Video Fridays: The Fisher Library Rare Book Library
Credit: The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Take a ten-minute, behind-the-scenes tour through the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto, Canada, where you’ll see a First Folio, the first handwritten draft of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a centuries-old legal deed, Leonard Cohen’s notebooks, and items from its extensive Alice in Wonderland collection.






![Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–253) Homilia in Genesim, Homiliae in Exodum, in Latin, translation by Rufinus, decorated manuscript on parchment [Austria, Lambach Abbey? c. 1150–1175]. Estimate: $150,000-$200,000.](/sites/default/files/styles/category_card/public/media-images/2026-06/origen.jpeg?itok=0V_4_Lt2)



