Images Courtesy of Princeton University
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The late William H. Scheide, a member of the Class of 1936, has left his collection of rare books and manuscripts to Princeton. The Scheide Library includes such treasures as the world's first six printed editions of the Bible, four of which are shown in this 2002 photo with Scheide. Photo by Princeton University, Office of Communications, Denise Applewite (2002) |
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The Scheide Library's autograph manuscript of Cantata 33 dates from 1724, Bach's second year as cantor at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. Photo by Natasha D'Schommer |
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This sketchbook used by Ludwig van Beethoven is believed to be from 1815 and is the only notebook of this composer in a library in the United States. Photo by Natasha D'Schommer |
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This illuminated copy of "De Officiis" (On Duties or On Obligations) was published in 1466 in Mainz, Germany. The Latin text was written in 44 B.C. by Marcus Tullius Cicero, who discussed his view of the best way to live, behave and observe moral obligations. Photo by Natasha D'Schommer |
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Vivid reds, pinks and greens of the illustrations run alongside the text in the Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible, which was produced in Mainz, Germany, in 1455. Photo by Natasha D'Schommer |
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A detail of the ornate pages from a copy of the Quran from about 1700. Photo by Natasha D'Schommer |
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The 1623 "First Folio: Comedies, Histories & Tragedies" is a collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, published seven years after his death. Eighteen of its 36 plays, including "A Midsommer Nights Dreame," had never been printed before, so if not for the "First Folio," half of Shakespeare's plays would be lost to the public.
Photo by Natasha D'Schommer |
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William Scheide reads in the Scheide Library. This space created at Princeton's Firestone Library includes furniture, statues, rugs and leaded-glass windowpanes from the original library built by his father in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Photo by Natasha D'Schommer |
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata 33 (Allein zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ). Leipzig, 1724 Photo courtesy of Scheide Library, Princeton University |
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Blickling Homilies (Old English). c. AD 1000 Photo courtesy of Scheide Library, Princeton University |
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Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, [5 July] 1776 Photo courtesy of Scheide Library, Princeton University |
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Gutenberg Bible. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, 1455] Photo courtesy of Scheide Library, Princeton University |
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Abraham Lincoln, autograph speech, Sectionalism. Springfield, Illinois, July 1856 Photo courtesy of Scheide Library, Princeton University |
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Richard Wagner, autograph draft, Das Rheingold. Zurich 1854. Photo courtesy of Scheide Library, Princeton University |
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William H. Scheide, holding copy of Darwin’s Origin of Species, with Scheide Scholarship Students, March 2000 Photo courtesy of Scheide Library, Princeton University |