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Formerly cataloged under the title: Batak Sumatra. Title supplied by cataloger. Bartlett, Harley Harris. The Labors of the Datoe and Other Essays on the Bataks of Asahan (North Sumatra). Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, 5. Ann Arbor: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, the University of Michigan, 1973.
Letter from Benjamin Disraeli to R. A. Earle, dated Oct. 26, 1865.
This volume (24 pages) consists of the first act of [i]From Father to Son, [/i]a play co-published by Arthur William à Beckett (1844-1909) and J. Palgrave Simpson (1807-1887) in 1881. [i]From Father to Son[/i] is a dramatization of Beckett's novel, [i]Fallen Among Thieves[/i], which was written in 1868. Fragments from ...
Collection consists primarily of pen drawings executed by Behrensmeyer over the course of his career; a majority of the drawings depict various birds; also includes his "Lessons in Practical Penmanship" (Quincy, Ill.: D.L. Musselman, 1917) and the following periodicals: "The Normal: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Dissemination of Knowledge ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63189467]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63189467[/url] Title from bookseller's description. Ms. codex. Layout: Written in 23-28 long lines; pricking evident but ruling uncertain on many folios; fol. 42-56 frame-ruled in 28 lines, but without text. Script: Written in small gothic hand (fol. 1r-40r); humanistic hand (fol. 40v-41v). Binding: Nineteenth-century full black morocco. Provenance: Acquired ...
The Ben Hecht collection includes all of the author's first editions (several signed or inscribed), many British and first paperback editions, as well as a selection of reprints. Special attention is paid to variants. Also included are mimeographed copies of five of his screenplays, and Hecht's agent's typescript of the ...
3 A.L.S from writer, Ben Hecht. 1) To Eugene Brewster January 22, 1925. 2) To Oscar Borron August 31, 1954. 3) To Charles R. Condon December 14, 1959.
This collection contains four volumes of manuscript drafts by English author, Arnold Bennett (1867-1931). Novels represented are [i]The Roll Call [/i](1917), [i]Elsie and the Child[/i] (1924), and [i]The Vanguard [/i](1926). The [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/17ks9l7/alma99510761812205899]first volume[/url] [formerly Post-1650 MS 0006] contains a manuscript draft of [i]The Roll-Call [/i](423 pages), written between October 10, 1916, ...
This collection contains four volumes of manuscript drafts by English author, Arnold Bennett (1867-1931). Novels represented are [i]The Roll Call [/i](1917), [i]Elsie and the Child[/i] (1924), and [i]The Vanguard [/i](1926). The [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/17ks9l7/alma99510761812205899]first volume[/url] [formerly Post-1650 MS 0006] contains a manuscript draft of [i]The Roll-Call [/i](423 pages), written between October 10, 1916, ...
Collection of Theatre Programmes from the United Kingdoms and Canada. Assembled and donated to the Library by Alvan Bergman.
Full Title: Bericht von der Natur und vernunfftmessigen Didacta oder Lehrkunst [manuscript] : nebenst hellen vnd sonnenklaren Beweiss, wie heutiges Tages der studirenden Jugend die rechten fundamenta verruckt vnd entzogen werden. / Gethan vnd gegeben von Elia Bodino, conariensi sax Contains manuscript facsimiles of three 17th century texts on Education copied ...
Full Title: Bericht von der didactica oder Lehrkunst [manuscript] / Wolfgangi Ratichii. Newe Zeittung, wie dass seinen Teutschen ... / Hans Zeidler. Iohan Apiari[i] Breaslaviensis Modus magisterii liberalis. Ratio vicit, vetustas cessit, allgemeine Sprachlehr nach der / Lehrart Ratichii. Trewhertzige Verhrmahnung, an die Bürgermeister und Rahtherrn aller Städte Deutsches Landes ...
Collection of correspondence between Bernhardt Wall and Dr. J. G. Randall. 1) ALS To Dr. Randall From Bernhardt Wall 1950 2) ALS To Bernhardt Wall From Randall Nove 7, 1950 3) ALS To Dr. J. G. Randall From Bernhardt Wall August 7, 1949 4) Cover of Miniature Monthly Magazine 1948 5) 3 Miniature Books by ...
Papers of Isabel Bevier (1860-1942), professor of household science (1900-21), including correspondence, publications by Miss Bevier (1898-1940) and the Household Science Department (1900, 1905, 1908-21, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1938, 1945-47), manuscripts (1896-1940), diaries (1917-20, 1922, 1924, 1931, 1935, 1940), clippings, photographs and notes about household science or home economics, the ...
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More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70267470]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70267470[/url] With Tabulae, Interpretationes nominum ebreorum, and other apparatus. Binding: 19th-century brown morocco by Riviere. Provenance: Early inscription, "Irelondj pertinet iste," possibly referring to Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland (d. 1392) -- Purchased from C. A. Stonehill, 1947. Former shelfmark: x ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/133506422]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/133506422[/url] Partial text of Psalms 57, 65, and 67 (identified by N.R. Ker) and an unidentified fragment. Ms. fragments. Title supplied by cataloger. Written in two columns in black ink with red initials. Provenance: Purchased from Salloch, 8 October 1959.
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/437349305]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/437349305[/url] A single leaf from a biblical text, possibly a breviary; contains some abbreviated passages from the book of Job, with indication of chapter divisions. Title supplied by cataloger. Later folio no. "288" inscribed in red ink on recto, possibly in same ink used for rubrication. Layout: ...
