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"I am: yet what I am none cares or knows...
I am the self-consumer of my woes--
They rise and vanish in oblivious host..." - John Clare
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The Library of Congress , America's oldest national cultural institution is more than two hundred years old. With generous support from the U.S. Congress, it has become the largest repository of recorded knowledge.
If ever a library had a single founder, Thomas Jefferson is the founder of the Library of Congress. His personal library is the Library's core, and the vast range of his interest determined the universal and diverse nature of the Library's collections and activities. The active mind was central to Jefferson's concept of government; he felt there was "no subject to which a Member of Congress may not have occasion to refer." He believed that self-government depended on the free, unhampered pursuit of truth by an informed and involved citizenry.
The unleashed, unlimited pursuit of truth may be the last frontier and the ultimate proving ground for the ideal of freedom. In a world of increasing physical restraints and limitations, it is only in the life of the mind and spirit that the horizons of freedom can remain truly infinite.
~ James H. Billington
The Librarian of Congress
Some of the most glorious treasures of the Library of Congress are in the custody of the Asian Division. Among them are early block-printed books, a scroll sutra from 975 A.D., pictographic manuscripts from southwestern China, and an example of Japanese printing dating from 770 A.D. The Mongolian Buddhist Sutra---an exquisite creation in pen, ink, gouache, and brocaded silk on paper---dates from the eighteenth century.
Inscribed Bamboo from the Philippines. These specimens of Filipino writing in old Indic script, which are similar to ancient scripts used in neighboring Indonesia and to modern script incised on bamboo, were gathered on the island of Mindoro around 1938. The Library's collection of fifty-five bamboos in prose and twenty-two in verse provides a glimpse into Mangyan (Hampangan) and Tagbanua society.
William Blake. The Book of Urizen (Lambeth: Printed by W. Blake, 1794 [i.e., 1815?]). A retelling of the genesis myth, written, illustrated, and printed by William Blake.
See it here .
The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, comprising more than twenty-six hundred rare illustrated books, stands out among the distinguished resources of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Detail of manuscript Chinese map, "Ten-Thousand-Mile Map of Maritime Defenses," drawn during the Qing Dynasty, ca. 1705.
The Library's Geography and Map Division has the largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world -- spanning many centuries and including maps in many forms.
A treasure trove for lovers of old books and special collections.Explore.
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