The Scheide Library is a private library located in the rare books and special collections department of Princeton University Library ( Princeton , New Jersey , USA ). It is considered the best private collection of rare books and manuscripts in the Western Hemisphere [1] .
| Shade library ( English Scheide Library ) | |
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| Address | Princeton , New Jersey ,  USA |
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| Fund volume | 7935 units storage |
| Web site | library site |
U-turn from the 36-lower case Bible .
U-turn from the Mentelin Bible .
Formation History
The library was compiled by three generations of collectors: William T. Scheide , his son, John H. Scheide , and his grandson, William H. Scheide. )
- William Taylor Shade (1847-1907), engineer, partner of John D. Rockefeller at the Pennsylvania Oil Fields, in 1880-1889 general manager of the United Pipeline Company ( Standard Oil division). He made his first significant book purchase in 1865 by buying Michael Faraday’s book, A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of Candles. In 1889 he traveled to Europe, from which he brought a large number of old books and documents.
- John Hinsdale Shade (1875-1942), a graduate of Princeton University (1896, bachelor), as a result of tuberculosis, was not involved in business and devoted himself to collecting rare books and manuscripts.
- William Heard Shade (1914–2014), a graduate of Princeton University (1836, bachelor), in 1940 received a master's degree at Columbia University in Musicology. For a long time he taught music at Columbia University . In 1959 he moved the family library for storage to the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University Library. Bequeathed the library to Princeton University .
Assembly
The Shade Library has 7935 storage units [2] , including:
- 4 first printed Bibles: Gutenberg Bible or 42-line Bible (first half of 1450); 36-line Bible (circa 1458-1461); The Bible (1462); The Mentelin Bible (1466);
- 150 incunabula (first printed books published before 1501);
- manuscripts of Abraham Lincoln , Johann Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven ;
- copies of the US Declaration of Independence ;
- first editions of William Shakespeare and John Milton ;
- a collection of Italian notarial documents of the XIII — XVII centuries (testaments, donations, leases and business contracts and other legal documents): more than 500 documents from Vicenza ; about 500 from Fabriano ; more than 500 from Bergamo , Tirano and Caravaggio and more than 2.5 thousand documents from Ferrara , Florence , Venice , Verona and many other northern Italian cities;
- part of the archive of the Benedictine monastery, located near the city of Fabriano , the administrative center of the province of Ancona and related to the XI - early XV centuries.
- more than 2.5 thousand documents in French, most of which relate to documents of the d'Olivet family from Toulouse and are dated to the XVI-XVIII centuries;
- documents in English, many from the collection of the English bibliophile Sir Thomas Phillips .
Notes
- ↑ Collector Assembles a Rare Quartet of Bibles - New York Times . Nytimes.com (November 18, 2015).
- ↑ Princeton Alumni Weekly: Book offers rare look inside Scheide '36's collection . Paw.princeton.edu.