A list of the 6,267 titles from the library of Prof. Gustav Grober: Mss. codices. Gustav Grober, Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Strassburg, was a Romance scholar and collector. The main strength of his collection was Provencal and Italian literature and linguistics, though there were materials on all ...
Full title: Bindings of early books in the University of Illinois Library [manuscript] : included are Oxford bindings, Cambridge bindings, English bindings other than those of Oxford and Cambridge, continental bindings, bindings with owners? stamps, a list of rubbings contained herein / by Neil Ripley Ker. Chiefly pencil rubbings of bindings ...
The Black Dog Turnpike Trust minutes (approximately 220 pages) record the actions of trustees appointed to oversee the repair and widening of the road between Warminster and Bath in South West England between October 27, 1767, and February 9, 1790. Two brief notes, dated June 1790 and September 1790, follow ...
Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, photographs, and assorted serials that document Blanc's connection with the Spanish Civil War. A highlight of the collection is the set of manuscripts for Blanc's [i]Wars I Have Known.[/i]
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70267487]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70267487[/url] English translation of: Meditationes vitae Christi, attributed to St. Bonaventure or Johannes de Caulibus. Fol. 28 supplied in a modern transcript. Binding: Dark brown morocco by Riviere. Provenance: Early signatures of William Goring [Loring?] and William (?) Besson -- Purchased from C. A. Stonehill, 1947. Former shelfmark: ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70267487]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70267487[/url] English translation of: Meditationes vitae Christi, attributed to St. Bonaventure or Johannes de Caulibus. Fol. 28 supplied in a modern transcript. Binding: Dark brown morocco by Riviere. Provenance: Early signatures of William Goring [Loring?] and William (?) Besson -- Purchased from C. A. Stonehill, 1947. Former shelfmark: ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560552]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560552[/url] A bond or summons for Jasper Mayne. Recto contains information pertaining to the trial of Thomas Bowdery, charged of theft by Mayne. Verso contains a receipt (?) for a payment in the sum of 40 pounds to Mayne. Ms. document. Title supplied by ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70359194]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70359194[/url] Lacks 1 leaf, containing beginning of compline, before fol. 65; one or more leaves missing between fols. 68-85, where surviving leaves are jumbled in binding. Origin: Written at St. Alban's, England, ca. 1420. Decoration: 24 full-page borders containing illuminated initials. Binding: Dark blue morocco by Riviere ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25643456]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25643456[/url] Ms codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Former title from front pastedown. A prayer book belonging to Madelaine de Langle, a daughter of Francois de Langle (cf. ms note on fol. 115v). Text on front and rear pastedown; illegible text on pasted sides as well. On fol. 1r and ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/862117640]www.worldcat.org/oclc/862117640[/url]
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/441944801]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/441944801[/url] A book of precedents, with an index. Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Script: Written in a secretary hand. Binding: Early full blind-filleted calf; later rebacked. Origin: Probably written in Great Britain, certainly not later than 1660; watermarks are not in Briquet and appear ...
This collection consists of examples of materials and tools used in the bookmaking process.
Article compiling journal article written on the subject of insect related damage to books. Former Shelfmark: 025.8 G796b Link to Catalog record: [url=https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99303978212205899]https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99303978212205899[/url]
This collection consists of letters from George Borrow's diaries with a transcription.
This volume is a 551-page German manuscript commentary on [i]Aesthetik [/i]by Friedrich Bouterwek. Bouterwek (1766-1828) was a German philosopher and critic who "revised Kantian formalism under [the] influence of Idealists" [url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1681151702/BIC?u=uiuc_uc&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=3a5755be][1][/url]. His second publication, [i]Aesthetik[/i] was first published in 1806. The producer of this manuscript is unknown. This volume is dated ...
Correspondence between Barbara C. Bowen and P. G. Wodehouse and one article by Barbara C. Bowen titled "Rabelais and P. G. Wodehouse: Two Comic Worlds." Link to catalog record: [url=https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572495]https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/uiu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v1=1&BBRecID=6572495[/url]
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560568]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70560568[/url] Full Title: [A brefe sumarie and demonstracion, of the estate of England and Wales, as well generall, as perticular mete for the vewe of her Matie and of her heighnes most honorable preuie counsellers and to be kept from all others excepting souche ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/133177985]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/133177985[/url] Full Title: A breife discourse evidently demonstrating the antiquity of ye protestant religion in Brittan [manuscript] : shewing that what ground Rome ever had here was by intrusion and invasion and that ... ancient Brittaines did differ from ye Romish in all poyts ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/132865843]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/132865843[/url] Written in Germany in red and black. Includes " ... tabulam edidit frater Conradus de Plauivi[?] monachus professus in Saluold ... " (fol. 334-341). Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards; brass clasp plate on front board. Provenance: Purchased from Export Book Company, 27 October 1945. Former ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/132842529]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/132842529[/url] Written in England in red and black; initials in red or blue. Colophon: "Per me Thomas Smythe anno Dom?. m.ccccxlj." Binding: Contemporary (?) blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards; two brass clasps (one lacking). Provenance: Unread inscription in ink on fol. 6v with the name "Wakefeyld", ...
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70297452]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70297452[/url] Fragment (foliated xix) containing part of the Office for St. Stephen's Day; with neumes. Provenance: Acquired through gift between 1945 and 1950. Faye & Bond. Provisional record based on De Ricci
More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/873848742]www.worldcat.org/oclc/873848742[/url]