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Happy birthday to us. Today is the 315th anniversary of our official opening to the public in 1707. If you'd like to wish us well, please retweet these images of our little library.

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A heart bookmark found inside a collection of Dutch pamphlets from the 1680s. Amazing that something so delicate managed to survive! #rarebooks #bookmarks

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"Are the books real?" This question is coming up more & more often on tours of Marsh's Library. Actual physical, in-person tours when people are 2 feet away from the books. It's as if some people are so used to living online that they can't quite understand physical reality.

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Re-found this spider squashed inside a book from 1492 when checking a reference. First time we saw it, we meant to ask if any scientists out there are interested in doing #DNA analysis of #insects , #flies , #moths , #spiders etc we have found in ancient books or MSS. If so, DM us.

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An embroidered binding from our Bemjamin Iveagh Library at Farmleigh House in the Phoenix Park.

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A 17th century lift the flap book! This illustration of the heart from René Descartes' De Homine (1662) uses flaps to reveal the ventricles

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Snap! On the left, an illustrated newspaper ad from 1742 advertising the wares of a Dublin locksmith. On the right, a key still in use in Marsh's today in our reader cages built in 1767...

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Hy or O-Brasil is a mythical island off the coast of Ireland, said to appear once every 7 years. It first found on maps from the 14th to 19th centuries. 'O'Brazile' is a supposed eye-witness account of a visit to the Island by a Captain Nisbet.

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Y'know, being a rare book librarian isn't all rock 'n' roll, parties and fun. Oh no!! Tasks such as this complete stock-check of 20,000 items can be almost, well, kind of dull......

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Lovely owl #doodle on a book printed in 1512.

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I got so excited when I found this yesterday. Some #17thcentury person wrote down a long list of #books they're going to buy! #rarebooks #specialcollections #earlymodern

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James Joyce read at this table in 1902 in our Reading Room.

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Alchemy symbols and their meaning, from William Johnson's Lexicon chymicum, 1652-53.

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Hand gestures & their meanings from 'Chirologia, or the naturall language of the hand' printed in London in 1644.

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Something bright & shiny for a dull January day in Dublin. Gold leaf on the foredge of books published in Amsterdam in 1698 with a lovely floral design and the odd bird or two.

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September light in St.Patrick’s Close, on the way to Marsh’s library

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A delightful #doodle of birds having a chat, left by a reader in a book of poems from 1674.

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4 years

Preparing for an online class today, our 1780 copy of Dr Jonson's famous Dictionary opened on this word by chance. We NEVER comment on politics and this should not be read as applying to anything happening in the world this very day. It's just dull old history and etymology.

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2 years

Today is #Michaelmas traditionally a time for feasting & the last chance to gather blackberries before the mischievous Púca ruins them!

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4 years

Why we love this job...... Cleaning books and looked inside one completely at random. It was once owned by the poet John Donne (d.1632). Signature bottom right. His motto top of page.

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Someone was bored in class! Dancing skeletons doodled on the Tragedies of Sophocles around 424 years ago #Doodles #MondayMarginalia #Halloween

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This is us in today's Irish Independent. Getting the message out that we're interesting and open to the public. Please re-tweet.

‘A hidden gem’: The 18th century library that even Dubliners don’t know about

Sometimes, the best things in life are hidden right under your nose. Perhaps it’s a quiet coffee shop that makes the best expresso you’ve ever tasted, or a...

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The horror! Look at this photo! If anyone in this library ever handled a rare book with white gloves on, they would be sacked on the spot.

‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ copy of Don Quixote fetches €500,000 at auction

Total of €900,000 paid for Cervantes’ works that a diplomat bought on a shopping trip to London in 1930s

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Welcome to the book hospital at Marsh's Library where the wait to be seen is almost 300 years.....

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Starting stock-check of all our 20,000 historic books today. #security

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A gold heron perched on the spine of a book from 1659 #RareBooks #Bindings

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2 years

We're reminded every day of just how beautiful our library is.

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A petal we found in a 19th century edition of the works of Robert Burns.

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A tiny drawing of a cottage with a roaring fire. Found inside a collection of statutes from 1672 for the regulation of cities and towns in Ireland #doodles #rarebooks

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4 years

Today's stock check find: a beautifully bound #19thcentury polyglot bible, donated to the Library in 1932 and still in pristine condition thanks to its protective box

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5 years

This is still one of our all-time favourites ... doodles inside a 16th-century book which include a fencing mouse (on top left) and a unicorn.

