Oils of rosemary, lavender, thyme, marjoram, hyssop, rue, oranges, lemons …. Wait a minute, what is this doing in my ca. 1660 manuscript of country dance steps? Paper was scarce, and I frequently discover odd things written into the margins of early printed and manuscript books and scores. People doodled, tested their quills, and jotted Read More
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What’s for dinner?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Feeling a bit peckish? Why not try a delicious dish featuring Boletus edulis, which are fleshy mushroom-like fungi which have tubes in place of gills. They are often characterized as being “spongy underneath.” To make one version Read More
A sumptuous edition of Pierre Louÿs’s unpublished poems
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. A particularly sumptuous volume from the collection of Gérard Nordmann is today’s Santo Domingo Collection feature. This 1938 publication of Poèmes inédits (Unpublished poems) by Pierre Louÿs was limited to 109 numbered copies; this is copy 5. Louÿs Read More
Death caps
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Once you have made the fateful choice to eat a Death cap it starts out slowly, there is no discomfort for the first twelve hours then you have abdominal pain with vomiting, diarrhea, and an extreme thirst. After Read More
New on OASIS in November
Finding aids for eleven newly cataloged collections, and preliminary box lists for two recent acquisitions, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including a collection of rare early jigsaw puzzles, theatrical costume and set designs, and the papers of reporter Nicholas Daniloff.