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Princeton's Rare Books and Special Collections

I called up twenty three items and spent two happy days in the reading room of Princeton's Firestone Library. There are ten separate collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. While the reading room serves these collections, a researcher is dealing with 10 catalogs. Princeton makes

Finding Libraries with Writing Manuals

What is a Writing Manual? Writing manuals teach a student how to form letters and write a particular style of writing or hand. Often, a writing manual discussed ink recipes, paper selection, how to cut a quill into a pen and how to hold it. They came into widespread use

Motoscribendi: Libraries, Historic Calligraphy Manuals, Book People and Motorcycles

Motoscribendi My name is Nicholas Yeager, I'm a scholar, librarian, motorcyclist and scribe. You know what the first three are, but what's a scribe? Every time you write something with a pen, you are inscribing the paper (or other substrate) with your handwriting. A scribe may