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Month: April 2018

Charlie Steinman ’20: Nuremberg Chronicle and the Myth of Pope Joan

Charlie Steinman smiling and giving a thumbs up while standing next to an open historical manuscript under a library lamp.

Charlie Steinman took a roundabout route to write his prize-winning paper, “Martin Luther’s whore more than a pope: Annotation, Disgust, and Materiality in the Reformation Reception of the Pope Joan Myth,” about a folio in the Nuremberg Chronicle. For his final project for Professor Tara Nummendal’s course “Age of Imposters: Fraud, Identity, and the Self Charlie Steinman ’20: Nuremberg Chronicle and the Myth of Pope Joan

Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection

A 19th-century oil painting from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection depicting British soldiers in red coats scaling a steep, rocky cliffside during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

About The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection was donated to the John Hay Library in 1981 by Anne Brown, the creator of the collection. Brown became fascinated with painted lead soldiers in military uniforms during her honeymoon in Europe and bought a small collection of such soldiers. Infatuated, Brown began buying any books and prints Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection

Haggadot at the Hay – March 15, 2018

An open page from the 1546 edition of Sphaera Mundi featuring two woodcut diagrams: the top illustration depicts a lunar eclipse and the bottom shows a solar eclipse, with both diagrams labeled in Hebrew and Latin.

Around 20 students, faculty, and guests visited the Hay on March 15 for Haggadot at the Hay, a short tour of the ongoing Ungerleider Collection of Haggadot and a show-and-tell with curated Judaica housed at the Hay. Below are some of the items featured during the event. Sephardic Siddurim: Early Jewish Presence in North America After Haggadot at the Hay – March 15, 2018

Iberia & Latin America / Romance Language

Title page of a historical Spanish manuscript titled "Biblioteca Española"

About Including material in and about the languages of the Romance regions, the Iberian and Latin American/Romance Language collection boasts thousands of items that create a rich picture of life and history in Latin America and Europe. A cornerstone of the collection is the George Church Collection, materials accumulated by Col. George Earl Church, who Iberia & Latin America / Romance Language

Chronicles of Brunonia

Header graphic for "Chronicles of Brunonia" featuring the Brown University Library Center for Digital Scholarship logo

About A digital collection of historical narratives of the life of Brown – many of which were produced by student researchers for English Non-Fiction Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Taylor’s “Narrative History” course – Chronicles of Brunonia are archival-based non-fiction pieces about Brown’s buried history, quirky traditions, and unsavory moments. Notable Entries Include: Access Read more from Chronicles Chronicles of Brunonia