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Scholar reading, in library – Historic Reproduction

Scholar reading, in library, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
Scholar reading, in library, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic print from the Books & Writers collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A scholar sits at a reading desk among shelves of books, a scene tied in its record to *La Mer des Hystoires*, a French illustrated world history from the late fifteenth century. The woodcut comes from the early years of printing, when printers often borrowed the conventions of manuscript illumination and pictured learned men surrounded by their books. The record gives no date and its data is unverified, so the printing details and the link to this particular book should be checked before relying on them. Even so, the image shows how a scholar's study was imagined as printing spread.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : woodcut.
SubjectsIllus. in: La Mer des Hystoires. Ref. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Scholars; Libraries; Occupations--Scribes; Incunabula; Rare Book Division; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan930 × 900 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-106502

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