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‘Zevach Pesach’
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A brief commentary prepared by Sandra Yocum, PhD, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, on the following work:
Zevach Pesach
Constantinople, 1505; first edition of Abrabanel's commentary; earliest obtainable edition
La Biblia, Que Es, Los Sacros Libros Del Viejo Y Nuevo Testamento (Spanish Bible)
La Biblia, Que Es, Los Sacros Libros Del Viejo Y Nuevo Testamento (Spanish Bible)
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A brief commentary prepared by Neomi DeAnda, PhD, Assisant Professor, Religious Studies, on the following work:
La Biblia, que es, Los Sacros Libros del Viejo y Nuevo Testamento (Spanish Bible)
Basle, 1569; first complete Spanish-language translation of the Bible
Qur'an
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A brief commentary prepared by Jusuf Salih, PhD, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, on the following work:
Qur'an
Kashmir, 1864; an illuminated manuscript, copied by Aziz Khan Kashmiri et al.
Polyglot Bible: Psalter
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A brief commentary prepared by Fred W. Jenkins, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Collections and Operations, University Libraries, on the following work:
Polyglot Bible: Psalter
1516; First edition in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Arabic
‘Mahayana Sutra Of The Buddha: Boundless Life’
‘Mahayana Sutra Of The Buddha: Boundless Life’
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A brief commentary prepared by Fred W. Jenkins, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Collections and Operations, University Libraries, on the following work:
Mahayana Sutra of the Buddha: Boundless Life
China, early 8th century; Scroll from the Dunhuang caves; in Tibetan language
‘Book Of The Dead: The Book Of Going Forth By Day Of The Priestess Ta-Er-Pet (The Papyrus Macgregor)’
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A brief commentary prepared by Fred W. Jenkins, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Collections and Operations, University Libraries, on the following work:
Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth By Day of the priestess Ta-er-pet (the Papyrus MacGregor)
Late 1st century BC; 23 feet, 6 inches long, divided into nine sections; includes a unique chart of images depicting 75 protective amulets
‘Aristotle's Logic: A Commentary’
‘Aristotle's Logic: A Commentary’
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A brief commentary prepared by Bobbi Sutherland, PhD, Professor, History, on the following work:
Aristotle's Logic: a commentary
ca. 1644; Latin commentary written in the disputed question style on the logic of Aristotle
Woolf: ‘A Room Of One's Own’
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A brief commentary prepared by Sheila Hassell Hughes, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
1929; first trade edition; presentation copy
Wollstonecraft: ‘A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: With Strictures On Political And Moral Subjects’
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A brief commentary prepared by Mary Sanderson, PhD, Lecturer, History, on the following work:
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
1792; first edition; original publisher boards
Wheatley: ‘Poems On Various Subjects, Religious And Moral’
Wheatley: ‘Poems On Various Subjects, Religious And Moral’
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A brief commentary prepared by Sheila Hassell Hughes, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:
Phillis Wheatley
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
London, 1773; first book published by an African American; frontispiece illustration of author is by African American slave artist Scipio Moorhead
Twain: ‘Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn’
Twain: ‘Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn’
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A brief commentary prepared by Kara Getrost, PhD, Lecturer, English, on the following work:
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884 and 1885; first British edition (1884) and first American edition (1885)
Tolkien: ‘The Lord Of The Rings’
Tolkien: ‘The Lord Of The Rings’
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
A brief commentary prepared by Miriamne Ara Krummel, PhD, Associate Professor, English, on the following work:
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
London, ca. 1953-1955; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister
Shakespeare: ‘Comedies, Histories, And Tragedies’
Shakespeare: ‘Comedies, Histories, And Tragedies’
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
A brief commentary prepared by Elizabeth Mackay, PhD, Lecturer, English, on the following work:
William Shakespeare
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
1632; Second Folio
Remarque: ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’
Remarque: ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’
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A brief commentary prepared by Patrick Thomas, PhD, Assistant Professor, English, on the following work:
Erich Maria Remarque
Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
1928 and 1929; Corrected galley proofs in author’s hand (1928); first edition (1929)
Ptolemy: ‘Geographiae Universae’
Ptolemy: ‘Geographiae Universae’
