Flowers at Lambach: A Rare Book Exhibition

FLOWERS AT LAMBACH
An exhibition on view in the Lillian Goldman Law Library
Rare Book Exhibition Space
January 13 – May 25, 2025
Read more about the exhibit in the online exhibit essay

Flowers at Lambach follows the history of a single manuscript volume: a collection of texts relating to canon law, produced by the scriptorium at the Benedictine Abbey of Lambach in Austria in the late 15th century, and entering into the collections of the Yale Law Library in 1949. It tells a story of scribes, artists, librarians, and of the institutions and influences that have shaped the history of rare book collecting, in the present as in the 15th century.