Princeton’s Special Collections of European and ancient materials span the history of writing, from cuneiform tablets and papyri to book production and archival materials of the industrial age. Particular strengths include more than 550 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, highlighted by the Robert Garrett Collection, an equal number of  fifteenth-century printed books (incunabula), early editions of the Classical authors (principally Virgil, Horace, and Ptolemy), annotated scholarly books, manuscript documents, and English literature from the Elizabethan to the Victorian Age, which is particularly enriched by the Robert H. Taylor Collection and the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian novelists.