The banjo player from our band is in St. Louis, and today she sent me some beautiful photos (and one funny one) to post on my blog. First are some photos of the interior of St. Louis Cathedral:
In this photo you can see a biretta ("cardinal hat") being used as a decoration in a crypt:
This is a giant 14th century Spanish choir book. Why so big? Because if you had to write every book by hand, wouldn't you rather make one ginormous one for the whole choir instead of little books for each choir member? Just sayin.' This is why there are no pulp incunabulae; they didn't waste bookmaking on bad fiction.
Finally, here is the promised funny photo. Banjo Player spotted this sign in a bookstore located in a student neighborhood. I'm guessing none of these books are incunabulae.
Famous Hat
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