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Elixirated spirit of scurvy-grass Medical advertising at its most persuasive can be seen in […]
Category: Rare books
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Death Death walks in the only known copy of this missal (Lyon, 1550) and […]
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Calendars Bolton Library Ms 1, believed to be an encyclopaedia or relating to the […]
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Banned Books The rise of printing correlated with the appearance of the Index Librorum […]
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Alum Tawed Skin Alum tawed skin is prepared in a solution of aluminium and […]
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Collection Information
Accumulated by two archbishops – William King (1650-1729) and Theophilus Bolton (1678-1744) during the […]
The A-Z of the Bolton Library
In 2016, the Representative Church Body Library of the Church of Ireland placed the […]
Bookbindings of the Bolton Library #3
Contemporary bindings cover two 16th century Basel printings
Do you recognise these words?
The musings of former owners are revealed
Birds, butterflies and two-headed dragons
The wonderful imaginings of printer Julian Notary (active 1496-1520)
Lucerna Fidelium–Lochrann na gCreidmheach, Roma, (1676)
Apart from the Latin title Lucerna Fidelium–Lochrann na gCreidmheach (1676) is written entirely in early modern Irish.
