Princeton University Library Digital Collections

Scope and Content

Over the years, the Library has undertaken numerous efforts to digitize research information, for the purpose of preservation and to enhance access. This web site chronicles these projects and provides a way to search the Library's Digital Collections. The scope of what you can search within these collections will expand over time.

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Recent Projects

Francis BaconFrancis Bacon
A version of Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum, and an edited translation of New Atlantis (Nouvel Atlas), both supplemented by prefaces of the translator, Pierre Amboise, and a Life of Bacon.

Ivy Lee PostersIvy Lee Posters
Consists of posters issued as The Subway Sun and The Elevated Express by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company which were displayed in New York City subways from 1918-1932.

Chilam Balam de ChumayelChilam Balam de Chumayel
The Book of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel is a late 18th-century manuscript copy of a Yucatec Maya chronicle, written and illustrated in Chumayel, Yucatán.

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