Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Variant names
Dates:
Establishment 1963
Americans
Latin, English

History notes:

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, in New Haven, Connecticut, is Yale University’s principal repository of literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books. Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Beinecke Library opened in October 1963. It was the gift of three Yale alumni—Edwin J. Beinecke, 1907; Frederick W. Beinecke, 1909S; Walter Beinecke, 1910—and their families, who intended it as “a symbol of the loyalty and devotion of three brothers” and as “a source of learning and…an inspiration to all who enter.”

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Subjects:

  • Archives
  • Rare books
  • Cittern music
  • Libraries and archives
  • Lute music
  • Manuscripts, Latin
  • Manuscripts, Syriac
  • Music
  • Rare book libraries
  • Rare book libraries
  • University libraries
  • Rare book libraries

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Places:

  • New Haven, CT, US
  • Connecticut, CT, US

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Sponsors

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Endowment for the Humanities

Hosts

University of Virginia Library
National Archives and Records Administration