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ALT ALT ALT On World Ocean Day. “What we enjoyed most on Awashima Island was the chance to spend time along the shore and discover the ocean. We learnt to dive there, and were amazed by the strange and beautiful creatures we encountered. Most of them we had never seen before. But even here, so far from home, we recognized some of the creatures. This was both surprising and comforting, and it got us thinking—aren’t all living things related in some way? It’s water that connects marine life in Awashima to the freshwater life in Ganjad. Around the world we use different languages and give different names to seas and oceans, but they’re all related. Most rivers flow into the sea, and common currents connect nature and people to each other.” – from The deep , for the text Arun Wolf and Gita Wolf from an oral narrative by Mayur Vayeda and Tushar Vayeda.) The Vayeda brothers tell their journey from an indigenous Warli community in Maharashtra, western India, growing up in the village of Ganja, to a small Japanese island called Awashima. They connect the village stream they knew from their childhood to the deep oceans they encountered in Awashima. The deep for the text Arun Wolf and Gita Wolf from an oral narrative by Mayur Vayeda and Tushar Vayeda. Chennai : Tara Books, [2020] Vayeda, Mayur [artist] Vayeda, Tushar [artist] HOLLIS number: 99157144381803941

Each Thursday, we will post 2-3 images with either unidentified buildings or people in our Lubbock Pictorial collection. If you can identify the place(s) or person(s), please leave a comment with your response below the post. Photo 1: Dr. Overton ? Photo 2: Lubbock doctor’s convention, circa 1940. Photo 3: Left to right: Charlie Guy, ? Watts, and Parker Prouty at printing shop, circa 1945. Our goal is to address the gaps in this collection and provide future researchers with more background on these historic Lubbock photographs! We hope you all will visit our page and look over the images each Thursday! Please share with friends and family!

ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT “The Mountain Dream Tarot came to me in a dream in the summer of 1970. The decision to assemble a photographic set of cards was made in my sleep. I began the next morning at Penland School in North Carolina. I chose models who suited the cards and after reading the card’s description we took a walk to find the right place to make the picture … I based my imagery on the classic Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Waite. My cards are an intuitive, not a literal interpretation of the deck.” – Bea Nettles from the original 1975 introduction. Bea Nettles (b. 1946) is a photographer and writer known for experimenting with alternative photographic processes. In 1975, Nettles created a set of monochrome photographic tarot cards to foretell the future. The Fine Arts Library owns the third edition of these tarot cards. You can request this set and other tarot card decks in the Special Collections Study Room! Mountain dream tarot : a deck of 78 photographic cards Nettles, Bea, 1946- 3rd edition. 2012 78 cards ; 14 x 9 cm in drawstring bag English HOLLIS number: 99157019479903941

#WordyWednesday Miniature: A term for medieval book illustrations that are not part of an initial or border but are completely separate. Miniatures tended to be small but could also be full-page illustrations. The name has nothing to do with their size: it comes from the Latin word minium, referring to the red lead once used to draw them. Miniatures that have been incorporated into an initial are more properly referred to as historiation . Image: Catholic Church. Processional (for the use of the Dominican sisters of St. Louis, Poissy). Paris: approximately 1510-1540. BX2032 .A2 1510z (via Manicule — Ostrocon · Rare Books: A Glossary · Special Collections and Archives )

ALT It’s June! The sun is out, and so are the campus pigeons. One of them even photo-bombed this picture!

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Aquarius Season

This is the Aquarius page of a notebook written by an anonymous astrology enthusiast sometime between 1900 and 1909. It’s filled with detailed handwritten notes about astrology, with clippings pasted in (possibly cut out of a newspaper or almanac?). We think the thing that looks like a Taurus symbol might denote something about a Venus placement, since Venus is at home in Taurus. Perhaps Anonymous had a Venus in Aquarius? Or Venus moved into Aquarius around the time this was written? Should we post more astrology content? Let us know! Call number: Cairns Manuscript, Anonymous. Astrology Notebook. -Samantha, graduate student employee February 6, 2020 Transcript of the handwritten text: “[Aquarius] is an airy sign.. Mixture of sensitive nerves. Very weak or very strong; kind-hearted. Splendid discriminating power. Slow in expression- need force to lead them into action undil they have discovered their strength when they soon become Capable of great possibilities. Keenly sensitive, faithful friends. Fond of water and traveling MOTTO HUMAN NATURE [Taurus symbol?*] shows frights from accidents, poisonous humors from contagion, and troubles of neck and throat. Guard against false accusations, imprisonment, signing bonds, and boat accidents. Tendency [to] injury from falls; danger to ankles; trouble to lower bronchial tubes.”

ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT Revisiting this one today to show the beautiful cover and marbled endsheets. Check out all the bug (and snail) friends! From: Madox, Thomas et al. Firma Burgi, or, An Historical Essay Concerning the Cities, Towns and Buroughs of England : Taken from Records . London: Printed by William Bowyer, and sold by Robert Gosling at the Middle-temple-gate in Fleetstreet, 1726. JS3041 .M2 1726

#WordyWednesday Recto: The “front” of a leaf of paper . In books that are written from left to right (as in European languages), this is the page on the right-hand side of the codex . In books that are written and read from right to left (as in Arabic, Hebrew, and many Asian languages), the recto is on the left-hand side and the verso is on the right-hand side. The other side of a leaf is the verso side. Image: Reynard the Fox. English. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, sold by B. Quaritch, London, 1893. PT5584 .E5 C33 1893 (via Quarter bound — Ruling · Rare Books: A Glossary · Special Collections and Archives )

