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Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, Lamont Library, and Loeb House, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts. [1] It is part of the Harvard College Library, the library system of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences .
Since 1987, the Moldenhauer Archives have grown to many thousands of items that are now housed in nine institutions around the world: in the United States, at the Library of Congress, Harvard University, Northwestern University, Washington State University, and Whitworth College; in Basel, Switzerland, at the Paul Sacher Foundation; in Zürich ...
He bequeathed his collection to the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at the Houghton Library. [10] The introduction to the Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Philip Hofer Bequest published in 1988 notes that "the unique character of this collection reflects the man who formed it: wide-ranging, specialized, and complex."
Leaf from a Gradual, c, 1450–1475, Italy; New York, Columbia University, Plimpton MS 040A. Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a non-profit, tax-exempt consortium of American libraries with collections of medieval and early modern manuscripts, that is, handwritten books made in the traditions of the world's scribal cultures.
Harvard University said it has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century book about the afterlife that has been in its collections since the 1930s. The decision came after a review ...
The Master of the Houghton Miniatures is the conventional name of an illuminator probably active in Ghent between 1476 and 1480. He owes his name to a book of hours that he illuminated, currently kept in the Houghton Library at Harvard University .
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The cost in shillings indicates that this was done in Britain, and it seems that Furnivall may have taken responsibility for it. The manuscript was then forwarded to Child at Harvard. This manuscript remains in America, in the Houghton Library, MS 25241.17*, still bound in 3/4 maroon Morocco and marbled boards.