Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Open for Research
Posts and news stories about selected collections opened for research. Researchers are encouraged to search the library’s collections to explore the full range of materials, both longstanding and newly acquired or processed
January 21, 2026
The following information on recent archival processing work at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library was written by Mary Caldera, Associate Director for... - ## Newly processed archival collections at the Beinecke, July through September 2025
October 7, 2025
Newly processed archival collections at the Beinecke, July through September 2025 The following information on recent archival processing work at Beinecke Rare... - ## Newly processed archival collections at the Beinecke, April through June 2025
July 11, 2025
The following information on recent archival processing work at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library was written by Mary Caldera, Associate Director for... - ## Newly processed archival collections at the Beinecke, January through March 2025
April 1, 2025
The following information on recent archival processing work at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library was written by Mary Caldera, Associate Director for Archival Description. - ## Newly processed archival collections at the Beinecke, October through December 2024
January 14, 2025
The following information on recent archival processing work at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library was written by Mary Caldera, Associate Director for... - ## Newly processed archival collections at the Beinecke, July through September 2024
October 1, 2024
Beinecke staff have made available several collections and additions to existing collections, including: New collections Bea Nettles, Photographic Portraits... - ## Newly processed archival collections at the Beinecke, April through June 2024
July 8, 2024
Beinecke staff have made available several collections and additions to existing collections, including: New collections 20 Portraits: Women at Yale GEN MSS... - ## Newly processed archival collections at the Beinecke, February to March 2024
April 2, 2024
Beinecke staff have made available several collections and additions to existing collections, including: New collections Amiri Baraka papers (JWJ MSS 198) The... - ## Newly Processed Archival Collections at the Beinecke, July 2023 to January 2024
February 2, 2024
Beinecke staff have made available several collections and additions to existing collections, including: New collections Alvin Novick Papers (MS 2087) The... - ## How Janet Malcolm Created Her Own Personal Archive (LitHub)
January 18, 2023
It’s hardly coincidental that Malcolm was organizing her own archive around the same time that she began to explore writing about her life. In 2013, she sent her first shipment—59 boxes of assorted detritus—up to New Haven, where they would live at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To say that Malcolm organized her papers would be a stretch. In some cases, she simply emptied the contents of her filing cabinets into cardboard boxes. But elsewhere, she annotated letters and folders, leaving easter eggs and reminders for any future researcher that she was thinking carefully about what to include in her archive and, more importantly, what to leave out. - ## Tibet Kanjur 1: The Dalai Lama’s Visit to Yale in October 1991
April 18, 2022
Tibet Kanjur 1 was donated to Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 1950 by the 14th Dalai Lama. It was the first Kanjur to be bestowed on an American institution by a sitting leader of Tibet. - ## Takamiya MS 98: An Excised Fragment of the Stafford Gower
March 27, 2022
Beinecke manuscript fragment Takamiya MS 98 once belonged to a 14th-century manuscript known as the Stafford Gower (Huntington Library MS EL 26 A 17), a copy of John Gower's Middle English poem "Confessio Amantis." It was excised and used as binding waste. - ## Osborn fa38: An Early Copy of Petrus Comestor’s Historia scholastica
January 18, 2022
Petrus Comestor’s Historia scholastica, composed in Latin and completed in Paris in the 1170s, was one of the key texts for historical and scriptural education among schoolmen throughout the Middle Ages. The Beinecke Library is fortunate to possess an early copy of this important medieval text: Osborn fa38, which was produced in England at the priory of Rochester Cathedral. - ## Turkish MSS Suppl 184
December 17, 2021
The Maʿrifetnāme is a scholarly encyclopedia that covers a wide range of areas, including astronomy, astrology, anatomy, physiology, psychology, physics, mathematics, biology, geometry, physiognomy, faith, mysticism, education, social, moral and traditional sciences. - ## Open for Research: John Ashbery Collection of Artwork and Objects
November 29, 2021
The Beinecke Library has recently acquired a collection of artwork and objects collected by American poet John Ashbery. It includes paintings, glassware, ceramics, clothing, household objects, realia, printed material, collage materials, and other items of significance to Ashbery, some of which inspired his poetry or appeared in his published work. - ## Beinecke Digital Library, always open online, continues to grow
May 19, 2020
While physical facilities may have closed on March 16, staff throughout Yale Library have been working remotely to provide services to students, faculty, the... - ## OPEN FOR RESEARCH Mildred Aldrich Books
January 27, 2020
a collection of books by Aldrich and others from the library of Clara Smith Steichen - ## Rachel Blau DuPlessis Papers
January 23, 2020
The Beinecke Library is pleased to announce a newly acquired collection: the papers of Rachel Blau DuPlessis. DuPlessis is a contemporary American poet,... - ##
October 7, 2019
The papers of screenwriter and producer David Milch include writings, scripts, correspondence, videocassettes, printed material, and ephemera. - ## Gerrit Lansing Papers
October 2, 2019
The personal and literary archive of American poet Gerrit Lansing is open for research - ## Comics & the Superpowers of Catalog/Metadata Librarians: Beinecke Illuminated visual podcast no. 2
May 23, 2019
Our visual podcasts series takes you behind the scenes of the work, collections, and programs of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. In the second... - ## Really Fun: Tom Davis Papers Open for Research at the Beinecke Library
May 1, 2019
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library recently opened the Tom Davis Papers to research. It is an archive that was “really fun” to prepare for future... - ## Female American Poets: Archival Connections
April 16, 2019
The next poet in our series, Female American Poets: Archival Connections, is Maya Angelou. A poet, autobiographer, activist, and director, Angelou explores sound, memory, and sexuality in her poetry and prose. Her work investigates and colors the history of Black oppression, activism, and power in America. - ## Rush on Punk - Beinecke Illuminated visual podcast no. 1
April 13, 2019
Our new visual podcast series takes you behind the scenes of the work, collections, and programs of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To watch the... - ## NEW ACQUISITION: Tom Carey Papers
March 12, 2019
The recently-acquired papers of poet Tom Carey are open for research - ## Beinecke Library acquires Clumber Park Chartier; digital version online
March 27, 2018
The Beinecke Library recently acquired the Clumber Park Chartier, considered the finest illustrated manuscript of Alain Chartier (c. 1386-c. 1430), one of the... - ## New Acquisition: Steichen Family Papers
March 8, 2018
The gift of Edward Steichen's grandaughter, Francesca Calderone-Steichen, the Steichen Family Papers contains photographs, correspondence, writings, exhibition materials, legal papers, genealogical materials, audiovisual materials, digital media, and other papers relating to the twentieth century photographer and art curator Edward J. Steichen and the members of his family. - ## New Acquisition: Steichen Family Papers
March 8, 2018
The Beinecke Library is delighted to announce that the recently-acquired Steichen Family Papers [YCAL MSS 1080] are now open for research. - ## Mina Loy Papers Online
December 5, 2017
The Yale Collection of American Literature is pleased to announce that the Mina Loy Papers have been digitized in their entirety; the collection can be viewed... - ## Open for Research: Rudolph Dunbar Papers
July 24, 2017
Rudolph Dunbar (1899-1988) was a Guyanese clarinetist, music conductor, photojournalist, editor and music teacher. Dunbar began his career as a clarinetist while a teenager in the British Guiana Militia band. - ## Open for Research: Leviticus Lyon Papers
July 24, 2017
Leviticus Lyon (1894-1958) was a singer and choral director born in San Francisco, California on May 29, 1894. - ## Open for Research: Robin Magowan Papers
July 24, 2017
The Beinecke Library is pleased to announce that the Robin Magowan Papers have recently been organized and described. The collection is open for research