UNIVERSITY
Collection offers rare look at past
By Brenna Hansen
Emerald Contributor
Although many University
students spend a great deal of
time in the knight Library, few
are familiar with its extensive
rare book collection.
The collection includes ev
erything from 12th century
manuscripts to hand-drawn
sketches of characters in Ore
gon writer Ken kesev’s One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
In all. there are about 40.000
volumes of literary first edi
tions, early "imprints" and
Western Americana, such as
folklore and stories about the
Old West.
While the collection has
what rare books librarian James
Fox refers to as "hot spots”
single books that are highly
valued either by collectors or
researchers — it also has what
Fox calls "streaks." which are
collections of related volumes
One of the rarer pieces in the
collection is the Kabanus
Mauius. Expositio Libri
Numerorum, a 12th century
French manuscript from the
Cistercian Abbey of Pontigny
and later part of the celebrated
collection of Sir Thomas Phil
lips.
Some other valuable manu
scripts include an llth century
German manuscript of the
works of St. Augustine, an ear
ly 14th century Bible written
on uterine vellum, and a 17th
century Persian manuscript for
merly in the possession of Eng
lish writer and artist |ohn Kus
kin.
While one single volume
might be more valuable to a
collector. Fox said that as a
university library, it is more
important to have large collec
tions which are more valuable
to researchers.
“The ran? book collection’s
"We have one of the besi Oregon collections in the world" as
well as rare manuscripts dating hack to the 12th century, says
rare books librarian fames Fox.
main purpose is to support the
overall curricula of the Univer
sity of Oregon, but these books
are also available to any re
searcher who is interested in
our collection." Fox said
Although rare books cannot
be checked out. Fox stressed
that the collection is open to
the public.
"University faculty members
are not the only people who
use our collection," Fox said
"Undergraduate and graduate
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