The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

Our collection of rare books includes works on art, history, literature, mathematics and science, as well as a collection of Bibles. These books are housed in the Thomas E. and Jennie W. Welmers Rare ...

As Rare Book Curator, my focus has been on ensuring that our local history is well documented within the collection, and expanding our understanding of what is rare and valuable to our region ...

Growing up, journalist Michael Visontay knew that his Hungarian-born father had survived Auschwitz (while losing his own mother there), and that the family had ultimately emigrated to Australia after ...

From one of the earliest manuscripts on natural history to accounts of gun-wielding artists and men with 16 toes, library curator Andrea Hart picks some highlights from this guide to the Museum's most ...

The treatise essentially is a procedural manual and form book, with over eighty model writs and commentary to guide practitioners in the King’s Courts. Click on the image to view at a higher ...

The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 78, No. 1 (AUTUMN-WINTER 2020), pp. 56-70 (15 pages) Meiguo Pulinsidun da xue Dong Ya tu shu guan ...

A History of Texas and the Texans," this new book is rightly respectful of the former book and justly critical of the latter. (Don't skip Johnson's excellent bibliographical essay.) What all three ...