Scheide donates rare books library to Princeton; collection is largest gift in University’s history

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Min Pullan

scheidelib_Bach Aria Musician, musicologist, bibliophile and philanthropist William H. Scheide, a 1936 Princeton University alumnus who died in November at age 100, has left his extraordinary collection of some 2,500 rare printed books and manuscripts to Princeton University. With an expected appraised value of nearly $300 million, it is the largest gift in the University’s history.