Scope and Content
Over the years, the Library has undertaken numerous efforts to digitize research information, for the purpose of preservation and to enhance access. This web site chronicles these projects and provides a way to search the Library's Digital Collections. The scope of what you can search within these collections will expand over time.
Recent Projects
Jackson chiaroscuro prints
Titiani Vecelii, a monument in eighteenth-century printing, includes one title sheet and twenty-four chiaroscuro woodcuts
created by the British artist John Baptist Jackson. The prints are reproductions of seventeen great Venetian paintings depicting
scenes from the Bible.
La Boîte à joujoux : ballet pour enfants
Claude Debussy's final masterpiece, written and gorgeously
illustrated in watercolor by André Hellé, a prominent children's
writer.
Organon
Aristotle's Organon features many unknown and unpublished marginal scholia and interlinear glosses added by Byzantine
scholars of the Paleologan Renaissance.
Calixtus Bull
Calixtus Bull
In 1453 a 70,000 man Turkish army under the leadership of Mahomet II captured Constantinople and killed the Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI. This ended the thousand-year-old Byzantine Empire. In 1456 Pope Calixtus III promulgated the "Bulla Turcorum", which announced the conquest of Constantinople and sought funding for another crusade against the Turks. This papal bull was printed by Johann Gutenberg