Book and Book Cover

Acclaimed author Jonathan Safran Foer talks to @TimDSamuels on the BBC TV programme The Culture Show - about the new version of the Haggadah which he has edited. The Passover book includes four commentaries and a new translation by Nathan Englander.

The copy of the Novum Psalterium that they have will only increase in value with the passage of time. According to the lengthy introduction to the Novum Psalterium by Brother Antonius himself, William Everson worked singlehandedly on this extensive…

The Luttrell Psalter is a Gothic manuscript from the countryside of medieval England.
“The Luttrell Psalter, now numbered Additional MS 42130 in the collections of the British Library, is made up of 309 leaves of sturdy, well-prepared vellum.”…

Ibn Butlan, Theatrum Sanitatis
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, 4182
Lombardy, Italy, 1390s
[Facsimile at UCSC: ND3399.I15 M65 1999]

A short, fun, educational, animation about the use of medicine plants through the ages.

Produced and written by medical herbalist Julia Behrens, direction and animation by Tim Sanpher, voices by John Falcini and Julia Behrens.

Funded by the…

The cover is wrapped in a midnight blue leather. There are also wooden strips on the front and on the back. The front cover has 8 wooden pieces with 4 wooden strips on the bottom layer and then 4 layed over the top. Alternatively there are 9 wooden…

Identifier: crusadersorscene00keig Title: The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades Year: 1859 (1850s) Authors: Keightley, Thomas, 1789-1872 Subjects: Crusades Publisher: London J.W. Parker Contributing…

Depiction of color pans in a historiated initial beginning the entry for color in a 14th century encyclopedia

I designed this directory for the library's entry. The printed sheets are mounted on "gatorboard" and laminated. The far-left panel lists collections, services and offices by floor. The larger center panel features floor plans for each…

When Upton Sinclair, famous author and lifetime Socialist, won the Democratic primary for governor of California in 1934 in a landslide--leading the greatest mass movement in the state's history--all hell broke loose there and across the country. To…