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What is the oldest item in the rare books room on Northeastern’s Oakland campus?

a leaf of the gutenberg bible
A copy of Shakespeare’s first folio
A 15th-century printing of “The Divine Comedy”
The complete works of Chaucer

The Elinor Raas Heller Rare Book Room in Oakland contains over 1,000 books printed between 1500 and 1800; the oldest is nearly contemporaneous with the printed word itself.

What is the oldest item in the rare books room on Northeastern’s Oakland campus?

a leaf of the gutenberg bible
A copy of Shakespeare’s first folio
A 15th-century printing of “The Divine Comedy”
The complete works of Chaucer

The Elinor Raas Heller Rare Book Room in Oakland contains over 1,000 books printed between 1500 and 1800; the oldest is nearly contemporaneous with the printed word itself.