Category: Archives
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Book Collecting Contest Winners Announced
The First Annual 2013 Reed College Book Collecting Contest winners were announced on April 16, 2013. Senior Mack Sullivan won the top prize of $1,000 for his essay entitled “How to be Alone”. His essay, with annotated bibliography attached, could be characterized as a philosophical musing on how books can change your life. Richard Aldersley…
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Christmas Mass: Victorian Illuminated Manuscript
Reed recently acquired an illuminated Christmas Mass, calligraphed and illustrated by Marie Granville and perhaps others, dated 1854. This lovely manuscript has been digitized and is now part of the Digital Collection. This work is illuminated with many initials in colors and burnished gold, with full borders on every page in a variety of styles…
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Beatus vir, a late Medieval Illuminated Manuscript
One of Reed’s three illuminated manuscripts, the Beatus vir, created around 1510 in France, has now been digitized and may be perused online at https://cdm.reed.edu/cdm4/beatusvir/ as one of Reed’s newer digital collections. The Beatus vir is a psalter and prayerbook containing 40 painted miniatures, ten of them full-page. Particularly appealing are the many images showing…
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Secret Books!
August 28 – November 7, 2012 Many surprises lurk in the Reed library collections: books that have unexpected contents, hidden accessories or decoration, or are just downright unreadable. The long history of cyphers and steganography (concealed writing) attests to the appeal, and sometimes the necessity, of hiding meaning in communications and texts. A broader look…
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New Book about Manuscripts in Reed’s Special Collections
The Origins, Glory & Decline of the Humanist Cursive in Italy 1400-1650 is a new title written by Reed alumnus Steve Herold ’63 about the Early Writing Collection in the Reed library’s special collections. Herold has traced the history of the italic cursive popularized by Professor Lloyd Reynolds in his calligraphy classes at Reed presented…
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Calligraphy at Reed
May 22 – August 2012 This exhibit sheds some light on the history of calligraphy at Reed and the impact of Lloyd Reynolds’ teaching, showing a selection of his letterforms, correspondence, and student work. The calligraphy that Reynolds taught at Reed from the late 1930s through 1969 remains a strong presence in college life. Robert…
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Flora in the Library: Books with Flowers
February 9th through early May, 2012 Flowers surround us and yet are normally seen as merely a decoration or a passing interest beside our path. Books that contain flower images, however, abound from early treatises on husbandry to artists’ books and include photographic essays, guidebooks, and fancy illustration. Some interesting examples have been selected from…
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New exhibit: 100 YEARS AGO
Through August 2011 In the long display cases, located just past the circulation desk An exhibition of objects, photographs, and documents that chronicle Reed’s beginnings. Many of our earliest traditions, such as Campus Day (pictured) and the Tug-of-War, are illustrated.
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Exhibit: Leslie Scalapino ’66 – Experimental Poet
February 4 – April 1, 2011 in the library flat and wall cases Leslie Scalapino ’66 is acclaimed as one of America’s most innovative poets who has more than 40 published works to her name that span poetry, prose, prose-poems, and plays from the mid-1970s through 2011. Forty of her works along with her Reed…
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Museum of Contemporary Craft exhibit features Reed books
A new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, now in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art, will focus on artists’ books from the Reed College collection. “Object Focus: The Book,” running from November 18, 2010 through February 26, 2011, will consist entirely of Reed books selected by Professor Gerri Ondrizek and the staff…