First Supplement to James E. Walsh's Catalogue of the Fifteenth-century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library

First Supplement to James E. Walsh's Catalogue of the Fifteenth-century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library PDF Author: Harvard University. Library
Publisher: Houghton Library
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Walsh's pioneering catalogue of the Harvard collection of 15th-century printed books was published in five volumes. The First Supplement describes 202 new incunabula at Harvard: 67 complete or nearly complete copies and 135 single leaves or fragments, representing a total of 173 editions, including 110 not in Walsh's original five volumes.

First Supplement to James E. Walsh's Catalogue of the Fifteenth-century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library

First Supplement to James E. Walsh's Catalogue of the Fifteenth-century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library PDF Author: Harvard University. Library
Publisher: Houghton Library
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Book Description
Walsh's pioneering catalogue of the Harvard collection of 15th-century printed books was published in five volumes. The First Supplement describes 202 new incunabula at Harvard: 67 complete or nearly complete copies and 135 single leaves or fragments, representing a total of 173 editions, including 110 not in Walsh's original five volumes.

A Houghton Library Chronicle, 1942-1992

A Houghton Library Chronicle, 1942-1992 PDF Author: Houghton Library
Publisher: Houghton Library
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Harvard's home for rare books and manuscripts opened in 1942, and thanks to the energy of a small group of librarians and the creativity and generosity of its benefactor, Arthur Houghton, it quickly emerged as a center of inquiry and memory without equal. This 1992 volume, compiled by senior Houghton librarians, blends documentary with oral history to look back on the library's origins, the growth of its collections, and the activities of the staff who made it a home for precious books and original scholarship.

Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum

Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum PDF Author: James Hankins
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813217296
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Annotation This volume covers six classical authors: Damianus, Geminus Rhodius, Hanno, Sallust, Themistius & Thucydides. The articles explore the influence of each in the medieval & renaissance world, followed in each case by a listing & brief description of latin commentaries before 1600.

Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts

Spanish and Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts PDF Author: Harvard College Library. Department of Printing and Graphic Arts
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Houghton Library : Harvard College Library
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Nearly all the Spanish and Portuguese books in the Department were collected and given to the Library by the late Philip Hofer, founding Curator of the Department. They reflect his personal taste and his awareness of the historical importance of such a collection - foreword.

The Practice of Letters

The Practice of Letters PDF Author: David P. Becker
Publisher: Houghton Library
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Philip Hofer, Founding Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts in Houghton Library, amassed one of the great collections of early penmanship textbooks before his death in 1984. Becker's catalogue tells the story of this collection while amply illustrating the diversity and expressive power of the arts of the pen.

The Book Collector

The Book Collector PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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The Philip Hofer Collection in the Houghton Library

The Philip Hofer Collection in the Houghton Library PDF Author: Librarian of Houghton Library Emeritus William H Bond
Publisher: Houghton Library
ISBN: 9780976547211
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book records the proceedings of a symposium held in conjunction with the 1988 exhibition of the Philip Hofer bequest to the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library. Contributors include William H. Bond, Charles Ryskamp, Arthur Vershbow, William Bentinck-Smith, and Lucien Goldschmidt. Their recollections of one of Harvard College Library's most generous donors provide a fascinating portrait of one of America's great bibliophiles.

Manga from the Floating World

Manga from the Floating World PDF Author: Adam L. Kern
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyôshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was produced and consumed with three annotated translations of works by major author-artist Santô Kyôden (1761-1816) that closely reproduce the experience of encountering the originals, Adam Kern offers a sustained close reading of the vibrant popular imagination of the mid-Edo period. The kibyôshi, Kern argues, became an influential form of political satire that seemed poised to transform the uniquely Edoesque brand of urban commoner culture into something more, perhaps even a national culture, until the shogunal government intervened. Based on extensive research using primary sources in their original Edo editions, the volume is copiously illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections. It serves as an introduction not only to the kibyôshi but also to the genre's readers and critics, narratological conventions, modes of visuality, format, and relationship to the modern Japanese comicbook (manga) and to the popular literature and wit of Edo. Filled with graphic puns and caricatures, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the more experienced student of Japanese cultural history.

AEB, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography

AEB, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 614

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Vol. for Oct. 1977 contains Index to reviews of bibliographical publications, 1976.

The Bible in the Twelfth Century

The Bible in the Twelfth Century PDF Author: Houghton Library
Publisher: Houghton Library
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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In the late 1980s, Laura Light undertook the monumental task of bringing the catalogue descriptions of the Houghton's medieval manuscripts--more than 1,300 in all--up to the standards of modern scholarship. Among the fruits of that project was an exhibition in the Library of twelfth century Biblical manuscripts. Light's catalogue catches the culture of the medieval book at its height, not only in Bibles but in breviaries, lectionaries, commentaries, and works of the Doctors and Fathers of the Church.