Musinsky Rare Books
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Cahier d'Ecriture par Mercier (calligraphy book) sharing illustrations and emotions of a French teenager. (Addition 40) 2024-0065, 1858
File — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X032762348]
Scope and Contents
Compiled in 1858, the decorative title page Cahier d'Écriture par Mercier dédié à mes bien-aimés parents, the book features twenty-four calligraphy entries from a teenage student at the Grand-Classe St. Etienne in Saint-Étienne, France. The entries include the author's reflections on friendship, anger, anxieties, family life, hopes, and religious devotion. Several font samplers are present throughout the book, as are full-color pencil-sketched illustrations. Illustrations include...
Dates:
1858
Francoise Marie Gabrielle Delecey de Changey children's book (Addition 52) 2024-0091, 1800-1802
File — Box 11: [Barcode: X032669466], Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains one handmade picturebook of hand-colored engraved cutouts. A later inscription on the front pastedown reads, "Fait par la baronne de Chalancey née Delcey pour as fille Clémence devenue Ctsse d' Esclaibes d'Hurst." The book was was created by the Baroness de Chalancey for her little girl Clemence, born in 1797. Francoise Marie Gabrielle Delecey de...
Dates:
1800-1802
Hans Rudolf Gujer calligraphy notebook ViU-2024-0092 (Addition 53), 1750
File — Box 11: [Barcode: X032669466], Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Addition 53 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains one calligraphy manuscript of Hans Rudolf Gujer from Wermatswil, Switzerland. The book contains thirty-seven leaves in landscape format, in various colored inks and watercolor, with some use of gouache. It also includes seven large original drawings; one is in pen-and-ink, and six are ink and watercolor; three pages of alphabets; most other pages...
Dates:
1750
John Gottfried Watenbach calligraphic sample book
Collection — Box BW 58: [Barcode: X032668462], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16913
Content Description
This collection contains an oblong folio book (197 X 328 mm) of calligraphic samples created by Johann Gottfried Watenbach, of whom we have no information. He was German or Austrian and possibly a student at the time of the creation of the work. The book contains sixty-five unnumbered leaves, written on rectos only, in pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, and gouache, containing a title leaf, with the author's name and colored figures. It is bound in 18th-century half blind-ruled calf and...
Dates:
1748 - 1772