#Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

[lionofchaeronea]

Romulus and Remus, engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) after Giulio Romano (1499-1546)

[macmanx]

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! ;)

[mikhail-sytnyk-fonds]

[muppet-facts]

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.

[mioritic]

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

[ebookfriendly]

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library was opened in 1973 🔖 #libraries #librarylove #books http://dlvr.it/T2Bn56

[talllsam]

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

[miscellaneous-art]

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

[groge]

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

[birchbooks]

the stunning thomas fisher rare book library at UTSG 📚

[my-name-is-dahlia]

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.

[mikhail-sytnyk-fonds]

Mikhail Sytnyk Fonds at the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library [visiting date February 29th, 2024]

[oliviaalexandraamores]

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland 📖📚

Original illustrations by Salvador Dali 🎨🖌

THOMAS FISHER LIBRARY RARE BOOK LIBRARY, Toronto 🍁🇨🇦

[astralaffairs]

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

-🌂

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 !!!!

[lionfloss]

The Pantazzi Collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

[talllsam]

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