[Thanks to William Stoneman, Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, for contributing this post.] I am pleased to announce a major acquisition of a collection of sixteenth-century annotated books from the English bookseller Roger Gaskell. Ann M. Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Harvard College Professor, encouraged this acquisition. She is the author…
New digitization roundup
[Thanks to Emilie Hardman, Public Services/Metadata Assistant, for contributing this post] Newly digitized items at Houghton include a significant array of material from manuscript collections, such as the Robert Gould Shaw papers, Mary Moody Emerson’s Almanac, the letters of Christophe Daniel Ebeling letters to William Bentley, research materials from the Charles S. Peirce collection, charmingly…
Woodberry Poetry Room Online
[Thanks to Christina Davis, Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room, for contributing this post.] On the occasion of our 80th anniversary, the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University is proud to announce the creation of a new website that offers scholars and poetry-readers worldwide the opportunity to encounter rare and heretofore inaccessible recordings from its…
Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Houghton Library
[Thanks to William Stoneman, Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, for contributing this post.] We congratulate Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann on the publication of the third and final installment of her Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Houghton Library which has appeared in Manuscripta: A Journal of Manuscript Research 55.1 (2011), 1-108. Earlier installments appeared…
New on OASIS in October
Finding aids for 7 newly cataloged collections, and a preliminary box list for one recent acquisition, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including science fiction fanzines and art, and Amy Lowell’s collection of literary and historical manuscripts….