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 14 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
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
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
Joel Kovarsky papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 15845
Scope and Contents
Joel Kovarsky papers (2011-2013; 0.25 cubic feet) consist of drafts from his book, "The True Geography of Our Country," the book proposal, e-mail correspondence with his editor, Mark Mones, and the Virginia Press.
Dates:
2011-2013
George Washington Lewis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 16413
Content Description
The George Washington Lewis papers consists chiefly of correspondence to and from George Washington Lewis and between other family members, but also includes a few photographs of the Lewis family and the homes of "Claymont", "Shellfield" and "Marmion"; a plat of "Claymont"; newsclippings; notes on Lewis family history and genealogy; and a few financial and legal documents.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1805-1906, 1966
Manuscript Style or Form Book of James Armour, 1698- 1701
Collection
Identifier: MSS-96-1
Abstract
Scottish manuscript with definitions of legal terms, written in two hands.
Dates:
ca. 1698
Medieval manuscript leaf
Collection — Box BW 19, Folder: 1 [X031589475]
Identifier: MSS 16390
Scope and Contents Note
The medieval manuscript leaf (circa1300-1500; 0.03 cubic feet) the text is not identified. It may be from a martyrology. Contains a chapter concerning Pope Callixtus I. Later used in a bookbinding perhaps. The margins have been trimmed, dampstained. It is on vellum and is rubricated in red.
Dates:
circa 1300-1500
Ella F. Simon school newspaper
Collection — Box BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589277]
Identifier: MSS 16137
Scope and Contents
Ella F. Simon school newspaper (1859; 0.03 cubic feet) contains eleven pages of handwritten articles, beginning with an "edatoreal" about the state of the nation, followed by articles with titles such as "Night," "The Poet," "Dear Emily," "A Ride," "Our Wreath," "Composition," "Sniff," and more.
Dates:
1859
Typed Manuscript for Justice Daniel Dissenting by John P. Frank
Collection
Identifier: MSS-90-5
Abstract
Working draft of manuscript.
Dates:
undated