Menu

Search

Website

or, search Yale Library holdings below:

ORBIS

Yale Library's online catalog; start here. Help | Visit | Advanced

Yale Finding Aid Database

Finding aids for archival and manuscript materials. Help | Visit | Advanced

Digital Collections

Thousands of partial and fully digitized items from a wide range of materials from the Beinecke collections. Help | Visit | Advanced

Uncataloged Acquisitions

Brief records of material not found in Orbis or the Finding Aid Database. Help | Visit

Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Descriptions of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. Help | Visit

Yale Papyrus Collection

Catalog of the papyri held at Beinecke; includes digital images. Help | Visit
Navigation
Collections
Information about our holdings

Collection Highlights

New and notable highlights from our digital collections.

Ketubah, marriage contract, manuscript, ink and paint on paper, 20th of Menahem 5671 [1911 August 14], Bombay, India
 Art of the Ketubah: Decorated Jewish Marriage Contracts Jewish marriage contracts ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
Beinecke Library Construction Photographs, 1961-1963 Over 500 photographs depicting the construction of the Beinecke Library, 1960-1963.
[Photograph of Bryher in Kenwin, Switzerland]
 Bryher Papers Photographs and correspondence documenting the life of Bryher.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Papers Photographs, postcards, and writings relating to the work of Marinetti and to the Futurist art movement.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Libroni on Futurism Images derived from slides taken of seven scrapbooks compiled by Marinetti between 1905 and 1944.
Financial History Collection A collaboration between Beinecke Library and the International Center for Finance
Frederick R. Koch Collection, 1640-1983 Music manuscripts, literary drafts, correspondence, photographs, and other papers of European, English, and American composers, authors, and artists.
H.D. Papers Photographs, scrapbook pages, and ephemera documenting the life of American poet, H.D.
J.M. Barrie's Boy Castaways The only surviving copy of an adventure story by J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan.
John Thomson’s Illustrations of China and Its People, 1873-1874 200 photographs documenting the people and landscapes of 19th century China.
Katherine S. Dreier Papers / Société Anonyme Archive Photographs, correspondence, and ephemera documenting the life of this artist, art collector, and patron of the arts.
[Postcard] 1918 November [to] Kurt Wolff, Leipzig, [from] Franz Kafka, Prague.
 Kurt Wolff Archive, 1907-1938 Correspondence from the archive of the German publisher who established Kurt Wolff Verlag and Pantheon Books. 

Pages

Contact

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
121 Wall Street | New Haven, CT 06511
Campus Map

Tel: (203) 432-2977    Fax: (203) 432-4047

email: beinecke.library@yale.edu

USPS: Mailing Address and Information

Hours

Exhibition Gallery
Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 7 pm
Friday: 9 am to 5 pm
Saturday: 12 pm to 5 pm

Reading Room Hours
Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6:45 pm
Friday: 9 am to 4:45 pm

Holiday Schedule and Closed Collections Schedule