#WordyWednesday Raised bands: The ridges on the spine of some books . Originally, these were created by the sewing supports , which wrapped around the spine of the book. When binding techniques changed to favor recessed sewing supports (where the sewing supports rested in grooves cut into the text block), binders started creating false raised bands to suit their clients’ old-fashioned tastes. (In England, this started happening in the early 17th century.) Raised bands do not always match the locations of the actual sewing supports. Image: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Fasti. Lyon: Antonius Gryphius, 1574. PA6519 .A2 1566 (via Quarter bound — Ruling · Rare Books: A Glossary · Special Collections and Archives )

#WordyWednesday Mezzotint: An intaglio illustration process where parts of a plate are toned by roughing them with a serrated rocker and then graded by burnishing. Mezzotint does not include any linework, only shading and toning, and was often combined with engraving . It produces a beautiful, velvety texture but the plates for mezzotint are very fragile and only produce about 50 good impressions before the art begins to fade. In spite of its Italian name, mezzotint is a mainly English process and was used from the mid-1600s. Image: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. Moriae encomium. English. New York: Printed by J. Horace McFarland Co. at the Mount Pleasant Press for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1943. PA8514 .E5 1943 (via Manicule — Ostrocon · Rare Books: A Glossary · Special Collections and Archives )

ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT This artist’s book entitled “Channel & Flow” documents an attempt to follow a stream on its path through a dense suburban neighborhood. It uses the structure of the book’s page turns and foldouts to represent how the stream has been contained and fragmented by the built environment. (From the publisher’s note) Tripp’s Run is a stream located in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. It runs above and below ground for approximately five miles before draining into Lake Barcroft, and ultimately the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. “A combative relationship has emerged between human actors and water’s inherent propensity to flow, spread, and cling to itself….. Despite the changes of the last century, Tripp’s Run persists in some form, a presence we experience like an echo, appearing and disappearing, perhaps most reliably visible as the negative space inside an environment that has been built under, over, and up to its edges.” Happy National River Day! Channel & flow McDermott, Sarah [artist, author] Rosendale, NY : Women’s Studio Workshop, 2014. 36 unnumbered pages (some folded) : color illustrations ; 16 cm English “The Kidney Press.” Issued in an edition of 50. HOLLIS number: 990148500110203941

From: The seaman’s daily assistant : being a short, easy, and plain method of keeping a journal at sea …, Thomas Haselden. Dublin, 1774. VK553.H34 1774

ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT Check out some of the great medieval-style calendars people prepared at our workshop on Tuesday evening! If you want to see an original calendar and learn more about it, make an appointment with us in our reading room!

“Please, do not have a panel called ‘Women in SF'”: A 1979 Letter from Ursula K. Le Guin Manuscripts and More Special Collections & Archives at the University of Liverpool Library

Chronicles of a Book Detective: The case of MS 328 By Flavio Marzo, Head of Conservation at the Cambridge Colleges’ Conservation Consortium A lost sewing structure. A trip to Winchester which turns up an unexpected clue. A conservator looking for answers. This is the case of CCCC MS 328 . …

Our content lead had the chance to explore the special collections vault at the Bakken Museumn (@thebakkenmuseum) in Minneapolis. Among the highlights were: electrostatic generators similar to those used by Ben Franklin in his electricity experiments and the armonica that may have once belonged to Franklin. A fascinating glimpse into the past!

ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT For the last day of National Poetry Month , we present you “There is an Ocean” by Joshua Beckman . “The book is a combination of six prose poem/narratives about young men’s encounters with bodies of water. At different intervals, these narratives are obscured by shifting swathes of blue thread sewn into the pages of the book, bringing to mind sensations of covering and uncovering, freedom, and constraint, of voices appearing and disappearing, and of the shifting concepts of time lived in an age where the risks of intimacy seem to have dangerously moved out of control. In the words of the artist, this book portrays the high stakes of letting oneself go, of the inherent tension and displaced youth of the young, especially young gay men. (From the publisher’s note) There is an ocean Beckman, Joshua, 1971- Rosendale, New York : Women’s Studio Workshop, [1997] 1 sheet (42 unnumbered pages) : illustration ; 18 x 25 cm English HOLLIS number: 990152988470203941

ALT ALT Smith, Charles Roach, T. Richards, and M. E. Phillips. Illustrations of Roman London. London: Printed for subscribers, and not published, 1859. Print . DA677.1 .S63 1859

ALT ALT ALT ALT Check out these meticulously drawn architectural plans and detailed cost estimates for the restoration of a townhouse in the medieval walled city of Cittadella and a farmhouse in nearby Galliera, both in the Veneto, Italy from 1833. The architect, Giuseppe Volebele, compiled, signed, and dated all six sections of this codex. But in the end, the project was never executed. The cost estimates included the labor of masons, woodworkers, stone cutters, and various contractors. It must have been a disappointment for the architect and all the other potential contractors. Progetto di riduzione, e ristauro delle due case di proprietà della menteccata Sig[nor]a Elisabetta Fabris-Quarti poste nel Distretto di Citadella una nell'interno del Paese di Cittadella, l'altra nel Comune di Galliera : manuscript Volebele, Giuseppe, active 1833-1869. [ii], [101] leaves, 9 plates : illustrations, plans, drawings ; 38 cm Italian The plates are double page with architectural plans and drawings executed in ink and watercolors; all signed by Volebele. 1833 HOLLIS number: 99156848473103941