{"id":9812,"date":"2019-09-16T06:34:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=9812"},"modified":"2019-09-16T16:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:03:44","slug":"where-is-the-oldest-book-on-campus-the-smallest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/16\/where-is-the-oldest-book-on-campus-the-smallest\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the oldest book on campus? The smallest?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190916_051504-e1568664198158.jpg\" alt=\"Where is the oldest book on campus? The smallest?\" class=\"wp-image-9766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190916_051504-e1568664198158.jpg 437w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190916_051504-e1568664198158-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><figcaption>Where is the oldest book on campus? The smallest?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of this depends on your definition of &#8220;book&#8221;. The oldest printed book is in Burns Library.  It is Jean Gerson\u2019s <em>De Spiritualib[us] Nupciis<\/em> (On Spiritual Marriage) from about 1470. Lots more info about it, and a link to the digital version, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ReallyOldBook\">bit.ly\/ReallyOldBook<\/a>. We also have a manuscript (handwritten book) from ~1300: <a href=\"http:\/\/burnsantiphoner.bc.edu\">http:\/\/burnsantiphoner.bc.edu<\/a>. That is essentially an old church song book. I&#8217;m not sure about smallest. Do you mean height\/width or thickness? Or smallest total volume? Either way, I might not be able to find a good answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of this depends on your definition of &#8220;book&#8221;. The oldest printed book is in Burns Library. It is Jean Gerson\u2019s De Spiritualib[us] Nupciis (On Spiritual Marriage) from about 1470. Lots more info about it, and a link to the digital version, here: bit.ly\/ReallyOldBook. We also have a manuscript (handwritten book) from ~1300: http:\/\/burnsantiphoner.bc.edu. That &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/16\/where-is-the-oldest-book-on-campus-the-smallest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where is the oldest book on campus? The smallest?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9849,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9812\/revisions\/9849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}