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(45.0 Cubic Feet)The collected papers of Romantic Period scholar, writer, and editor, David V. Erdman. David Erdman received critical acclaim for his work on Romantic Period writers, most notably William Blake. However, despite his scholarly accomplishments, David Erdman would face difficulties in the academic world due to his communist political beliefs. The collection ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70138266]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70138266[/url] fol. 1r-22r: [De bono mortis (incomplete) / Saint Ambrose] fol. 22r-37r: [De fuga saeculi / Saint Ambrose] fol. 37r-38r: [Homilia de paenitentia / Saint Caesarius of Arles] fol. 38r-43r: [Sermo in I Corinth. XIII, 4, 7, 8 / Saint Ambrose (?)] fol. 43r-66v: [Contra albos monachos (= ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63189436]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63189436[/url] Title from incipit on fol. 3; two vellum leaves, ruled for 21 lines, attached at front and back of manuscript; fol. 2 has a manuscript title, Anicij / Manlij Tor= / quati Severini / BOThij / de consolatione / philosophiae. / Libri quinque. Ms. ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63189440]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63189440[/url] Title from marginalia on fol. 1. Ms. Codex. Layout: Written in 24-28 long lines. Script: Written in a small cursive hand. Decoration: Five pen flourished initials, 3-5 lines each. Binding: Modern paper boards. Provenance: Acquired from L. Rosenthal in 1931. Former shelfmark: MIN 37; MCA 3 (Museum of Classical Antiquity) Former ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61773777]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61773777[/url] Title and statement of responsibility taken from opening rubric. Ms. Codex. Layout: Written in long lines; frame-ruled. Script: Written in a humanistic hand. Decoration: Rubricated initials throughout, two with human figures; coat of arms: fol. Ir, azure in a bordure or four estoiles (6) or, on a ...
(1.0 Items)Former shelfmark: MS 396.2 R76d (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
(1.0 Volumes)This volume is a manuscript draft (358 pages) of [i]Recherches sur des cavernes a ossemens de Lunel-vieil, Herault[/i] by Marcel de Serres (1783-1862), professor of minerology and geology at the University of Montpellier. This manuscript details various aspects of de Serres' research in Sourthern France and includes maps.
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70418385]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70418385[/url] Full Title: The declaration of such scruples and staies of conscience touchinge the othe of the supremacie as Mr. John Fecknam by writing did delyver unto the Lord bishoppe of Winchester [Robert Horne] with his resolutions made thereunto Declaration of John de Feckenham (originally ...
(1.0 Items)Thomas Grey acknowledges receipt of 73 pounds from Richard Brabson in exchange for property in Broughton; Thomas Armeston of Burbage, Leicestershire; Edward Isham of Wesley, Warwickshire; George Vincent of Hinckley, Leicestershire; and Andrew Pagett of Barwell, Leicestershire, all acknowledge receipt of 2 shillings from Brabson; additional inscriptions and signatures on ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232960884]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232960884[/url] A fragment taken from the binding of an 18th century book. List of names from lower portion of fragment ("said John Watson George Longforde & John Gilby ...") and verso of document. Verso states the document is a deed. Ms. fragment. Title and ...
(15.0 Cubic Feet)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library,; De La More Press.
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144654078]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144654078[/url] Ms. codex. Layout: Written in long lines; frame-ruled. Script: Written in various hands and styles. Decoration: Illustrated with hand-colored engravings pasted to leaves throughout. A number of paintings are illuminated. Binding: 19th cent. Quarter green paper over pasteboards. Origin: Written in the Netherlands and dated 1613 on fol. ...
(1.0 Items)Former Shelfmark: XQ. B.L369L1 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99326597612205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99326597612205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)MS. Floor Games typescript Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656008612205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656008612205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)Papers of Egbert Dewey, including two letters. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6587881]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6587881[/url]
(1.0 Items)Papers of George Dewey, including one typed letter signed to the Rev. Frank P. Miller.
(1.0 Items)Purchased from Kraus, December 29, 1959
(1.0 Items)Full Title: Diario noticioso del viaje que con la ayuda de Dios executo en el mismo navio "La Princesa" comandante de la 3a division de la armada que este anño 1733 tiene a su cargo el theniente general D. Antonio Serrano, siendo comandante de la 2a gefe de escuadra Conde ...
