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Liber amicorum (Book of friends)

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P114
Overview

Verses and sentiments from Ambrosius Förster's friends: Herman Hess (1611), J. Timaeus Silesius (1612), Samuel Praetorius (1613), and Holofernes Hillenius. Probably written in Wittemberg.

Dates: 1611 - 1613

Liber Locorum Theologicorvm, dictated by Joanne Josepho Arce to Petrus Josephus a Barriga

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C303
Overview

This is a manuscript in ink of theological writings in Latin dictated in 1795 by Joanne Josepho Arce, master of sacred theology, to Petrus Josephus Barriga, theologian at the College (Seminary) of Saint Jerome in Arequipa, Peru. The volume is bound in vellum and there is a partly legible poem in Spanish on the front cover.

Dates: 1795

Manuscript fragments removed from book bindings

 Collection
Call Number: MS 20
Overview Fragments and scraps of manuscripts, including texts, letters, sheet music, and other items. These items were removed from book bindings of books held by the Kenneth Spencer Research Library in the Special Collections. Fragments were typically removed from those bindings when the Library sent items out for conservation or rebinding in the mid-20th century. Many of the books can be found in the Summerfield collection of Renaissance and Early Modern books, which consists of volumes printed on...
Dates: approximately 12th-16th, 19th centuries

Manuscripts relating to Guatemala and Central America

 Collection
Call Number: MS 187
Overview

Miscellaneous unbound manuscripts removed from the William J. Griffith collection of printed Guatemalan source material. Contains some records of the University of San Carlos and the Protomedicato; the Guatemalan government; letters by Rafael Carrera; and some papers relating to the Rojas family. Although most of the manuscripts are Guatemalan in origin, some are Costa Rican or Honduran, and there is one document each from Peru, Cuba, San Salvador, Nicaragua, and Spain.

Dates: 1627-1973 (bulk 1640-1830)

Marble titulus or funeral plaque of Claudia Thaliarchi with Latin inscription

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: MS Q71
Overview

Titulus or funeral plaque of Claudia Thaliarchi. Inscribed with five lines of Latin text: "CLAVDIA·THALIARCI·L/GRAPTE/VIXIT·ANNOS·XVII/QUAE FUIT·DE·DOMO/L·VENVLEI[·]MONTANI." This can be translated as "Claudia, daughter of Thaliarchus, freedman [libertus], sculptor, lived 18 years, who is of the house of Lucius Venuleius Montanus."

Dates: First half of the 1st century C.E.

Memoranda kept in Merlinus Liberatus: Being an Almanack

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS A11
Overview Printed book containing manuscript memoranda regarding legal and financial matters, family, cattle, etc. Volume was kept by John Stocker of Somerton, England. The volume includes 7 printed preliminary pages (title page, dedication to Dering on astrology, tables of tides, sunrise, terms, sovereigns, poem denouncing the Jacobites); pages for January-December (each month consists of 2 facing printed pages: the left contains a table of the calendar, with saint's days, times of ascension (?), and...
Dates: 1697

Metaphisicae synopsis, Pneumatologicae mantisses, and Introductio ad ethicam

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B154
Overview

Book: philosophy (student's texts?)

Dates: 1725

Michaele Cossoni music manuscript

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS K3
Overview

Collection of sacred vocal songs, tenor part only, copied by Michaele Coosonio in 1645. "Fasciculus myrrhe; id est Collectio sacrorum concertuu una decantandorum voce: vel Cantu vel tenor. anno M.DC.XLV excerptus a me Michaele Cossonio a floridis eruditoru viroru hortis."

Dates: 1645

North family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 240A
Overview These are estate and personal archives of the North family of Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, and Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, as well as other places in England, from the 13th to 19th centuries, with the majority of documents dating from the 16th through 18th centuries. Document types include deeds, manorial documents, legal and official matters, accounts, family papers and correspondence. Some additional locations cited in these documents include Harlow, Ashley and Silverley, London, and...
Dates: approximately 1250-1856 (bulk 1500-1797)

Notae in tres priores Institutionum libros et ad tit.de iurisd. om. iud. ff.

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B14
Overview

Volume of compiled writings possibly about the law, possibly written in France in the 16th and/or 17th centuries, in multiple hands.

Dates: 16th-17th centuries?

Obligations by Peter Rogers, gent. of Middlesex and Peter Brockelsbye, gent, of St. Andrew's Holborn, Middlesex, to pay Edward Thomas de Graies 200 English pounds

 Collection — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Call Number: MS 12:2
Overview

Fragment of document. Obligation by Peter Rogers, gent. of Middlesex and Peter Brockelsbye, gent., of St. Andrew's Holborn, Middlesex, to pay Edward Thomas de Graces 200 English pounds or...

