A new exhibition opens today in the Old Library: ‘Not a Day Without a Line: Past lives of Renaissance books in Queens’ Library’.
Featuring unique discoveries made during the Library's two-year ‘Renaissance Queens’’ cataloguing and digitisation project, the exhibition provides fascinating insights into how and why Queens’ books were read in the Renaissance period, and the people who read them. Cryptic signs, messages, and poems (including a mischievous nun/friar poem scrawled onto a magnificent 15th-century bible), prayers, as well as mnemonic diagrams and hand-coloured decorations all record in unique ways the lives of early modern readers and the relationships they formed with the books they used (and misused).
The exhibition runs from 1st-29th March, 1:30-4:30pm (until 7.30pm on Thursday 15th March).
Monday – Friday.
Free admission via Visitors’ Gate and War Memorial Library (access by stairs, first floor).
More info: queensoldlibrary.org/events.
Curator’s talk every Wednesday at 1.30pm.
