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(1.0 Items)Full Title: Fabulas en verso Castellano. [manuscript] : Para el uso del Real Seminario Bascongado / Por Dn. Félix María Samaniego del numero de la real sociedad suas congada de los Amigos del Pais A collection of Spanish Fables. Text is very close to the author's first edition printed in 1781; ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70267376]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70267376[/url] fol. 1r-110r: [Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, ending with IX, 15:5] fol. 110r-114r: [Alphabetic subject index] fol. 114r-v: [Table of contents]. With nine illuminated initials. Provenance: Sotheby sale (16 February 1931, lot 243) to Glynn -- Sotheby sale (15 April 1946) -- Purchased from ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63189336]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63189336[/url] Title from rubric. Ms. codex. Layout: Written in 34 long lines; frame-ruled. Script: Written in batarde by two hands. Decoration: Floriate initial (10 line) on fol. 3r; red or blue initials (2-4 line) at the head of many paragraphs; explicits in early books in red. Binding: Blue ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64181368]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64181368[/url] A verse paraphrase of Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, Laurent de Premierfait's version in French prose of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium. Lydgate's version was undertaken at the request of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in the 1430s. p. 3-6: [Prologue; lacks ...
(1.0 Items)Full Title: Fate of the children of Usnach [manuscript] / taken from Cuchulain of Muirthemne, The story of the men of the red branch of Ulster ; arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory Ms. Calligraphy and illumination by Edward Johnston. Eric Gill is thought to have executed some of the ...
(1.0 Items)A list of fauna in the region of Peoria, Ill. compiled by Frederic Brendel, possibly for Frederick Gerhard's 1857 publication entitled 'Illinois as it is.' Ms. codex. Caption title. -- Author's name from note by former owner (bound opposite leaf in portfolio). Binding: Mounted in a blue pasteboard portfolio. Origin: Location based on content ...
(1.0 Items)Papers of George Manville Fenn including one letter.
(9.0 Cubic Feet)Frederic Ferguson, former managing director of Quaritch's in London and key contributor to the [i]STC[/i], assembled a collection of books mainly printed in Edinburgh between 1640 and 1700. Many items are unique, and some seldom-seen printers are represented. Much of the collection remains in contemporary bindings, and some volumes contain ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. leaf. Title, location and date supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Purchased from Dobell, 15 Feb 1941. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 168.
(1.0 Items)Ms. "161 Devonshire Street, Boston" "December 1907" Former shelfmark: MS Uncat. 75 19 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
(15.0 Cubic Feet)Ms. "161 Devonshire Street, Boston" "December 1907" Former shelfmark: MS Uncat. 75 19 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
(1.0 Items)Roster and Roll Call book used by First Sergeant Walter T. King for the 3rd Company, 203 Regiment. Dated December 11, 1898 to March 25, 1899. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665989712205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665989712205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Each lecture has separate title page dated 1816 or 1817. Binding: Contemporary pasteboard. Provenance: Acquired in 1925 from the library of Dr. Ernst Bergmann. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 152. Former shelfmark: 108 V915 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Encyklopadie der philosophie nach den dictaten des herrn ...
(3.0 Cubic Feet)Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Each lecture has separate title page dated 1816 or 1817. Binding: Contemporary pasteboard. Provenance: Acquired in 1925 from the library of Dr. Ernst Bergmann. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 152. Former shelfmark: 108 V915 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Encyklopadie der philosophie nach den dictaten des herrn ...
(27.0 Cubic Feet)Flodden W. Heron was a bibliographer and collector of rare materials on Lewis Carroll. He published the following articles on the subject: "The 1866 Appleton Alice" in The Colophon 1.3 (1935): 422-7; "Lewis Carroll, amateur photographer: the story of two photographs" Camera Craft (Nov.1938): 507-511; and "Lewis Carroll: Inventor of ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62709376]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62709376[/url] Title supplied by cataloger. Ms. codex. Script: In several italic hands of the 16th century. Binding: Parchment; spine title: "Zibaldone". Origin: Probably begun by a student of geography in Florence in the second quarter of the 16th century and continued by several other persons. The earliest ...
