Princeton University Library Digital Collections

Attention and effort by Daniel Kahneman.

A composite manuscript consisting of three distinct parts. The main part consists of eighteen homilies in Anglo-Saxon for Sundays and Saints' days from the feast of the Annunciation to that of St. Andrew. Nine preliminary leaves contain a Sarum Kalendar for use at Lincoln (15th century) and sequences of the Gospels (16th century), both in Latin.

A collection of 30 poster-like block prints of the 1911 Chinese Revolution given to Princeton University East Asian Library by Donald Roberts, class of 1909. The collection is useful for investigations into the visual portrayal of the struggle of Han Chinese versus the Manchus during the 1911 overthrow of the Qing Empire, with issues of "modernity" and "nation" easily visible.

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. The text chronicles the Spanish conquest of the Yucatán and provides information about the prophecy of Chilam Balam, the calendar, astronomy, the creation of the world, rituals, and other subjects.

The Princeton University Geosciences and Map Library has over 300,000 maps and charts, aerial photographs, and satellite images. They are accessible online through the Digital Maps and Geographic data web site. The digital maps and geospatial data can be searched, browsed, viewed, and downloaded.

Autograph manuscript in two unknown hands. Libertine works; prose orations; political and satirical texts by Marvell, Oldham, and Rochester; love poems by Crashaw, Etheredge, and Sedley. May have originated as distinct books that were bound into a single volume, each book separated by blank leaves. The manuscript was put together by an unknown compiler between 1670 and 1680.

The Falda publications include the titles Villa Pamphilia, Il nvovo teatro delle fabriche, et edificii..., Li giardini di Roma ..., and Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze e lvoghi pvblici della città and Palazzi di Roma..., as well as a map. The 5 volumes consist of illustrations of various features of Rome. All are works of the Italian printmaker Giovanni Battista Falda (ca. 1640-1678).

"Gender in the Academy" features and details the resources used in a 1990 exhibition celebrating Princeton's 20th anniversary of coeducation. It provides insight on the role of women in Princeton's history, ranging from local townspeople to influential academicians from other universities.

The English illustrator, James Gillray (1756-1815), was the leading force in what has become known as the golden age of English caricature, approximately 1770 to 1820. Gillray chronicled and ridiculed the politicians and ruling class of his day, in spectacularly colored prints. This graphic arts collection includes nearly 313 prints, all given by Dickson Q. Brown, class of 1895.

The James S. Hall Collection of George Frideric Handel provides rich documentation of the history of performing the music of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), including manuscripts copied during Handel’s lifetime, performance materials originating in the decades following Handel’s death, documents of 19th-century commemorative festivals in England, and memorabilia.

Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum, and an edited translation of New Atlantis (called, in the translation, Nouvel Atlas), both supplemented by prefaces of the translator and a Life of Bacon that is, probably, the first ever to appear in print. Little is known about the translator, Pierre Amboise, apart from what he says about himself in the preface and the dedicatory letter.

Bruce Willsie, class of 1986, donated this collection of 155 engravings from the Geschichtsblätter (History Sheets) published between 1570 and 1610 by the Cologne printmakers and publishers Franz Hogenberg and his son Abraham. The theme is the Eighty Years War (1568–1648), also known as the Dutch Revolt.

The Lorenzo Homar Collection consists of drawings, prints, and posters, reflecting the wide range of work by this Puerto Rican graphic artist and calligrapher. Included are drawings from his army days; design drawings of Cartier jewelry; caricatures; and over 90 posters he created for various exhibitions, conferences, and performing arts events.

This work was published in Venice in 1651, three years after the Ottomans first tried to occupy the island of Crete, Venice's last important trading foothold in the eastern Mediterreanean. Intended to raise European and Papal support for the Venetian defense of Crete, the carefully engraved maps show exquisite craftsmanship.

Consists of posters issued as The Subway Sun and The Elevated Express by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York City. The posters, designed by the public relations firm Ivy Lee and Associates, were displayed in subway cars and provided information on route changes, places of interests, public safety, system improvements, and promoted increases in subway fares.

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.

Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [the complete works] of Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was published in Moscow in 1950s and 60s, under the editorship of Dmitri Shostakovich. The edition was limited, and the volumes are no longer in print. Vol.12 (A, B, and Supplement) shown here is the score of the opera Ivan Susanin, composed in 1836 under the title A Life for the Tsar [Zhizn' za Tsarya].

Titiani Vecelii, a monument in eighteenth-century printing, includes chiaroscuro woodcuts created by the British artist John Baptist Jackson. The prints are reproductions of seventeen great Venetian paintings depicting scenes from the Bible. Jackson revived the printing technique of dividing the design between several blocks, each printed in a different color.

This group of Japanese and Chinese prints and drawings was donated by Gillett G. Griffin, curator emeritus of graphic arts, in honor of Dale Roylance. It represents a small portion of the Far Eastern works on paper held by the graphic arts division. Also included are several sketchbooks, which were collected together with the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century drawings.

