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1. #SingYourBinding

   24 Aug 2018

   Curators of the Wangensteen Historical Library recently discovered that their copy of Phytognomonica (1588) was bound in a sheet of music - likely from the 17th century. This music…

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2. ‘The Midwives Book’ from 1671

   06 Jun 2016

   The Midwives Book, by Jane Sharp, published in 1671, is discussed in this episode of Secrets of the Archives from the University of Minnesota Libraries. It's the first book written…

   4 min ↗