by Staff | Mar 26, 2024 | Collections, News, Rare Books
Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) recently purchased the English Arthurian romance trilogy printed by William Morris, the nineteenth-century British artist who was a central figure in the movement to return to the medieval and early Renaissance...
by Staff | Sep 11, 2023 | News, Rare Books, This Week in History, Today in History
This year celebrates the 550th anniversary of the first book printed in the English language, Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1473-1474). This monumental achievement was accomplished by William Caxton, an English merchant living in Bruges. The story of the first...
by Staff | Sep 20, 2022 | News, Rare Books
A new acquisition to the special collections is Antoninus Florentius, Confessionale and other texts, written in 1462. This manuscript has works in both Latin and Italian, is from Northern Italy, and is written on paper. It is written in brown ink and has evidence of...
by Staff | Aug 1, 2022 | Rare Books
Special Collections has recently acquired a set of the first eleven titles published by Dun Emer Press, a printing house established in Ireland in 1902 by Evelyn Gleeson, Elizabeth Yeats, and William Butler Yeats. While living in London, Elizabeth Yeats had been part...
by Staff | Apr 13, 2022 | News, Rare Books
Deadline – Friday May 27th, 2022 (midnight) The UO Libraries/Oregon Poetry Association Poetry Prize awards two undergraduate student prizes every other year to high-quality works of poetry in which the library has played a role in their artistic output. Awards are...
by Staff | Jul 29, 2021 | News, Rare Books
Few written works display the formalization of a nascent language as the book by Juan Pablo Bonet: Reduction of the Letters of the Alphabet and Method of Teaching Deaf-Mutes to Speak, 1620. Bonet was the first to publish not only a method of instruction of the Deaf...
