Princeton Receives Its Biggest Gift, A $300M Rare Volume Book Collection
February 17, 2015
By Susan Snyder
The Philadelphia Inquirer via The Viewpoint
(TNS)
Princeton University on Monday announced its largest gift in history: a rare book and manuscript collection — including the first six printed editions of the Bible — valued at nearly $300 million.
The 2,500-volume collection, which includes an original printing of the Declaration of Independence and Beethoven’s autographed music sketchbook, has been housed at Princeton’s Firestone Library since 1959. That’s when alum and Philadelphia native William H. Scheide moved it there from Titusville in Western Pennsylvania, the town where he was reared.
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