Guide to Topics
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Medals
The medals in the comprehensive collection number over 2,000. In addition to a general collection of U.S. and world medals, there is strength in the medals of World War I.
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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
The Princeton University Library has very significant holdings of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, Western European documents that date from the 11th-16th centuries. Most of them are in the Department of Special Collections, including the Robert Garrett Collection, the Grenville Kane Collection, the Robert Taylor Collection, and 201 in the growing Princeton Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. In addition, there are a number of manuscripts in the Cotsen Library, other manuscripts in other manuscript series or bound with printed books; more than 250 separate miniatures, leaves, and cuttings; and about 100 manuscripts in the Scheide Library.
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Medieval Coinage
Ca. 800 European coins; the largest holdings are in coins of the Italian states, England, and France. About 300 Islamic coins, mainly of Western Asian mints.
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Middle East
Holdings include the records of scholars of the Middle East, photographs of the Middle East, and records of organizations and individuals involved in United States public policy toward the Middle East.
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Modern World Coins
A very large collection (c. 15,000), mainly the result of gifts from W. S. Watson in 1946 and James B. Boskey in 2001, but generally of minor denominations.
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![Frontispiece portrait by Thomas de Leu (Essais. 1608) [(Ex) 3273.1608]](https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/1608_Montaigne.jpg?itok=mMZ-eO2G "Frontispiece portrait by Thomas de Leu (Essais. 1608) [(Ex) 3273.1608]")
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![Portrait of Sir Thomas More, 1478–1535. From his A Dialogve of Cumfort against Tribulation . . . (Antwerp: apud Iohannem Foulerum, Anglum, 1573) [Rare Books Division].](https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/more-portrait-thumbnail.jpg?itok=7obujbU2)
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Mormons and Mormonism
Over a span of four decades, the department has assembled one of the largest collections of printed Mormon Americana housed outside Utah. The collection captures nearly every aspect of Mormon history with a particular emphasis towards the first century of Mormonism and the Utah territorial period (1849-96). For a detailed history of the formation of the collections, see: Alfred Bush, “Mormon Americana at Princeton University,” in Mormon Americana: A Guide to Sources and Collections in the United States, ed. David J. Whittaker (Provo, U.T.: BYU Studies, 1995), 281-86.
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Mudd, Seeley G.
Seeley Greenleaf Mudd (1895-1968), for which the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library is named, received his M.D. from Harvard University and was a practicing cardiologist before becoming a member of the California Institute of Technology faculty. He was later dean and professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. A member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California, Dr. Mudd also served as a trustee of Pomona College, Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, and the Carnegie Institute of Washington.
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![Note caption for source: A true interpretation of all the chief texts, and mysterious sayings and visions opened, of the whole book of the revelation of St. John ... By Lodowick Muggleton. Published/Created: [London] Morris and Reeves, Printers, 1808](https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/Muggleton.jpg?itok=ux_K1mii)
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Music
Use to retrieve collections related to ballet and dance as well as music. Included are the papers of composers, singers, and campus
performance organizations: musical compositions, sheet music, and concert-related ephemera. -
