Author: April C. Armstrong *14
Multispectral Imaging of an Aramaic and Greek Palimpsest
By Will Noel Last year, Mike Toth of R.B. Toth Associates, in collaboration with the Digital Imaging Studio of Princeton University Library, captured multispectral images of Princeton University’s Garrett Ms. 24. This is a 10th-century Greek palimpsest, containing a number of Greek and Aramaic undertexts […]
1870 Peck and Snyder Mutuals Baseball Card
This card is one of a series of extremely rare trade cards issued by Peck & Snyder Sporting Goods Emporium featuring a formal studio photograph of the baseball team on the front affixed to a trade card with advertising for Peck & Snyder on the back. Unfortunately, the graphic on the back is not visible as the card has been pasted into the scrapbook, which was a common practice for the period.
Junius Spencer Morgan, Virgil, and “The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton”
By Will Noel Junius Spencer Morgan gave a phenomenal collection of materials to the Princeton University Library, so last year I decided to create a small online exhibition on items from that collection that we have digitized already. With very many thanks to Steve Ferguson […]
A 15th-Century Alphabet
It’s a funny alphabet. In the first place, it doesn’t begin with an A, but with an illuminated cross: You clearly cross yourself before you begin the alphabet. So then you begin the alphabet, but with a stutter: you have two consecutive a’s.