| Date | 29 July 2025, 4:00pm–5:00pm |
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| Cost | Free |
| Bookings | Bookings required |
| Location | Digital Lab Meet at the Swanston Street Welcome Zone |
From Afghanistan to England, Ethiopia to France, embark on a journey around the world through the Library’s extensive Rare Books Collection. Housing over 300 international medieval and early-modern (pre-1900) manuscripts, many of the texts are digitised to aid their preservation.
Join Dr Anna Welch, the Library’s Principal Collection Curator, History of the Book, for a special chance to see a selection of these manuscripts in person and learn about how they came to be in the Library’s collection.
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About Melbourne Rare Book Week
Rare Book Week is an annual, Melbourne-wide program of free talks and events that celebrate the importance of books, literacy and literature in our lives. It has become a key event in literary Melbourne’s calendar since 2012.
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