Month: April 2017

Front facade of Houghton Library

The Houghton Gradual and the Choir Books in Malta

Dr Theresa Zammit Lupi, Katharine F. Pantzer Jr Fellowship in Descriptive Bibliography 2016-2017, Houghton Library MS Lat 186 at the Houghton Library is one of a set of four surviving French graduals that were illuminated by Jean Pichore (d. 1521) and his workshop in the first quarter of the 16th century. The manuscript was recently…

John Lithgow: Actor as Artist

Exhibit opens showcasing ‘Trial & Error’ star’s talent for drawing as well as drama. Halfway through his freshman year, John Lithgow set his sights on a summer residency at the artist colony in Skowhegan, Maine. Hoping to give his son’s application an edge, John’s father arranged a private interview with the painter Ben Shahn, a formidable…

Pipe, top hat, and tails???

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring recently cataloged items from the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library.  Size matters! was the motto that Wilhelm Moser and David Culby took quite seriously when creating The Manipulator in Dusseldorf in the 1980s.  This art magazine is an impressive 70 cm long by 50 cm wide and marks the…

New on OASIS in April

Three finding aids for newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month: Processed by: Michael Austin José María Castañé Collection of Autographed Portraits of Political Leaders, circa 1906-2005 (MS Span 180) Processed by: Irina Klyagin José María Castañé Collection of Political Broadsides from Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1920 (MS Russ 135) Processed by:…