Marsh's Library

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Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars. Registered Charity RCN 20000752

Photo showing vellum bound book at an angle, with the title of pamphlets on the spine and lower part of the front cover
17th century title page
Detail of a page of parchment from a 13th century Latin Bible. The text is in ink with an initial illuminated 'E' marking the beginning of the book of Ezequiel ('Et factum est in tresimo anno). A bird stands atop the 'E' and marks the edge of the text.
Plate from Machina Coelestis showing a man and woman on either side of an astronomical instrument
Engraved frontispiece from Machina Coelestis
Detail of a map showing a vignette of Paris. From John Speed's Theatre of the empire of Great Britain, 1676.
Detail of a page from a 16th century book showing printed text with keywords (Plato, Theophrastus) and a doodle of a grotesque in profile with its tongue out. There is a pencil tip close to the doodle for scale.
A slightly ferocious looking beaver, from a 1555 Spanish translation of Materia Medica, the compendium of medicinal plants by the ancient physician Dioscorides.
Plate from a 17th century book showing a compass rose and wind direction
Invoice from 'Dublin Japan Works' with an illustration showing a man putting out a fire
Double leaf engraved plate showing a pangolin with its young, in profile
Map of 16th century Europe with Britain and Ireland in the bottom right, and Greece, Italy and Spain at the top
Woodcut showing a woman's body in profile and face on
Part of a title page showing the printer's mark and the imprint details
Woodcut showing Santorio Santori sitting in his weighing chair with food and drink on a table in front. From De Statica Medicina (Leiden, 1642).
Detail from a page in a 17th century book. The explanatory text at the top is in English, followed by part of a poem in Latin and its translation in English.
Detail of a page from a 15th century book with annotations and a pointing finger in the margin
Woodcut showing two people in bed discovered by another, from a 1526 edition of Le rommant de la rose.
Detail from the inside cover of a 17th century book binding showing 'Edward Lightbourne his book 1647 0-20-4' a library shelfmark and other letters.
Detail from a hand-coloured map of Mexico with title 'Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia' showing Mexico city/Tenochtitlan at the top centre with a cartouche of cherubs and armadillos below
Title page of a 17th century book in French
Part of a printed page from a 17th century book in English
Woodcut showing a man playing a cello on an Island, watched by swans & fish. From A history of the Northern People by Olaus Magnus, 1555
Page from a 16th century herbal showing woodcuts of a gladiolus and two irises. The names of the flowers are printed above the illustrations in several European languages
Detail of an engraving showing a dog with a pencil for scale
Plate of an engraving of a bouquet of flowers
Title page of De gli obelischi di Roma, by Michele Mercati (Rome, 1589)
Photo showing of the inside cover, spine lining and flyleaf of Lettere volgari di Aldo Manucci (Roma, 1592), the letters of Aldus Manutius the younger.
Detail of a title page from 1606 showing map of Venice with a pencil for scale
detail of a 17th century printed page showing a manicule or pointing finger in the margins
Title page of the novel 'De Ismeniae et Ismenes amoribus', Lyon, 1617
Woodcut showing a woman reading from Le rommant de la rose (Paris, 1526)
Detail of printer's mark from the title page of Commentaires sur les Epistres de l'Apostre S. Paul by Jean Calvin
Page of printed music from 1595
Engraving of tulips
Detail of page from 15th century book showing text in French and a manicule or pointing finger in the margin. The manicule is actually a full hand with an elaborately decorated cuff.
Typescript, signed, letter from 1949
Photo of two men and a woman in front of book cases Marsh's Library
17th century engraved frontispiece
Opening showing frontispiece and red and black title page of 'Der Neue Gulliver', Hamburg, 1731
Photo of 'the cages' in Marsh's Library
Detail from The Dublin Journal issue 1650, April 1743
First page of a copy of Handel's Messiah showing manuscript music
Hand-coloured woodcut from Icones Stirpium, 1591
Tall wooden bookshelves on the left hand side. A ladder is propped up against one bookcase. The shelves are filled with brown leather books. AT the end of the corridor there is a portrait of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh.
Image of the 1st gallery of Marsh's Library showing the bays on the left side, with the portrait of Marsh over the door at the end
Hand-coloured engraving of plants from 1809