Houghton Library is pleased to announce two events for the fall term. On Monday, October 24th, 5:30 p.m., Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian at Princeton University, will deliver the 94th Winship Lecture in the Lamont Library, Forum Room. Dr. Needham’s topic will be: “The Gutenberg Bible from Past to Present” He will include an overview extending [...]
Our largest-ever new digitization post includes a collection of correspondence of Benedict Arnold, manuscripts of Thoreau and Henry James, a collection of early 19th century drawings of English theaters, and much more. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]
Arthur Rackham illustrations for Peter Pan, a 13th-century manuscript poem, and a passionate plea from Dorothea Dix are among this month’s newly digitized items. [Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, and Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for contributing this post.]
[This post written by Christopher H. Walker, a member of the cataloging faculty at Penn State University Libraries, and a Katherine F. Pantzer Jr. Fellow, 2010] The fact that French publishers of the mid-16th century formed partnerships to share printing expenses and co-distribute books is well known; but the shifting membership of these project-based partnerships [...]
Books on Books: Reflections on Reading and Writing in the Middle Ages is a new online exhibition that features medieval images of books in the process of being made, presented, exchanged, written or read. A joint project of the Houghton Library and Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture, and Chair, Medieval [...]
Houghton’s website Picturing Prayer (see this previous post) was among those featured at Harvard College Library’s recent Digital Humanities Fair, an event designed to familiarize Harvard faculty and researchers with a few of the many online resources at their disposal. The Picturing Prayer website attracted considerable interest and suggestions were made about how to improve [...]
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 [...]