Austrian-born Jean-Charles Krafft (1764-1833) is remembered for his detailed documentation of “the most elegant” French neoclassical buildings. Krafft verified particulars through correspondence with architects and on-site drawings. Each building is shown to scale in elevation, plan and section. Annotations give architect and building name, location, date, and room functions.

The Local Express began publication in Princeton on Thursday, October 24, 1935. It described itself as “A newspaper devoted to the interests of the people of Princeton and vicinity.” William L. Stout and Lloyd Dilks were the original publishers, with Henry A. Rosso taking over six months later. With the issue of May 12, 1938 (vol. 3, no. 30), it was renamed The Princeton News.

This pamphlet documents the memorial service of Arthur Mendel, who died in 1979 at the age of 74. Mendel served as Chair of the Department of Music at Princeton from 1952-1967, and held the Henry Putnam University Professorship until his retirement in 1973. Mendel was widely known as the foremost American Bach scholar of his generation.

In 1966, collector and Francophile John Douglas Gordon, class of 1905, donated a collection of 134 engravings by Robert Nanteuil (1623-1678) to Firestone Library's Graphic Arts collection in memory of his wife, Janet Munday Gordon. Nanteuil was Royal Engraver to Louis XIV and the outstanding portraitist of his age.

The Nineteenth century sheet music collection was formed by gifts and purchases from a variety of sources. The vast majority of the holdings were transferred from the Theater Collection at Firestone Library to the Arthur Mendel Music Library in 2000.

Princeton MS. 173 is a late 13th-century Byzantine manuscript from Constantinople containing Aristotle’s Organon (De interpretatione, Analytica priora, Analytica posteriora, and Topica), accompanied by diagrams and other textual materials. Of primary interest to scholars are the extensive marginal scholia and interlinear glosses in the manuscript.

Published reports of the Princeton University expeditions to Patagonia. There were three expeditions which took place between 1896 and 1899 to make observations and collections of the geology and palaeontology of the area. Professor William B. Scott, the head of Princeton University's Dept. of Geology and Palaeontology led the expeditions.

The Board of Trustees is Princeton University's primary governing body. Digitized from the Board of Trustees Records are the 1748 charter of the College of New Jersey, which formally incorporated the Trustees of the College, and Volumes I and II of the Board of Trustees minutes, in which the administration of the College during the period 1748-1823 is documented.

The Historical Postcard Collection documents the buildings and environs of the Princeton University campus in the form of picture postcards. Featuring both monochrome and color postcards , the bulk of the collection ranges in date from 1900 through the 1960s. Both unmarked and canceled postcards exist in the collection, and several postcard makers are represented.

Project Matterhorn was the code name for the controlled thermonuclear research effort started by Princeton University in 1951 under the leadership of Lyman Spitzer. In 1951, Spitzer outlined the basic concept for creating the stellarator, a device for confining and heating ionized hydrogen gas to release fusion energy for the production of power.

Panoramic view of Rome inscribed with an "Indice delle cose notabili diviso in otto giornate" listing 390 monuments and sites. The numbering corresponds to that in a guidebook which Vasi also published in 1765: Indice istorico del gran prospetto di Roma.

The Scheide Library, deposited in Princeton University Library, is one of the world's premier collections of earliest European printing. A number of these, including unique fragments, have been digitized.

These ethnographical maps, assembled and published as an atlas in 1861, provide users with a view of the distribution of races and the physical history of mankind from the major continents of the day, and indicate the movement of cultures native to these continents over time. Represented are maps of Asian, African, European, North American, South American, and Oceanic peoples.

The Taller de Gráfica Popular (known as TGP) was founded 1937 by the talented Mexican artists Leopoldo Méndez, Luis Arenal, and Pablo O'Higgins. The TGP became the first self-supporting art workshop in Mexico to create and publish their own work. Their work had a variety of objectives; some overtly political, some comic, and some artistic.

Consists of photographs of Indians of the Americas and views of the American West, including landscapes, cityscapes, and mining, railroad, and agricultural operations. Also included are views of towns in Mexico. The bulk of the photographs date from the 19th century.

An album compiled from about 1845 onwards by Richard Willats, a manufacturer and dealer in photographic supplies, located at 98 Cheapside and Ironmonger Lane, London. It contains over 300 of the earliest paper photographs ever created, along with a selection of autographs from authors, authors, and politicians.

Published during the Qing dynasty in 1664, the “Yi jing”, translated as “The Mirror of Medicine”, is a text on the art and practice of Chinese medicine. The text was written by Wang Kentang, who achieved the highest academic degree of the time, the jin shi degree, in 1589. The text is half of the Yi jing and Yao jing (The Mirror of Pharmacy). Yi jing consists of 36 titles and contains some 260 volumes.