Professor Drimmer and students consult 15th-century psalter from Lenville Library Collection.

The students are (from Left) Alex Tievy, Rebekah Rennick, Anita Zia, Simón Villega (from Spanish and Portuguese Studies), and Jessica Wood (from Department of Classics).

Professor Drimmer and students examining a 15th-century manuscript.
December 16, 2022

Professor Drimmer and her students worked with a 15th-century book for her Medieval Manuscripts course. The book is a recent acquisition for the Lenville Library Collection in the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center. The students will be doing research on the manuscript as part of their semester-long studies.

A poster titled "LEARNING with a GRAIN of PSALT". From top: Professor Sonja Drimmer and students consult a psalter from the Lenville Library Collection; close-up of the psalter. Right: Bill and Francesca Lenville.
"LEARNING with a GRAIN of PSALT" 

Bill Lenville loved books. So much so that he amassed a collection of thousands, many of them rare. Thanks to the generosity of Bill and his wife, Francesca, his collection came to the Libraries when he passed. Having taken such pleasure from consulting and reading his books, Bill wanted them to be used and in the hands of students. In a graduate course on medieval manuscripts, art history professor Sonja Dimmer and students work with a 15th century psalter, a book of Psalms. from the Lenville Librarv Collection in the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center. The students will be doing research on the manuscript as part of their semester-long studies. We can't wait to find out what they uncover.

Transcribed from poster.