Please join Special Collections Librarian and College Archivist, Jessy Randall, at noon, on Thursday, October 6 in Tutt Library's TLC2 classroom for our Lunch & Learn session, Special Collections at Tutt Library. Find out what's at Tutt Library and nowhere, or almost nowhere, else: manuscript materials, rare and valuable books, clay tablets from 2000 B.C,. and more.
RSVP to Glenna Harrison to reserve a space and lunch (gharrison@coloradocollege.edu or X6670).
In the spring of 2005, Carky Rubens (CC class of 1952) and his family donated a single leaf from the Gutenberg Bible to Colorado College.
The Gutenberg Bible is the first book printed with movable type in the western world. In the mid-15th century, Johann Gutenberg printed about 180 copies in Mainz, Germany. 48 copies have survived and are preserved in libraries.
In the early 20th century, a bookdealer bought
a damaged copy of the Gutenberg Bible, dismantled it, and sold the leaves individually as "noble fragments."
CC's leaf contains chapters VIII-X of Kings I.
On October 21, 1967, the Doors played at Colorado College's homecoming dance at the Broadmoor Hotel. CC alumnus Tom Reynolds donated his tape of the concert to Tutt Library in 2005. It contains four Doors songs: "Break on Through (to the Other Side)," "Strange Days,""People Are Strange" "Back Door Man," and "Light My Fire." For more information on the concert, visit Special Collections.
