Collections at Princeton University

Allison Delarue Collection

Ballet in the nineteenth century was an ideal medium for the manifestation of the Romantic movement. The Delarue Collection offers not only vignettes of this extraordinary time of artistry and grace, ...

Cruikshank Artwork at Princeton University Library

The Cruikshank online exhibit is a searchable database of materials from George, Isaac, Percy and Robert Cruikshank. It is designed to illustrate the juxtaposition between prints and book ...

Islamic Manuscripts

Microfilm copies of three out of print Princeton-produced bibliographies of its Arabic manuscript collection were digitized and made available on the web. The three titles are: Descriptive Catalog of ...

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Garret MS. 158 was probably made in Bologna in 1471 or after 1473. Its principal text is the Collectio antiquitatum that was the work of Giovanni Marcanova, who was born in Venice ca. 1410/1418 and ...

Portfolio

Portfolio is a web site designed to facilitate ready access to a selection of frequently requested images in the Princeton University Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. ...

Princeton University Library Papyrus Home Page

Provides information about the collections of papyri housed in the Manuscripts Division of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections in the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library of Princeton ...

Project Matterhorn Publications and Reports, 1951-1958

Digitized versions of the declassified Project Matterhorn records, a secret Department of Energy and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory project from the 1950s. The archival collection is marked up in ...

The Shahnama Project

The "Shahnameh" (The Book of Kings), the national epic of the Iranian people, was completed by the poet Ferdowsi in A.D. 1010. Its traditional 60,00 couplets outline the exploits of Persian heroes, ...

Western Americana Photographs Collection

Consists of photographs of Indians of the Americas and views of the American West, including landscapes, cityscapes, and mining, railroad, and agricultural operations. Also included are views of towns ...