Introduction
Medieval books were among the Cornell Library’s earliest acquisitions.
The University’s first president, Andrew Dickson White, and his
librarian, George Lincoln Burr, personally selected these books on buying
expeditions to Europe. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view
some of Cornell Library’s oldest treasures, and to chart the diverse
forms of the written word in medieval Europe.
Lombard Gradual. Northern Italy, mid-fifteenth
century.
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Copyright
© 2002 Division of Rare & Manuscript
Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853
Phone Number: (607) 255-3530. Fax Number: (607) 255-9524
For
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