Picturing Prayer: Books of Hours in Houghton Library, Harvard University is a new website devoted to examples of this prevalent form of the medieval book. The site examines the various parts of a typical book of hours, and provides ten examples from Houghton collections, digitized in high resolution from cover to cover, utilizing page-turning software. [...]
The newest in a series of online collections from Harvard University, Expeditions and Discoveries delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as well as field notes, letters, and a unique range of manuscript materials on selected expeditions between 1626 and 1953.
via Open Collections Program: Expeditions and Discoveries – Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern [...]
In 1951, through the gift of Stephen W. Phillips (Class of 1895) and Curt H. Reisinger (1912), the map collection of the Prince Liechtenstein was purchased and brought to Houghton Library. Among the over 150 wall and sheet maps, for the most part collected by General von Hauslab, there are printed gores for making globes. [...]
