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01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0555 Echos, undated

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Original autograph manuscript, signed, N.p., N.d. 4 pp. A response to an article in the "Courrier de la Presse." Relates to Villiers de L'Isle-Adam and Verlaine. Ghil, a French poet, strongly influenced by Mallarme, was particularly interesting for his attempts to approximate poetry to actual music. Former Shelfmark: Uncat 77 1096 Link to catalog ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0197 The Eclipse or Harlequin in China. [manuscript] : A new grand pantomime perform'd at the New Royal Circus for the first time on Monday Augst. 10th 180, [1801]

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Full Title: The Eclipse or Harlequin in China. [manuscript] : A new grand pantomime perform?d at the New Royal Circus for the first time on Monday Augst. 10th 1801. / The whole of the music with a new grand Chinese overture composed by Mr. W: Ware. The scenery designed by ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0532 Edmund J. Sullivan portrait of H. G. Wells, 1931

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Pencil sketch of H. G. Wells done by Edmund J. Sullivan. dated April 14, 1931. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188612205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656188612205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0421 Egerton Manuscript Transcriptions, 1768-1839

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Typed transcriptions of Egerton MSS 216 and 217. Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6573981]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6573981[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0016 Eight duets and an aria, 1700s?

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This volume contains manuscript vocal scores for 8 duets and an aria, with text in Italian. The duets, numbered 1-8, are written in different hands. Three of the duets have been attributed to Agostino Steffani.

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0061 Eighteenth century cookery manuscript., [1733-1740]

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Ms., in several 18th century hands. Title from case. At the bottom of p. 33: Eliz: Ferrier. Scriptum a me Johann Barber, Anno Dom 1740. On p. [69]: Approved by repeated experiment this year 1733. Contains 373 recipes and remedies many of them copied from R. Bradley. The country housewife, 6th ed., ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0225 Ein newer Beweis des höchlichen Beystandes, und mitgethailten Dinges [manuscript] : Das ist: ... Acta ... zu Unterweysung der Jugend, und sonderlich, [ca. 1699]

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Full Title: Ein newer Beweis des höchlichen Beystandes, und mitgethailten Dinges [manuscript] : Das ist: ... Acta ... zu Unterweysung der Jugend, und sonderlich armer Kinder, zu Königsberg in Preussen ... / originalib[us] auss Leipzig ... zusammen getragen von Theodoro Gehren. Königl. Preuss: Holzkämmerer. A guide for teaching, presumably to be ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0585 EINLEITUNG IN DER PHILOSOPHIE UND LOGIK, 1869

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From the library of Doctor Ernst Bergmann Leipzig, purchased 1925. Former Shelfmark: 100 Si2e Link to Catalog Record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99258530212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99258530212205899[/url]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0232 Elders and betters [manuscript] / by I. Compton-Burnett, [ca. 1944]

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Manuscript of Compton-Burnett's novel containing numerous authorial emendations. Mss. Title and author from caption title on v.1 fol.1. Manuscript of Compton-Burnett's novel containing numerous authorial emendations. V.1-3 each contain 16 leaves; v.4 contains 34 leaves; v.5-6 each contain 36 leaves; v.7-12 each contain 60 leaves. Binding: Text bound in 12 paper notebooks (5 green, 1 ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0103 [Elegantiolae], [between 1450 and 1500]

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More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560741]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560741[/url] fol. 1r-41r: [Elegantiolae (incomplete) / Agostino Dati] fol. 48r-78r: [Tractatus philosophicus (incomplete)] fol. 79r-85r: [Enchiridion vetus et novum testamentum: Eva columba fuit tunc candida, nigra deinde / Prudentius] fol. 86r-89r: [Hymni: Crux fidelis] fol. 91r-111r: [Formula vitae honestae / Martinus Dumiensis]. Written in various hands. Provenance: Purchased ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0524 G. P. Wells elephant watercolors, [19--?]

