Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for September, 2008

• On the Edge: European Decorated Books
  Posted September 29, 2008 by Maggie Kopp

  Booksellers and book owners through the centuries have often embellished the inside and outside of their books; for example, with fine bindings, decorative bookplates, or marbled endpapers. The fore edge (the outer, unbound edge of the block of pages of a book) has provided artists and artisans the opportunity to decorate books. Through October 31, [...]

• Rare Bibles and Bible translations
  Posted September 23, 2008 by Maggie Kopp

  Did you know that Special Collections houses hundreds of old and rare Bibles in over 50 languages? From medieval manuscripts to 19th-century missionary translations, there are hundreds of volumes containing the Bible or portions of the Biblical text in the collections. You can find many early printed Bibles in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew; polyglot Bibles [...]