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Two newly discovered fragments of Adenet le Roi’s Berte as grans piès (Bertha of the Big Foot) attest to the poem’s circulation.

Making Books Count: Tracing the History of Mathematics through Books showcases materials from Notre Dame’s Rare Books and Special Collections.

This exhibit displays a selection of materials that reveal the influence of William Morris on the Arts & Crafts movement.

This exhibit displays a Processional that once belonged to a convent of Dominican nuns in Poissy, France.

This exhibit documents a selection of the geographical breadth of Byzantine manuscript production.

This exhibit showcases maps of the Middle Ages by journeying through the space created by the objects and the individuals who used them.

This 1835 poster commends a Salem, Massachusetts minister’s attack on a neighbor for distilling and selling rum.

This year marks the centenary of the death of Brother Columba O’Neill, known for the many people cured following his prayers.

This exhibition explores the fraught, circuitous and unfinished course of emancipation over the 19th century in Cuba and the United States.

Writing and editing produced by African Americans was central to twentieth-century American publishing; literary production was interracial.

This exhibit documents the history, the spectacle, and the community-building of HBCU football.

This exhibit highlights the collaborative production of a medieval book in 1475 between two Franciscan friars in Sluis and Gouda.

This exhibit highlights New York’s View and The Texas Spectator, two American periodicals that each capture the 1940s zeitgeist.

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, this exhibit presents a limited edition of Pessach Hagaddah, a ritual text used during Passover family meal.

This exhibit follows the movement and transformation of Middle English texts from the manuscript culture of the fifteenth century through the advent of early printing.

This exhibit demonstrates the art and craft of the Irish book since 1900.

This exhibit highlights 1970s feminist magazines that featured African American women in sports, politics, and contemporary culture.

Explore the history of women at Notre Dame as students, educators, and administrators from the 1910s to 2022.

This spring exhibit on the Bible in the Middle Ages marks the 75th anniversary of the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute.

This exhibit showcases the work of the Graphic Studio Dublin

A display of materials and artifacts from the University Archives which explores the cross sections among communication technology, popular culture, and Notre Dame football.

This exhibit shows the diffusion of Greek writing and culture from the 4th century BC to the 19th century AD through various media such as scrolls, manuscripts, books, and coins.

This exhibit showcases literacy-related materials sponsored, approved, or produced by Mexico's Ministry of Public Education, from 1930 through mid-1960.

The new spotlight exhibit features dancing skeletons and a Forbes billionaire — the handiwork of French artist Didier Mutel.

Very few pictorial depictions of the proclamation were made before Lincoln's assassination in 1865 and this exhibit features the only contemporary image that offers an interpretation of how it might have been received by the people it was intended to free.

This exhibition aims to disrupt patrons’ preconceived attitudes toward money, wealth, and poverty.

This exhibit highlights a manuscript archive for building a Mexican tavern.

On display is an action-filled depiction of David defeating Goliath by Swiss artist, Tobias Stimmer (1539-1584).

Visit the South Bend History Museum to see this exhibit by Notre Dame Architecture.

Visit the fall 2017 exhibit featuring the Primo Levi Collection of the Hesburgh Libraries’ Department of Rare Books & Special Collections.