Earliest printed versions of the Bard’s plays to go online LONDON – A U.S. and British library plan to reproduce online all 75 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays printed in the quarto format before the year 1641. The Bodleian Library ...
March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, originally dedicated to the Christian saint, has become a celebration of Irish culture in general, and the BU LIbraries Special Collections has a special connection to the day. The Irish playright, Padraic Colum (1881-1972), drew ...
Black Grooves is a music review site hosted by the Archives of African American Music & Culture (AAAMC) at Indiana University. Their goal is to promote black music by providing readers and subscribers with monthly updates on interesting new releases ...
A collection of Ottoman artifacts from the personal collection of Dr. Donald Quataert of the BU History Department is on display in Special Collections on the second floor of the Glenn G. Bartle Library. Materials include textiles, coins, stamps, copperware, ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 12noon-1:30pm The Reinhardt Room LNG 332 Dr. Donald Quataert of the History Department will speak about the importance of the Ottoman Empire in today’s fast-paced world. Materials from Dr. Quataert’s personal collection of artifacts will be ...
Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library http://broadsides.law.harvard.edu/ Just as programs are sold at sporting events today, broadsides — styled at the time as “Last Dying Speeches” or “Bloody Murders” — were sold ...
Registrum hujus operis libri cronicarum cū figuris et ijmagibus ab inicio mūdi…, is commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle. This book was written by Hartmann Schedel and stands as an encyclopedic history of the western world and its cities. The ...
The print collection of Göttweig Monastery is Austria’s largest private collection of historical graphic art. The digitization of the collection is a project developed by the Department of Image Science at Danube University under the direction of Prof. Dr. Oliver ...
Web editions of current and back issues of the Getty Conservation Institute newsletter can be found at http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/newsletters/ Free electronic publications of the Getty Conservation Institute can be found here http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/pdf_publications/ The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) works internationally to advance ...
The Civil War Manuscripts Archives collection includes approximately 30 linear feet of personal letters, mainly from soldiers serving in Union regiments from Central Upstate New York. It also includes photographs, diaries and other papers from the period. A database has ...