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Rare Books Introduction

The Rare Book and Manuscripts Room preserves both manuscript and printed materials from the Manhattanville College Library. The book collection consists of approximately 2,400 titles that span the history of the book in the United States and Europe.  Subject fields represented include history, religion, literature, biography, and philosophy.   The collection also includes other formats such as periodicals, pamphlets, government documents, maps, and manuscripts.  Particularly noteworthy are five incunabula (books printed before 1500) and several bound manuscript volumes, also from the fifteenth century.  The latter include individual collections of psalms and prayers intended as an aid to private devotion, known as Books of Hours.  The most notable of these is the Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, Cum Calendario  -- also known as the Manhattanville Book of Hours.