Welcome to the digital home for the mini-exhibit The Written Word in the Medieval World, a collaboration between the Rossell Hope Robbins Library and the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester. 

Please click the "Featured Exhibit" below to access the exhibition.

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From a Qur'an

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Paper leaf (possibly Egyptian) displaying part of chapter 20 of the Qur'an.

From a Persian biography

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Paper leaf from a Persian manuscript containing biographies of famous men.

From Cicero's De Oratore

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Vellum leaf (likely Italian) containing part of Book I of Cicero's De Oratore, with marginal doodling.