manuscripts (documents)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Handwritten documents, particularly books and other documents created before the invention of the printing press. May also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
19th Century Legal Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-89-2
Scope and Contents
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION & ARRANGEMENT
This collection contains documents - mostly letters - from a variety of Virginia and Maryland judges, Supreme Court personalities from the 19th century.
Dates:
1820-1859
Amate bark paper manuscript Historia de la curacion de Antigua de San Pablito
Collection — Box BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16551
Amate bark paper manuscript Tratamiento de una ofrenda pura pedir la lluvia
File — Box BW 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16552
Scope and Contents
Handmade codex titled "Tratamiento de una ofrenda para pedir la lluvia."
Dates:
1978-08-10
Jorge Luis Borges papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10155
Content Description
New collection of eleven manuscripts by writer Jorge Luis Borges which have been combined with the Borges collection. The new acquisitions include Herrera y Reissig; Soneta Para un Tango en la Nochecita; La Cabala (1943), Los Espejos Velados; Prologo a Mester de Juderia, de Carlos Grunberg;El Milagro Secreto; Nota Sobre la Paz; De Alguien a Nadie; La Biblioteca Total; El Dios y el Rey; and Prose Poems for I. J.Other Borges manuscripts include : Juderia, Ciudad, Calle Desconocida,...
Dates:
1919-1978
Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript
Collection — Box BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589275]
Identifier: MSS 16133
Scope and Contents
Sarah A. C. Brown manuscript (1851-1855; 0.03 cubic feet) includes copies of poetry, and cheerful passages belonging to Sarah Brown.
Dates:
1851-1855
C. Cowen manuscript The Three Sentimentalities, Love, Revenge, and Rivalry
Collection — Box BW 22, Folder: 1 [X032652609]
Identifier: MSS 16439
Scope and Contents Note
The three sentimentalities, love, revenge, and rivalry by C. Cowen manuscript (1867; 0.03 cubic feet) is in 3 parts in one vol., fashioned to look like a published work, complete with frontispiece and title page. A home-made book that reads like a gothic novel, full of adventure, romance, and drama.
Dates:
1867
"De Alguien a Nadie", [1950]
File — Box 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
Holograph manuscript "From Someone to No One" by Jorge Luis Borges, signed in black ink on gridded notebook paper, numbered by Borges. With deletions and interpolations. The manuscript is an essay that first appeared in the march 1950 issue of Sur, reprinted in Borges's Otras Inquisciones (1952) and Antologia Personal (1961). It describes the paradox, which applies to gods as well as...
Dates:
[1950]
Edna St. Vincent Millay papers--addition 16
Unprocessed — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2017-0157
Dates:
1921
"El Dios y Elrey", 1954
File — Box 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
Jorges Luis Borges original holograph manuscript, "El Dios y Elrey" (God and the King)titled and signed, in black ink, 3 leaves numbered by Borges with deletions, corrections, and interpolations. The corrections on this manuscript and other manuscripts in the collection demonstrate his work toward a final publication. The original holograph manuscript of this story, first published in Buenos Aires newspaper, La Nacion in May 1954, and...
Dates:
1954
"El Milagro Secreto", [1942]
File — Box 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Holograph manuscript "The Secret Miracle" by Jorge Luis Borges titled and signed in black ink, and leaves numbered by Borges. Many deletions, variants, and interpolations. It offers an invaluable look at the changes he made to one of his favorite writings. The original holograph manuscript of this story was published in Sur no. 101 (February 1943), then reprinted in the first edition of Ficciones(1944). Proof...
Dates:
[1942]
Theodosia Garrow manuscript
Item — Box BW 21, Folder: [X031750307]
Identifier: MSS 16426
Content Description
The Theodosia Garrow manuscript ( 1840s; 0.03 cubic feet) documents Garrow's poem titled "The Doom of Cheynholme". The manuscript consists of 24 pages: 6 gatherings of 4 pages each, tipped to stubs of paper.
Dates:
circa 1840s
"Herrera Y Reissig", 1924
File — Box 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
"Herrera Y Reissig" is an original holograph manuscript by Jorges Luis Borges about the Uruguayan Symbolist poet Julio Herra Y Reissig. 3 leaves titled and signed. It was published in the September 1924 issue of Inicial and then republished in in Borge's book Inquisiciones in [1925]. No other manuscript is known.
Dates:
1924
J. Calvitt Clarke papers--addition 4
Unprocessed — Box 1
Identifier: ViU-2018-0041
Dates:
1930s-1990s
James B. Lovelace Manuscript: Court Tales, Trials and Appeals
Collection
Identifier: MSS-94-1
Abstract
Unpublished book manuscript and correspondence regarding the gift.
Dates:
1993-1994
Jorge Luis Borges papers--addition 33
Unprocessed — Box 1
Identifier: ViU-2018-0097
Dates:
1924 - 1954
Jose Francisco Correia da Serra botanic garden at University of Virginia plan
Unprocessed — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2019-0024
Dates:
circa 1820