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Special Collections Schedule - Summer 2024

The Special Collections reading rooms in Firestone and Mudd Libraries will be
closed on the following upcoming holidays: Thursday, July 4 (Independence Day),
and Monday, September 2 (Labor Day). We are currently operating under Summer
Hours which are 9am-4:15pm. During this time we stop paging at 3:45pm. Academic
Hours, 9am-4:45pm, will resume on Monday, August 26. 


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MANUSCRIPTS DIVISION

Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-258-3184



QUICK LINKS

 * Manuscripts Collections in Finding Aids
 * Main Catalog


DONOR INFORMATION

 * Digital Records Guidelines for Donors, Manuscripts Division
 * Contemporary Manuscript Collections Acquisitions Questionnaire
 * Donor Inventory Template
 * Deed of Gift
 * Boxing and Inventory Guide

The Manuscripts Division holds an estimated 14,000 linear feet of materials
covering five thousand years of recorded history and all parts of the world,
with special strength in Western Europe, the Near East, the United States, and
Latin America.


COLLECTION STRENGTHS


 * AMERICAN HISTORY
   
   The Manuscripts Division has very significant holdings on American history
   during the period 1750-1865. Most extensive are the Edward Livingston Family
   Papers, comprising 165 boxes of papers as well as maps, rolls, and other
   artifacts pertaining to this Hudson Valley family.


 * ANCIENT HISTORY
   
   The Manuscripts Division has approximately 1,350 baked and unbaked clay
   tablets, opened and unopened tablet cases, clay cylinders, nail-shaped cones,
   pyramid-shaped tags, and other items.


 * ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY
   
   The Manuscripts Division has substantial holdings of original art from many
   historical periods and cultural contexts. The earliest materials are
   Pharaonic rolls from ancient Egypt, including several polychrome examples.


 * ETHIOPIC MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
   
   The Manuscripts Division has one of the largest collections of Ethiopic
   manuscripts outside Ethiopia, including nearly 180 codices (bound
   manuscripts) and more than 500 magic scrolls (amulets), dating from the 17th
   to 20th centuries, chiefly written in Ge'ez, the sacred language of the
   Ethiopian


 * ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS
   
   The Manuscripts Division holds nearly 10,000 volumes of Arabic, Persian,
   Ottoman Turkish, and other manuscripts of the predominantly Islamic world,
   written in Arabic script. This is the largest such collection in North
   America and one of the finest in the Western world.


 * LITERATURE
   
   Princeton is well known for its extensive holdings in modern literature and
   publishing, especially British and American. Significant collections include
   the papers of Sylvia Beach, James Gould Cozzens, F.


 * MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS
   
   Medieval, Byzantine, and Renaissance Manuscripts


 * PAPYROLOGY
   
   The Manuscripts Division holds more than a thousand papyri, dating from
   approximately 1250 BCE to 900 CE. Best known are Princeton’s literary, early
   Christian, and sub-literary papyri.


 * PUBLISHING HISTORY
   
   The Manuscripts Division has strong holdings of American publishing archives,
   with special emphasis on author files of correspondence and related
   materials, chiefly 19th and 20th century.


 * THEATER/FILM
   
   Over two hundred theater-related collections in the Princeton University
   Library offer a wealth of primary source materials documenting the history of
   the performing arts and popular entertainment in the United States and Great
   Britain.


PUL MANUSCRIPTS NEWS BLOG

 * “Unequal to Anything” — Now Available Digitally! Jane Austen’s Letters to her
   sister Cassandra
   Posted 3 years 1 month ago
 * Special collections and heavy metal bands
   Posted 4 years 3 months ago
 * Women in 18th Century North Carolina
   Posted 4 years 5 months ago


POP GOES THE PAGE BLOG

 * Let’s Play!
   Posted 7 months 10 hours ago
 * This Week in Princeton History for December 11-17
   Posted 7 months 1 day ago
 * The Tiger Is in the Eye of the Beholder
   Posted 7 months 1 week ago


EXHIBITIONS

 * Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18
 * NOT FOR MYSELF ALONE
 * The Papers of Toni Morrison
 * A Republic in the Wilderness


LOCATIONS


FIRESTONE LIBRARY

One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-258-3184


SEELEY G. MUDD MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY

65 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-258-6345
Calendars: RBSC | Mudd


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