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Special Collections and Rare Books recently contributed several World War I posters to the Missouri Over There digitization project. Coordinated by the Missouri State Library, the Missouri Over There project explores the state's involvement in the first World War. The posters selected for digitization deal with military recruiting and home front efforts such as food conservation, savings programs, and civic organizations. Many pertain to the St. Louis area, but a few are specific to Columbia and mid-Missouri.

Take a look at the project blog, and browse the entire selection of posters in the Missouri Digital Heritage database. Special Collections has a collection of over 900 World War I posters, including examples from France, Germany, and Belgium. You can find a description of the entire World War I poster collection on the Special Collections website.

We think this week's post counts for manuscript Monday and maybe even miniature Monday too! This is a bifolium – a sheet folded to make two leaves, or four pages of text – from a very small prayer book in Dutch. It was produced in the Low Countries sometime during the fourteenth century. The dimensions of each page are 72 x 76 mm, or about 2.8 x 3 inches.

You can find more about this bifolium in the Digital Scriptorium. It's fragment number 128 in the Fragmenta Manuscripta Collection: a group of leaves, binding waste, and other manuscript fragments assembled by John Bagford in the seventeenth century.

Special Collections contributes to the Missouri Over There digitization project

Manuscript Monday: A Tiny Dutch Bifolium

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