The Winthrop Group recently finished processing the papers of Jack and Irene Delano on behalf of the RBML. Here is a guest blog post written by Cristina Stubbe, the Winthrop archivist who processed the papers. A Personal Connection with the Delano Collection There is so much I could say about the Jack and Irene Delano […]
Tag: manuscripts
Two ancient papyrus fragments and their very modern reunion
For us at RBML, this has been a year of facilitating many virtual encounters with rare materials, from remote teaching and consultations to publication of digital and digitized materials on Columbia’s Digital Library Collections (DLC). And to that we may now add virtual reunions of rare materials! For nearly a century, RBML’s Papyrus Collection has […]
Liturgical Books Goes Live
Liturgical Books presents the examples from the RBML of the various types of books used in the Middle Ages for the celebration of the Latin liturgy. This new resource is the result of the collaborative redesign of a web exhibit (Celebrating the Liturgy’s Books) designed by Consuelo Dutschke, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Books until […]
Some Illumination for All
Columbia’s collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts is rich and resplendent, for all that much of it has sat quietly and largely unseen in the stacks throughout most of this tumultuous year. But while opportunities to leaf through these manuscripts in person may still feel distant, it just got much easier to see a few […]
The RBML’s Fall 2019 Exhibitions
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