Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Kislak Center

Kislak Center

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

General information

Kislak Center 
Reading Room 
Goldstein Gallery 
Research account
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Room reservation
Subject specialists

Exhibits

Recent: Wise Men Fished Here - A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920-2020
Recent: Wise Men Fished Here - A Centennial Exhibition in Honor of the Gotham Book Mart, 1920-2020
Recent: Whitman Vignettes: Camden and Philadelphia
Recent: Whitman Vignettes: Camden and Philadelphia
On exhibit: Audubon's Birds of America
On exhibit: Audubon's Birds of America
On exhibit: Musical Fund Society at 200
On exhibit: Musical Fund Society at 200: Diffusion of Taste in Philadelphia, 1820-2020
On exhibit: Early Medical and Dental Books from the Thomas Wiltberger Evans Collection
On exhibit: Early Medical and Dental Books from the Thomas Wiltberger Evans Collection
On exhibit: The Bibliophile as Bookbinder: The Angling Binding of S.A. Neff, Jr
On exhibit: The Bibliophile as Bookbinder: The Angling Binding of S.A. Neff, Jr
On exhibit: Manuscriptistan: Photographs by Anthony M Cerulli
On exhibit: Manuscriptistan: Photographs by Anthony M Cerulli
Nikolay Ushin, book cover design for Emil Zola's Germinal (Russia, 1926), Monroe Price Collection, Kislak Center
On exhibit: Red Etchings: Soviet Book Illustrations from the Collection of Monroe Price
On exhibit: Marian Anderson on the World Stage
On exhibit: Marian Anderson on the World Stage

Events

Publications

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News

Ms. Codex 1904 al-Qurʼān / [القرآن], fol. 50r, Decoration: Example of illuminated sūrah heading
From our blog: A Small, Maltese Qurʾān. Ms. Codex 1904 al-Qurʼān / [القرآن], fol. 50r, Decoration: Example of illuminated sūrah heading
Major Collection Focusing on African American Women, Cookery, and Children’s Literature Comes to Penn Libraries
Major Collection Focusing on African American Women, Cookery, and Children’s Literature Comes to Penn Libraries
From our blog: Blue Skies to Red Seas. Close up of an airplane on the cover of Umi to Sora, October 1935
From our blog: Blue Skies to Red Seas. Cover of Umi to Sora, October 1935
In the “Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away” video series, Penn curator Dot Porter compares manuscripts like LJS 102 to codices in Star Wars films in order to increase interest in medievalism.
“Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away” Episode 10, LJS 102 binding- Penn video series compares medieval manuscripts to Star Wars codices.
See what we are cooking, follow us on instagram: <em>Pearl's Kitchen</em>, 1974. Joanna Banks Collection of African American Cookbooks
See what we are cooking, follow us on Instagram: Pearl's Kitchen, 1974. Joanna Banks Collection of African American Cookbooks
Ashley Bryan, color paper collage of hand from his 2009 book My Life Song
Our new 2020 wall calendar Vibrant Wonders: A Year Celebrating the Illustrations of Ashley Bryan will be available in Mid-October
Manuscript Monday: LJS 236 – Thesaurus pauperum…
Manuscript Monday: LJS 236 – Thesaurus pauperum…

Staff

Mitch Fraas
Dan Traister
John Pollack
Shelby Wolfe
Kelly Tuttle
Dennis Mullen
Gerald Leska
Lynn Ransom
Abigail Lang
Elizabeth McDermott
Donna Brandolisio
Sibylla Benatova
Liz Broadwell
Amey Hutchins
Nicholas Herman
William Noel
Sarah Reidell
Regan Kladstrup
Betsy Bates
Andrea Gottschalk
Barbara Kitamura
Eri Mizukane
Dot Porter
Jessica Dummer
Holly Mengel
Lynne Farrington
Lauren Rile
David McKnight
Valeria Kremser
Jackie Parascandola
Tess Gadomski
April James
Emma Cawlfield