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Tell-All Volvelle?

Newly re-cataloged to include the movable bits! This hand-drawn "Viennese Oracle" dial from 1798 points you to one of 16 riddles and presumably, THE TRUTH!
#ManuscriptMonday #interactive
#NewberryLibrary (Case Wing MS folio ZW 756 .D566)

Wisdom of the Ages
Looks like the book is getting a ringing endorsement from Athena and her owl!

Let's Play 16 Questions
The topics range widely...
So, where DOES friendship come from? Clearly by playing with this book together!

Woke Up Like This

#mood #dragon #hybrid #MedievalArt #ManuscriptMonday #bookstodon

#NewberryLibrary (Case MS 102.2)

Two Heads (of State)
Are Better Than One

Isabella Clara Eugenia and her husband Albert BOTH grace this well-used seal and are named above! She's the slightly taller figure on the right. They were co-governing the Spanish Netherlands in 1614 when this document was signed... She appears to be taller than him in almost all portraits, except when forced to sit down!

#NewberryLibrary #NewAcq #gift #ManuscriptMonday

Scrapbooking Century

J. O. Westwood wrote an 1846 book on manuscript illumination, but this larger volume full of drawn and printed reproductions paints a much messier picture of his writing process!

#NewberryLibrary (Case W 915 .964)
#ManuscriptMonday

Protection Racket?

What are THOSE up at the top of this enormous choirbook?

#NewberryLibrary #ManuscriptMonday (Case MS oversize 87)

Looks like leftover stitching from one of the largest silk curtains I've ever (not) seen! And many of the initials are faking us out with faux stitching around the edges!

There are also scads of fabric tabs marking out different sections of the book, and that IHS sun at the end (next to another set of tabs) is a doozy!

The Tunnel Calamity

Look what happened when Edward Gorey went fully interactive! We have an exquisite corpse-style flap book of his too, though oddly, none of them are going in the exhibition... #NewberryLibrary #newacq #tunnelbook #gorey #howdoesvideoworkhere?