Dates: October 1647

Opusculum super chimicali scientiam

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS D77
Overview

Sasicteord Fircasnic... [anagram of following:] Sacerdotis Francisci propio G nomine sic nuncupati pauce terre Placentini Opusculum princeps super Chymicali Scientia (A in honorem Summi Pontificis Imperialis Dominii in laudem Chiimie, Artis dogmate eiuadem Sacerdotis Francisci Placentini alterum Volumen secundo ordine collocatunr:

Dates: 17th century

Personal papers of Brian Priestman

 Collection
Call Number: PP 446
Overview

Brian Priestman joined the University of Kansas faculty as artist in residence and conductor of the Symphony Orchestra in 1992; his final performance as conductor for KU was in 2002. This collection consists almost entirely of sheet music used by Priestman, as well as a 6 page section of typed notes of explanation on his edits to Lalande's Te Deum.

Dates: approximately 1950s

Personal papers of Marilyn Stokstad

 Collection
Call Number: PP 470
Overview

Marilyn Stokstad joined the Art History faculty at the University of Kansas in 1958 and led the department in several roles before earning emerita status as the Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History. This collection of her papers includes notes, chapters, and proofs for the textbook Art History, family history and photographs, personal and professional correspondence, and reports and notes related to the University of Kansas.

Dates: 1929 - 2020

Philosophia seu cursus philosophicus: logica

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B47
Overview

This collection consists of a Book: textbook on logic.

Dates: 1757 - 1758

Poems of James Maidment

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E260
Overview

Album: collection of 30 manuscripts and printed poems: political satires, drinking songs, etc. Most appear to be separately produced contemporary copies or originals, bound in or tipped in. Places: England and Scotland.

Dates: Composed: between 1600? to 1808

Precedents of Scotland's Court of Session

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E128
Overview

Book: legal. Brief legal precedents established in decisions from 1622 to 1639, and in a few later ones. Arranged alphabetically by subject.

Dates: 1662-1639; between 1640 and 1649; 1665-1666

Raccolta d'istorie della famiglia de Medici

 Collection — Volume: 1-3 [in 1]
Call Number: MS D125
Overview

Fair copy of a collection of short biographies and historical texts. From the main title-page: "Raccolta d'istorie della nobile, e real famiglia de Medici the regnarono in Toscana. Tutte manoscritte. Divise in tre toms, con altro tomo contenente otto fatti tragici seguiti in tempo di governo."

Dates: after 1743

Recueil de pièces concernant le Jansénisme,etc.

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C86
Overview

51 manuscripts or printed tracts or extracts in Latin or French, bound together. They are mostly concerned with theological discipline and many with the Sorbonne.

Dates: approximately 1680

Remarques sur l'Analyse du Traitté d'Hanovre, 1725-1726

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P536
Overview

Unbound political-legal tract: possibly a late draft

Dates: After September 3, 1725

Reports from the treasurers of the Kingdom of Naples to the High Chamberlain

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: MS 61
Overview

Reports from Martinus Torellas and Jayme Torellas, as treasurers of the Kingdom of Naples for Ferdinand V, King of Spain, to Ferdinando Francesco d'Avalos, marchese di Pescara, as High Chamberlain. Covers material 1505-1515.

Dates: 1507 - 1517

Ricordo Quotidiano. Ospitaliere di Santo Spirito, Puglia, Italy. 1645-1650.

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS A61
Overview This manuscript account book was apparently kept by the steward of a monastic house belonging to the religious order of the Ospitaliere di Santo Spirito. The entries for the purchase and sale of lambs, lambskins, pigeons, timber and grain are dated 1645-1650 and establish the location as the Puglia region of Italy. A manuscript vellum leaf from a 15th-century Missal of Italian origin has been re-used to form the binding of this paper account book. The title, "Riccordo Quotidiano," has been...
Dates: 1645 - 1650

Robert B. Riss Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 331
Overview

The collection includes several photographs, personal and professional letters, and other writings by authors, artists, American presidents, nobility, royalty, and other notable persons from the United States, British Isles, and Continental Europe, compiled by Robert B. Riss. English translations for some of the writings in other languages are included, as well as some labels and bookseller information. Links to digital versions for most items in this collection are also included.

Dates: approximately 1400-1949

Royal revenues collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS Q12
Overview Financial documentation for King James I of England (1566-1625) and for some of the preceeding kings and queens of England, notably Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). Collection includes copies or compendiums of historical statistics concerning the English sovereign's finances through Queen Elizabeth I; proposals for financial reform; and other documents copied and probably prepared for Sir Julius Ceasar, Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer for James I of England and James VI of Scotland after his...
Dates: approximately 1603-1613; some materials have added 18th century notations

Servite novice at the Convento dell'Annunziata, Florence

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C148
Overview

Collection of poetry written in two hands (A and B).

Dates: September 3, 1581 [date of dedication] (second half later?)

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Ospitaliere di Santo Spirito (Puglia, Italy) 1
Petrus, de Simonis 1
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Priestman, Brian 1
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