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A tiny, intensely illuminated Italian book of hours, newly acquired at the Boston Public Library. Copied in or around Brescia at the end of the 15th century, this book has never been in an institutional collection and will soon be digitized. Now BPL MS q Med.303 bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S7...

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The unionized staff of the Boston Public Library need your help! A member of the Boston Public Library Professional Staff Union, Eve, had her request to withdraw hours from the sick bank denied by Boston Public Library management. Sign the petition at bit.ly/sickbankpetition to add your name!

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The org that I work for is doing this and it is appalling beyond belief.

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Our Treasury is under the power of Elon Musk. This means that he is holding our entire country hostage. And these [redacted] Democrats are still using calm language. This is a [redacted] crisis—ACT LIKE IT, you [redacted]!

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I promised some historical background relevant to the implication that "DEI" had played a role in Wednesday's tragic accident in DC. Since today is the 1st day of #BlackHistoryMonth, it's time to lay this out. So, herewith a 🧵 on just what it took to integrate commercial aviation in the 1st place.

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Secretary of State William Seward's official proclamation declaring ratification of the 13th Amendment, set into type by William Lloyd Garrison for the Dec. 22, 1865 issue of The Liberator. The type was never redistributed and was saved for posterity. It came to the BPL in 1902. BPL Cab.G.3.12

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More fantastic and rare New England regional community cookbooks recently acquired by BPL

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“John Adams Esq, from his humble servant Joseph Warren”—a copy of Warren’s 1772 oration commemorating the Boston Massacre, inscribed by Warren to John Adams. BPL Adams.170.9 no.2. Now on hold in our reading room to view—no appointment required!

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The very first book that Theodore Parker ever owned: a Latin dictionary he bought at age 12. Transcendentalist, religious reformer, and abolitionist, he was one of the “secret six” who funded John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. BPL has held Parker’s entire book collection since the 19th century.

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This fantastic and unusual ca. 15th-century Italian humanist scroll has now been fully digitized (front AND back). Come for the (overly?) ambitiously imperial Roman genealogical diagram, stay for the glue joins, pricked holes, precision ruling, etc. ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/v...

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My colleagues and I are working to assemble a collection of mostly regional New England community cookbooks. These amazing little books are both everywhere and very hard to find. A fantastic way to delve into local foodways and a great entryway into special collections research for the uninitiated

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More new acquisitions: three very rare early regional printings of Amelia Simmons’ American Cookery – the first published American cookbook. All three are in their original bindings; two retain information about their very earliest owners. Published in Vermont, New York, and New Hampshire.

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New acquisition. A ca 1480s exposition on the Gospels, printed perhaps in Strasbourg, but circulated in Bohemia. With two lifted pastedowns of red-printed proof sheets from a seemingly unrecorded early Bohemian bloodletting(?) calendar, with a manuscript medical recipe in old Czech. Now BPL Q.407.39

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This night blooming cactus flowers for ONE night per year. But when it does, the floral scent fills the house and the flower itself is weird and enormous and beautiful.

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Late blooming iris

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Not easy to find and can’t see it with the naked eye here is Boston, but we finally spotted the comet!

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Huge regional fruit availability news

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Orchid happening

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Latest acquisition is this lovely little 16th-century Italian astronomical calendar and guide to reckoning time with golden numbers and dominical letters. Now BPL MS q Med.302 catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/sear...

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Northern lights in Boston!

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Drainage (Daniel Plainview voice)

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Newly acquired: an unusual poem, printed in 1485 in Florence, in which is nested the first Italian printing Virgil’s Georgics. Also inscribed with poems attributed to Lorenzo de Medici, Lodovico Ariosto, and Angelo Poliziano, which were only published beginning in the late 1800s. Now BPL Q.406.55

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Neighbors removing an absolutely beloved stand of mature oaks. Sad day in the neighborhood.

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Vermont

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Newly acquired ed. of a comprehensive guide to notarial work. This copy, in its original boards, with an inscription of the price dated Padua, 1482. And with almost 350 years of meteorological inscriptions recording snowfall around the Italian town of Feltre. BPL Q.406.5 tinyurl.com/5ehvf2cd

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k/w searching the Boston 311 web interface. So much drama and weirdness. And coyotes: 311.boston.gov/tickets/1010...

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Beautiful beach detritus in the morning, arrived home in the afternoon to find our fig tree full of ripened fruit.

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