Yesterday I went to Wolfenbüttel, a small kind of suburb of Braunschweig to visit one of my neighbors and friends Ute at work. She works at the Herzog-August Bibliothek, one of the most famous collections of books from the middle ages. After some awesome Chinese food for lunch, she took me on a private tour of the current exhibit.
The books are first sorted by subject, and then by size to maximize the space in the small building.
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| A multi-lingual Bible, including Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Aramaic, and German |
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| A Gutenberg Bible |
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| The first Bible written in German |
These books were locked inside a huge vault and were truly amazing things to see. They are all pre- 1500.
Tomorrow I am off to Berlin until the end of next week for the German National Fulbright Conference!
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