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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 .
Horblit's wife Jean (née Mermin) donated most of this collection to Harvard's Houghton Library in 1995. From March 10 to May 26, 1999, after three years of cataloguing, re-housing and conserving the collection, Houghton Library exhibited the collection to the public, along with a two-day symposium on the 10th and 11 March. [ 2 ]
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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 .
Within three years the book review section of Erato had grown to more than 30 pages and the publication was renamed Harvard Book Review. In 1992 Haviaras relaunched the publication as Harvard Review , a perfect-bound journal of approximately 200 pages, featuring poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, published semi-annually by the Harvard ...
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.
The Harvard Library includes more than 25 libraries across Harvard University, as well as shared services in access & discovery, preservation & conservation, information & technical services, and digital innovations & strategy. The Harvard Library is nearly 400 years old, making it the oldest library system in the United States.
Freising manuscripts, 10th century; The Garland of Howth, late 9th to early 10th centuries; Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, 1355–56; Lindisfarne Gospels, late 7th or early 8th century; Nag Hammadi library; Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry early 15th century; Uthman Qur'an, 8th century; Utrecht Psalter, 9th century; The Coffin Texts, 19th ...