Gregory Adam Scott Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Religion, Columbia University The following is a brief introduction to some of the images and histories preserved in Series 6: China and Series 7: Japan of the Missionary Research Library Collection of the Burke Library Archives. The Missionary Research Library Collection in the Burke Library archives is a [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2011’
Images of the Annunciation of Mary and the Birth of Jesus
Many of the manuscripts and rare books we have in the Special Collections contain beautiful images and illuminations. We have printed a selection on greeting cards, which are available for purchase. Over a series of posts, we will display some of these images. For those attuned to the liturgical cycle, it may be a bit [...]
Individual Lives in Manuscript: UTS MS 037
By Hannah Barker Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Columbia University UTS MS 037 is a rather eclectic collection of eleventh through nineteenth century manuscript leaves. Most of them are documents written in Latin or German on parchment; their contents vary from papal bulls and land transactions to a fragment of Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Iob [...]
Special Collections Librarian Leads Expedition to Brown Tower
By Lauren Wright, 2nd year MDiv/MSSW (UTS and Columbia), Burke Library Administrative Assistant (Originally published in the “Friends of the Burke Library Newsletter,” Autumn 2010) Despite the Burke Library’s worldwide renown, many current Union students know little about the library’s treasures. And so when (now retired) Special Collections librarian Michael Boddy offered to give an [...]
About “Unearthing Eloquence: Treasures from the Burke Library Archives and Special Collections”
Such eloquence and beauty, such exquisite clamor and impassioned commotion, such untold insights, troubles and mysteries continue to emerge from Union Theological Seminary’s Burke Library Special Collections and Archives (Columbia University). We are therefore happy to announce the launching of a blog that will bring the treasures of our towers into the light of the [...]
