1. Islandora Repository
  2. Nichols Rare Books Collection

Nichols Rare Books Collection

We're excited to introduce the redesigned repository.ou.edu website, launched in October 2023! This redesign is part of a larger improvement plan, with additional changes coming next year.

We invite you take a moment to share your thoughts about the website through a brief 5 minute survey: repository.ou.edu feedback survey.

Your feedback is vital and will help shape the future of repository.ou.edu.

Details
Description (dc)

OU Libraries’ Nichols Rare Books digital collection includes a 1598 edition of Chaucer’s works, a 1628 edition of Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, and a second folio (1632 edition) of “Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies”. All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy of the John and Mary Nichols Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.

Collection Title

Nichols Rare Books Collection

Histoire de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres.
T. 1 [1666/1710]-t. 50 (depuis l'année 1784 jusques et compris l'année 1793)., Alternate issues have title: Mémoires de littérature tiréz des registres de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres; index vols. 11, 22, 33, and 44 have title: Table des matières., T.1-t. 2 reissued in 1736; t. 3-t. 4 reissued in 1746., T. 1-t. 10 as t. 11; t. 12-t. 21 as t. 22; t. 23-t. 32 as t. 33; t.34-t. 43 as t. 44; t. 45-t.50 as t. 51 (published 1843); t. 1-t. 44.
Histoire de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres.
T. 1 [1666/1710]-t. 50 (depuis l'année 1784 jusques et compris l'année 1793)., Alternate issues have title: Mémoires de littérature tiréz des registres de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles lettres; index vols. 11, 22, 33, and 44 have title: Table des matières., T.1-t. 2 reissued in 1736; t. 3-t. 4 reissued in 1746., T. 1-t. 10 as t. 11; t. 12-t. 21 as t. 22; t. 23-t. 32 as t. 33; t.34-t. 43 as t. 44; t. 45-t.50 as t. 51 (published 1843); t. 1-t. 44.
The workes of our antient and learned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed. In this impression you shall find these additions. 1. His portraiture and progenie shewed. 2. His life collected. 3. Arguments to every booke gathered. 4. Old and obscure
Gothic type., Includes John Lydgate's The siege of Thebes., Many errors in numbering of leaves., Edited by Tho. Speght., Title within architectural border. The Canterbury tales, The romavnt of the rose, and The story of Thebes compiled by John Lindgate, are each prededed by a half-title (title within portraits of English kings).