Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Volume II

by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Barbara A. Shailor

Shailor, Barbara A.

656 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (BRBL) was a 1963 gift of the Beinecke family to Yale University. It is the largest building in the world reserved exclusively for the preservation of rare books and manuscripts.

It not only has one of the 48 extant copies of the Gutenberg Bible, but original material from a diversity of authors including Dickens, Goethe, Joyce, Mann, Rilke, Tocqueville and Wharton.