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If you're thinking of redecorating for 2024, look no further than 17th century colour mixing for inspiration. I'm very taken with the 'sanguis draconis'!

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It's not all theology and learned philosophy in 16th-century books, you know...

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#Manuscript fragments recycled as spine lining on a book printed in 1535, only visible due to damage.

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It really makes your day when you open a book from 1561 and find that the binding is an old manuscript from 1476 that has been reused. Very common to find old waste in bindings but you don't always get a whole document! #manuscriptwaste #bindingwaste

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Warming flavours of saffron, ginger and chile for a grey winter's day in Dublin!

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Yesterday we found this doodle in a book from 1583! #16thcentury #RareBooks

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This may be the most beautifully-bound book of the 18th century in Ireland.

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We're used to finding pages from printed books recycled in bindings, but this is a first for us - coloured, uncut playing cards peeking out from a pastedown in a 1615 dictionary of philosophy, likely bound in France #RareBooks #Bindings #Fragments

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1 year

Today, all staff have come to work as either Oppenheimer or Barbie (they were free to choose which they preferred) and will deliver their tours of the ancient library in character. #Barbenheimer

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We now have about a dozen insects found within books from the sixteenth century onwards. We are wondering if their existence can tell us anything about the readers who killed them: time of year of reading; location of reading. Sounds like a research project.....

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Beautiful inside & out! An early 16th century Venetian binding on a gorgeously illustrated missal, printed in Venice in 1508 #RareBooks #Bindings

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16th century mistletoe #RareBooks #Christmas

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2 years

Wow! We had 293 visitors today, our busiest day so far! Thank you to all those who visited today, and thank you to all our amazing staff and volunteers!

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Cleaning books in an ancient library is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Always a work in progress.....

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One of our prettiest title pages! Dutch naturalist & insect enthusiast Jan Goedart's Metamorphosis Naturalis, printed in 1662 #TitlePageTuesday

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Printer hanging up his recently printed sheets to dry in 1683

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#OnThisDay 30 April during the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin, books in the reading room were 'inadvertently' hit by machine-gun fire. A small entry hole conceals the extensive damage inside.

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Ancient books missing from the shelves in our Second Gallery ... (1/2)

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This is a volvelle, no not a Bond villain, but a paper instrument with moving parts. This one is for measuring the sun above the horizon

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a #17thcentury acorn binding to mark the #Equinox , the first day of #autumn , or the middle for most Irish people

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1709 Proclamation by Lord Mayor of Dublin asking citizens to behave well to "Poor Strangers" who had arrived as refugees fleeing persecution. This is the only surviving copy of this proclamation in the world.

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Happy #hedgehog day!

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A map of Ireland's capital city from the 1550s.

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Walk through of the library today. Alone with the ghosts and the books.

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"Small children with dirty feet MUST NOT walk across the pages of open books." Library Regulation No. 4587. A mark left in one of our atlases from the 1790s. You really do need a rule for every eventuality.....

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Magnificent plate of the solar system from Bernard Fontenelle's Plurality of Worlds (1686), one of the first 'popular science' books, in which a philosopher & young woman discuss ideas like the existence of many worlds, space travel & extraterrestrial life

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The autumn equinox is upon us & it is feeling truly autumnal in Dublin 8. May this lovely 17th century acorn binding make up for the grey sky outside!

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A very cute woodcut in the right-hand margin of a book printed in 1494. We wonder what he's reading.

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The bits you don't usually get to see! The sewing structure and a small piece of repurposed manuscript waste on a book bound in loose vellum from 1613 #rarebooks #binding #fragments

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7 years

Gorgeous Irish-language printing from 1618. Produced in Louvain, this copy was once in the Irish College in Prague before making its way to Marsh's. The only surviving copy in the world. @universalstc

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Aubergines or eggplant? Well, 500 years ago these vegetables (technically, fruit!) were known as 'mad apples' as they were thought to be poisonous!

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1 year

Some very beautiful marbled endpapers to see us into the weekend! #RareBooks #Bindings

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2 years

Think we should dispense with highlighters and bring back the 'manicule' to mark important passages. Only if you own the book, of course! #ManiculeMonday #MondayMarginalia #RareBooks #Doodles

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A touch of gold to brighten this very grey day. From our oldest printed book, Cicero's letters, printed in Milan in 1472 #RareBooks #Incunables #Illumination

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Cataloguing this book of #17thcentury #Dutch pamphlets we came across this heart shaped clip on #bookmark . It's unusual to find them as they're quite fragile things that fall off easily so we were very happy librarians yesterday afternoon

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4 years

There's something a little bit cosmic about these marbled endpapers #rarebooks #marbling

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A 17th-century pig with a spring in his step!

