Tisch Special Collections supports research for students, faculty, and visiting scholars.
Student Research
Class Projects
HIST 96: History of the Book
HIST 96: Europe: Nature and Knowledge
FAH 92: Southern Baroque Art
Individual Research
McKerley-Geier, Ione S. A27 The Secrets of King Salomon and Pope Leo III: Two French Grimoires and their Approaches to Magic
Huh, Madeline C. A24 William Morris: The Claim to Beauty
Rotermund, Grace G. A24 and Elettra I. Conoly A21. Ars et Scientia: The Intersection of Science and Arts in Early Modern Woodcuts.
Olafsson, Olivia M. A23 Rhetoric of Redemption: Works and Inspirations of Frederick Douglass
Szostak, Megan K. A22 Tufts University MS 24: Tibi cordis in altari" Sequence
Conoly, Elettra I. A21 and Megan K. Szostak A22. Two Folia of Notated Music in Tufts University MS 24
Kim, Sung-Min. A21 Life of a Book: Life of a Student
Travers, Mary G. A18 Contemplating Grace: Memories from a Manuscript (Catalogue and Interdisciplinary Study of Tufts University Ms. 2, Hours of the Virgin).
Travers, Mary G. A18 How to Read a Book | TEDxTufts
Gathered Leaves: Manuscript Fragments from Tisch Library Special Collections, by Tisch Special Collections student assistants and staff.
Faculty & Museum Collaborations
Tisch Special Collections supported Professor Ioannis Evrigenis, Department of Political Science, who is editing a digital variorum edition of Jean Bodin’s Les six livres de la republique. We acquired several early editions of the work, and other of Bodin's books, for classroom instruction, digitization, and editing the new edition. Out of this collaboration with Professor Evrigenis came a new course focused on rare books and scholarly publishing, PS 8: Plato's Legacy, in Spring 2020.
Special Collections has a longstanding relationship with the Department of Classics, for whom our holdings are integral to instruction in Medieval Latin, especially through use of the Perseids Platform for editing and study of ancient texts in a digital environment.
Tisch Library's rare books travel to our partners at the Tufts University Art Galleries. We have participated in the exhibitions such as Bookworks, Directed Looking Gallery (co-curated by Special Collections student assistant Mary G. Travers '18), and Global Flows.
Three codices from Special Collections were featured in the monumental exhibition of pre-modern manuscripts, Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections.
Tufts University MS 2 at the Tufts Gallery