Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…you can read Polish, you can find funny articles in the contemporary newspapers scanned by Polish digital libraries, for example take a look at this one: (see the last page)….

…Variorum, for those who have not explored inside their rich blue covers, are expensive collecteana of prestigious authors that can only be afforded by elite libraries in elite institutions or…

…the Suda acts as a museum of burning libraries with quotations and snippets from authors and works that no longer exist. Here, in any case, is the entry on maschalismos…

…add some science. Unfortunately Beach’s library doesn’t run to that great three volume nineteenth-century work and Italian public libraries can be unforgiving. Nyland here is, literally, Newland. It has been…

Another book from the burning libraries file, this time from thirteenth-century Saxony. The book is, as the burning library tag suggests, lost but we learn something of its subject matter…

…the Crucifix or other such treasures from the burning libraries of the past. We at strangehistory.net are putting together a list of extraordinary archaeological discoveries and the events around them….

…Latin Literature that is quite rare on this side of the world even in copyright libraries – a few second hand shops in Austrialia sell it. Meanwhile, those interested in…

Yes, yes, Beachcombing knows that those bores in the Vatican and some Finnish broadcasters still speak Latin. He’s even been into monastic libraries where they won’t give you a manuscript…

…and the libraries: the historical equivalent of Venetian glass blowers. Given the quality of the historians there are, naturally enough, many fine essays in this collection and nothing that could…

…libraries for thousands of dollars and that no one reads. This was only the last in a long line of proofs that Wikipedia has grown up. Wikipedia jokes used to…

…inappropriately. Canada has destroyed science libraries and refuses to allow federal scientists to report their findings publicly. Canada is insisting on building more oil pipelines to deliver product overseas, never…

…of a millennium in western Europe: did it survive perhaps in the Greek Mediterranean, in the libraries and classrooms of Byzantium perhaps? Beach then toyed with (the psychologically acute) ‘pride…

…has a special place in Beach’s heart and so he hoped vainly perhaps, that someone could fill in the blanks. The great problem with Italian libraries is that there is…

…from not only his father but also his great-uncle Thomas Hollis, benefactor of Harvard College, Hollis spent several hundred pounds yearly on books many of which he presented to libraries,…

  Penn Libraries call number: Inc B-720 Loved this……