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We found this beautiful #bookmark in an #18thcentury bible yesterday #BeautifulBooks #RareBooks

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Woodcut of Dante's first meeting with Virgil & on the facing page Inferno Canto I, from our 1520 edition of Commedia printed in Venice.

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We opened this book from 1636 and found some birds' feathers. As you do. #17thcentury #birds #specialcollections #rarebooks

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Hand-coloured flowers from 1591 dancing on the page #spring #flowers

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Stick figures in fancy hats, from a book printed in 1656 #rarebooks #doodles

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A face peeking out from a #fragment of a noted #manuscript re-used in the binding of a 1552 prayer book.

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Lovely 17th century French marbled endpapers to brighten up a grey February day #RareBooks #Bindings

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Tiny prancing reindeer, from the map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 vol. Atlas Major, 1662

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Yesterday afternoon we found this doodle and pen trials in a book from 1674 #RareBooks #SpecialCollections #17thcentury #Marginalia #BookDoodles #Birds

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Looking towards St Patrick's Cathedral with the sun coming in....

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The centre of the earth from Athanasius Kircher's 'Mundus subterraneus' printed in Amsterdam, 1678 #EarthDay2024

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We are looking for a qualified librarian to join the team at Marsh's Library. We are certainly among the top three rare-book libraries within the Dublin 8 postcode:

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Looks like we might get some snow in #Dublin today. These are the first recorded example of snowflakes to appear in print! From Olaus Magnus' History of the Northern People, 1555 #RareBooks #Snow #Christmas

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Little & large! A hefty tome and our smallest book weighing 80g - just the right size for minifigure Marsh! #rarebooks #tinybooks

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Our earliest printed book. 'Letters of Cicero', published in Milan in 1472. This beauty is one of the stars of our forthcoming exhibition about the 75 books in our collection that were published before 1501. #incunabulum #incunable #incunabula

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Sexism be damned! This book giving instruction on metalworking, woodworking and brick-laying was owned by a Sarah Batts in 1689 #17thcentury #WomenInBooks #SpecialCollections #RareBooks

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In case it'd come in handy, a manuscript exorcism for those made sick by witchcraft #rarebooks #Halloween

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This history of the world, published in Venice in 1486, begins with the Garden of Eden.

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I never tire of looking at this! One of our most spectacular, and baubly bindings, made in Edinburgh at the end of the 17th century #RareBooks #Christmas

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How to mix colours, from the world's first scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Still impressively vibrant 353 years after publication! #earlymodernscience #scienceisbeautiful

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A very happy St Patrick's day one & all! Prayer for St Patrick's day from our c.1400 #Dublin Processional #StPatricksDay2023 #Manuscripts

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#Sustainable #aviation from a book published in 1526

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Something sharp made its way cleanly through the binding & about 300 pages of this 17th century volume of tracts. We're thinking small sharp blade or maybe baby basilisk tooth.

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Very thankful to have missed out on 17th century dentistry! From a work on surgical tools, Armamentarium chirurgicum, printed in 1662.

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It's not actually international toucan day, but it should be. We came across this today; a gorgeously dark woodcut from a 16th century book by the Italian naturalist Aldrovandi.

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Someone decided this manuscript could be put to better use as a canvas! #Doodles #Manuscript

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James Joyce read at this table and sat in one of these chairs to consult the prophecies of Joachim Abbas (left), an incident which ended up in Ulysses. Yes, that's a first edition. Not that we are showing off or anything.... #Bloomsday2022 #Bloomsday100

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From 1767, readers were locked into these 'cages' to prevent theft. Ó 1767, cuireadh léitheoirí faoi ghlas sna ‘cásanna’ seo le gadaíocht a chosc. De 1767, les lecteurs étaient enfermés dans ces ‘cages’ pour prévenir les vols.

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Example 764 of why there is no greater love than the love of books: gauffered gold edges! Heated tools were pressed into the gilded edges to create the patterns of flowers and birds on these Hebrew books #rarebooks #binding #booklove

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Fabulous intact clasps on this 16th century volume that once belonged to a 'C de Jong' #bindings

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