The unicorn & the fencing mouse
Subtitle: an exhibition of marginalia, annotations and doodles : an exhibition in Marsh's Library, Dublin October 2015 - March 2016, 2015
By: curated by Maria O'Shea
Contributors: Marsh's Library
Publisher: Marsh's Library
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
ISBN-13: 9780993095320
Subjects: Marginalia; Exhibitions; Rare books; Marsh's Library
Other titles: Unicorn and the fencing mouse
Description: Among the collections in Marsh's Library, we find many books covered with annotations, to-do lists, ownership marks, family histories, drawings, and random doodles.  This 48-page catalogue, including 33 colour images of all the items in exhibition, contains books with annotations by Jonathan Swift, the poet John Donne, and the Elizabethan mathematician John Dee.  Some marginalia were serious pieces of scholarship in their own right, but others (including the sketches of a unicorn and a fencing mouse which suggested the title for the exhibition) were the result of day-dreaming or love-sickness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 44).