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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, 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.”
…Information: A Historical Companion, new volume co-edited by Anthony Grafton, has been published by Princeton University Press.
This collaborative volume traces the evolution of human approaches to gathering, storing and processing information…
Upcoming Events
A roundtable and reception to celebrate the opening of the foyer exhibition “Belle da Costa Greene at Princeton, 1901–1905” at Firestone Library.
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.
Medicine in the Islamic world has a long history of textual production and practical adaptations, from the Canon of Ibn Sina and the Comprehensive Medical Casebook of al-Razi, onward to medicine today. Come explore this history of medicine with the medical manuscripts in Princeton’s Special Collections department, as we journey from translation to textual production and transmission into the realm of medical systems and practices.