Early Modern British, European, and Osborn Collections
The early modern European collections support the study of readers and reading, literature, history, the history of science, and the spread of humanist culture from 1500 to 1800.
Today’s manuscript comes courtesy of Melissa Grafe, Head of the Medical Historical Library at Yale University Library. Visit the Paleographical Challenge...
Today’s guest manuscript comes to us courtesy of Elisabeth Fairman, Chief Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Yale Center for British Art . For...
Today’s guest manuscript arrives courtesy of Alexandra Franklin, Coordinator of the Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Libraries . Check...
Today’s guest manuscript comes to us courtesy of Suzanne Paul, Keeper of Manuscripts and University Archives at Cambridge University Library . Check back...
Today’s guest manuscript comes courtesy of Shannon Supple, Curator of Rare Books at Smith College . Visit the Paleographical Challenge tomorrow to find...
Today’s guest manuscript arrives courtesy of Mike Webb, Curator of Early Modern Archives and Manuscripts at the Weston Library of the Bodleian. Visit the...
Today’s guest manuscript arrives courtesy of Dennis Duncan and the 39 Step Press printing collective . Check back tomorrow to find its identity and a...
Zachary Lesser (Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania) and Eve Houghton (Yale '17) discuss Henrietta Bartlett, bibliographer of Shakespeare in early 20th-century New Haven.
Lear . …yet you see how this world goes. Glost . I see it feelingly. William Shakespeare, The Historie of King Lear (1608), I4r. Beinecke Rare Book and...