The rare books collection contains many works in Italian, cataloged in OneSearch. To find these works, click on "Advanced Search" and choose French from the drop down menu on the right. Need more help finding these materials? Check out Brandeis's Special Collections page or the Special Collections Guide, which includes how to search their collection.
Works include the correspondence of Marcel Proust, the Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, Honore Daumier's lithographs in a digitized collection, and more. Some examples are provided below (with links).
The rare books collection contains many works in Italian, cataloged in OneSearch. To find these works, click on "Advanced Search" and choose Italian from the drop down menu on the right. Need more help finding these materials? Check out Brandeis's Special Collections page or the Special Collections Guide, which includes how to search their collection.
Works include a fifteenth-century incunabule; a 1564 edition of Dante's Divine Comedy with commentary crossed out by Spanish Inquisition editors; a sixteenth-century Decameron; a receipt book from the nineteenth-century Jewish community of Venice; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music (see the Gorham Collection); the Leonardo da Vinci Collection of books and pamphlets; and much more. Some examples (with links) are included below.
