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University of South Carolina Rare Books and Special Collections
Our Rare Books & Special Collections holdings are comprised chiefly of printed materials in the following subject areas: natural history, the sciences, history, literature, philosophy, and books from the South Carolina College Library.University of South Carolina Rare Books and Special Collections shared University of South Carolina Libraries's post.1 month agoUniversity of South Carolina LibrariesReceived TODAY by the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections - a major portion of “La Chronique Anonyme Universelle” - an illuminated manuscript scroll circa 1470, from northwestern France. Seven feet in length, the scroll describes the "French" history of the world from a unique secular point of view, from creation to the fifteenth century, specifically, the genealogical lineage of French and English royalty as originating in the Bible and continuing through the Egyptian, Grecian, and Roman Empires. The other portions of this scroll are at the Houghton Library at Harvard and in a private European collection. Originally made for wealthy patrons, 28 copies are known to exist today. This is the first medieval illuminated manuscript in scroll format at #UofSC. It was acquired with generous support from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation.“Piranesi and Romanticism: Architecture and the Literary Imagination.” | The Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections BlogThe University of South Carolina is one of six institutions worldwide to own a complete twenty-nine volume set of the works of the eighteenth-century architectural illustrator Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). He is known for his meticulous and fanciful engravings of Roman architecture, ancien...library.sc.eduTotal Solar Eclipse, 2017 | Highlights from the Irvin Department's Robert B. Ariail Collection of Historical AstronomyOn 21 August 2017, Columbia, SC, will experience a total solar eclipse that will last about two and a half minutes. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. Alibrary.sc.edu
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Our New Exhibition: Art in the Library
Art in the Library: Original Artwork in the Collections of the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Open now through early January, 2014. A special collections library is primarily a repository for printed and manuscript materials. But … Continue reading
