Rare Book and Manuscript Library, U of I

One of the largest special collections libraries in the United States, encompassing the broad areas of literature, history, art, theology, philosophy and the natural sciences. (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-65573912-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview');

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☃️The RBML books were all dressed up in their finest velvet bindings when Uncle Jack (London) decided to crash the party in his best hipster flannel 🌲 So, what's the dress code for your books this holiday season? Season's greetings from the RBML team! #specialcollections #rarebooks #velvetbinding #jacklondon #callofthewild #medievalmanuscript #milton #ptolemy https://www.instagram.com/p/CmZ6MkFJd7M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Temporary tattoos, printing, coloring, AND a print queue! We are having a fantastic time with @skeuomorphpress 📚 #specialcollections #rarebooks #printing #temporarytattoo #coloring https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl7GrulJ7db/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A manuscript copy of the engraved title page of "The Saints Everlasting Rest" by Richard Baxter was found in Baxter's ninth edition from 1662. The ink drawing translates the original Latin text into English.  Call number 237.4 B33s1662 #specialcollections #rarebooks #oldbooks #peoplewhocandraw #manuscript https://www.instagram.com/p/ClmYSw5JUl9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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This beautiful map is the Railway Commissioners Map of Ireland 😍 call number: x912.415 L32G #specialcollections #rarebooks #Ireland #maps #railroad https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce1J8y3M6Px/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"Librarian reads the small print": A pop-up sampling of miniature books from the Evron Collins Collection Diminutive size is the only feature uniting this throng of tiny tomes. Come and see the “Finger” New Testament; the “Kleinbuchs” distributed by the Winterhilfswerk; a sibling of the first book to travel to the moon; and many more! Pop-Up Exhibit @ RBML March 28 – April 8, 2022 Curated by Elissa B.G. Mullins #specialcollections #rarebooks #minibook #exhibit #popupexhibition https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb0eAESJFYE/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Our workshop is currently full, BUT we encourage visitors to stop by tomorrow to see examples from our medieval collections and make souvenir buttons! #specialcollections #rarebooks #medieval #medievalmanuscript #champaignurbana https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb0EzDEL8iL/?utm_medium=tumblr

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This beautiful artist book was created by @joannakrobson in 2011. "The Tempest 1932: a visual re-telling of the first play performed at the famous outdoor Minack Theatre, Cornwall" is a wordless retelling of The Tempest and is gorgeous! (IUB03270) #specialcollections #rarebooks #artistbook #thetempest #shakespeare https://www.instagram.com/p/Car7Baxuf7i/?utm_medium=tumblr

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It's Old Stuff Day! Take a moment to enjoy the oldest item in our collection - a cuneiform tablet from about 2,000 BCE. It was excavated from Umma in Mesopotamia and is written in Sumerian. (Pre-1650 MS 0218) #specialcollections #rarebooks #cuneiform #mesopotamia #sumerian #oldstuffday https://www.instagram.com/p/Canhe3qJFW0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Happy birthday to Charles F. Lummis (1859-1928)! 🎂 Author, editor, librarian, leading Indian [what we now call Indigenous] rights advocate, and cross-continental adventurer, his Birch bark poems (Collins 0182) were written and printed during his college summers in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. #specialcollections #rarebooks #poetry #happybirthday #birchbarkbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CakboDILz0Q/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Check out the newest addition to our Digital Library - the Charles E. Mudie Papers, 1816-1897. The Charles E. Mudie Digital Collection is comprised of correspondence, visual materials, and documents. This gathering of materials shed light on the management of Mudie’s Select Library, an innovative library that pioneered the concept of a circulating system operated by membership, as well as Mudie’s wide network of subscribers. The correspondence between Mudie, his family, and prominent 19th century literary English figures provides an ample view of the literary and publishing milieu during the Victorian era. https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/3ae9f2b0-30b4-0138-7141-02d0d7bfd6e4-9 #specialcollections #rarebooks #archives #digitalcollections #mudie https://www.instagram.com/p/CZKNXhJLOtn/?utm_medium=tumblr

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We hope you'll join us, either in-person OR virtually, today, January 24th, from 3-5 pm, for the opening of our Spring Exhibit in RBML! RBML, in collaboration with the Geology Department, presents "In Search of Lost Time: The study of Earth history and chronology from the 18th to the 21st century", on view from January 24-July 22, 2022. The related concepts of time, chronology, and history form the lens through which Earth scientists view, understand, and interpret a dynamic planet. This exhibit will explore how the chronology of the Earth was established, with a focus on six themes that gradually led to the consensus view that the Earth is roughly 4.55 billion years of age. For those who would like to attend virtually, Professor of Geology and exhibit curator, William Guenthner, presents a virtual guided tour and live Q&A. Register at http://ow.ly/2lsY50HBt9a to receive the Zoom log-in info! #specialcollections #rarebooks #geology #exhibit #fossils #uiuc https://www.instagram.com/illinois_rbml/p/CZHlZUCpjMB/?utm_medium=tumblr

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It's Thesaurus Day! We're celebrating with lovely 16th c. Greek thesaurus, the first of five volumes.. Estienne, Henri. Thesauros tes Ellenikes glōsses. = Thesaurus Graecae linguae. Genevae: 1572. Shelfmark Q. 483 ES8T1572. https://www.instagram.com/p/CY4NrJWl1GY/?utm_medium=tumblr

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It's Appreciate a Dragon Day!🐉 We appreciate this lovely specimen from Ferrari's Hesperides...(1646) Shelfmark Q. 634.23 F41h #specialcollections #rarebooks #dragon #hesperides #appreciateadragonday https://www.instagram.com/p/CYzRE5eJ6OL/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Join the RBML curators as they recreate historical recipes from the collection in their home kitchen!🍋 https://youtu.be/UX--saABAKY #specialcollections #rarebooks #cooking #recipe #historicalrecipes #lemons https://www.instagram.com/p/CXRkiQgpWaT/?utm_medium=tumblr

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In honor of the winter weather, here are two books with covers that just say *brrr!* Both are from the Nina Baym Collection and are currently uncatalogued, so who knows what stories lie within?! #PublishersBindingThursdays #specialcollections #rarebooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CXRjOm4pmNu/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Does your library have a resident vampire expert? Ours does! Dr. Cait Coker's _Global Vampire_ edited volume came out earlier this year, and we're thrilled that it received a very favorable review in the _Journal of Popular Culture_ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpcu.13041 When the reviewer states that the essays"[look] at a variety of undead popular culture texts in ways that bring theory and world issues alive", don't you just want to pick up the book and see for yourself? Kudos to Dr. Cait! #vampires #undead https://www.instagram.com/p/CWUBrbqp5u9/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"A Man of Two Countries" by Alice Harriman, from our Nina Baym Western Women Writers Collection is unique in the fact that it is not only written by a woman, but also published by the author's own publishing company! #specialcollections #rarebooks #publishersbindingthursday https://www.instagram.com/p/CWJFjsOJaYy/?utm_medium=tumblr