Hopeful Travellers: Italian Explorers, Missionaries, Merchants, and Adventurers from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. An Exhibition in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 30 January - 27 April 2007. Robin HealeyExtra muro / intra muros; A Collaborative Exhibition of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Toronto. Marie Korey , Pearce J. Carefoote , Barry Walfish

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-434
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Rare Books ◽  
The University ◽  
The Middle Ages

scholarly journals The Renaissance in Toronto: Early Modern Italian Books in the Collections of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-212
Author(s):  
Antonio Ricci
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Library ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Renaissance Studies ◽  
Rare Books ◽  
The University

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto has significant holdings of books printed in Italy during the Renaissance. These volumes cover a wide variety of disciplines and represent a major resource for scholars of literature, philosophy, science, and print culture. The article explains how the Renaissance material came to Toronto by tracing the historical formation of the rare books and special collections of the University Library. It then analyzes the main areas of strength of the Fisher’s early modern holdings, offering representative examples of the most important editions and of the outstanding bibliographic treasures. Finally, it briefly considers the contribution made by the Fisher Library to Renaissance studies in Canada in the last fifty years. La bibliothèque Thomas Fisher de livres rares de l’Université de Toronto possède une collection significative de livres imprimés en Italie à la Renaissance. Ces livres relèvent d’une variété de disciplines et constituent une importante ressource pour la recherche en littérature, en philosophie, en science, et en histoire de l’imprimerie. Cet article décrit comment ces livres de la Renaissance se retrouvent à Toronto, en retraçant l’histoire de la collection de livres rares et des collections spéciales de l’Université de Toronto. On y analyse ensuite les domaines majeurs de la collection Fisher de livres de la Renaissance, par le biais d’exemples des plus importantes éditions et des trésors bibliographiques inestimables. Enfin, on y décrit la contribution de la bibliothèque Fisher aux études canadiennes de la Renaissance des cinquante dernières années.

scholarly journals Richard Landon. A Long Way from the Armstrong Beer Parlour: A Life in Rare Books. New Castle, Delaware and Toronto, Ontario: Oak Knoll Books and Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2014. 440p. One illustration. ISBN: 978-1-58456-330-3 (Oak Knoll Press) / 978-0-7727-6113-2 (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library). $49.95.

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-88
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Slive
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Advanced Degree ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Rare Books ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

Throughout the course of his lengthy and remarkable career, Richard Landon successfully developed and promoted the extensive and renowned collections at the University of Toronto Libraries. After receiving his undergraduate and library school degrees from the University of British Columbia, Landon was hired in 1967 as a cataloguer in the libraries‘ Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. In the academic year 1971–1972 he pursued an advanced degree in bibliography and textual criticism at the University of Leeds, returning to Toronto to serve as Assistant Head and Acting Head prior to his appointment as Head of the department in . . .

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 587-588
Author(s):  
Frank Turner
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Fellowship Program ◽  
Rare Book ◽  
Library System ◽  
University Library ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
The World ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript library is the largest repository* of special collections in the Yale University library System. ITiose collections include a wide array of European books and manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the present, a major collection of Western Americana, and a vast collection of books and manuscripts relating to American literature. Scholars from all over the world wishing more information on the collections and fellowship program of the Beinecke should consult its website:

ISLAMIC COINS FROM EASTERN GIZA (EGYPT)

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
E. Yu. Goncharov ◽  
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S. E. Malykh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Ancient Rock ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article focuses on the attribution of one gold and two copper coins discovered by the Russian Archaeological Mission of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Giza. Coins come from mixed fillings of the burial shafts of the Ancient Egyptian rock-cut tombs of the second half of the 3rd millennium B.C. According to the archaeological context, the coins belong to the stages of the destruction of ancient burials that took place during the Middle Ages and Modern times. One of the coins is a Mamluk fals dating back to the first half of the 14th century A.D., the other two belong to the 1830s — the Ottoman period in Egypt, and are attributed as gold a buchuk hayriye and its copper imitation. Coins are rare for the ancient necropolis and are mainly limited to specimens of the 19th–20th centuries. In general, taking into account the numerous finds of other objects — fragments of ceramic, porcelain and glass utensils, metal ware, glass and copper decorations, we can talk about the dynamic nature of human activity in the ancient Egyptian cemetery in the 2nd millennium A.D. Egyptians and European travelers used the ancient rock-cut tombs as permanent habitats or temporary sites, leaving material traces of their stay.

Protestant Rivalry — Metaphysics and Rhetoric in Germany c. 1590–1620

1990 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

One of the most remarkable changes to take place at German Protestant universities during the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first twenty years of the seventeenth century was the return of metaphysics after more than halfa century of absence. University metaphysics has acquired a reputation for sterile aridity which was strengthened rather than diminished by its survival in early modern times, when such disciplines are supposed deservedly to have vanished with the end of the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, this survival has attracted some attention this century. For a long urne it was assumed that German Protestants needed a metaphysical defence against the intellectual vigour of the Jesuits. Lewalter has shown, however, that this was not the case.

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