(1.0 Items)Diary of an officer who took part in the Copenhagen expedition, 1807. Gives an account of the proceedings with mention of Sir Harry Burrard and Sir Arthur Wellesley as well as the bombardment and ensuing damage. Ms. Title supplied by cataloger. Pasted to fol. 1 is a ms. list of military ranks with ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Author and date from fol. 1v. Fols. 44v-92v are blank. Text begins abruptly; unknown number of leaves possibly lacking prior to fol. 2. Contains entries from 16 December 1821 - 20 March 1822 during Johnston's trip to Italy and voyage home to England. 9 leaves laid in between fols. ...
(1.0 Boxes)Journal entries of Herbert Thornton, 3 June 1904 - 12 July 1905. The author was in some way affiliated with the Fishponds Asylum in Bristol (cf. postcard addressed to him laid-in after v.16 fol. 9 [removed to item folder]). Mss. Author's name from autograph on front inside cover of v.1 and several ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Caption title. Location and date supplied by cataloger. Interleaved with printed pages from Justinus' Historiae Philippicae. Fols. 34r-45v and 56v-78v blank. Fols. 79r-81v contain lists of monarchs. Binding: 19th cent. pasteboard. Provenance: Purchased from Norman, 27 Aug 1940. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 176.
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70155133]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70155133[/url] Two leaves damaged, several others lost at beginning and end. Binding: Original wooden boards and stamped brown leather, lined with a vellum leaf from a 13th-century Latin manuscript of the Pauline Epistles, with a commentary, and strengthened with a printed 15th-century leaf from a ...
(1.0 Items)A tract on the historical permutations of the Greek script and its derivatives (glagolitic, cyrillic, etc.) and common abbreviations used in Greek. Contains entries for each letter organized alphabetically. Ms. codex. Caption title from fol. 1r. Script: 19th century Kurrentschrift. Origin: Location and date conjectures based on script. Former shelfmark: MS 481.75 W513 (University of ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70138263]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70138263[/url] Text of Syntipas; version R (= Retractatio) by Jernstedt and Nikitin. See Oldfather and Madden. Decoration: Illuminated initial and head-piece. Binding: Modern half calf. Provenance: Acquired in 1921 from Miss Alpha L. Owens, of Ithaca, N.Y. Former shelfmark: 181.5 Sy7c (University of Illinois ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/135242360]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/135242360[/url] Ms. documents. Title supplied by cataloger. Dated from Madrid, 23 March and 7 April 1639. Provenance: Purchased from Pallares, 20 November 1959.
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Caption title from fol. 1r. Script: Written in a late 17th-century English hand. Binding: Modern pasteboard. Provenance: "From the library of Frederick Hockley." -- Acquired from Sexton, 21 Dec. 1953. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 154.
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Location supplied by cataloger. Date on title page (fol. 4r): "14 Junij 1689." Contains a licensing statement on leaf 76v signed: "Dr. Rich: Bancroft Archiep: Cantuariensi" and dated 1610.; Fols. 1-2 and 77 are blank flyleaves. Binding: contemporary calf over pasteboard. Provenance: Purchased from Norman, 1 Aug 1951. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64400240]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64400240[/url] Ms. codex. Title from foredge. Layout: Written in two columns of 17 lines within ruled borders of blue and gold. Script: Written in small, dotted, somewhat uneven nasta 'liq. Binding: Bound in calf, with deeply incised arabesque ornaments in corners and center. Origin: Iran, perhaps Isfahan. Provenance: 1. Ex ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/143665853]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/143665853[/url] Ms. codex. Caption title from fol. 3r. Dated on fol. 3r: "Lond. 1648". Text occupies fol. 3r-28v. The rest are blank or bear nineteenth-century ms. notes, lists, and records. Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled calf over pasteboards; red sprinkled edges. Provenance: Purchased from Hammelmann, 14 May 1954.
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707405773]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707405773[/url] Contains 1544 out of 2645 verses of the Doctrinale in Latin verse, according to the critical edition of that work published in 1893 by Karl Herbach. Text includes a number of interlinear glosses in Italian, which are contemporary, or nearly contemporary, with the ...
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70338621]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70338621[/url] Signed document of John Fastolf, upon whom Shakespeare based his character, Sir John Falstaff. The document is dated 9 January 1432 [i.e. 1433]. Ms. document. Title supplied by cataloger. Layout: Written in 26 long lines plus a 1-line signature. Provenance: John Boyd Thacher sale (New York, 4 ...
