Beinecke Top Tens: A Beinecke Bucket List

April 29, 2013

By Nancy Kuhl

Ten fascinating books, manuscripts, collections…to see before you graduate.

Epistle from St. Paul, 3rd century
Call Number: P.CtYBR inv. 415

Pictured (Detail): Arthurian Romances

Call Number: MS 229

Sir Thomas More book of hours

Call Number: MS Vault More

Record:http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/6557455

View: http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3684095

Voynich manuscript

Call Number: MS 408

View: http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3519597

Shakespeare First Folio

Call Number: 1978 +83

Record: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3469564

View: http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3446809

The Bondwoman’s Narrative, by Hannah Crafts

Call Number: JWJ MSS 29

Lincoln’s pen

Call Number: GEN MSS 257

Record: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4113177

Walt Whitman Collection

Call Number: YCAL MSS 202

Albert Camus’s mss, Le mythe de Sisyphe

Call Number: GEN MSS VOL 408

Record: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7732655

Owen Luck’s photographs of the occupation of Wounded Knee

Call Number: WA Photos 336

Robert Templeton’s courtroom sketches of Black Panthers trial

Call Number: JWJ MSS 33

Rachel Carson papers, letter from Olga Huckins to Rachel Carson, Jan. 27, 1958

Call Number: YCAL MSS 46

J. M. Barrie’s Boy Castaways

Call Number: Ip B276 B64

Ernest Shepard’s watercolor original of frontispiece for The Wind in the Willows

Call Number: GEN MSS 764

Beinecke Top Tens gather (approximately) ten related items to give an at-a-glance look at some of the Library’s interesting, important, strange, compelling, beautiful holdings. To see more lists, click here: Beinecke Top Tens. To suggest a list subject, contact us: Top Ten Ideas.