#kitties.

[darkbets]

some little tiny babies.

[soveryanon]

[uwmspeccoll]

A Rubáíyat Caturday

As most special collections librarians know, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám is among the most re-printed (many would say, overly re-printed) publications of the past 150 years, particularly after Edward FitzGerald’s translation was published in 1859. It’s something of a joke with librarians that among nearly every donation of a personal collection to a library there is inevitably at least one edition (if not more) of the Rubaiyat.  

Imagine our delight, then, when Captain Alison turned up a reference to an early 20th-century parody of this well-worn Persian poem in a fine-press periodical called The Tabby, which we highlighted for a Caturday in November. Not satisfied with this reference alone, Alison searched the catalog on the off-chance that the library might actually have a copy of this publication, and, lo and behold, it did!  After retrieving it from the general collection, we found Oliver Herford’s The Rubáíyat of a Persian Kitten so delightful and in relatively decent condition (despite the library repair to the binding) that we just had to transfer if to Special Collections.

We present a few pages from this lovely kitty-themed Rubaiyat, published in 1904 by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York, complete with a Gibson-style Girl, requisite kitty antics, and wonderful plays on famous passages from the Rubaiyat, such as “Wake! for the Golden Cat has put to flight the Mouse of Darkness with its Paw of Light” and “that Inverted Bowl of Skyblue Delf, that helpless lies upon the Pantry Shelf.” Priceless!

[greywolf8725]

Tired of taking selfies

[greywolf8725]

[symonynii]

im still on the nap thing. whenever he’s asleep, azur will sometimes make like. little kitty noises. no one know why. they all just find it adorable.

oh hes a BABY........ and everyone loves him. as it should be. i love him. he goes uwu.

lulu does the same thing but shes more likely to kinda babble-meow in the first couple minutes after she gets up? like she’ll go rrow-? and then sleepily nestle back into her partner and the next few minutes will go something like

“oh my god-“

“rrmrow?”

“lulu-“

“mrrow?”

“please-“

“rrow?”

[cupcakesandcarbapenems]

I just sat the first of my barrier examinations for my penultimate year of med school. I'm going to reblog a bunch of pictures of kittens now, and I'm not sorry about that.