's adventures in wonderland#salvador dali adventures in wonderland#wonderland#vintage books#book#books#library#🖌#🎨#📖#📚#art 🎨#my 📸#📸byme
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i think before doing this i should’ve asked if you even have spotify, but i made this as a show of my love 😌
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7jPJa9her9gGp2239aoxc8?si=RyXZ85_2R_iPoCXsIuweAA
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AHHHHH I CANNOT DEAL OH MY GOD 😭😭😭 playlists are the fastest track to my heart and also all those songs are EXACTLY my music taste omg. perhäps it was meant to be 😳
+ ur KILLING me !!!!

#what if we kissed .... . .. . in the thomas fisher rare book library 😳😳#hahah jk jk.... unless ?#hzl talks#send me asks!#🌂 anon
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The Pantazzi Collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
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Textiles pastedown on inner board of Ethiopian Christian manuscript.

Ethiopian Book Heritage Event 2023

Ethiopian prayerbook and book stand

An 18th-c. Ethiopian Synaxarium (collection of saints’ lives used in liturgy) with painting and a cloth pastedown lining the inner board. Tafari Codex 3, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

Manuscript detail of a figure presenting a small book written in Ge’ez. - source: https://hiddenstories.library.utoronto.ca/exhibits/show/ethiopia-coastal-east-africa/overview
#Ethiopia#art#orthodox#Ethiopian orthdox#African art#Ethiopian orthodox art#African#Ethiopian magic#magic#mysticism#art history#mystic history#talisman#talismanic art#East African art#East Africa#ethiopian healing scroll#ethiopian talismanic scroll#ethiopian art#amharic
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