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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.2 weeks 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 Originally made for wealthy patrons, 28 copies are known to exist today.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
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Gettysburg: History and Memory is now open
Our new exhibition, timed to coincide with the Battle’s 150th anniversary this summer, is titled “Gettysburg: History and Memory.” Here is the introductory text: The Battle of Gettysburg resonates with us in ways that are somehow different from our historical … Continue reading
New Additions to the James Ellroy Papers
We are extremely proud to be the repository for the papers of novelist, screenwriter, and memoirist James Ellroy, the “demon dog” of American literature. The bulk of Ellroy’s papers came to us as a gift in the late 1990s, and … Continue reading
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