by Alexa Goff | Sep 27, 2018 | Events, Rare Books
The Social Lives of the Ethiopian Psalter A lecture by Professor Steve Delamarter, George Fox University Thursday, October 4th, 2018 • 4:00 p.m. Knight Library, Special Collections & University Archives Kesey Classroom Dr. Delamarter will discuss his efforts...
by | Sep 24, 2018 | Collection Highlight, Rare Books
Special Collections and University Arvhives is pleased to announce the acquisition of a collection of works by the German polymath Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682), including Experimentum Chymicum Novum: Quo Artificialis & Instantanea Metallorum Generatio Et...
by | Aug 23, 2018 | Rare Books
Special Collections is pleased to announce the acquisition of Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (Great Art of Light and Shadow), one of the key scientific works, and possibly the rarest, by the German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680). This acquisition was made...
by Alexa Goff | Mar 6, 2018 | New Collections, Rare Books
Special Collections and University Archives has recently acquired an exceptional miniature book: a copy of the 1828 edition of the complete works of Horace printed in a microscopic 2.5pt font designed by the Didot firm. The French Didot family included several...
by Alexa Goff | Jan 18, 2018 | Classes and Instruction, Events, Exhibitions, Students
A new exhibit is now on view during the Winter 2018 term in the Paulson Reading Room in Special Collections and University Archives titled Creative Commonplacing: The Facets of Book Love. Students of Professor Mai-Lin Cheng’s Fall 2017 course HC421, “Book...
