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© 1996-2009 |
The
Library of Liliput
MINIATURE BOOK EXHIBITION
| February 15th
to March 15th the Borbón-Lorenzana room of the
library of Castilla in Toledo presents a peculiar and very important book
exhibition in tiny size, coming from a private collection. In this sample
without precedents in Spain they are possible to be seen (sometimes, only
with the aid of a agnifying glass) around 1,000 units in smallest format
from s. XV to the present time, in all type of binds (silver, ivory,
leather, wood, parchment...) and languages (from copto to the Latin,
happening through the Russian, Chinese, French, English, Spanish
Thailander...). Between the units that are going away to show it finds a
book of 2 mm x 2 mm and that is considered the edition printed (not reduced
photographically) smaller of the world; a Corán of 2 1.5 xs cms. also
tiniest made until now; a reproduction of 4 3 xs cms printed in 1855 of the
Bible of Gutenberg; a very small dictionary in English that Bryce in 1895
published; a unit of the new testament done at the end of the XIX as large
as a nail; an illustrated bible of 5 4 xs cms of 1780... and thus until
approx 1,000 volumes in Lilliputian format, including 22 small editions of
the Quixote: the microscopic of Calleja of 1902, the one of Editions
Castilla and the one of Mayfe of the 47, commemorative Carrogio of 4º
centennial, the one that finishes entering the pos Guiness book its very
small size made by SIC... Also miniature can be always enjoyed an amplest
old and modern, Spanish and international fairytale section in format. The
exhibition is completed with scenes in miniature (a medieval scriptorium, a
scale model on made scale 1/10 in the middle of the XIX of the press of
Gutenberg...); editions facsimiles of the codices smaller than exist,
written by hand original previous to s. XV also of reduced dimensions,
among other curiosities...
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