The Beinecke Library is one of the most significant sources for history in North America and contains a rich collection of materials from the classical world to the Renaissance.
Beinecke manuscript fragment Takamiya MS 98 once belonged to a 14th-century manuscript known as the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17), a copy of John Gower's Middle English poem "Confessio Amantis." It was excised and used as binding waste.
Famous image of the torture of Simon of Trent by Jews from the Nuremberg Chronicle. Beinecke Library has very strong collection of printed materials relating to the cult of Simon of Trent and the accusation of ritual murder.
Petrus Comestor’s Historia scholastica, composed in Latin and completed in Paris in the 1170s, was one of the key texts for historical and scriptural education among schoolmen throughout the Middle Ages. The Beinecke Library is fortunate to possess an early copy of this important medieval text: Osborn fa38, which was produced in England at the priory of Rochester Cathedral.
The Maʿrifetnāme is a scholarly encyclopedia that covers a wide range of areas, including astronomy, astrology, anatomy, physiology, psychology, physics, mathematics, biology, geometry, physiognomy, faith, mysticism, education, social, moral and traditional sciences.
What can music teach us about the past and about ourselves? Music historian Anna Zayaruznaya challenges students to “attend carefully” to things that sound strange.
Persian carries with it a long history of vivid storytelling, of poetic power, and of beautiful books. Today, Persian is the language of Iran, but it has long been in an impressive geographic range and for diverse texts and traditions. During the Middle Ages, a virtuosic tradition of miniature painting was cultivated in Persian manuscript production which endured well into the modern period. Mesmerizing use of pattern, color, and composition marks an illumination practice with many beautiful witnesses still extant in the twenty-first century.
The Beinecke Library has purchased a helpful manual on Werewolfism in time for Halloween. Useful for defending against any accusation of Werewolfism and shapeshifting in general, which are theologically impossible because the Bible states that God created humans in a perfect state and would not allow that image to by deformed by satanic manipulation.
Applications Open Now for 2022 Research Fellowships Yale Library’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library has offered research fellowships since 1987. The...
