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 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...
Today’s guest manuscript comes courtesy of Heather Wolfe (Curator of Manuscripts) and Elizabeth Debold (Assistant Curator of Collections) at the beloved...
Today’s guest manuscript comes courtesy of Aaron Pratt, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. Its...