Pangolins from Guy Tachard's Second Voyage ... au Royaume de Siam, 1689.

Europe from an unusual perspective! From Sebastian Munster's Cosmographiae universalis, 1554.

A woodcut illustrating the geometry of the proportions of the body. From Albrecht Dürer's 'Della simmetria dei corpi humani, libri quattro', printed in Venice in 1591.

The printer's mark of Pietro Perna has really captured the surprised owl look! From the title page of Ludovico Castrelveto's 'Correttione d'alcune cose del dialogo delle lingue ...' printed in Basel in 1572.

"When you have a library and a garden you have everything you need", said Cicero. Maybe nowadays that should be a library, a garden, and a plunge pool?

In our latest blog post, recent Maddock Fellow Dr Marc W. S. Jaffré explores how the French court of Henri IV navigated religious tensions in the wake of the Wars of Religion @courtstudies.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk marshlibrary.ie/debate-bros-...

The marvellous weighing machine of Santorio Santori! For 30 years the Italian physician weighed himself, everything he ate & drank, & everything he...expelled. From his experiments he discovered insensible perspiration, the loss of excess weight as water & carbon dioxide via the skin & respiration.

Good wine for good health! Dietary advice from 'Regimen sanitatis Salerni', *the* Medieval guide to good health. This is from an English translation printed in 1624.

A very nice piece by Olga Taranova about our new exhibition to mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Gulliver's Travels: www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

A manicule, or pointing finger, added by an early reader to an important passage in Pope Gregory's Moralia, printed 546 years ago. The section reminds us to look on the bright side of adversity & not rest on our laurels #ManiculeMonday #MondayMarginalia

The latest round of our Maddock Research Fellowships has just been advertised. Come and work in our exciting research collection: marshlibrary.ie/about/news-e...

Gutenberg's Cradle" is a book about the gorgeous books in our collection published in the decades after the invention of printing. It has been nominated for the prestigious ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography. You can buy a copy of this beautiful book here: marshlibrary.ie/product/gute...

No more Rivals until November?! We'll just have to occupy ourselves with medieval romance until then! From Le rommant de la rose, 1526.

The best kind of book owner: Edward Lightbourne left not only his lovely signature, but also the year he bought this collection of John Milton's pamphlets, and the cost.

Armadillos & their cherub tormentors on a map of central and west coast Mexico, from Blaeu's Atlas Major, vol 10, 1662-5.

Oh no, Rupert Giles (aka the actor Anthony Head), everyone's favourite school librarian, has passed away. We were only talking at lunch yesterday about how Giles was the best TV representation of a librarian ever. RIP, Anthony Head.

Hmm, this might be a bit controversial: 'The purgatory of modern men', from 1619. As for that subtitle ...

Good luck to everyone starting their leaving cert today! A little bit of addition to warm the brain, from 'Records Arithmetick', a manual to teach simple & practical maths.

Whatever you're up to this weekend, may you be as entertained as these swans and fish!

It's very lovely to see all the irises in bloom around Dublin 8 at the moment. These hand-coloured beauties are from a mid-16th century herbal or Kreutterbuch.

A happy looking dog at court! From the engraved title page of Hugo de Groot's Introduction to Dutch jurisprudence, printed in 1636.

An impressive bouquet of flowers from Paul Contant's 'Le Bouquet Printanier', printed in 1600 in La Rochelle.

Somebody went to real efforts to erase what was written on the title page of this volume on Roman obelisks from 1589. They scribbled out the inscription and pasted a slip of paper over it. Must've been scandalous!

In our latest blog post, recent Maddock Fellow Dr Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social looks at how Indigenous peoples shaped Huguenot colonization in the seventeenth century. marshlibrary.ie/the-indigeno...

The binder used a fragment of printed music to line the spine of the letters of Aldo Manuzio the younger, from 1592. Music was tricky to print & the page may have had an error, or perhaps it didn't sell. Whatever the reason, it ended up in the waste pile #Fragments #Bindings

On Newstalk's Talking History, Marsh's Director Dr Jason McElligott joined Prof Daniel Cook, Prof David Kenny & Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir to talk about the continuing impact of Gulliver's Travels 300 years after it was published. If you missed it listen back here: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

A tiny map of Venice from the title page of a pamphlet printed in 1606.

