#spanish libraries

[intothestacks]

Libraries Around the World: San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain

The Library of El Escorial

Image courtesy of Jose Maria Cuellar's Flickr stream.

This library is located in the Royal Seat of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the historical residence of the king of Spain. Phillip II was responsible for adding the library and most of the books originally held within. The vaulted ceilings were painted with gorgeous frescoes, each representing one of the seven liberal arts: rhetoric, dialectic, music, grammar, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy. These days, the library is a World Heritage Site, and it holds more than 40,000 volumes.

[alizalayne]

happy halloween!! the second book in my graphic novel trilogy is available to preorder. It's about what happens when you grow a paw. it is also a dragon mystery. and you also get to find out where penny came from, which is quite interesting

[longlostlorian]

Maelstrom's plan, aka, that's it that's the book in a nutshell. MAELSTROM: A PRINCE OF EVIL is available now!! Go read the graphic novel random people (and my friends also) are calling cute/funny/enjoyable/etc

[sugarsnappeases]

just had this thought of lily as a lit student volunteering at her local library and barty as this delinquent being assigned to do community service there. like she starts off with a bit of a ‘oh this poor criminal, i must save him’ mindset and then is constantly frustrated by barty as it’s clear that he just. doesn’t want to be saved. and he’ll deliberately mess up the book organisation systems and try to scam people by fining them when their books are nowhere near overdue so he can keep the money for himself. and lily is running around after him, huffing as she loudly puts the books back in their proper places, whacking him round the back of the head when she catches him trying to scam some old man. she’s screaming at him in the back room, leaning over him as he sits back unbothered on one of the chairs, shoving her finger in his face but he just grins and tries to bite it so she’s whacking him again and storming out bc he’s just SO infuriating. but then somehow he’s also going in depth with her about the motivations of iago in othello and whether the tragedy can be blamed entirely on him or if society itself plays a part in the plot’s development or animatedly discussing keats’ ode to a nightingale and the concept of negative capability and how it relates to the body. and she’s just completely fascinated by him, she wants to analyse him like one of the texts from her classes, she thinks she could write essay upon essay about his view of the world and the way his brain works and the tattoo she can always see just poking out of the top of his collar. and now she’s missing deadlines bc she wants to spend time w him, and laughing as he knocks over an entire bookshelf while trying to tell her about the book he’s just read, and really he doesn’t want to be saved but maybe he’s saving her instead…

[novel--notes]

How is it possible that it feels like you are breaking my heart, and I haven’t even had you yet?

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, 1924

[eldiariodetiara]

But you are. You are worth all that trouble. You are worth walking through a fucking fire. Don’t you see that?

Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

[samipekoe]

What does Heavy Hangers mean I’m late but reading Dungeon Meshi bc of u

it means big beautiful breasts that hang heavily. and I hope you enjoy!!!! it's amazing!!!!!!

[futurespanishphysicist]

hi everyone!

so this has been my week so far:

i went to the library with a friend twice

i had my first chemistry exam (it could have been better, but i think i did it well)

i made some philosophy essays

i started the electric field in physics!

i did some math questionnaires that my teacher assigned to us

and this week i didn't go running, i took it as a break

thanks for reading, i hope you had a good week. <3

[nazliwrites]

Not all book characters are my boyfriends. Some are best friends. Some crime partner. Some comfort zone. Some secret sharing sisters. Some protective brothers. Some I hate. Some I love. Some mother. Some father. But they all are definitely my family.

[readings-in-the-dark]

12.07.2024

Another spanish lesson today, and I love learning about grammar ✨️🖤 the grammar lessons have been my favourites so far, I always feel like I'm learning something about the structure of the culture that a language exists in (though that's probably something to do with the autism brain-mapping that I got 😂)

I've also been to the library so much this week (3 separate occasions, just to browse!), despite the continuous headaches I've been having, so I've featured some of the books that've picked up 💕

Word of the day 📑:

árabe - Arabic (language)

What I did today 📤:

Editing BTS video for next week (4hrs 🫠)

Lingoda spanish lesson (1hr)

Cooked dinner (Fusili Bolognese bc I didn't have spaghetti 😂)

10 mins of duolingo (502 day streak 🎉)

Reading my leisure book (45mins)

Currently reading 📚: The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick

[uwmspeccoll]

Welcome to Manuscript Monday!

In this series we will periodically focus on selections from our manuscript facsimile collection. Today we present selections from the Morgan Beatus Manuscript, reproduced as A Spanish Apocalypse, The Morgan Beatus Manuscript in New York by George Braziller, Inc. in association with the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1991. The original manuscript, made around 10th century CE at the scriptorium of San Miguel de Escalada in Spain by a monk named Maius, is the earliest surviving illuminated version of the monk Beatus of Liébana's commentary on the biblical Book of Apocalypse (also known as the Book of Revelation).  The text of the Book of Revelation makes up the first part of the manuscript, and Beatus’s commentary comprises the second part. The Book of Revelation tells of the end-times in Christianity, during the final judgement of humanity by God. The story within this Biblical book was also seen by those living during the Latin medieval era as representative of the beginning of something new: God’s celestial kingdom. Due to this view of the book, many artists incorporated imagery from this part of the Bible in their work.

Produced in Al-Andalus, or Muslim-ruled Spain, the artistic style of this work combines both Muslim and Christian visual traditions to create a beautifully illuminated manuscript that supplements the commentary by the monk. This artistic style is known as the Mozarabic, which comes from the Arabic mustaʿrib, meaning ‘Arabicized’. Interestingly, this style of art can only be seen in Christian religious art and architecture from Spain at the time, as non-religious artistic objects made by Christians look so similar to Islamic versions of the same works that they cannot be identified as intentionally Christian. Some key Islamic artistic elements within the manuscript include buildings with horseshoe arches, intricate geometric and vegetal patterns as borders for larger images, and the large, bulging eyes of the illustrated animals.

Another interesting aspect of this specific manuscript is the colophon at the end of the manuscript. It tells readers about the circumstances surrounding the creation of this book, including the maker, the patron, the year it was made, and an explanation about why Maius created the manuscript ("I write this . . . at the command of Abbot Victor, out of love for the book of the vision of John the beloved disciple. As part of its adornment I have painted a series of pictures . . . so that the wise may fear the coming of the future judgement of the world's end."). Colophons in medieval manuscripts are not usually as detailed, so the inclusion of all this information contributes greatly to the knowledge and history surrounding the Morgan Beatus Manuscript.

View more Manuscript Monday posts.

– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

[detroitlib]

Pile of bones and skulls against a stone wall in a Cuban cemetery. Recorded in ledger: "Bone pile in a cemetary [sic]." Alma Lake. 1898-1899.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[stalkiwi]

don('t)

[novel--notes]

You are not on your own anymore. It’s you and me now. We are in this together, and we’ve got this.