Collections
Special Collections
The Yale Thomas More Collection:
Consists of all of the books, manuscripts, photostats, microfilms, and editorial correspondence concerning the edition of the Works of St. Thomas More published by Yale.
The Dame Helen Gardner Papers:
Includes all of Gardner's working notes for her editions of Donne and Eliot, professional correspondence and lectures on Shakespeare and Renaissance English drama.
The Harriet Hawkins Papers:
Includes all of Hawkins's correspondence, lectures, essays, reviews, books, and some personal papers.
The J.H. Hexter Library:
The working library of J.H. Hexter. Many volumes annotated by Hexter.
The Alan and Rosalie Soons Library of Hispanic Studies:
Over 2,000 manuscripts, rare books, and monographs on Golden Age Spain.
The Raymond J. Lord Collection of Historical Combat Treatises and Fencing Manuals:
Our first digital collection with thirty historical treatises, and growing.
The Irving P. Rothberg Collection:
Over 1,000 primary and secondary sources in the Spanish literature of the Golden Age.
The Roy Flannagan Collection:
More than 1,500 resources in the literature and culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from the collection of the editor of the Riverside Milton.
Roland Mushat Frye Collection:
All the working papers and notes of the author of Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts and Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine.
The Robert Kinsman Papers:
The working papers of a noted Skelton scholar.
Major Donations to the Main Collection
The Arthur F. Kinney Collection:
Over 12,000 manuscripts, rare books, maps, and monographs relating mostly to English Renaissance political and social history, literature, religion, music, and art.
The S. Schoenbaum Collection:
An unrivalled collection of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
The O.B. Hardison, Jr. Collection:
Focuses upon Renaissance poetry and poetics, including Renaissance editions of Italian works.
The William A. Ringler, Jr. Collection:
Over 200 rare books and first editions and 1500 secondary volumes, with a special emphasis on Tudor history and the life and work of Sir Philip Sidney.
The Robert Hoopes Collection:
Focuses on English intellectual history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with an especial concentration on Milton and seventeenth century poetry.
The Dan S. Collins Collection:
4,000 works on the prose and poetry of the 17th century.
The G. Blakemore Evans Collection:
A collection of rare books dealing with Renaissance English history and literature.
The Gerald Snare Collection:
Books of prose and poetry from the 16th and 17th centuries with a focus on Spenser.
The Louis Martz Collection:
A collection of works of 17th Century poetry.