http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks Just another OSU Libraries Blogs weblog Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:50:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and the William Charvat Collection of American Fiction are proud to join their colleagues from the Hilandar Resaerch Library and the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute Library in becoming the new Special Collections department at the newly renovated William Oxley ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2009/10/13/welcome-to-our-new-location/ As OSU employees consider an annual contribution to the Campus Campaign we'd like to take this opportunity to point out that gifts may directed to funds that support the Charvat American Fiction Collection and/or several areas within the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. Fund code numbers are included below for ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2009/04/15/osu-campus-campaign/ The Rare Books & Manuscripts Library is pleased to announce the completion of an ambitious project to digitize the seventeenth-century manuscript commonplace book of Sir Henry Bellingham. The project is live at http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/bellingham/. This project was researched, designed, and created by Sarah Shippy, a graduate student in OSU’s ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2008/12/17/bellinghams-commonplace-book-online/ The recently published catalog, Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection has received very positive reviews in three key publications: Umbrella, June 2008, says the book is "beautifully printed and designed, [and] belongs to every art as well as literature collection...anywhere". The book review journal Rain Taxi, Winter 2008-2009, ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2008/12/16/rave-reviews-for-visual-poetry-catalog/ Blue Lion Books has just published a book by John M. Bennett, SPITTING DDREAMS. SPITTING DDREAMS consists of 2 books written in the late 1970's through early 1980's, "Spitting" and "Ddreams", never before published. "Spitting" includes poems from Bennett's "Spitter" period, and employs various lunatic repetitive and anaphoric ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2008/12/16/new-book-by-john-m-bennett/ Throughout November I had the privilege of working with our modest, but very impressive, collection of medieval manuscripts as I prepared for a series of lectures on medieval books and manuscript production and began surveying our holdings in relation to a variety of other possible projects (research, conservation, ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2008/12/01/107/   Savants throughout history (along with a fair number of quacks and hucksters) have interpreted comets streaking across the sky as heralds of doom or harbingers of great change. Perhaps had we here at OSU’s Rare Books Library been wearing our divinators’ hats earlier this month we would have ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2008/10/28/the-great-comet-of-1618/ Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, was one of sixteenth-century England’s most influential religious and political figures. Best known, perhaps, for writing and compiling the first two editions of the Book of Common Prayer, the summation and embodiment of the ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2008/10/09/cranmer-foxe-and-the-flamboyant-earl-of-lonsdale/ The Rare Books and Manuscripts Library has acquired this past summer a complete run of The Paris Review from its very first issue in 1953 through the Spring issue of 2008.   The Paris Review is arguably the most pretigious and influential literary journal of the latter half of the twentieth century.  ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2008/10/09/the-paris-review/ Another new acquisition has just arrived: Serious Reflections on the Dangerous Tendency of the Common Practice of Card-playing; Especially of the Game of All-Fours, as It Hath Been Publickly play’d at Oxford, in this present Year of our Lord, MDCCLIV. In a Letter from Mr. Gyles Smith, to his ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/rarebooks/2008/09/30/facetious-18th-century-anti-card-playing-tract/