Exhibits

The Department of Special Collections regularly presents thematic exhibits of materials from its holdings in the Special Collections Exhibit Room, 102 Hesburgh Library, and on our Web site. Please follow the links in the menu below for more information about our exhibits and exhibition schedule.

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Online Exhibits & Digital Collections

In addition to the physical displays in our Exhibit Room, the Department of Special Collections also produces "virtual" displays of some of its important holdings and collections for viewing online. Some of these "virtual" displays are Web versions of previous physical exhibits and focus on specific themes, while others attempt to document a collection comprehensively.

Please follow the links below to view the online exhibits and digital collections we currently have available online. You may also wish to visit our Digital Projects area for information and links to other online initiatives being developed by our Department.

Online Exhibits

• Power and Politics in the 19th-Century River Plate – books and manuscripts from the O'Grady Collection at the University of Notre Dame
• Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629) – images and descriptions of more than 40 early printed editions of the Divine Comedy together with a history of the Zahm Dante Collection at Notre Dame
• Selections from the Library of José Durand – images and descriptions from more than 70 early printed books that shaped the thought of the first historian of Colonial Spanish America, Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca (1539-1616)
• Nos Los Inquisidores – selections from the Harley L. McDevitt Collection on the Spanish Inquisition
• Inter Folia Fructus – a survey of significant acquisitions related to Medieval British Studies
• Familia Praedicatoria in the University of Notre Dame Library– an exhibition of medieval manuscripts, incunables, and sixteenth-century books containing texts and images of the Order of Preachers

Digital Collections

• Manuscripts of the American Civil War
• Numismatic Collections Online:
  • Coins of Colonial and Early America
  • Colonial Currency
  • Washington Tokens
• Wolf Collection of Irish Postage Stamps

For more information about these and other digital collections currently in preparation, please visit the Digital Projects area of our Web site.