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Material of the Week: Cato’s Moral Distichs

Cato's Moral Distichs title page

Published: 1735, Philadelphia. Cato’s Moral Distichs is a Puritanical text by James Logan. This edition is probably the first English translation published in the colonies, and it was printed by Ben Franklin at his Philadelphia press.

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

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