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In 1772, Emperor Qianlong of China, a prolific poet, major art patron, and insatiable collector, ordered the largest encyclopedic compilation [...]

2024 Maass Research Grant Recipient Announced The Scholarship Committee of the Manuscript Society has awarded its $5,000 Maass Scholarship to [...]

Manuscript Digest: March – April 2024 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost [...]

Overview When most people hear of a writer's archives, they think of books and authors. But not the Virginia Women [...]

40th Annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair The oldest and largest antiquarian book fair in the Southeastern United States, and one [...]

Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz from the Billy Ireland archives (photo by Nora Hickey Hyperallergic) Archie, Terry [...]

Manuscript Digest: January – February 2024 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost [...]

Manuscript Digest:  November – December 2023 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost [...]

“What you’ll do now to me is a mystery, because what do you do with a degree in history?” Fortunately [...]

Florentine Codex Disguised Mexica merchants in Tzinacantlan acquiring quetzal feathers in Book 9. (all images courtesy of the Biblioteca [...]