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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 .
Library of Congress Main Reading Room Houghton Library is the primary repository for rare books and manuscripts at Harvard University and houses the Gutenberg Bible and other unique books and documents.
Director Harvard University, Houghton Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts,1942-1964; [33] Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society, 1965. [34] [35] LeRoy E. Kimball [36] 1948- 1949 New York University,comptroller; President of the Modern Language Association of America; President, New York Historical Society. [37] James T. Babb [38] 1950-1952
The Houghton Library's copy of Arsene Houssaye's 'Des destinees. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail ...
Founded in 1942, the Houghton Library is the principal rare-book library at Harvard University and one of the most important collections of its kind in the world, with significant holdings in American, British, and European rare books, literary and historical manuscripts, printing and graphic arts, and theatre history. Wendorf led the library ...
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.
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 .
Harvard University removed human skin from the binding of "Des Destinées de L'âme" in Houghton Library on Wednesday after a review found ethical concerns with the book's origin and history.