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Blog topic: New acquisitions
New cuneiform tablet acquired by Special Collections
The Stanford Libraries recently acquired its second cuneiform tablet. The acquisition was in response to the high level of use of the first tablet held by the Libraries, a Sumerian cuneiform tablet from 2056 B.C.E. which was a gift of David C. Weber in 1990 (https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4083797).
New titles in Music Reference, December 2019
The Music Library invites you to browse these recent additions to the reference collection:
Dictionnaire des musiciens de la cour d'Henri IV et des maisons princières / Jacques Szpirglas.
New Rare Books and Early Manuscripts - Third Quarter 2019
Thirteenth Century
- An account book binding formed from leaves recovered from a thirteenth-century legal codex, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment.
- French frisket fragment. (13th century?)
Fifteenth Century
- Musical manuscript containing vocal works by Dufay, Grenon, and Binchois : [The Boorman Fragment]. Northern Italy, ca. 1430.
- Johannes. 1475. Compendium quattuor librorum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. [Augsburg]: [Günther Zainer]
- Ulricus. 1480. Fraternitas cleri. [Ulm]: [Johannes Zainer].
- Diogenes Laertius, Ambrogio Traversari, and Benedictus Brognolus. 1490. Diogenes Laertius De uita & moribus philosophorum. Impressum fuit Venetiis: Impensis nobilis uiri Octauiani Scoti ciuis Modoetiẽ sis.
New databases in Chinese collection
Following is a list of selected Chinese-language databases acquired during the 2018-2019 year. For further information, please contact Zhaohui Xue, Chinese Studies Librarian.
Open House: Newly acquired medieval and early modern books and manuscripts
On Friday, October 25th, 2019, there will be an Open House featuring newly-acquired manuscripts and rare books in the Barchas Room of the Special Collections Department of Green Library from 11:00am-2:00pm.
SciFinder-n is available to Stanford users
We are very pleased to announce that SciFinder-n is available to Stanford users, beginning September 1, 2019.
Inquisition documents and other new medieval and early modern acquisitions on display May 3rd
On Friday, May 3rd, 2019, there will be an Open House in the Barchas Room of Green Library featuring recent acquisitions in medieval and early modern manuscripts, printed books, and other new materials. One of the new items on display will be a collection of rare handwritten documents from fifteenth-century Bologna, a main center of Inquisition activity in Italy, related to trials and investigations involving Jews--which is unusual since the Inquisition in Italy focused more on combating Christian heresy.