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Congratulations to former fellow Kathryn E. Sampeck (Donald L. Saunders Fellow, 2008-09) on the publication of Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica (University of Texas Press, November 2017), co-edited with Stacey Schwartzkopf. This interdisciplinary anthology reveals how the consumption of seductive ingestibles...

Tess Clifton, J.M. Stuart Fellow, first encountered Los sirgueros de la Virgen sin original pecado (1620) while conducting research for her master's degree during her second year at Brown. This item is the first American novel and the only remaining copy of the text is...

In the 2nd century, Claudius Ptolemy described all that was known in the Roman Empire about the world’s geography in his Geographia. Of the 49 editions of Geographia printed from 1475 to 1730, the JCB has all but two. Thanks to the generous support...

Jaime Marroquín, Assistant Professor of Spanish at Western Oregon University, spent four months as an Associates' Fellow at the JCB researching his current monograph El Peyote y la Virgen: Ethnographic History and Natural Science. This project examines the botanical, medicinal and cultural history of...

The Library purchased a spectacular Peruvian collection containing the very rare Relacion de la mission apostolica de los Moxos en la provincia del Peru (1696) by Diego de Eguiluz. Once owned by the French bibliophile Henri Ternaux-Compans, this volume is an important part of the...

In October 2017, the Library was pleased to host Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. for a visit and series of programs. A scholar of wisdom literature and culture, he delivered an engaging lecture that explored what wisdom he gleaned...