Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: First printed catalogue of library holdings published (24-5-1595) Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 22:34:33 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 12:34:47 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0847229bea50aef132c3d79f184211ce"; logging-data="3555682"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/4GgTciCrpZQ1Ke5bzxZBWbo8ynSY8zPs=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:fxTaDqtxs+s9kYDbruKg95la12o= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 2154 "Nomenclator autorum omnium, quorum libri vel manuscripti, vel typis expressi exstant in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae" (list of all the authors whose books, whether manuscript or printed, are available in Leiden University Library). "A contemporary print shows large folio volumes laid our on twenty-two shelves, and grouped into themes: theology, literature, philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine and law. Each book was chained to a rod above a slanting shelf, so that readers were able to tilt them out, consult them, but not remove them." ------- It's also the birthday of Queen Victoria (24-5-1819), a public holiday in Canada, officially "Victoria Day", but when I was young it was "Queen's Birthday", and considered the "official" birthday of the reigning monarch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Day New Zealand has a similar fictitious "King's/Queen's Birthday" public holiday, which is not far off -- first Monday in June. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Official_Birthday