Subscribe to RSS FeedGRANARY BOOKS COLLECTION EXHIBIT
The Rare Books & MSS Library has put up an exhibit of stunning books from the Library’s almost complete collection of works from Granary Books, one of the leading and most innovative publishers of artist’s books. The exhibit is in the Library’s Gallery, open Monday-Wednesday 10-6, Thursday 10-8, Friday 10-6, and Saturday Sunday noon-5. The [...]
Tax time at OSU’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library
Unless you are an accountant, chances are you probably find taxes and all things pertaining to them to be mundane, depressing and completely uninteresting. However, the Rare Books and Manuscripts library has recently acquired a rather interesting tax record: a 14th century tax roll dated 4 January 1352 (658 years ago this past Monday). The [...]
The Summa Aurea of William Peraldus
Last summer OSU’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library acquired a wonderful book to add to its growing collection of incunabula (books printed prior to 1501). Printed in Brescia by Angelus and Jacobus Britannicus in 1494 (the colophon states that the firm completed the job on 24 December, just in time for Christmas) , this [...]
