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Book of the Week – Anything From Anywhere

31 Monday Aug 2015

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Alabama, book arts, Emily Tipps, High5 Press, letterpress, Lost Arch Papermill, photopolymer plates, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama


ANYTHING FROM ANYWHERE
Emily Tipps
Tuscaloosa, AL: High5 Press, 2009

Emily Tipps is the proprietor of High5 Press. She completed this project for her MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. Four parts bound in printed and illustrated paper wrappers, printed with the word “Any,” “Thing,” “From,” “Anywhere,” on the cover of parts 1-4 respectively. The four booklets are housed in a cloth-covered clamshell box. Explanation of the project, notes on the authors, and production information is printed on the lining papers of the box. Letterpress printed on paper made by hand at the Lost Arch Papermill. Text and illustrations printed from photopolymer plates, with the exception of the end sheets.

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Book of the Week – Minuet from Quintet in E by Luigi Boccherini

26 Wednesday Aug 2015

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California, copper, Fairfax, Jungle Garden Press, Luigi Boccherini, minuet, Minuet from Quintet in E, music box, quintet, steel

MINUET FROM QUINTET IN E BY LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 1990
N7433.4 J8 M5 1990

A music box in the form of a book, the mechanism inset in hollowed-out pages. The winding key protrudes from the back cover. Illustrated with bars of music. Covers are steel with copper patina.

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Rare Books Welcomes U!

24 Monday Aug 2015

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Charles Darwin, Dara Niketic, Max Niketic, Novak Niketic, On the Origin of Species, Open Book, Randolph College, rare books, Special Collections Reference Room, The Descent of Man, The University of Utah

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[Dara Niketic and her mother salute the U, as brother Max looks on. Photograph by Novak Niketic.]

Dara Niketic (Randolph College, 2015) joins the University of Utah as a PhD candidate in Molecular, Cellular and Evolutionary Biology. Her first experience on campus was a visit to Rare Books in August 2013, where she held our first editions of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and other great works from the past.


“It was amazing to be close to pieces of history that are so valuable to my field,” said Dara.

Rare Books invites all students, new and returning, to visit us in the Special Collections Reference Room,
find us online,
enjoy our online exhibitions,
view our collection of digitized books,
and follow our blog, Open Book,
for your own signature experience on the way to success in your field.

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Book of the Week – Ozymandias

17 Monday Aug 2015

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Arches Cover, Austin, Carol Kent, cartouche, Cochin, copper wire, Egypt, Egyptian, Erespin Press, French perle, Gene Valentine, Henry Wolf, mummy, Ozymandias, papyrus, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Ramses II (1303 BC - 1213 BC), Rives Heavyweight, Roulus, sonnet, Texas, The University of Utah, Wood & Sharwood Albion


OZYMANDIAS
Austin, TX: Erespin Press, 1984
DT88 O99 1984 oversize

Sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and excerpts from ancient and modern works about Egypt. Engraving of head of mummy of Ramses II (1303 BC – 1213 BC) by Henry Wolf. Researched, designed and printed by Carol Kent. Printed on an 1840 Wood & Sharwood Albion. Set in Roulus with Cochin numerals. Printed on dampened cream-colored Rives Heavyweight with Arches Cover portfolio. Issued in cream-colored portfolio embossed with two cartouches and fastened with a beeswax seal on Egyptian papyrus strip, affixed with braided French perle and lacquered copper wire. Edition of one hundred copies. University of Utah copy gift of Gene Valentine.

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Art installation – I Miss Everything About You

14 Friday Aug 2015

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Amos Kennedy, graffiti, Great Salt Lake, I miss everything about you, ink, Kickstarter, letterpress, paper, posters, printer, public art, QR code, rare books, University of Utah, wood type

Rare Books participates in an art installation.

I Miss Everything About You: A Public Spectacle Essay
#IMEAY2015

Follow the project at imisseverythingaboutyou.com


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Your Dissertation Here !

10 Monday Aug 2015

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Aldus Manutius, Basel, Bible, Byzantine, Cambridge, England, English, Erasmus, Froben, German, Greek, John Colet, Latin, Latin Vulgate, Martin Luther, New Testament, Nikolaus Gergel, Roman Catholic Church, Thomas More (1478-1535), University of Utah, Venice, Western European, William Tyndale

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NOUUM TESTAMENTUM GRAECE
Argentorati : Apud Vuolfium Cephalaeum, 1524
BS1965 1524

First edition, first printing in octavo of the Erasmus New Testament in Greek. This edition, in its compact format, was much more affordable than Froben’s earlier editions, two facts that arguably gave Erasmus’ translation greater societal impact. The text closely follows the Nikolaus Gergel edition of 1521, the second edition of the Erasmus Greek New Testament.

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) took monastic vows at the age of twenty-five. An independent scholar, he spent time at Cambridge where he befriended John Colet (1467-1519) and Thomas More (1478-1535) during a time of great stress in the English Church. He spent three years in Venice working as an editor in the publishing house of Aldus Manutius (1449-1515). He later worked with printer Johannes Froben (1460-1527) in Basel.

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While in England, Erasmus began a systematic examination of available manuscript copies of the New Testament. His resulting Greek New Testament, with Latin in parallel column, was first published by Froben in 1516. The 1516 Greek-Latin New Testament was used as a primary source for Martin Luther’s translation of the New Testament into German (1522), and for William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament into English (1526).

Although Erasmus was criticized by later scholars for not having used all available manuscript copies of the Greek New Testament and for not using Byzantine copies, his translation is noted as the first Western European attempt to find a truer translation of the New Testament than that of the fourth century Latin Vulgate, the translation used almost exclusively by the Roman Catholic Church. The translation re-introduced the study of Greek biblical manuscripts and other Greek works on the Bible into Western Europe.

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Only ten copies of this edition and printing are listed in WorldCat. University of Utah copy has extensive marginalia in multiple contemporary or just post-contemporary hands (possibly four) throughout.

 

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Book of the week – Tractatus theologico-politicus

03 Monday Aug 2015

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Amsterdam, Benedictus de Spinoza, Bible, biblical criticism, English, Europe, Leviathan, metaphysics, Moses Maimonides, Netherlands, philosophy, political philosophy, Synod of Dordrecht, Thomas Hobbes


TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO-POLITICUS CONTINENS…
Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677)
Hamburgi [i.e. Amsterdam]: Apud Henricum Kunrath [i.el. Jan Rieuwertsz], MDCLLXX (1670)
First edition, first issue
BS3985 A3 1670

Printed without authorship attribution, a false publisher and imprint were given in order to maintain anonymity and protect the author and printer from political retribution. In 1673, the book was publicly condemned by the Synod of Dordrecht and officially banned the following year. This is one of the few books banned in the Netherlands during the early modern period. In spite of this, it could be found and bought throughout Europe fairly easily. In this Tractatus Spinoza combined biblical criticism with political philosophy. His metaphysics was heavily influenced by Moses Maimonides and English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, author of Leviathan (1651). From its first page, the book sparked controversy. Spinoza expressed his skepticism of the authenticity and historicity of the Bible, pointing out its inconsistencies.

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