“On September 8, 1876, four boxes of books arrived...”

“In describing printed books, a cataloger looks for subjects or areas of study where...”

“One of the most common uses of manuscripts over the centuries is to train children in reading and writing...”

“Singing is one of those amazing things...”

“I’m not a musicologist, but I am an avid fan of music from all times...”

“A choir of cowled monks around a shrouded casket, a body being laid into a coffin, a smiling skeletal figure, an old man sitting on a dung heap...”

“In 1492, the abbot of a Benedictine monastery in Sponheim, Germany, wrote a small paean to scribes and the act of writing...”

“Manuscripts are known for their idiosyncratic nature...”

“Much of human history remains for us today only in the form of smaller remnants or fragments...”

“A book you would love to read is lost, altered, destroyed, buried, hidden, left unpublished, unwritten, banned.”

“The advent of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century led to...”

“In summer of 1917, the New York-based artist Rockwell Kent made a bold decision.”

“Herbals—books describing the medicinal use of plants—have been important scientific sources for...”

“HMML’s very own palimpsest fragment recently underwent high energy x-ray imaging at...”