Spectacular and complex pattern poems from Maurus' De laudibus sanctae crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross)
This is just an automatic copy of Public Domain Review blog.
Spectacular and complex pattern poems from Maurus' De laudibus sanctae crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross)
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/medieval-pattern-poems-of-rabanus-maurus-9th-century
Players moving pieces along a track to be first to reach a goal was the archetypal board game format of the 18th and 19th century. Alex Andriesse looks at one popular incarnation in which these pieces progress chronologically through history itself, usually with some not-so-subtle ideological, moral, or national ideal as the object of the game.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/progress-in-play-board-games-and-the-meaning-of-history
Songs from Shakespeare plays as recorded by Victor in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/shakespeare-songs-from-victor-records
William H. Matthews’ vast and richly illustrated encyclopaedic portrait of these mysterious phenomena across time and space.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/mazes-and-labyrinths-1922
Selection of book covers produced during the bookbinding revolution of the 19th century and beyond.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-book-covers-1820-1914
Its dizzy heights may have passed, but the fad for adult coloring books is far from over. Many trace the origins of such publications to a wave of satirical colouring books published in the 1960s, but as Melissa N. Morris and Zach Carmichael explore, the existence of such books, and the urge to colour the printed image, goes back centuries.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/filling-in-the-blanks-a-prehistory-of-the-adult-coloring-craze
Unique edition of Lewis Carroll's classic, published in Gregg shorthand.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/alice-s-adventures-in-shorthand-1919
Highlights from the CMA's release of more than 34,000 digital images of public domain works — all high resolution and free from restrictions on reuse.
The American librarian C.A. Cutter looks forward from 1883 to "the library of the future" in 1983.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-library-of-the-future-a-vision-of-1983-from-1883
Rebecca Rego Barry on David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton to his duel (and death), and creator of one of the first botanical gardens in the United States, home to thousands of species which he used for his pioneering medical research.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/flower-power-hamiltons-doctor-and-the-healing-power-of-nature