Librarian finds smallpox scabs in 19th century book about the Civil War.
Category: books
I’ve always wanted to live in a library, but not like this…
Man lives in house made of wooden books. [thanks sara]
if wishes were horses
There are exactly two Amazon wishlists that I like: one is not mine, and the other is not exactly mine.
books can carry smallpox?
An article from a 1912 Bulletin of the Medical Library Association on the disinfection of books.
In Bordeaux, several people were attacked by a feverish lumbago after having rearranged the library books of the Faculty of Medicine.
[thanks daniel]
[thanks daniel]
codex vaticanus is one old book
The library at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is now one of 13 libraries in the world to own a reproduction of Codex Vaticanus, considered one of the oldest surviving Greek manuscripts of the Bible. Apparently there are 450 copies of this book [original is at the Vatican] and only thirteen are in libraries. I guess you can get one too, for around 6K. [thanks brandon]