Facsimile pages from Haydn's journal, with dictated entries about his activities on a given day, show how incredibly busy the seemingly relaxed master was.
While a few facsimile pages of the original project manuscript (now housed in Berlin) are on display at the exhibition's entrance, most of the heavy lifting here is left to interpretative wall text.
"Lartigue: Album of a Century" contains facsimile pages from these albums, charting his career until his death in 1986.Given a camera by his father on his seventh birthday, he started out taking pictures of his nanny, Dudu, his parents and his garden.
The kind of treatment "Pioneer Girl" has received — meticulous research into the history, drafts, references, context, and variants of the text, which is accompanied by facsimile pages of the manuscript, three additional appendices, a chapter on editorial procedure, and more than a hundred lengthy footnotes in small type — is generally reserved for the masterpieces of world literature.
Mario Kleff also reproduced folios from the Book of Kells and together with Faksimile-Verlag Publisher Urs Düggelin, curated an exhibition of the Book of Kells which included these facsimile pages.
More arresting exhibits include facsimiles of pages from Hebrew Bibles, including the Cervera Bible of 1299-1300 and the Lisbon Bible of 1483.
Included was a facsimile of a page that listed dollar amounts paid for individual slaves.
"The Red Book" includes a facsimile of every page of the original, followed by a comprehensive introduction by Shamdasani and the full translation of Jung's handwritten text.
Some people still read the Declaration of Independence aloud on the Fourth (and the Times still annually publishes a full-page facsimile in that morning's skinny paper), but Independence Day is mainly about hot dogs and fireworks.
