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It’s Fine Press Friday! 

This week, in honor of Ramadan, we’re taking a peek at a 1958 Limited Editions Club (LEC) publication of The Koran: Selected Suras from our collection. This modern, handsomely bound and illustrated collection of texts from the Qu‘ran was translated into English by Australian American scholar of Asian studies Arthur Jeffery (1892-1959), and features decorations in grayed blue and red ink from Italian American printmaker, illustrator, and author Valenti Angelo (1897-1982). The title page and the page opposite the opening sura were also hand-illuminated in gold by Angelo. The text, which features Bembo type and Civilité headings, is printed in black ink on custom made tan Arak paper from Curtis Paper Company, a paper mill in Newark, Delaware known for its manufacture of high-quality rag papers using 19th-century Fourdrinier machinery. The work was printed by Abraham Colish (1882–1963, otherwise known as A. Colish) and bound in cloth covered boards which were hand stamped with decorations in blue, red, and gold. It was released in an edition of 1500 copies, all of which were signed by the illustrator.  

رمضان مبارك (Ramadan Mubarak) 

Find more materials related to the Quran (including original manuscripts and alternate translations in Latin, French, and German) in UWM’s Special Collections 

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-- Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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English: A major arcana card in Visconti Sforza tarot deck, beautifully drawn in the mid XVth century by Italian artist Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. Four cards (out of seventy-eight) are lost from the deck (the fifteenth and sixteenth major arcana—respectively the Devil and the Tower—, the Knight of Coins, and the Three of Swords), thus seventy-four cards remain.Datemid XVth centurySourceThe card images were scanned by David Madore and published on the internet in 2003-09. They are scans of a fac simile version printed by AGMüller in Switzerland, though US Games Systems also seems to be somehow part of the editing process, which David bought in 2003-08 from an online store (broken link).AuthorBonifacio Bembo (1420–1480) Alternative names

Bembo, BonifazioDescriptionItalian painter and illuminatorDate of birth/death1420 after 1477Location of birth/deathBresciaMilanWork period1447–1477Work location

Milan

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PRIMA PAGINA Corriere Delle Alpi di Oggi martedì, 22 ottobre 2024

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La Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma alla Fiera del Libro di Francoforte 2024. Un viaggio nella letteratura del ‘900 e nella storia della lingua italiana con preziosi manoscritti e prime edizioni in mostra

Roma: Dal 16 al 20 ottobre 2024, la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma parteciperà per la prima volta alla 76esima Fiera del Libro di Francoforte, uno degli eventi più importanti del panorama letterario mondiale

Roma: Dal 16 al 20 ottobre 2024, la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma parteciperà per la prima volta alla 76esima Fiera del Libro di Francoforte, uno degli eventi più importanti del panorama letterario mondiale. L’Italia sarà il Paese Ospite d’Onore, e lo stand collettivo italiano, organizzato dall’ICE – Agenzia per la promozione all’estero, sarà inaugurato alla presenza dei Ministri della…

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ockham’s razor[s]

set in monotype bembo—vide ‹bembismo›.

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Bembo Bonifacio - Saint Francis Receives the Stigmata. Detail. 1460

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Italian literature tournament - First round.

Propaganda in support of the authors is accepted, you can write it both in the tag if reblog the poll (explaining maybe that is propaganda and you want to see posted) or in the comments. Every few days it will be recollected and posted here under the cut.

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what the dog doin

(i never post my art on here but im actually extremely proud of this one. please clap)

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It’s Fine Press Friday!

Special Collections just keeps on giving. Every time I find a book with amazing original prints I think for sure its the last, but there are more! 

This week we bring you Roxana, The Fortunate Mistress, by English writer Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) with woodcuts by Austrian printmaker, Bernd Kroeber (B.1942), printed in 1976 at The Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont for the members of The Limited Editions Club in an edition of 2000 copies signed by the artist. It was first printed for Thomas Warner at the Black-Boy in Paternoster Row, London in 1724. 

Bernd Kroeber cut twelve full page two-color woodcuts and fourteen smaller black-and-white woodcuts to illustrate this text. The prints embrace the grain of the wood blocks and the expressive cuts and figures seem to reference back to German Expressionist printmakers, like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. 

Roxana could be considered a proto-feminist character, as she raises concerns over sexual freedom and women’s right to own their own estate. Roxana is quoted saying “the Marriage Contract is...nothing but giving up Liberty, Estate, Authority, and everything, to the Man.” 

Book designer Adrian Wilson (1923-1988) designed this book using Bembo type and larger sizes of Bembo and Goudy Ornate for display lines. Wilson also designed the crossed-sword heart motif. The paper was specially made for this edition by Monadnock Mill in Bennington, New Hampshire and the book was bound by Tapley-Rutter Company of Moonachie, New Jersey. 

For the colophon, a print of characters reading Roxana. Too Funny!

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-- Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Kenneth Mackenzie - The Refuge - Sun - 1969

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Location:Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (MRMSS)

*Call Number:MS M.0630.12

*Record ID:332029

*Accession Number:MS M.630.12

*Name:Pierpont Morgan Library. Manuscript. M.630.12.

*Title:Death (Skeleton).

Created:Milan, Italy, ca. 1450-1480

Related Records:Related RecordsFULL TITLEAUTHOR/CREATORDATESVisconti-Sforza Tarot Cards.Pierpont Morgan Library. Manuscript. M.630.1-35.1445-1485

Description:1 miniature, full-page : painting on board.

Summary:Tarot Card: Death -- Skeleton (Personification of death), with cloth tied around forehead, holds sticks in both hands.

Manuscript Record:Related RecordsFULL TITLEDATESAUTHOR/CREATORVisconti-Sforza Tarot Cards.1445-1485Pierpont Morgan Library. Manuscript. M.630.1-35.

Genres:Miniatures (Illuminations)--Italy--Milan--15th century. Miniatures (Illuminations)--Gothic--Italy--Milan--15th century. Tarot card. Cardboard.

Notes:Artist: attributed variously to Bonifacio Bembo and Francesco Zavattari. School: Italian, Lombardy, Milan. Style: Gothic. Description based on record created by Index of Christian Art, Princeton University.

Associated Names:Bembo, Bonifacio, illuminator. Zavattari, Francesco, active 1414-1453, illuminator.

Formatted Place:Italy--Milan, production place.

Cite as:Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.630.12.

Subjects:Tarot cards--Italy--Milan--Illustrations. 1445-1485. Tarot Card--Death. Personification--Death.

In Note:Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards (MS M.630.1-35)

Dept./Collection:Dept. of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

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“I rejoice that each day to increase my fire you cunningly devise some fresh incitement, such as that which encircled your glowing brow today.* If you do such things because, feeling some little warmth yourself, you wish to see another burn, I shall not deny that for each spark of yours untold Etnas are raging in my breast.”

—Pietro Bembo to Lucrezia Borgia [“f.f.”], Letter IX, 14 July 1503

*Encircling Lucrezia’s brow was a jeweled ferronière, from which a large emerald dangled. She also draped herself in dark-velvet dresses to accentuate the rubies and pearls that she wore, as well as her famous golden tresses.

(Source: The Prettiest Love Letters in the World: Letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo, 1503-1519 / translation & preface by Hugh Shankland; pub. Collins Harvill, 1987.)