(1.0 Items)17th century manuscript. Provisional record
(25.0 Items)Collection of account books, daybooks, waste books, and other documents created by or pertaining to John Burleigh, his business, or his family; some daybooks include terms of credit; additional miscellaneous notes inscribed throughout the books. [v. 1. Account book, 1740 Apr. 14-1754] [v. 2. Labor book, 1765 Mar.] [v. 3. Daybook no. 1, ...
(6.0 Items)Mss. [Item 1: "List of subscribers to Chromatometer & chromatic scale by Ja Sowerby 1807", probably referring to his 'A new elucidation of colours, original, prismatic, and material'] [Item 2: List of contents for his 'Exotic mineralogy', 1811-1812, with a list of "substances wanted for Exotic Mineralogy"] [Items 3-5: Lists of minerals, originally ...
(12.0 Items)Mss. James de Carle Sowerby was an English naturalist and artist. "The majority of Sowerby's time was soon devoted to describing and illustrating material for leading geologists, including Sedgwick, Murchison, Buckland, and Fitton, who employed him to deal with their fossils."--DNB. [Item 1: "Descriptions of fossil shells for Frederic Dixon Esqr. 1844", ...
(1.0 Items)One typed letter signed by J. Doinel.
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Author?s name from front cover. -- Title from fol. 1r. Binding: Modern red half-calf over cloth. Origin: Date from note on fol. 166v: "January 1880". -- Location based on known activity of author. Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown: "Ex libris Jean Hersholt." -- Acquired from Freeson, 15 January 1957. Photograph of Ann Gilbert ...
(1.0 Items)Manuscript copy of Matthew Prior's poem, "Down Hall." Published in 1723 (ESTC T75637), but probably included in earlier printed collections as well. Contains a small number of emendations in the composer's hand. Ms. gathering. Caption title; location and date supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Acquired from Howey, 3 November 1958. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & ...
(24.0 Linear Feet)Manuscript copy of Matthew Prior's poem, "Down Hall." Published in 1723 (ESTC T75637), but probably included in earlier printed collections as well. Contains a small number of emendations in the composer's hand. Ms. gathering. Caption title; location and date supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Acquired from Howey, 3 November 1958. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. document. Title supplied by cataloger. Provenance: Purchased from Symmachies (?), 25 September 1944. Former shelfmark: Ms. 176 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). Former shelfmark: Uncat. MS Q. 091 M681 no. 4 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Title, statement of responsibility and date taken from fol. 2v; location supplied by cataloger. Contains 41 ink drawings, some of which were later used in the author's "The Art of Drawing in Perspective", first published in 1775. Portrait of the author in pencil on fol. 1r. Binding: Contemporary calf with metal clasp ...
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex Title at head of fol. 1r. Layout: Written in 2-24 lines; text in 1 column on right half of pages; some deletions, additions, and changes within text. Binding: Bound in grey bookcloth; red leather label on front cover and on spine, with gilt lettering: "Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du viol, manuscrit autographe". Origin: Written ...
(2.0 Items)From H. G. Wells Collection 2 pieces. Page 223 from The Sketch, dated 1925/05/06, "Max's "The Old and the Young Self": H. G. Wells. Page from Nash's magazine dated 1935/05, "The Past Meets the Present" by David Low. "Jubilee Day on Olympus" gathering includes H. G. Wells and others. Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial ...
(1.0 Items)Durrant's Press Cuttings of article "Epilogue" from Punch, or the London Charivari vol. 128. Story of Mr. Punch and the sage. dated 1905/06/28. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133512205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133512205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)From the H. G. Wells Collection. Durrant's Press Cutting and copy of article by R.G. Burnett, title "Our Negative Novelists". dated 10/22/1942. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133412205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133412205899[/url]
(5.0 Items)From the H. G. Wells Collection. Durrant's Press Cuttings and copies of H. G. Wells' 70th birthday (P. E. N.). 1936/10 Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit" 015-010-001 Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit" 015-011-001 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133212205899[/url]
(12.0 Items)From the H. G. Wells Collection. Various clippings from Durant Press Cuttings Service about Wells receiving a honorary LLD from the University of London. Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit" 015-001-001 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133112205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133112205899[/url]
(3.0 Items)From H. G. Wells Collection Various Durrant's Press Cuttings and copies of photographs and articles of Wells in Moscow and other places. 1914-1947. Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit" 015-012-001 Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit" 015-012-002 Former Shelfmark: "Alluvial 1 Deposit" 015-012-003 Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133312205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656133312205899[/url]
(1.0 Items)One bound Ms. item, missing covers. Contains quotes from the Bible in Dutch.