Suzannah Lipscomb Instagram – The @bodleianlibraries’s Weston Library shows off some of their treasures in their exhibition Gifts & Books.
Here the translation of Marguerite de Navarre’s Le miroir de l’âme pécheresse that Princess Elizabeth prepared for Kateryn Parr, a Geneva Bible bound in 1584, and two gorgeously-bound books by Francis Bacon, given by Bacon to Buckingham and the Bodleian respectively. (I love that he lent into the pun on his name.)
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