In Berkeley, the campus had not sustained major damage. Nevertheless, in almost every library on the Cal campus, books had been flung from their shelves. The reshelving activity was a laborious refuge from harrowing reports of the fate of the people trapped in inaccessible vehicles when the Cypress Street viaduct collapsed, and from the daily terrifying ill-timed aftershock earthquakes.
On her mind -- as from the floor, the University Archivist picked up Time sanctified: the Book of hours in medieval art and life (Wieck, Roger S., Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1988) -- was the iconic, now stopped-in-time at circa 5:04 PM, San Francisco Ferry Building Clock and the archival photograph of the same clock stopped (running a little fast or by stopped an aftershock) at circa 5:16 on April 18, 1906.
Only an hour before the quake, she had been focusing on differences between the Master of the Music Box Book of Hours' painting of Bathsheba Bathing and Jean Bourdichon's painting of Bathsheba Bathing in The Book of Hours of Louis XII. Bourdichon's Bathsheba was remarkably sensual, but The Music Box Master had gone a little further (to the point that his Bathsheba was probably why the soldier who purchased that Book of Hours for his daughter had decided that it was not appropriate for a five-year-old).
Whether because he was not versed in the fashion of that era, or because there were unwritten rules of what could be portrayed in a book of hours that he did not follow, or because he encountered different women than did Court favorite Jean Bourdichon, the Bathsheba painted by the Master of the Music Box Book of Hours was clearly original.
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In the main library,
the University Archivist joined her colleagues in the formidable task of reshelving books. From the heavily damaged Stanford campus, librarians reported on BITNET that 750,000 books had flown from shelves during the earthquake. In the Stanford main library alone -- the Department of Special Collections and Archives had been severely damaged, and several hundred thousand volumes lay on the floor.