(4.0 Items)Papers of Esther Forbes, including two autographed letters signed, one Christmas card signed by Esther Forbes. In addition there is one typed letter to Esther Forbes.
(1.0 Volumes)This collection consists of a diary (104 pages) by William Ford (fl. 1809-1862), an English mariner who recounted travels to the Caribbean Sea, Canada, and the Iberian Peninsula between December 21, 1837, and September 10, 1841. Ford was a crewman on the HMS Racehorse and often wrote in detail about ...
(1.0 Items)Papers of Maurice Buxton Forman, including one autographed letter signed to Mr. Dobell
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62509780]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62509780[/url] Title from De Ricci. Ms. codex. Layout: Written in 25 to 27 long lines; not ruled. Script: Written in a cursive hand. Binding: Modern paper boards. Origin: Germany. Provenance: Acquired from L. Rosenthal, 1931. Former shelfmark: Ms. MCA 6 (Museum of Classical Antiquity, University of Illinois ...
(4.0 Items)Four German manuscripts: 1) Uebersichtskarten ker Krisen Jesu [...], dated 1854. 2) Kindliche [...], dated 1784 in second line of text. Signed: Johan Heinricht Ferdenand Geitz. 3) Die Jugend geht nicht unter [...], undated. 4) Durchlaushtinster Print Allergnaedist [...], signed Johann Michael von Berner
(1.0 Items)Ms. Title supplied by cataloger. Verses 106-107 of chapter 4 (S?rat al-Nis??) of the Koran. Written in black ink with black, red, green and gold decoration. Provenance: Gift of Mrs. W. A. Oliver, Oct. 1978. Former shelfmark: Uncat. 82 18 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70138262]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70138262[/url] Collection of Greek texts from 14 distinct manuscripts; 15th cent. And later. Fol. 1r-8v: [Exposition of the Creed and the Lord's Prayer; On the Trinity / Sophronius Hierosolymitanus; liturgical excerpts] fol. 9r-10v: [Historical fragments on a synod (tempore John Asan II, 1218-1241)] fol. 11r-24r: [Poems of ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64394892]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64394892[/url] These fragments provide documentary evidence for the existence in print, as of August 1603, of a play entitled Love's labor's won, listed among other plays by William Shakespeare. For a full description of the fragments' layout, script, origin, and provenance, and for ...
(1.0 Items)Four unidentified fragments. Text almost completely worn away in all but fragment no. 1 (possibly a legal document). Ms. fragments. Title supplied by cataloger. Four unidentified fragments. Text almost completely worn away in all but fragment no. 1 (possibly a legal document). Script: Fragment no. 1 in an 18th century English hand. Origin: Location and ...
(1.0 Boxes)Correspondence of 18th Century German Protestant religious scholar August Hermann Francke.
(3.0 Cubic Feet)Correspondence of 18th Century German Protestant religious scholar August Hermann Francke.
(6.0 Cubic Feet)Correspondence of 18th Century German Protestant religious scholar August Hermann Francke.
(96.0 Items)The Frederick Joseph Wells collection consists of 96 items, including personal letters from H. G. Wells to family members, drawings by H. G. Wells, photographs of the Wells family, and other documents related to the Wells family.
(2.0 Items)Two Audio Records about the Free Speech Movement held at the University of California, Berkley in 1964. 1) "Is Freedom Academic?" 2) "FSM's Sounds and Songs of the Demonstration!" Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665374812205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99665374812205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Pamphlet of "Freedom of Thought Arraigned: Four Year Persecution of MAN! - 19 Year Persecution of Marcus Graham", letter explaining the pamphlet, and original envelope sent to Professor Richard Murphy.
(17.0 Items)This collection consists of correspondence, documents, and graphic materials related to United States politician John C. Frémont. See [u]Administrative/Biographical History[/u] for more information.
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156979413]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156979413[/url] Ms. fragments. Title supplied by cataloger. Removed as binding waste from vol. 2, pt. 2 of Georges Cuvier, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, 1821-1824. Addressed on the verso to "Madamoiselle Marguerite Marotte".