![]() An illustration of the typographical desk from Louis Dumas, La biblioteque des enfans, ou les premiers elemens des lettres, The Children’s Library, or, First Elements of Writing (1733).ġ4. Harrison’s Ark, as illustrated in Vincentius Placcius, The Art of Excerpting (1689).ġ3. A type case housing a printer’s metal type. A piece of specialist furniture for categorizing and displaying a collection, illustrated in Levinus Vincent, The Wonders of Nature (1706).ġ1. A writing desk belonging to either Henry VIII or Catherine of Aragon, c. Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp-UNESCO, World Heritage.Ĩ. Abraham Ortelius, Thesaurus geographicus, Geographical Treasure-house. Sion/Sitten, Archives du Chapitre/Kapitelsarchiv, Ms. ![]() A manuscript copy of the Decretum Gratiani dating from the first half of the thirteenth century. The Bakhshali manuscript, third to seventh centuries. A table showing some of Ralph de Diceto’s marginal symbols in his Abbreviationes chronicorum, Chronicles Précised. Old Babylonian clay tablet, c.1900–1700 BCE. The first page of a letter in rebus form from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). ![]() A round robin letter of 1621, petitioning for the right of Huguenots to settle in the New World. ![]()
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