In Pursuit of the Picturesque

British Color Plate Books 1776-1868 from the collection of Leonard L. Milberg, Class of 1953

Showcasing selected items from the collection of Leonard L. Milberg, In Pursuit of the Picturesque includes nearly 40 large books with colorful, detailed imagery from … the British Empire at the turn of the 19th century. The exhibition will open at the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery, located in the Firestone Library lobby, on Jan. 22, 2020.

Gutenberg & After

Europe's First Printers, 1450-1470

Gutenberg’s invention of typography eventually revolutionized the world of text production and distribution. But the printing craft did not produce an immediate … explosion. The first two decades of European printing have a pace of their own, and these years contain long overlooked mysteries, which stood in the shadow of such famous monuments as the Gutenberg Bible and the 1457 Mainz Psalter.

Welcome Additions

Selected Acquisitions 2012-2018

Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18 is our inaugural exhibition in the new Ellen and Leonard Milberg exhibition gallery. It is a retrospective of recent … additions to our special collections within the Cotsen Children’s Library, East Asian Library, Graphic Arts, Manuscripts, Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, Numismatics, Public Policy Papers, Rare Books, Scheide Library, University Archives, and Western Americana Collection.

Ho! For the Open Country

The Promise of the Public Park

Featuring a small subset of Princeton University Library items related to the rise of public parks, gardens and picnics in 19th century America, this collection aims to … celebrate the utopian promise of the urban parks movement and encourages viewers to consider what more can be done to meet that promise.

Building Exhibits in Digital PUL

A Guide for Curators and the Curious

Digital PUL (DPUL) is a collections showcase, that provides a user-friendly interface for our ever-growing number of thematic digital collections and exhibitions. This … guide will teach you how to build a collection in DPUL with content drawn from our Digital Repository (Figgy) by utilizing a variety of features to customize metadata display, highlight and organize specific items, and build rich informational pages.

Treasures of the East Asian Library

Rare, outstanding, or unique items in East Asian languages, including books, manuscripts, maps, and albums from many eras.

East Asian Library Supplementary Materials

Front and End Matter (Tables of contents, Indexes, etc.) from items in the East Asian Library

Marquand Library Selections

Rare books from one of America's oldest and most extensive art libraries

Music and Performing Arts Collections at Princeton

A diverse collection spanning 1,000 years of rare primary and secondary sources together with unique Princeton-based music materials produced in all formats forms this … dynamic and expanding section of the Digital Princeton University Library.

Treasures of the Scheide Library

The Scheide Library, received by Princeton University in 2015 as the bequest of William H. Scheide (Class of 1936), has strengths in several areas: medieval manuscripts … and early printed books, especially those printed before 1500; early printed Bibles; selected monuments of English literature; Americana (especially early printed books relating to the New World); landmarks in the history of ideas; and music.

Treasures of the Cotsen Collection

The Cotsen Children's Library is a very special library within the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University Library. Our … international research collection of illustrated children's books, manuscripts, original artwork, prints, and educational toys from the 15th century to the present day is the benefaction of Lloyd E. Cotsen '50.

Treasures of the Graphic Arts Collection

The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in … fine press, artists’ books, and illustrated editions.

Treasures of the Manuscripts Division

Treasures of the Manuscripts Division offers a selection of its extensive holdings, which include some 12,000 linear feet of materials, spanning five millennia, from … the Ancient Near East to the present. The Manuscripts Division is located in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, at the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library.

Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts

المكتبة البرينستونية الالكترونية للمخطوطات الاسلامية

The Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts offers a selection of some 9,500 Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish volumes in the Manuscripts Division, located … in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, at the Firestone Memorial Library. The manuscripts date from the early centuries of Islam through the 19th century.

Princeton Papyri Collections

Most of the Library's papyri are in the Manuscripts Division, chiefly Greek documents from Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (Oxyrhynchus and the Fayum towns). … There are also Greek literary, sub-literary, and Scriptural fragments, and examples in Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, Coptic, Latin, and Arabic.

Rare Book Digital Repository

The Rare Book Division consists of two principal units: the General Rare Books Collection and the Robert H. Taylor Collection. The former covers printed books from … the 15th century to the present in major Western languages (about 275,000 volumes). The latter consists of choice rarities in English literature chiefly 16th to 20th century (about 4000 volumes).

The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution

The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution covers the intellectual origins of the American Revolution; the Revolution itself; the early years … of the republic; the resulting spread of democratic ideas in the Atlantic world; and the effort to abolish the slave trade in both Great Britain and the United States. Chiefly contemporary printed books and pamphlets.

Annotated Books

Collected over the years for a variety of reasons, the Library's annotated books today provide evidence not only for historians of reading but also for anyone … interested in how and why the mentalité of an era was formed. "Annotated printed books in Firestone Library ... show just how richly rewarding it can be to examine the sparks that texts struck off from early readers. The study of printed books cannot be limited to their printed contents." -- Prof. Anthony Grafton.

Western Americana Collection

The Western Americana Collection began in 1947 with the gift of printed materials and manuscripts focused on overland narratives, the cattle trade, and the Rocky … Mountain West collected by Philip Ashton Rollins, Class of 1889. Over the course of six decades, the collection expanded to include indigenous languages and the history of the American Indian, the Spanish Southwest, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), territorial imprints, and photography of the American West.

Hellenica

Princeton University owns one of the world’s largest library collections devoted to Hellenic Studies, with particular strengths in Byzantine and post-Byzantine … manuscripts, early-modern Greek printing, the Greek Enlightenment, Philhellenism and Modern Greek literature and poetry.

Selections from the Near East Collections

Selections from Princeton’s collections of rare documents of the artistic, intellectual, social and political history of the Near East.

Early Arabic Printed Works

A 2019 digital initiative, supplementing the digital Islamic Manuscripts collection that scholars can already access in DPUL.

Princeton Slavic Collections

Selections from Princeton’s collections of rare documents of the artistic, intellectual, social and political history of Russia, Eastern Europe and the territories of … the Former Soviet Union.

Indignados/15M Movement Collection from Spain

This collection contains digital images of protest signs created in various cities across Spain during the Indignados/15M protest movement of 2011.

Performance Audio Archive Collection

Online audio archive of Princeton University's Performance ensembles, Faculty, Graduate and Class recitals.