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01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0024 Fiske, John. "John Milton", circa late 1800sAdd to your cart. (1.0 Volumes)

This volume (34 pages) contains the manuscript of John Fiske's essay "John Milton." The essay, later published in Fiske's [i]Essays Historical and Literary[/i], discusses Milton's life and literary works. The volume includes an engraving by Caroline Watson, which features a portrait of Milton based on Samuel Cooper's painting, as well ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0033 Irving, Washington. The Alhambra, between 1829 and 1832Add to your cart. (2.0 Items)

This collection contains a two-volume manuscript draft (500 pages) of [i]The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards[/i], authored by Washington Irving (1783-1859) between 1829 and 1832. It includes passages in both Irving's and an unidentified copyist's hands, as well as the author's annotations and ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0573 "A Tale of Young Lovers" Stage Play License and Receipt, 1921Add to your cart. (2.0 Items)

License granted to the Repertory Theatre, Nottingham by the Lord Chamberlain allowing them to perform the play "A Tale of Young Lovers." Also included is the receipt for purchasing the license. Dated November 24, 1921.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0579 "An atheist speaks", 1946Add to your cart. (2.0 Boxes)

1) A cassette tape of a 780RPM of "An atheist speaks," broadcast over station KQW San Francisco, CA Nov. 17, 1946. 2) A Vinyl Record of "An atheist speaks". Former Shelfmark: Baskette Uncat.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0566 "Let it be understood here wealth must come from inside...", undatedAdd to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Original manuscript by Arnold Wolman. Pages are loose and unnumbered. Given as a gift to the Library by Arnold Wolman.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0603 "The Rhetor Stone" - PhotographAdd to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Photograph of the Rhetor Stone, currently preserved in the National Epigraphical Museum at Athens. This photograph of the Stone was first published in the December (1965) issue of The Quarterly Journal of Speech.

"Ueber allen Gipfeln ist Ruh" drawingAdd to your cart. (1.0 )

Photograph of the Rhetor Stone, currently preserved in the National Epigraphical Museum at Athens. This photograph of the Stone was first published in the December (1965) issue of The Quarterly Journal of Speech.

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0215 [Abstract, in Latin, of the Statutes of Queen Elizabeth ...], 1568Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77330657]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77330657[/url] Full Title: [Abstract, in Latin, of the Statutes of Queen Elizabeth for Westminster School, with letter, in English, dated July 4th 1568, of William Cecil, 1st baron Burghley, to the governing bodies of Christ Church College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge : also ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0227 [Bohairic lectionary containing verses from Genesis], 1200-1300Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found here: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881252407]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881252407[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0228 [Coptic grammar of Greek], 1600-1800Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881523010]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881523010[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0230 [Fragment from Coptic Bible], 1100-1300Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881523293]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881523293[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0233 [Fragment of private document], 100-200 A.D.Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881829015]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881829015[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0220 [Military list], 300-350 A.D.Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/872283015]www.worldcat.org/oclc/872283015[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0234 [Mummy ticket], 200-300 A.D.Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881853331]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881853331[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0232 [Ostrakon inscription of private letter], 550-650 A.D.Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881827691]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881827691[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0231 [Ostrakon magical charm], 500-700 A.D.Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881828450]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881828450[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0222 [Papyrus fragment of Christian amulet], 900-1000 A.D.Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881244836]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881244836[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0221 [Papyrus fragment of Christian letter and magical amulet], 500-600 A.D.Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881243773]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881243773[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0226 [Papyrus fragments of letters], 700-800 A.D.Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881250662]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881250662[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0223 [Papyrus fragments of private letters and tax receipts], 400-800 A.D.Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881244954]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881244954[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0224 [Papyrus fragments of private letters], 400-800 A.D.Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881245259]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881245259[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0229 [Papyrus tax receipt], 700-800 A.D.Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881506035]www.worldcat.org/oclc/881506035[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0210 [Portolan chart of the Mediterranean], [1530-1566]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/874912121]www.worldcat.org/oclc/874912121[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0219 [Ptolemaic contract], 200-100 B.C.Add to your cart. (0.0 )

More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/872283956]www.worldcat.org/oclc/872283956[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0211 A Briefe Abstract, Exposition, and Demonstration of all Termes, Parts, and Things Belonging to a Shippe, and The Practick of Navigation, 1626Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

This volume is a nautical lexicon composed by Sir Henry Manwayring (or Mainwaring).The lexicon, which predates John Smith's [i]Sea-Man's Grammar and Dictionary [/i](1691), includes the first known instances of several terms. This copy, which differs from the 1644 printed edition, was transcribed by Ralph Crane.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0623 A.L.S From "Mariano Herrera" to Harrison S. Kerrick, 1926Add to your cart. (1.0 Letters)

A.L.S from "Mariano Herrera" to Harrison S. Kerrick dated Jan 16, 1926. Col. Harrison Summers Kerrick created the code of conduct on how to properly handle and display the U.S. flag which was adopted by the United States Congress.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0627 A.L.S. from H.G. Wells to Burke, 1923Add to your cart. (1.0 Letters)

