Day: June 21, 2016

Front facade of Houghton Library

William King Richardson, Part II: “One of the most remarkable specimens of XVth century binding I have ever seen.”

In April the library began a three month project entering provenance information from Houghton incunabula into the Manuscript Evidence in Incunabula database (MEI). Maintained by the Consortium of European Research Libraries, MEI enables scholars to research and compare copy-specific features in incunabula across an international multitude of repositories. These two sets of image show the…