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![Postscript — For Loving You Too Much](../../../assets/img/500x280/MZ-postscript2_SJRB_00004_IMG_129v_500x280.jpg)
Postscript — For Loving You Too Much
“One of the most common uses of manuscripts over the centuries is to train children in reading and writing...”
- Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman
![Arthur Vööbus: Preserving a Legacy](../../../assets/img/500x280/WWT-mag4_1670_OP-gray-cover_500x280.jpg)
Arthur Vööbus: Preserving a Legacy
“Dr. Arthur Voobus was many things—a scholar, pastor, teacher, and refugee in exile...”
- Dr. James Walters
![A Christmas Hymn Sing-Along](../../../assets/img/500x280/CWmusic_AARB-00271_500x280.jpg)
A Christmas Hymn Sing-Along
“Singing is one of those amazing things...”
- Dr. Catherine Walsh
![Monuments to the Dead](../../../assets/img/500x280/kg_dm1_AAP3313-500x280.jpg)
Monuments to the Dead
“Grief, loss, and death itself were very much part of...”
- Katherine Goertz
![Grief on the Page](../../../assets/img/500x280/AAP2267-500x280.jpg)
Grief on the Page
“How do you represent grief? For Marc Chagall, the Russian-born Jewish artist...”
- Dr. Catherine Walsh
![Gone, but not Forgotten: the Office for the Dead in Books of Hours](../../../assets/img/500x280/MH_F1_HMML_00004_158r-Dead-500x280.jpg)
Gone, but not Forgotten: the Office for the Dead in Books of Hours
“A choir of cowled monks around a shrouded casket, a body being laid into a coffin, a smiling skeletal figure, an old man sitting on a dung heap...”
- Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman
![The Calligrapher Clément Perret](../../../assets/img/500x280/KG_Scribe_AAP1567-500x280.jpg)
The Calligrapher Clément Perret
“In the mid-15th century, the invention of the printing press made books relatively easier to produce and...”
- Katherine Goertz
![Learning to Write: Practical Aspects of Handwriting](../../../assets/img/500x280/MH-scribe-13_IMG_050r-500x280.jpg)
Learning to Write: Practical Aspects of Handwriting
“In 1492, the abbot of a Benedictine monastery in Sponheim, Germany, wrote a small paean to scribes and the act of writing...”
- Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman
![Woodcut Fragments of the 16th Century](../../../assets/img/500x280/AAP0085-500x280.jpg)
Woodcut Fragments of the 16th Century
“HMML’s Art & Photographs collection is full of fragments of the 15th and 16th century...”
- Katherine Goertz
![Poetry and Agriculture, a Fragmentary Scrapbook](../../../assets/img/500x280/cw-frag-HMML_00631_500x280.jpg)
Poetry and Agriculture, a Fragmentary Scrapbook
“Manuscripts are known for their idiosyncratic nature...”
- Dr. Catherine Walsh
![Jacques Hnizdovsky in Minnesota](../../../assets/img/500x280/JH-6_AAP2582-500x280.jpg)
Jacques Hnizdovsky in Minnesota
“Jacques Hnizdovsky had arrived in the city the year before as a...”
- Katherine Goertz
![A Book You Would Love to Read...](../../../assets/img/500x280/BB13-IMG_2096-500x280.jpg)
A Book You Would Love to Read...
“A book you would love to read is lost, altered, destroyed, buried, hidden, left unpublished, unwritten, banned.”
- Dr. Catherine Walsh and Margaret Bresnahan
![Sandwiching a Forbidden Text](../../../assets/img/500x280/mh-book-Figure-9-500x280.jpg)
Sandwiching a Forbidden Text
“The advent of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century led to...”
- Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman
![Soup, with a Side of Reform](../../../assets/img/500x280/cg-food-to_the_true_poor__the_wicked_rich_500x280.jpg)
Soup, with a Side of Reform
“A group of women cluster together, several clutching the handles of lidded pots...”
- Dr. Catherine Walsh
![The Gouda Life](../../../assets/img/500x280/kg-food-1_St_Malchus-500x280.jpg)
The Gouda Life
“Between 1585 to 1600 Maarten de Vos designed 141 engravings depicting hermits.”
- Katherine Goertz
![The Case of the Mysterious Pie and the Amsterdam Theater](../../../assets/img/500x280/cw-food-Image_5_Stilleven_SK-A-4646-500x280.jpg)
The Case of the Mysterious Pie and the Amsterdam Theater
“Pie. Today, for many, this tasty baked good with its short, flaky crust suggests associations of...”
- Dr. Catherine Walsh
![Grave Tales, Engraved (and Etched)](../../../assets/img/500x280/kg-st-4_AAP0668-500x280.jpg)
Grave Tales, Engraved (and Etched)
“While many artists have provided illustrations for books, some works in the Art & Photographs collection at HMML were inspired by stories...”
- Katherine Goertz
![When in Rome...](../../../assets/img/500x280/matt-trav-1_AARB_00250_002-500x280.jpg)
When in Rome...
“Rome has long been a destination for travelers from around the world.”
- Dr. Matthew Z. Heintzelman
![Protecting Travelers and Maritime Contacts in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean](../../../assets/img/500x280/gullo-travel-4_HMML_00295-500x280.jpg)
Protecting Travelers and Maritime Contacts in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean
“The great Age of Sail conjures in our minds vast stretches of ocean populated by...”
- Dr. Daniel K. Gullo
![Traveling to France on Paper](../../../assets/img/500x280/travel-kath-5_AAP5193-500x280.jpg)
Traveling to France on Paper
“In the mid-19th century, a group of French artists began to reevaluate the art of...”
- Katherine Goertz
![Ancient Writing Revealed During HMML Palimpsest Imaging at Stanford's SLAC Lab](../../../assets/img/500x280/HMML_PALIMPSEST.jpg)
Ancient Writing Revealed During HMML Palimpsest Imaging at Stanford's SLAC Lab
“HMML’s very own palimpsest fragment recently underwent high energy x-ray imaging at...”
- Dr. Melissa Moreton
![HMML is Gifted a Rare Copy of William Shakespeare's Second Folio](../../../assets/img/500x280/shakespeares.jpg)
HMML is Gifted a Rare Copy of William Shakespeare's Second Folio
“HMML is pleased to announce the acquisition of “William Shakespeare’s Second Folio” to its...”