Early Books at the Beinecke Library

Collections and Finding Aids

 

 

Descriptions of pre-1600 western manuscripts can be found in the catalog here. Additional descriptions,  images, and details about the Beinecke collections can be found through the links below.

 

• Papyrus

 

• Greek and Byzantine Manuscripts

 

• Takamiya Deposit

      Middle English and manuscripts of English provenance

 

• Eastern European Manuscripts

 

• Armenian Manuscripts

 

• Islamic and Middle Eastern Manuscripts

 

• Japanese, Korean, and Chinese Manuscripts

 

 

Manuscripts in other Yale collections

 

• Yale Center for British Art

 

 

Although the main library catalog is continually updated, some manuscripts are not yet in Orbis. A list of these is available here.

Early Books

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Early Books at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library encompasses all manuscript materials before 1500 in Western Europe and all materials before 1800 in the East and Middle East.  It also includes all printed materials before 1501.

 

History of the Collections