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The Library houses over 600 manuscript collections covering a wide range of subject areas. Please click on the letter below for an alphabetical listing of our manuscript holdings.
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thomas Fisher Rare Book Library houses the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections including books, manuscripts and other materials and the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services (UTARMS), which holds the official records of the University.
First published in 1563, John Foxe's Actes and Monuments, better known as The Book of Martyrs, was one of the most elaborate early books produced, with vivid woodcut illustrations.
Ronald Bryden's is often credited with "discovering" the young playwright, Tom Stoppard when he wrote a glowing review of the 1966 world premiere performance Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
The Fisher Library is fortunate to possess two outstanding examples from the golden age of Dutch cartography: a 1666 sea atlas of Hendrick Doncker and the 1686 sea atlas of Jacobus Robijn.
The Fisher Library has some two hundred books printed before 1501 and are broadly representative of the range of early western printing.
The Fisher has one of the most extensive collections of Canadian small and fine press materials in the country.
The Margaret Atwood Papers offer a glimpse into Atwood's early writing: it includes the work she did when she was a youngster.
The magnificent facsimile of the Szyk Haggadah, sumptuously illuminated by the renowned Polish-born artist Arthur Szyk in the 1930s, is a masterpiece of book production.
James Hanley's works are part of the Fisher's Bissell Collection, centering on the literary works of British authors whose reputations were established in the middle third of the twentieth-century.
Philip Miller's 18th century masterpiece The Gardeners Dictionary reached an enormous audience. It was said to have laid the foundation of horticultural taste and knowledge in Europe.
One of the scarcest books by philosopher Rene Descartes is his Renatus Descartes excellent compendium of musick. It's among the earliest attempts to define the relationship between the physical and psychological in music.
The Fisher has a virtually complete collection of limited, signed works by British poet Ted Hughes, published in the 1970s and early 1980s by two presses he established: the Rainbow Press and the Morrigu Press.
This superb collection of books and pamphlets on South Africa is unrivalled in Canada and will enhance the Fisher Library’s rapidly expanding holdings of travel literature.
The Knox College collection is of exceptional scope, especially noted for its strength in the biblical, pastoral and historical fields, as well as an extensive collection of works particularly focused on reformed theology.

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Upcoming Exhibition

Fisher current exhibition Upcoming exhibition

A Death Greatly Exaggerated: Canada’s Thriving Small and Fine Press
22 May to 30 August 2013
Showcases some of the finest examples of the book-making craft in Canada from the country's leading small and fine press publishers.