Autograph letter sent by H.G. Wells from London to Burke. Dated October 18, 1923. Contains picture of H.G. Wells.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0080 AACR, second edition. Part 1, chapter 4, Manuscripts., 1977Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Caption title. Prepared by Michael Gorman for the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR. Holograph. Gift of Michael Gorman, August 1988. Published as ch. 4 of: Anglo-American cataloguing rules / prepared by the American Library Association ... [et al.] ; edited by Michael Gorman and Paul W. Winkler. 2nd ed. Chicago : A.L.A., ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0081 AACR, second edition. Part 2, chapter 24, Headings for corporate bodies., 1977Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Holograph. Caption title. Gift of Michael Gorman, August 1988. Published as ch. 24 of: Anglo-American cataloguing rules / prepared by the American Library Association ... [et al. ] ; edited by Michael Gorman and Paul W. Winkler. 2nd ed. Chicago : A.L.A., 1978. Prepared by Michael Gorman for the Joint Steering Committee for Revision ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0103 [Account book of the church of the Diocese of Pasto] [manuscript]., undatedAdd to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Provisional record

01/01/MSS00094 Activism Ephemera collectionAdd to your cart. (0.75 Cubic Feet)

The collection consists of paper ephemera, books, and music records related to activist movements in the United States. It includes items related to Angela Davis, the Diggers, the Rainbow People's Party (formerly known as the White Panthers), the Yippies, Situationist International and many others.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0571 Actors' Autographs Collection, 1880-1954Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

A collection of clippings, photographs, and autographs of actors and actresses from the late 1800s and early 1900s.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0238 [Acts of Parliament, Henry VI to Charles I] [manuscript], [between 1677 and 1685]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. A collection of legal texts, mostly parliamentary acts, copied from several manuscripts. Exemplar shelfmark is often given in the margin at the beginning of a text. Fol. 1r-1v: Acta concilij tempore Henrici sexti (from Cotton Cleopatra F.4). Fol. 2r-2v: Authoritas senescalli anglie (from Cotton Tiberius E.8 fol. 34b). Fol. ...

01/01/MSS00001 Perry Miller Adato papers and films, ca. 1968-1982Add to your cart. (457.5 Cubic Feet)

Collection of materials used by WNET/Thirteen's documentary film producer and director Perry Miller Adato (1920 - 2018) in the creation of films including [i]Picasso: A Painter's Diary [/i](1980), [i]Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences [/i](1982), [i]Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me [/i](1970), [i]Georgia O'Keeffe [/i](1977), [i]An Eames Celebration - Several Worlds of Charles and Ray Eames [/i](1973), [i]Dylan Thomas - The World I Breathe [/i](1968), [i]Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts [/i](1986), [i]Mary Cassatt - Impressionist From Philadelphia[/i] (1978), [i]Frankenthaler - Toward a New Climate [/i](1978). Also contains a significant portion of manuscripts dedicated to the history of cinema in the United States including flyers and film programs from the underground and independent filmmaking movements of the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, brochures for post-production vendors, and resumes of working artists.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0110 Addenda to the Economic library of Jacob H. Hollander, Ph.D. [manuscript] / compiled by Elsie A.G. Marsh., [1940?]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Ms. Text occupies first 42 leaves only. Former shelfmark: x 016.33 H71e adden. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0132 Adolf Hitler und seine verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen uber Maria Anna Lager aus Krems a.d. Donau, der Mutter Franz Liszt's, zu Richard Wagner [manus, [between 1937 and 1945]Add to your cart. (2.0 Items)

[Vol. 1]. Adolf Hitler und seine verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen ber Maria Anna Lager aus Krems a.d. Donau, der Mutter Franz Liszt's, zu Richard Wagner [manuscript] ([6] folded leaves, bound : coat of arms, geneal. table ; 44 cm.). [Vol. 2]. Adolf Hitler und seine verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen ber Maria Anna Lager aus Krems ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0337 The adventures of Tommy. Book the first, Telling all about the proud rich man and about the present he gave to Tommy, [1898]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

A proud, rich man gives Tommy a gift of an elephant after Tommy saves his life. Holograph, signed. A manuscript with watercolor drawings written at Spade House, Sangate, Kent for Marjory Hick, daughter of Dr. Henry Hick of New Romney, who cared for H.G. Wells when he became ill in 1898. Title from ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0047 Advice book, late 1600s?Add to your cart. (1.0 Volume)

This volume (158 pages) contains spiritual advice directed to the anonymous author's "most deare and affectionate friend." The text examines numerous aspects of Christian morality, in conjunction with relevant passages from the Bible. A brief introduction implies that the intended recipient may have been the author's fiancé or husband.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0220 Advis pour juger des inscriptions en faux [manuscript] : ou comparaison des escritures et signatures pour en faire & dresser, les moyens, voir et desc, [1659]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Full Title: Advis pour juger des inscriptions en faux [manuscript] : ou comparaison des escritures et signatures pour en faire & dresser, les moyens, voir et descouvrir toutes falsifications & faussetez. Plus pour cognoistre & deschiffre les lettres cachees & occultes. Ms. codex. Probably a later edition of a 1604 Paris imprint ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0233 The affections & habits of youth. [manuscript], [between 1700 and 1750]Add to your cart. (1.0 Items)

Three brief tracts on the attributes of youth, middle age and old age. Ms. leaves. Three caption titles from fols. 1r, 1v and 2r. Script: In an early 18th century English hand. Origin: Location and date based on script. Provenance: Removed from shelfmark IUQ01232: The works of Joseph Hall, B. of Exceter (London : Printed ...

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