Princeton University Receives $300M Rare Book Gift, Including the Famed 1455 Gutenberg Bible
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“I cannot imagine a more marvelous collection to serve as the heart of our library,” Christopher Eisgruber, president of Princeton, said in a statement on the university's Website. He said the gift is “one of the greatest collections of rare books and manuscripts in the world today.”
Scheide's grandfather, also named William, earned his fortune in the Pennsylvania oil boom of the late 19th century and started the collection. It was later bequeathed to the younger Scheide, who graduated from Princeton in 1936 as a history major. Also a musician, the younger Scheide earned a master's in music from Columbia and founded an ensemble of vocal and instrumental musicians known as the Bach Aria Group.
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