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Collection
Identifier: 0526
Abstract
This collection contains over 200 printed maps and small atlases, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, relating to the geographic areas of Latin America, including the Caribbean, and Spain and Portugal. Most are not widely held by other libraries, and some are unique to USC.
Dates:
1559 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1800s-1990s
Collection
Identifier: 0595
Abstract
The Robert Ignatius Burns papers contain three boxes of Burns' personal papers, four boxes of his collected manuscripts, and 21 boxes of his collected pamphlets. The manuscripts date between 1212 and 1608. The majority of the manuscripts originate from Spain and are written in Latin or Catalan, but one manuscript is from Rome. Robert Ignatius Burns (1921-2008) was a scholar of medieval history who taught at the University of San Francisco and the University of California Los Angeles.
Dates:
1212 - 2008
Collection
Identifier: 0206
Abstract
This archive contains the correspondence of Marta Feuchtwanger, wife of German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger, who survived her husband by almost thirty years. Marta Feuchtwanger remained an important figure in the exile community and devoted the remainder of her life to promoting the work of her husband. The collection contains Marta Feuchtwanger's personal correspondence, texts and manuscripts by her and others, royalty statements received for the works of her husband, correspondence with...
Dates:
1536 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1987
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6121
Abstract
Collection of 163 individual, original leaves from incunabula and books dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries.
Dates:
16th-18th centuries
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6199
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of individual leaves from incunabula, the majority of which are Bibles, German in origin, and dating from approximately 1470 to 1499. Also included are colored leaves from a printing of the Nuremburg Chronicles, and some single leaf examples of 18th, 19th and early 20th century fine printing.
Dates:
circa 1470s-20th century
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6243
Abstract
A collection of three posters portraying Joseph II (1741-1791) and Louis Phelypeaux (1705-1777). All of the posters incorporate reproductions of earlier paintings and engravings with French or Latin text describing the subject matter of the images. Two of the posters relate to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor and use visual works by Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787) and Theodorus Vallery. One poster portrays Louis Phelypeaux, comte de Saint Florentin--who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in...
Dates:
circa 1764-1970
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6240
Abstract
A collection of two manuscript leaves removed from two different antiphonaries. Each leaf consists of two pages of handwritten music for use in a liturgical choir. Both leaves were likely created some time between the 14th and 16th centuries. One of the leaves begins with the chant: "Protector noster aspice Deus," an Introit chant from the Mass from Dom. 14.p Pentecost: Pentecost V, XIV. The other leaf begins with the chant: "Stabant juxta crucem Jesu mater eius," an Introit chant from the...
Dates:
circa 1350-1550