Resumen

RODRIGUES, Jeorgina Gentil. The mirror of the time: a trip for the bookshelves of the rare books of the Manguinhos Library. Perspect. ciênc. inf. [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.3, pp. 180-194. ISSN 1413-9936.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-99362007000300013.

The article describes the formation of the rare books collection of Manguinhos Library at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. This paper briefly conceptualizes what a "rare book" means and the main criteria to consider a given book as rare.

Palabras llave : Rare book; Manguinhos Library; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation; Criterions of bibliographic rari.