Title (and catalogue access):
Paraprasis [sic] caldayca en los Cantares de Selomoh : con el texto hebrayco y ladino

Author: Moseh Belmonte, traductor 
Year and date of publication and edition: 1706, Amsterdam (5th printing)  
Medium and language: paper book, in Judeo-Spanish and Hebrew
Method of acquisition:  transferred by IES Jaume Balmes secondary school
What makes it unique: It is a very rare edition of the Song of Songs, with texts in Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish, published in Amsterdam with a double publication date: 5466 (Hebrew) and 1706 (Christian). The copy was restored in 2019. 
Contents: It is an edition of the Song of Songs, a work of love poems that is part of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. There is a digital edition from the Spanish National Library.

Title (and catalogue access):
La Divina commedia di Dante Alighieri. Con una breve, e sufficiente dichiarazione del senso letterale diversa in più luoghi da quella degli antichi comentatori

Author: Dante Alighieri
Year and date of publication and edition: 1749, Verona, Presso Giuseppe Berno
Medium and language: paper book, in Italian
Method of acquisition: donation by the Alòs-Moner siblings
What makes it unique: Amongst the many editions of Dante’s Italian classic (which make up a UPF Library special collection), this one is in Italian and dates from the 18th century. It contains ornate initial capitals and other typographical ornaments and the seals of two of its former owners. ​​​​​​​
Contents: It is a three-volume edition of Dante’s classic work, in Italian, published in Verona in 1749. ​​​​​​​
Presence in special collections and bibliographic exhibitions: Dante Collection and “Il Miglior fabbro del parlar materno. Dante traduït”

Title (and catalogue access): Manual de histología normal y técnica micrográfica

Author: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Year and date of publication and edition: 1889, Valencia, Librería de Pascual Aguilar
Medium and language: paper book, in Spanish​​​​​​​
Method of acquisition: transferred by IES Jaume Balmes secondary school
What makes it unique:  It is one of the main research works by the 1906 Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology. This manual was published in 1889, the year after what Ramón y Cajal himself considered ‘my greatest year, my year of fortune’, when he discovered the mechanisms that govern morphology and the connective processes of nerve cells in the grey matter of the cerebrospinal nervous system. 
Contents: It is a manual on histology and microscopic observation techniques. 

Title: jain manuscript in hindi

Year of publication: probably the second half of the 20th century​​​​​​​
Medium and languag: paper book, handwritten in Hindi​​​​​​​
Method of acquisition: donation by Fèlix Martí Ambel​​​​​​​
What makes it unique: It contains a Jainist religious text, probably by the guru Santa Dasa. Founded in the 6th and 5th centuries BC, Jainism is today a minority religion in India. Between some of the pages of the manuscript are pieces of shed snakeskin, from two different species of cobra. ​​​​​​​
Contents: It is a paper manuscript written in various inks in Hindi, probably in the second half of the 20th century. The volume is wrapped in a cloth.
Presence in bibliographic exhibitions: “The Languages of the Absolute” (it includes specific video of the work)

Title (and catalogue access): Freak out

Author: David Hevey (director)
Year and place filmed: 1994, United Kingdom​​​​​​​
Method of acquisition: deposited on loan​​​​​​​
Medium and languag: film, in English​​​​​​​
What makes it unique: It is one of more than 2,700 programmes of all genres held in the INPUT archive, deposited on loan at the Poblenou Library/CRAI. The chosen documentary questions beauty and power standards by proudly showing the bodies of people with disabilities, a subject rarely seen on screen outside of news/medical language, blending extraordinarily creative and moving visual and auditory metaphors.​​​​​​​
Contents: It is a documentary directed and produced in 1994 by David Hevey for the BBC, with a runtime of 29 minutes. It was presented at the 1996 INPUT conference in Guadalajara (Mexico) and the 1996 MINIPUT conference in Barcelona. 
Presence in special collections: INPUT archive