Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologica -- A Few Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts at Brandeis -- The First Bookplate -- Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) -- Walter F. and Alice Gorham Collection of Early Music Imprints -- Geneva Bible, 1589 -- Perry Miller Collection on the Colonial Religious Experience in America -- Bern Dibner Collection in the History of Science -- McKew Parr Collection: Magellan and the Age of Discovery -- Dante's Divine Comedy, Censored by Spanish Inquisition -- Shakespeare Collection -- Three Books of Renaissance Cryptography and the Secret of Shakespearean Authorship -- Judaica Materials in Special Collections -- L'Encyclopedie -- More Than Just a John Hancock: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution Collections -- Jack J. and Therese G. Katz Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles -- Bernice and Henry Tumen Collection -- Burmese Palm-Leaf Manuscripts -- Fore-edge Paintings -- Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center's Samuel Gridley Howe Library Collections -- Trustman Collection of Honore Daumier Lithographs -- Michael Lally Civil War Letters -- Diary (1859-1886) of William Ayrton -- Paris Commune Posters -- Buffalo Bill Dime Novels -- Louis Dembitz Brandeis Collection -- The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye and the Kelmscott Press -- Consistoire Central Israelite de France Collection -- Leon Lipschutz Collection of Dreyfusiana and French Judaica -- Native American Watercolors -- Pauline Trigere Papers -- Leo Frank Trial Collection -- Nahum Goldmann Collection -- Marcel Proust Letters -- Diary of a World War I Aid Worker -- Colonel Edward H. McCrahon Family Collection of World War I Posters -- World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters Collection -- Sacco and Vanzetti Collections -- Spanish Civil War Periodicals Collection -- Spanish Civil War Poster Collection -- Hugo Oehler Collection -- Lewis S. Feuer Papers -- Carl Van Vechten Photographs -- Victor Young Collection -- Le Temoin -- Helmut Hirsch Collection -- Spitzer Family Papers -- Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Documents -- Eric M. Lipman Collection of Nazi Documents -- Jewish Resistance Collection -- World War II Guernsey Scrapbook -- Hall-Hoag Collection of Extremist Literature in the United States -- Lenny Bruce Collection -- Leo Rosten Papers -- Arthur Laurents Collection -- Joseph Heller's Catch-22 Manuscript and Correspondence -- Sophie Tucker Scrapbooks -- Radical Pamphlet Collection -- Havurat Shalom Records -- Marcia Freedman Papers.
Summary:
"Honoring the History of the Brandeis Library is an illuminating look at Brandeis's unique and invaluable rare text collection. It features items including rare books, artistic works, photographs, manuscript collections, Judaica materials, historically significant archival collections, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.