#historical library

[odetokeons]

“I've never seen so many books in all my life”

🕰️📖✨📜🕯️🌔

I've visited the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome a few days ago and, as soon as I walked in, I felt exactly like Belle in THAT scene from Beauty and the Beast (you know the one) ♡

[historiann31]

[chaoticzelda]

[elizaakatee]

Book of Kells, Dublin

[dark-sky-official]

[snailspng]

Creatures from the Luttrell Psalter (c. 1320-1340) PNGs, part 1.

(Source)

[escapismsworld]

Sintra, Portugal

[rosered-schneeweisschens-sis]

can’t currently afford the print copy of the fabulous @lackadaisycats work?

maybe your local library will buy it in the meantime! hand for scale.

reading a hard copy of what I found years ago on the internet is cool in its own right, but the over 20 pages of bonus content are what’s really tempting.

note about the back cover: this is what was facing out as I carried the book in my arm out of the library and into the streets. certainly didn’t make me look like a psycho I’m sure.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Secret door in the Library of Osterley Park in the UK.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt

[historiann31]

[bottombaron]

you know, i can handle a little bit of fun "Nandor is dumb" talk, but i have a net-zero tolerance for any implication that Nandor is not educated.

Nandor would have been incredibly educated in his lifetime.

even (or especially) as a soldier in the Islamic World. being a soldier was more like getting sent to boarding school that's also a military camp. they weren't just concerned with creating loyal fodder for war. they were building the next government officials, generals, accountants, advisors, etc. it was important that young men knew how to read, write, speak multiple languages, learn philosophy...sometimes even studying art and music was mandatory.

if he was nobility (and its most likely he was), take all that shit and multiply it exponentially. Nandor would have been reading Plato at the same age most people are still potty training. he would have been specifically groomed in such a way to not be just a brilliant strategist and warrior, but also diplomate and ambassador of literally the center of scientific and cultural excellence of the age.

so like yeah, he can be a big dummy sometimes, sure. but that bitch is probably more educated than any of us will ever be.

[authorkarajorgensen]

Want to see a cool research thing? It's a collection of digitized menus from the 1800/1900s at the New York Public Library.

Perfect for my historical fiction peeps or culinary historians

[autumncottageattic]

scotlandhiddenadventures

Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott

[life-spire]

@ breebuddy

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[vyorei]

I came across this on Facebook and it had the source cut off, sorry about that, but i got the link for ye:

[escapismsworld]

The Félix Potin building, Paris (1904)