Columbia University’s collection of Judaica and Hebraica is the third largest in the country, and the largest of any non-religious institution. The following link connects to the online version of the current exhibition being held at the RBML from September 12, 2012 through January 25, 2013. Spanning the 10th to the 20th centuries, the exhibition features […]
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Russian Delegation
On December 18, 2009, the four member Russian delegation led by Aleksandr Pavlovich Vershinin, General Director of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, has visited the Columbia University libraries. This visit was initiated by the Russian side of the team representing the Joint Project between the Library of Congress and the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, the […]
More Bookplates
Inspired by my colleague’s post about bookplates, I thought I’d like to add a medieval example. Not that the Middle Ages produced bookplates, per se; the earliest one, ‘tis commonly said, is the angel holding a shield with an ox——the bookplate of Hilprand Brandenberg, who in 1505 donated his personal library of some 450 books […]