A later owner tried to wash out a scribble on the title page of this Byzantine novel, but still the ownership inscription remains. A good thing too, as it tells us the book belonged to poet & playwright Ben Jonson.

A very relatable look of 'can I just get five minutes peace with my book'. From Le Rommant de la Rose, a hugely popular Medieval poem, printed in Paris, 500 years ago.

A lovely piece about Jonathan Swift in the current issue of The New Yorker. Lots of references to Marsh's Library in it: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Our new exhibition is a must-see.

The printer's mark of Huguenot printer Conrad Badius from 1562 showing a printing press and a quote from Genesis 3:19 reminding us that to labour is the lot of mortal humans: 'by the sweat of your brow you will eat'. A fitting sentiment after the bank holiday!

Happy #MayDay ! Falalas from Thomas Morley's 1595 'Balletts to five voyces'.

Tulips & sea daffodils, with bonus beetle, from Daniel Rabel's 'Theatrum florae' printed in Paris in 1622.

Competitive #manicules! These three pointing fingers, are all indicating important sections in the same book, a French edition of Fasciculus Temporum, a bestselling history of the world, printed in Lyon in 1483. A glimpse of the book's earliest #readers & their (varied) artistic skills #Doodles

In a letter Pádraig Ó Conchubhair recounted a visit to Marsh's in 1924 when he was blocked from entering by a woman cleaning the steps. She took him for a gunman in his fedora and trench coat. #1926Census has possibly given a name to our defender, library caretaker Mary Ann Gwynne #Census1926

Still room left on our #CultureDateWithDublin8 tours! Book here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1985437713...

We're delighted that the Archive of the Order of the Friendly Brothers was signed over to Marsh's Library on 9th April. Marsh's Governors Archbishop Michael Jackson, Dean William Morton and Ms Patricia Quinn were in attendance, with Mr Roger West & Mr Hamish Logan from the Order.

The fabulous frontispiece of Gaspar Schott's 'Magia Universalis', printed in Bamberg in 1677. Its subject matter includes optics & acoustics, represented by the scattered instruments at the bottom of the page.

A German translation of a fake sequel to Gulliver's Travels, one of the books on display in our current exhibition 'Gulliver 300' celebrating Jonathan Swift's masterpiece. We're open 9.30-5.00pm Tuesday to Friday and 10am-5.00pm on Saturday #Exhibition #GulliversTravels

Delighted to welcome to our Library Xikun Zhu (1st Sec) and Hu Yaodan (2nd Sec.) of the culture section of #Chinese Embassy in Dublin. Pictured from left to right: Ms Yaodan; the Director of Marsh's Jason McElligott; the Assistant Director Amy Boylan; and Ms Zhu. #china

Applications for the inaugural 'Museum Plinth Project' close this Friday 17th April. The residency offers artists a 6-month residency to engage with the collections of Marsh's Library or the National Museum. visualartists.ie/advert/open-...

Tonight the Irish Baroque Orchestra & Choir perform Handel's Messiah in Dublin Castle, for the anniversary of its premiere in Dublin on 13th April 1742. Our manuscript was copied by John Mathews in 1761 & is full of information about variant settings & early performance

Hand-coloured love apples, otherwise known as tomatoes, from 1591

That time of year again! Join us on Saturday 9th May for Culture Date with Dublin 8! We will running guided tours at 11am, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm for €5 per person! Book here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/1985437713... #CultureDate #CultureDateWithDublin8

Our exhibition to mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Gulliver's Travels is now open to the public. We hope you'll find it an interesting mix of rare first editions, children's books and toys, and a death mask!

On #WorldHealthDay it transpires that we must celebrate the comeback of leeches in modern medicine. The old remedies are the best aren't they?! These delightful mages are from 'De animalibus insectis libri septem' #Aldrovandi (1602)

Marsh's Library will be closed on Good Friday, 3rd April, and will reopen on Saturday 4th from 10am to 5pm.

Commercial plants in 1809: coffee, flax, cinnamon, indigo and tobacco. From John Payne's 'Universal Geography', printed down the road from us in the Coombe.