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From H. G. Wells collection. Three Watercolor illustrations of elephants and other animals done by George Philip Wells (Gip). Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187812205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99656187812205899[/url]

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0104 [Elizabethan book of precedents], [15--?]

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More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560750]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560750[/url] Origin: Written in England, 16th century, by several hands, with 17th-century notes. Provenance: Purchased from Raphael King, 1951. Faye & Bond. Provisional record based on De Ricci (suppl.)

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0095 [Elizabethan legal document in English], [1587]

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More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70219333]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70219333[/url] Indenture between Ingram Marton of Wye, Kent, and Kenelme Shrawley, citizen and skinner of London. Dated 27 May 29 Eliz. [i.e., 1587]. Provenance: Purchased in 1949 from F. R. Brown. Faye & Bond. Provisional record based on De Ricci (suppl.)

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0096 [Elizabethan recognizances], [1599]

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More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70219335]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70219335[/url] 1. Bond of Henry Canter[?] to give evidence at next sessions against Valentin Wilkenson, 27 May 40 Eliz. [i.e., 1599] (5 x 22 cm) 2. Bond of two London citizens for appearance of Valentin Wilkenson at next sessions to answer a charge, 27 May ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0354 Havelock Ellis letters, 1930 June 21 - 1931 September 19

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Papers of Havelock Ellis, including two autographed letters signed to Henry S. Salt.

02/Emblem Emblem Books

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Emblem books are a variety of illustrated book, primarily produced in the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. They consist of collections of three?part compositions, each made up of an illustration, a motto (serving as the title of the piece) and an epigram or other written text. It is not uncommon ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0098 Emblemes et devises morales [manuscript]., [ca. 1680]

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Ms. emblem book, with 32 watercolored drawings painted by the scribe; text in brown ink, captions in red or blue. For complete contents, see Thomas McGeary, "Manuscript Emblem Books at the University of Illinois," in Emblematica 2 (1987): esp. 357-360. Ms. codex. "A Monsievr de Montplaisir Sur son Liure d'Emblemes & de Deuises"--fol. ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0355 Ralph Waldo Emerson letter, 1825 January 6

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Papers of Ralph Waldo Emerson, including one autographed letter signed.

01/01/MSS00095 Emil Straka collection, 1914-1929

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This is a collection of letters are written by a Emil Straka, a WWI American soldier.

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0212 Endpapers with Ledger Leaves, 1625

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Endpapers from The booke of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments : and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England. [Shelfmark: IUQ00699].

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0292 England [manuscript]., [ca. 1930]

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Ms. Excerpt from Stanley Baldwin's 1924 speech "What England means to me". Calligraphy and illumination by Jessie Bayes. Signed on fol. 3r: "Jessie . Bayes . pinx:". Illustrations: Fol. 1v: Coat of arms of England surrounded by acorns and Tudor roses -- Fol. 2v-3r: Text within a wide illuminated border of bucolic landscapes ...

01/01/MSS00102 Stuart David and Sophia Belzer Engstrand Collection, 1929-1961

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This collection contains manuscript drafts and published works, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, and personal documents belonging to Stuart David Engstrand (1904-1955) and Sophia Belzer Engstrand (1908-1963). [u][b]See Administrative/Biographical History for more information.[/b][/u]

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0588 Epiph. Sunday IV and V, undated

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Printed page of sermon writings for the fourth and fifth day after the Epiphany.

01/01/MSS00012 David Erdman papers (Erdman 1), 1930-1990

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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 ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0150 Ernst Platner Uiber die Aesthetick ... [manuscript]., [vom 22. Octobr 1777 bis zum April 1778.

