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. [...]
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. [...]
“Of English books printed before 1640 there were added during the year 149 items of which six are unrecorded in the Short-Title Catalogue and seven are unrecorded variants of items listed there. This extraordinary total is mainly due to the generosity of Mr. Harold T. White ‘97, and his sister, Mrs. Hugh D. Marshall, who [...]
