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Our ever-developing Featured Item section enables you to browse the collection.
Items are chosen by staff, visiting fellows, and invited guest selectors.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese
William Zachs introduces Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets in all their variety in the BHLM collection and Elizabeth Cumming writes an essay on the recently acquired calligraphic illuminations of Phoebe Anna Traquair.
The little man of Nuremburg… in Edinburgh
Read about Matthias Buchinger, a dazzling calligrapher whose mastery of the art of microscopic writing was unparalleled in his day.
The art of fencing
This book serves as a ‘how-to’ or teaching guide on the art of fencing.
Watching the weather
This manuscript diary of the weather is a fascinating example of dedicated observation.