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Assorted legal documents from Continental Europe
A collection of unrelated legal documents from different countries and other political entities in continental Europe, dating from approximately the 1300s to the early 1800s. Documents come from Germany, Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, Iberia, Italy, France, Belgium, and unknown geographic locations.
Beverly Boyd research on Philippine Duchesne
Capitolo fratesco composto dal Padre Tisabesano Secchia Accademico Lepido
Con le annotation nel fine. A satire on Church life written by a Jesuit. Anagram pseudonym Acrostic on pages 819-821: Sebastiano Chiesa Reggiano Accademico Lepido.
Choix d'ariettes et de chansons de table
Group of songs, without music, collected into a single volume, possibly in France. Includes love songs, light songs, drinking songs, political songs. Napoleon is mentioned; sometimes gives name of tune or of opera.
Compagnia del Gonfalone de Roma manuscript
Roll or listing of the dead benefactors of the theatrical gild, arranged by church-yard in Rome, Italy, from the 16th century CE. Includes appropriate prayers. "Facto et ordenato per li nobili hoi Misser francesco pogio Scriptori aplico: el Magnifico misser Gabriele delli rosci Conte palatino...et misser Julio matheo Guardiani: et miss[er] Cola Jacouello...et Antonio inferieri Camerlingo della dicta Compagnia."
Conforti et ajuti per li condannati à morte manuscript
Sermon in five parts to bring comfort to those condemned to death. Possibly a copy of a printed book, probably written in Italy. The end of the volume states "Protesta da farsi dal Condannato prima che si invova per andare alla morte."
Documents concerning the city of Sabbioneta (Italy)
Domenico Fischietti libretto
Libretto by Carlo Goldoni and full score by D. Fischietti for the opera "Il mercato di Malmantile" ("The Malmantile Market"). Includes all 3 acts. The opera was first performed in London 10 November 1761; it was originally written in 1757.
Earls of Westmorland collection
14 Italian manuscripts bound together, regarding the politics of Italy, the Church, France, England, and the Holy Roman Empire.
Family estate papers of the Marquis de Sade
The Gaufridy Collection includes 1,880 manuscript letters and documents received by the Marquis de Sade's estate manager, Gaspard Gaufridy, and other materials from the Marquis, his wife, and other correspondents during the last quarter of the 18th century. The correspondence primarily concerns the management of the de Sade family estates. Also present are draft transcriptions in modernized French prepared in the mid-1960s by University of Kansas faculty and their students.
Gaetano Giarre calligraphy manual: Alfabeto di lettere iniziali adorno di animali
This collection consists of a single calligraphy-manual, containing an alphabet of ornamented initials, each beginning an Italian verse, and instructions for writing, cutting a pen, etc. Elaborate birds, beasts, plants, mythological creatures. From Giarre's Alfabeto, 1797, and his Invento, 1801.
Gasparo Tentivo’s Portolano of the Ionian and Aegean Seas and the Archipelago
Portolano or book of manuscript sea charts, sailing directions, and descriptions of anchorages covering primarily the Greek islands and coasts; also the Sea of Marmora, Turkish coast, Rhodes, Crete, Cyprus; and part of the Yugoslavian, Albanian, Syrian and Egyptian coasts; and Brindisi.
Giovanni Costa letters
Giuseppe Antonio Langhi correspondence received
Giuseppe Antonio Langhi Correspondence received, 1590-1610
Giuseppe de Lama bound book of annotated poems
Bound book of poems, annotated. Fair copy (holograph?) made apparently to present to the dedicatee, "Madame la Comtesse Blanche Uggeri de la Somaglia" (Somaglia, Bianca Uggeri Capece della, 1743-1822, of Piacenza). The volume includes social verses with semi-biographical notes on the Parisians who inspired them and their own poems. There are also some political allusions.
Grant-Bradbury family papers
Historia di M. Bartolomeo Ruffino auditore in Tunisi della impressa che fece l'armata Turchesca a Tunisi il force et la golezza l'anno 1574
Con l'impresa che fece Alli Malucco del regno di Fezza + di Marocco + una breve naratione della battaglia succeduta frail Re di Portugallo, + esso Malucco l'anno 1577.
Il conclave del 1774: Dramma per musica da recitarsi nel…Carnovale dell’anno 1775…
Satirical libretto for (closet?) musical drama based on election of Pope Pius VI.
James Joyce miscellany
A collection of photostat copies compiled by James F. Spoerri of Irish-born author James Joyce letters, primarily to publisher Grant Richards; poet Ezra Pound; Irish writer James Stephens; Joyce's daughter, Lucia Joyce; Joyce's sister, Eileen Joyce Shaurek, and others. The backs of some of the photostats are annotated with a repository name. Collection also includes some newspaper clippings and reprints of prospectuses for the novel Ulysses.
Kurt Thurmaier poster collection
This collection contains various Cold War-era peace posters and artworks from various sources, countries, and organizations. Includes posters from religious organizations, such as Quaker and Mennonite groups, as well as organizations formed specifically for peace and against nuclear armament, and university and municipal groups.
Manuscript fragments removed from book bindings
Manuscript notes of Léon Dorez
Research notes of Léon Dorez (1864-1922), French scholar and librarian who specialized in the Italian humanists, with offprints of his published articles.
Maps, plans and views of the land holdings of Francesco Soderini
Maps of the holding of Francesco Soderini near the river Egola (Evola) which runs into tho Arno west of Florence. Floor-plan and views of the villa and cottage of Barbialla, "per Montaione." Apparently for feudal purposes. Placement of the land not as important as area and shape of the land.
Papers of Herk Harvey
Herk Harvey was an actor, vice president, director, and producer for Centron Films in Lawrence, Kansas. This collection contains film treatments, notes, correspondence, catalogs, slides, contracts, a mayoral proclamation, news articles, photographs, scripts, and an Academy Award Nomination plaque.