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Location conjectured by cataloger; probably written in Leipzig, where Platner was a professor. Binding: Contemporary pasteboard. Provenance: Acquired in 1925 from the library of Dr. Ernst Bergmann. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 150. Former shelfmark: 701 P69u (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0229 Esthetik [manuscript] / vom Herrn Professor A.G. Meissner, 1803-1804

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Ms. codex. Title and author from fol. 2r. Origin: Location conjectured on basis of Meissner's tenure at the University of Prague. -- Date from fol. 2r which reads: "A: 1803/4." Provenance: (Bookplate on front pastedown) Acquired as part of the library of Dr. Ernst Bergmann, 1925. -- Purchased by Bergmann from Taussig & ...

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0008 [Ethica Nicomachea], [13--?]

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More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70145740]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70145740[/url] fol. 1r-32r: [Ethica Nicomachea] fol. 32r-33r: [De bona fortuna, including a portion of the Ethica Eudemia] fol. 33r-38r: [Oeconomica, libri III (book III in the version published by F. Susemihl, Leipzig, 1887)] -- fol. 38r-51v: [Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, libri II (fol. 38r-51v), including the only known ...

01/01/MSS00013 Charles Evans papers, 1869-1935

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Papers of Charles Evans, librarian, bibliographer and author of American Bibliography, 1639-1820; his wife, Lena Y. Evans; and his sons Charles Evans, Jr., Eliot H. Evans and John Evans. Includes letters, scrapbooks, bankbooks, published and unpublished literary and scholarly manuscripts, manuscript speeches, ledger books, personal documents, notes and photos, graphs ...

01/01/MSS00107 Evron Collins Miniature Book Collection, 1800-2010

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The Evron Collins Miniature Book Collection is comprised of over 4,000 miniature books and 5.75 cubic feet of archival materials, which include personal and business correspondence with preeminent miniature book publishers, booksellers, and collectors; newspaper and magazine clippings relating to miniature books; administrative materials of the Miniature Book Society; and ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0157 Exercitationes rhetoricae [manuscript]., [between 1675 and 1725]

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Ms. codex. Location and dates conjectured by cataloger. Table of contents (fol. 1-3) added in a later hand. Binding: Modern polished calf (English?). Provenance: Library stamp "Petit Seminaire de Noyon" on leaf 1r. Script: 17th cent. italic. Shelfmark: Urbana, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Post-1650 MS 157.

01/02/01/PRE-1650 MS 0191 Exerci[t]ia literaria academi[ae] forsan Patavina, [16--?]

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More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/243862883]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/243862883[/url] A collection of Latin prose and verse. Possibly used as exercises for learning Latin. Ms. codex. Title from codex spine. Spine title actually reads: "Exercibia literaria academiea forsan Patavina". Script: Written in multiple (17th cent.?) continental hands. Binding: Bound subsequent to composition (18th/19th cent.) in quarter pigskin ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0159 The explanation & use of ye perpetuall almanack made in 1685 [manuscript]., [1685]

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Ms. codex.; Signed by author on fol. 5v. Caption title. Location supplied by cataloger. Accompanying materials: folded leaf containing three small calendar discs for reckoning times of the year. Script: Late 17th century English hand. Provenance: Purchased from D. Law, 18 May 1942. Former Shelfmark: Phillipps MS 26860 rd 3 [from head of title page]. Shelfmark: Urbana, ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0148 [Extracts from the book of orders of the Vestry of St. Martin-in-the-Fields relative to the appointment of churchwardens, 1624-1750] [manuscript]., [17--]

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Other title: Title on fol. 9v: Extracts from the Book of Orders of the Vestry of St. Martin in the Fields relative to the appointment of Churchwardens. Ms. Title supplied by cataloger. The first entry (fol. 1r) is dated 10 June 1624 and the last (fol. 8r) is for "1750 ... and so ...

01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0040 Commonplace book of philosophical texts, undated

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This commonplace book contains excerpts of works notable to the fields of philosophy and world history, in both Latin and English. The bulk of the text comes from Adrianus Heereboord's [i]Philosophia Naturalis[/i] (1663), which is accompanied by notes in Latin on ethics and metaphysics. The volume also includes an essay ...