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Our latest ‘Featured Resource’ is now available, which this month focuses on PsycARTICLES. Check out the feature for tips on using this resource to find full-text articles in psychology and related areas.
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The 1472 edition of Pliny the Elder’s Historia Naturalis, printed by Nicholas Jenson, is one of the highlights of the Cole Library held at the University of Reading Special Collections.
This month’s Featured Item on the Special Collections website takes a closer look at this extraordinary publication.
Pliny’s work, which takes the form of an encyclopaedia, was originally composed and written in classical Latin around AD 70, and was divided into thirty-seven books. It is very broad in scope and includes all sorts of facts, observations and myths relating to the world and man, on subjects such as astronomy, beekeeping, taxidermy and conception.
This 1472 edition of Pliny’s masterpiece is the second oldest printed book in the University of Reading’s rare book collections, and one of twelve examples of incunabula or early printed books held by the University. It has one illuminated page and thirty-seven illuminated initial letters, and is rubricated in red and blue around text. The book was printed in Venice by Nicholas Jenson (c. 1420-1480), an influential type founder, punch cutter, printer and publisher, and is considered one of the highest achievements of printing during the Renaissance.
For more information on the Cole Library and how to view the collections for yourself, see the Cole Library webpage.
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Our latest ‘Featured Resource’ is now available, which this month focuses on JSTOR. Check out the feature for information on accessing the database and using some of its advanced search options to find articles.
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The Cole Library, which is held at the University of Reading Special Collections, is a treasure trove of books with fine zoological illustrations. Ichthyologie ; ou, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons by the German ichthyologist Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723-99) has been described as one of the finest illustrated works on fish ever to be published, and is one of the highlights of the Cole collection.
This month’s Featured Item on the Special Collections website takes a close look at at this extraordinary publication
This work is the French octavo edition of Bloch’s Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische which was originally published in twelve folio volumes, illustrated with 432 coloured copperplate engravings, and providing detailed descriptions of about 500 fish species. Bloch gave full descriptions of every species known to him, some of which were introduced to a wider audience in colour for the first time. Each species is illustrated with a high quality engraving which has been meticulously hand-coloured, with silver paint used to give an exquisite realistic sheen to the fish scales.
For more information on the Cole Library and how to view the collections for yourself, see the Cole Library webpage.
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