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.
Recent Projects
Francis 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 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 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.
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Princeton University Library holds approximately 9,500 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and other languages of the Muslim world written in Arabic script. The manuscripts date from the 9th to the 19th centuries. 200 of these manuscripts are being digitized for the digital library.