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A brief commentary prepared by Robert Brecha, PhD, Professor, Physics, on the following work:
Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
Geographiae universae (Geography)
1597; from the library of Robert Burton
Plato: ‘Opera Omnia’ (Complete Works)
Plato: ‘Opera Omnia’ (Complete Works)
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excerpted from Printing and the Mind of Man (1983), on the following work:
Plato
Opera omnia (Complete Works)
Venice: Aldus, 1513; second printing
Pascal: ‘Pensées’
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A brief commentary prepared by Fred W. Jenkins, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Collections and Operations, University Libraries, on the following work:
Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Paris, 1670; first edition
O'Connor: ‘A Good Man Is Hard To Find’
O'Connor: ‘A Good Man Is Hard To Find’
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A brief commentary prepared by Brother Tom Wendorf, S.M., PhD, national vocation director, Marianist Province of the United States, on the following work:
Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find
ca. 1955; first edition
Newton: ‘Opticks’
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
Two brief commentaries prepared by Robert Brecha, PhD, Professor, Physics, and H. Angus Macleod, DTech, University of Arizona, on the following work:
Isaac Newton
Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light
London, 1704; first edition
Montessori: ‘The Montessori Method’
Montessori: ‘The Montessori Method’
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
A brief commentary prepared by Treavor Bogard, PhD, Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, on the following work:
Maria Montessori
Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica applicato all'educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini (The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in “the Children's Houses”)
1909; first edition
Marx: ‘Das Kapital’
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A brief commentary prepared by Alex Macleod, PhD, Lecturer, English, on the following work:
Karl Marx
Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy)
Hamburg, 1867; volume 1; first edition
Malcolm X: ‘The Autobiography Of Malcolm X’
Malcolm X: ‘The Autobiography Of Malcolm X’
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
Excerpted from The New York Times, November 5, 1965, on the following work:
Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1963; written with Alex Haley; original typed draft
Maimonides: ‘The Guide Of The Perplexed’
Maimonides: ‘The Guide Of The Perplexed’
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
A brief commentary prepared by Patrick Thomas, PhD, Assistant Professor, English, on the following work:
Moses Maimonides
Moreh Nebukhim (The Guide of the Perplexed)
Possibly Rome, ca. 1469; first edition; translated from Judeo-Arabic into Hebrew by Samuel Ibn Tibbon
Linnaeus: ‘Systema Naturae’ (‘A General System Of Nature’)
Linnaeus: ‘Systema Naturae’ (‘A General System Of Nature’)
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
A brief commentary prepared by Ryan McEwan, PhD, Professor, Biology, on the following work:
Carl Linnaeus
Systema Naturae (A General System of Nature)
Leiden, 1735; first edition
Lincoln: Political Debates Of 1858
Lincoln: Political Debates Of 1858
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
A brief commentary prepared by Margaret Strain, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:
Abraham Lincoln
Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois
Columbus, 1860; first edition; first issue; presentation copy
Kepler: ‘Astronomia Nova’ (‘New Astronomy’)
Kepler: ‘Astronomia Nova’ (‘New Astronomy’)
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
A brief commentary prepared by Robert Brecha, PhD, Professor, Physics, on the following work:
Johannes Kepler
Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy)
Heidelberg or Prague, 1609; first edition
Homer: ‘Works In Greek’
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A brief commentary prepared by Fred W. Jenkins, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Collections and Operations, University Libraries, on the following work:
Homer
Works in Greek
Florence, 1488; editio princeps; bookplates of Labouchère and Duke of Sussex
Hippocrates: ‘Octoginta Volumina’ (‘The Hippocratic Corpus’)
Hippocrates: ‘Octoginta Volumina’ (‘The Hippocratic Corpus’)
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
A brief commentary prepared by Bobbi Sutherland, PhD, Assistant Professor, History, on the following work:
Hippocrates
Octoginta volumina (The Hippocratic Corpus)
Rome, 1525; first edition of the first complete Latin edition
Goethe: ‘Faust’
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
A brief commentary prepared by Margaret Strain, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
Leipzig, 1790; first edition
Galileo: ‘Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger)’
Galileo: ‘Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger)’
Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works
A brief commentary prepared by Robert Brecha, PhD, Professor, Physics, and Bill Marvin, MA, Lecturer, Philosophy, on the following work:
Galileo
Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger)
1610; one of only two known copies of earliest issue of the first edition