Well, it didn't take Robyn Adams very long to make a small, yet significant, discovery during her time as Humfrey Wanley Fellow at the Bodleian Library: a pressed leaf preserved within the pages of an early medical reference book, acting as illustration, marker, and proof. Scholars will be pleased and reassured to see the small note detailing the leaf's provenance.

Robyn is busy researching the early records of the re-foundation of Oxford University's peerless library and currently working her way through some of the earliest books to be given to the Bodleian by its seventeenth-century benefactors.

Via the Bodleian's always fascinating blog, The Conveyor.