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Incunabula at the Library at the Katz CAJS

Italian Family Papers, 1200s-1900s

The Kislak Center holds substantial collections of family papers from Italy, containing a wide range of documents dating from the Middle Ages and Renaissance into modern times.

Cover for Ancient Economy edited by Walter Scheidel

Making the Invisible Visible: Ancient Economy and Ordinary Lives in Ancient Greece and Rome

The Penn Libraries is purchasing widely and in multiple languages in areas of research related to economy and everyday life in Ancient Greece and Rome.

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (Kislak Center)

The Kislak Center possesses over 1500 Western manuscript codices, collections, and fragments dating from ca. 850 to ca. 1700.

Engraved version of the PSPA medal, 1790s, PSPA Records

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture (PSPA)

The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture collections include the Society's records, beginning with its 1785 founding, and its extensive library.

Ross Bible Collection

The Ross Bible Collection includes three medieval manuscripts and over one hundred printed editions of the Bible and related Biblical texts.

Colophon page of "The collection of the history of England," from Furness Collection item DA130 .D36 1621. An arch with grapevines, a crown, a lion, and a unicorn surround the book's publication information.

Short Title Catalogue (STC) Collection of Early English Printed Books to 1640

The Short Title Catalogue project, now the English Short Title Catalogue, represents an attempt to gather and describe all English books from the beginning of printing in England.

Woodcut and text from Novena de la santissima Encarnacion o Anunciata (Mexico 1777)

Sydney S. Keil Collection

The Sydney S. Keil Collection contains over 1,000 items from colonial Latin America, including books, pamphlets, broadsides, and maps.