Book marvels at the Hermitage

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HERMITAGE PRESENTS EXHIBITION BOOK curiosities

Library of the State Hermitage Museum, the oldest museum library in Russia, is the first exhibition of his curiosities, which opens on April 1, 2009 in the Rotunda of the Winter Palace. A great number of priceless rare books appear before audiences in all its extraordinary splendor.

The exhibition, presented in the Hermitage, open-book giants, and the book-crumbs, which can not be without a magnifying glass to disassemble the text or illustrations. The section consists of miniature editions of the liturgical Orthodox and Muslim books XVII-XX centuries. As well as books-baby secular.
East section of the exhibition is composed of scrolls, the various editions of the Koran and the Torah, the books in the form of harmonics, replacing the book-jacket. They all unusual, elegant, original: upholstered covers, striking beauty flyleaf, clasps ivory with fine carvings, paintings on silk, calligraphy. Some books are intertwined rope ancient way stitched binding.

Portrait of curiosities in the Hermitage - an exhibition that provides a rare opportunity to see what was available to only a narrow range of museum curators, researchers, historians, and bibliographer.