Callousness, capriciousness and merciless time have caused pieces of the Africatown story to be lost. Diligence, devotion and unexpected luck have saved others. Interested onlookers got a rare sense ...
From speeches written and bound on manuscripts the size of a penny to law books printed around 1490, there’s no shortage of interesting finds available at the Library of Michigan. Many of these ...
Manager of Special Collections Susan Buttaccio shows pages from the book “Hypnerotomachia Poliphili” by Francesco Colonna inside the Central Library vault. The book, which was printed in 1499, is ...