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Welcome to the Library Company of Philadelphia's Tumblr page! Founded by Ben Franklin in 1731, we are an independent research library specializing in American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries. This page highlights materials from LCP's extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, prints, photographs, and works of art.
The first #WednesdayChallenge of 2020 asks us to share some of our #OutOfThisWorld collections, and we thought we’d start with this astrological plate from Comenius’s Janua Linguarum Trilinguis, which features the twelve signs of the #zodiac.
The accompanying text is printed in three columns in three languages- English, Latin, and Greek. This pictorial phrasebook was intended to help students learn language through description of familiar things and by associating words with images.
Happy New Year! We hope your #horoscope is looking good!
Comenius, Johann Amos. Janua Linguarum Trilinguis. Londini: ex Officina Rogeri Danielis, 1662.