A very charming 18th century Persian manuscript on the wonders of the natural world. We get lots of teaching requests for our Islamic manuscripts but relatively little in the collection is at all accessible if you don't read the language. #NewAcquisition

We probably won’t get *every* 17th century book on comets before I retire, but I’m working on it. #NewAcquisition

At 8 feet I’m pretty sure this #NewAcquisition is the longest item in our extensive collection of English caricature. It’s made up of four separate sheets and you can see in the Yale copy they were assembled by purchasers in different arrangements. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/33434235

Just ordered this "Oops, forgot to re-ink the type" for our collection of printing accidents and errors. #NewAcquisition

An 18th century sheet of short prayers for the souls of the dead, intended to be cut into slips and randomly drawn out of a box. "For the Souls to whom you are strangely enraptured", "For the Souls whose pain you bear", ‘For the Souls of all Good Deeds", "For the Souls who loved you and those you loved in this life and no longer remember." #NewAcquisition

Sermon delivered on Dec. 23, 1754, at the dedication of the Convento de la Enseñanza, the first public school
for women in Mexico City. #NewAcquisition

A 1703 poem from a young Josiah Cotton, scion of one of the most important Puritan families in Massachusetts (and cousin of Cotton Mather), to one Deborah Browne. #NewAcquisition

My Fashion Police exhibition has closed but I’m still acquiring works from men who are mad about women’s clothing. This Italian priest is particularly concerned about bare arms and shoulders. #NewAcquisition

1794 rebus maps of England and France with a decidedly contrasting view of current events in each. (I hope someday to do an exhibition on radicalism and revolution in 1790s Britain and France, so I'm always on the lookout for stuff like this.) #NewAcquisition