Category: Manuscripts Division
All Access Book Club: Tender is the Night
April’s book was Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fourth and final novel. Written over ten personally tumultuous years, Scott completed the manuscript in late 1933.
Special Collections Showcase May 2024
By Emma Sarconi and Deborah Schlein Once a month, five objects from across Special Collections’ vast holdings will be on display in the lobby of Firestone Library for two hours for anyone to come and see. Here are the objects featured in our May 2024 […]
Special Collections Showcase April 2024
Once a month, five objects from across Special Collections’ vast holdings will be on display in the lobby of Firestone Library for two hours for anyone to come and see. Here are the objects featured in our April 2024:
Total Eclipse of the Collections
The phenomenon of an eclipse has always sparked intrigue and fascination. Many early civilizations saw eclipses as a sign of impending doom. They have inspired medieval mathematicians to calculate the movement of celestial objects and predict future occurrences.
Our Favorite Things #5: A 15th Century Book of Hours
I love books of hours in general and find them so beautiful, just knowing how much painstaking work went into creating a manuscript like the kinds we see from the 1400s-1500s–from making the parchment to doing all of the lettering and detail work and copying to binding the book to adding illustrations and gilt; it always results in a truly special and unique object.
An Illuminated Book of Psalms
Princeton University hosts a wonderful site entitled “Middle Ages For Educators”, which is designed to bring experts and primary sources to those who teach the Middle Ages in schools and colleges. It has a lot of video resources, and I was asked to make one about ten minutes long.