NanoBookReview , 22 days ago to random

Found this book in storage. Starting out strong.

#Books #Quotes #Kindness #Found #OldBooks #Opportunity

The inside cover of a book, open on a woven mat. The right page is blank, the left page, attached to the front cover, has a few page numbers written on it as well as a card glued in the lower center. It has a drawing of some open gates on it with and an inspirational quote. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again." It also has the words "ex libris" under the quote and a handwritten name under that, Mary Fairman, presumably the original owner of the book.
A close-up of a card glued to the inside cover of a book. It has a drawing of some open gates on it with and an inspirational quote. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again." It also has the words "ex libris" under the quote and a handwritten name under that, Mary Fairman, presumably the original owner of the book.

litteracarolina , 4 months ago to histodons group

Some very happy #eighth-century fishes swimming around. They appear in a famous early Italian version of Cassiodorus' Institutions, which is one of a number of #manuscripts showing a vivarium: a pool for raising living #fish, here linking directly to the river. It represents Cassiodorus' own monastery, Vivarium - one of the first real medieval Western monasteries – at Squillace in Calabria.

Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Patr.61, 29v: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00140805?page=62 @histodons @medievodons