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Reading Strange Books: New Online Exhibition at Fryer

This week, the Fryer Library launched a new online exhibition. Guest blogger, Sarah Boothroyd, describes her experience as curator...

Over the past few months, I've been researching and reading strange books: books with holes cut out of them, books that can be shuffled like a deck of cards - even a book printed on a roll of toilet paper.

These works now form part of a virtual exhibition and special collection held by the Fryer Library.

Telling stories through pictures

Stories to Watch: Narrative in Medieval Manuscripts

The illuminated manuscripts in this Getty exhibition feature some of the methods that mediaeval illuminators used to depict factors of narrative

  • the drama of decisive moments
  • the development of events through time
  • verbal interaction