Posts by Pablo Alvarez

We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of a nine-volume set containing satirical pamphlets, trial accounts, and legal and political commentaries, on the dramatic 1820 trial of Queen Caroline, the estranged wife of George IV, who faced charges of adultery in the House of Lords.

The Special Collections Research Center will host a reception on February 12 (10:00am) to celebrate the installation of the exhibit: Orson Welles as Family Man: Son, Husband, Father. Please join the exhibit curator, Phil Hallman, to chat about the making of this extraordinary display in the company of warm coffee and refreshments.

Join us for our next Third Thursdays at the Library open house, exploring early printed books!

You are all cordially invited to the upcoming exhibit of a selection of manuscripts and early printed books from the 15th to the 17th centuries that were illustrated with illuminations and woodcuts. The display will open in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (Hatcher Library North) on September 6, 2023.

Welcome to the University of Michigan Library’s Book Arts Studio, a place for students, faculty, and the community to learn and practice the craft of letterpress printing, offering the opportunity to engage in other related activities, such as bookbinding and the book arts.

You are all cordially invited to attend the public lecture, "The Place of Greek Paleography in the Cultural and Literary History of Byzantium." Professor Elena Velkovska (University of Siena, Italy) will help us understand the international significance of the many treasured and valuable Byzantine Greek liturgical manuscripts held in the U-M Library's Special Collections Research Center.

Join us this Wednesday, 8 March, at 4 pm for refreshments, viewing, and casual conversation with the student curators of "Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books"!

Join the Special Collections Research Center in Hatcher next Tuesday (14 March) at 4 pm for our third After Hours open house of the Winter term, exploring a selection of early rare books and prints containing images printed with the technique of relief (woodcuts) and intaglio (copperplate engravings).

The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new exhibit featuring the title page. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

We are delighted to announce an important recent acquisition made possible by Katharine V. Kilgour's generous gift in memory of her father Raymond L. Kilgour: a manuscript containing the texts of a Book of Hours and a Psalter. Written on parchment in Latin and French, it was exquisitely illuminated by one of the leading miniaturists working in Paris in the first two decades of the sixteenth century: Jean Coene IV.