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• Journals on the art and history of printing
  Posted December 27, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  Special Collections owns a number of important periodicals about the art and history of printing, particularly publications produced through fine printing methods.  A sampling of titles in Special Collections includes Stanley Morison’s “The Fleuron” (1923-1930), The Fine Press Book Association’s periodical, “Parenthesis” (1998-present), and one of our new acquisitions, a complete run of  “Alphabet and [...]

• Waxing poetic about comets
  Posted June 29, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  The History of Printing Collection is especially rich in its holdings of Renaissance-era pamphlets and treatises about comets. The library has recently acquired two German pamphlets dating from 1665, one printed in Ulm and the other in Dresden. The Ulm pamphlet records observations made in October 1664 by astronomer Christoph Schorer, and the Dresden pamphlet, [...]

• Printed by B. Franklin
  Posted May 18, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  One of the newest acquisitions for the History of Printing Collection is this example from the press of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.  The work is a 1758 pamphlet entitled A Mite into the Treasury by Society of Friends (Quaker) minister David Hall.  Hall ran a school in Yorkshire, England, and was the author of many [...]

• A Gutenberg Bible for the Reading Room
  Posted April 20, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  A recent donation of a Gutenberg Bible facsimile now graces Special Collections’ reading room.  The facsimile is bound in two volumes in a German medieval-style reproduction binding.  Here is a detail of some of the illuminations in the facsimile: Patrons wishing to consult the facsimile must abide by Special Collections’ reading room policies.  It can [...]

• New acquisition: Codex Sinaiticus facsimile
  Posted March 25, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  One of Special Collections’ most recent acquisitions is a copy of the new facsimile of the Codex Sinaiticus issued by the British Library. The Codex Sinaiticus is a very important Greek manuscript dating from the 4th century. It is one of the two oldest manuscripts of the Bible in existence, and the oldest copy of [...]

• Dante in facsimile
  Posted October 13, 2010 by Maggie Kopp

  The latest medieval manuscript facsimile acquired by L. Tom Perry Special Collections is a reproduction of a late 14th century manuscript of Dante’s Divine Comedy.  The original manuscript is held by the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana.  The manuscript is one of the earliest extant copies of Dante’s poem and is highly illustrated. This new facsimile joins [...]

• New acquisitions: British social history
  Posted April 28, 2010 by Maggie Kopp

  One recent acquisition is a collected set of Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy, along with two continuations of the series: Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated and Illustrations of Taxation. These tales, first issued from 1832-34, brought Martineau literary celebrity. The didactic stories, based on the theories of T.R. Malthus and James Mill, were intended [...]

• Newly-acquired medieval manuscript facsimiles
  Posted January 6, 2010 by Maggie Kopp

  Special Collections has just acquired the following facsimiles of medieval manuscripts: Parma Psalter: a facsimile of an illuminated Hebrew book of Psalms (with commentary) produced in Northern Italy in the 13th century.  The manuscript is decorated with images of buildings, people, plants, and musical instruments. Call number: Vault Collection 223.2 P24 1996 Antiphonar von St [...]

• Stationers’ Company Records
  Posted August 18, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  Special Collections recently acquired the 115-reel microfilm reproduction of the Records of the Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers.  The Stationers’ Company was founded in 1403 and was a major force in London’s book trade both before and long after printing technology arrived in England.  Throughout the centuries, many of London’s leading printers, publishers, [...]

• Bastille Day
  Posted July 14, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  Bastille Day is France’s national holiday, which commemorates the storming of the Bastille fortress by the citizens of Paris on July 14, 1789. The storming of the Bastille was the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution and the rebellion of common citizens against the nobility. Special Collections has a few first-hand accounts of the storming [...]

• Victorian Gardens
  Posted May 29, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  Gardening, whether indoors or out-of-doors, was as popular a pastime in the Victorian Era as it is today. Like modern publishers, Victorian printers produced a wide array of books and periodicals for the avid gardener, from deluxe botanical illustrations to how-to manuals and hobbyists’ magazines. Many such works were profusely illustrated. Typically, illustrations were created [...]

• New Reformation-era Acquisitions
  Posted April 30, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  BYU’s Renaissance and Reformation Collection contains over 100 Martin Luther pamphlets in German and Latin, comprising letters, religious and political tracts, and sermons.  The most recent additions to this collection are: Luther’s “Wider den falsch genantten geystlichen stand des Bapst und der Bischoffen (Against the So-Called Spiritual Estate of the Pope and the Bishops),” a [...]

• Recent acquisitions
  Posted April 11, 2008 by Maggie Kopp

  Special Collections has added a number of books to its holdings in the last month, but I wanted to highlight one very important book. This is an edition of Renaissance scholar Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples’ paraphrase of Aristotle’s Ethics, dated May 1502. This book marks the first appearance of the name of Henri Estienne (or Henricus [...]

• Recent acquisitions
  Posted March 13, 2008 by Maggie Kopp

  This book is a catalog of the museum founded by Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680). Kircher had a wide range of interests, including antiquities, natural history, and musicology, and his private museum included numerous specimens and curiosities. Many of the items in the museum were given to Kircher by fellow members of the Jesuit order, [...]