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Reimitz co-organizes exchange workshop on the study of medieval manuscript cultures
Jan. 24, 2025

On January 15, 2025, MARBAS steering committee member Helmut Reimitz co-organized an exchange workshop on the study of medieval manuscript cultures with the Institute of Medieval Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies at the Charles University of Prague in Vienna. In the first session, the…

In Memoriam: William Noel, the John T. Maltsberger III '55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections
May 9, 2024

William (Will) Noel, the John T. Maltsberger III '55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Princeton University Library (PUL), passed away on April 29, following a tragic accident in Edinburgh, Scotland earlier in the month. Will helped shape the field of early book history and brought the subject of medieval manuscripts to hundreds of thousands of people. His immense impact on the world of special collections grew with each day’s energetic work. A visionary leader and scholar, and champion for open access, Will's influence on his colleagues and on Princeton's special and distinctive collections will continue to shape the way scholars and the public interact with Princeton's treasures for generations. 

Marina Rustow awarded Medieval Academy of America’s Haskins Medal for ‘astonishing’ book on Cairo’s ‘Lost Archive’
Feb. 9, 2022

Marina Rustow, the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, professor of Near Eastern studies and history, has been awarded the 2022 Haskins Medal by the Medieval Academy of America for her book “The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue.

Upcoming Events

Jack Nunn | Medieval Francophone Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library

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…

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Firestone Library - Special Collections
Paul Bertrand | Murder in Bavaria: about a peculiar letter in the codex Falkensteinensis (xii-xiiie s.)

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
Morgan Kirkpatrick | Whose Book is it Anyway?

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.

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Firestone Library - Special Collections