Upcoming Events

Jack Nunn | Medieval Francophone Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library
Feb 18, 2025, 5:00 pm

The Princeton University Library holds a small treasure-trove of medieval Francophone manuscripts. This hands-on, interactive session will introduce and contextualize a cluster of canonical codices, from the inescapable Romance of the Rose to the chivalric tales of Chrétien de Troyes. But aside from these literary celebrities, the PUL also holds, in its collections, a previously unknown miscellany of late medieval political poetry by the so-called grands rhétoriqueurs. Come and hear why this messy, unassuming, composite manuscript matters––and how a detailed study of Princeton MS 222 might shed new light on the literary history of the Burgundian Netherlands…

Location
Firestone Library - Special Collections
PUL & MARBAS present...
Paul Bertrand | Murder in Bavaria: about a peculiar letter in the codex Falkensteinensis (xii-xiiie s.)
Feb 20, 2025, 4:30 pm

Comparative Diplomatics is an exploratory workshop on documents in late antiquity and the middle ages with occasional forays into the modern era, as distinct from narrative and normative long-form texts. Its goal is twofold: to stimulate the production of new translations of late antique and medieval documentary sources that can be used in the classroom, and/or harvest some of the translations already being made; and to bring languages, subfields and approaches into contact in order to clarify methodological questions.

Location
Jones Hall 202
Comparative Diplomatics
Morgan Kirkpatrick | Whose Book is it Anyway?
Mar 4, 2025, 5:00 pm

Whose Book is it Anyway? Ownership Markings in the Special Collections Backlog showcases a selection of ownership markings including bookplates, signatures, and inscriptions from Firestone Library’s backlog elimination project. These books and their ownership marks range from the 16th to the 19th centuries from Europe to North America.

Location
Firestone Library - Special Collections
PUL & MARBAS present...
Stephanie Luescher | Oh, the Stories You Tell! The Social Life of Arabic Manuscripts
Mar 18, 2025, 5:00 pm

MARBAS in collaboration with the Princeton University Library is excited to announce the Fall 2024 'PUL&MARBAS present' event series, which explores Princeton’s vast holdings of rare books, manuscripts, and archives.

Location
Firestone Library - Special Collections
PUL & MARBAS present...
Sofía Torallas Tovar | The Ezekiel codex: dispersion and reunification
Apr 1, 2025, 5:00 pm

MARBAS in collaboration with the Princeton University Library is excited to announce the Fall 2024 'PUL&MARBAS present' event series, which explores Princeton’s vast holdings of rare books, manuscripts, and archives.

Location
Firestone Library - Special Collections
PUL & MARBAS present...
Mireille Djenno | The Suez Canal’s Long Nineteenth Century: A Princeton Collection
Apr 15, 2025, 5:00 pm

MARBAS in collaboration with the Princeton University Library is excited to announce the Fall 2024 'PUL&MARBAS present' event series, which explores Princeton’s vast holdings of rare books, manuscripts, and archives.

Location
Firestone Library - Special Collections
PUL & MARBAS present...