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Collection
Identifier: 02-exws_webber
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of 5 card holder boxes containing 2,701 notecards created by Webber. Notecards contain excerpts from several Middle Dutch Translation publications formed into several series. "Christian Instruction" a series of notecards bearing excepts from Middle Dutch, relating to the theme of Christian instruction. "Dicta" a series of notecards bearing excepts from Middle Dutch, containing quotations from important Christian figure. "Old French" a series of notecards bearing...
Dates:
1976-1985
Collection
Identifier: 02-exws_davis
Abstract
Notebooks of R.H.C. Davis (1918-1991), British medieval historian, which contain handwritten research notes, sketches, photos and ephemera relating to medieval architectural and archaeological sites in the United Kingdom, Europe, North Africa and the Near East, taken throughout his entire career.
Dates:
1773-1990; Majority of material found within Bulk 1938-1990; Other: Date acquired: 01/24/2007
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_blacksparrow
Abstract
Editorial office records of Blacksparrow Press (1966-2003), as well as a collection of nearly every title published by the press in all of their various editions. The books are all cataloged separately and are searchable via Western Michigan Libraries' online catalog. The archival portion of the collection consists primarily of typescripts for books, editors' copies of manuscripts, first proofs, uncorrected page proofs, corrected page proofs, galley proofs, catalogs, screenplays, prospecti...
Dates:
1966-2006; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1966-1996; Other: Date acquired: 2001-2004
Collection
Identifier: exws-sisterjanepatriciafreeland
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the academic work and education of Sister Jane P. Freeland, who was a nun, lover of music, and a medieval scholar recognized worldwide as the translator of medieval religious works never before available in English. The vast majority of the items are drafts of her translations and notebooks full of her jottings. She particularly loved medieval songs and hymns of Abelard.The collections also contains personal material including correspondence with her home...
Dates:
approximately 1970s-2010s
Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_splmisc
Abstract
Miscellaneous serials, cards, pamphlets and booklets relating or other examples of ephemeral printed material for use with graphic design, literature and history students.
Dates:
1919-1976; Majority of material found within Bulk 1975-1976; Other: Date acquired: 1996-2015
Collection
Identifier: 03-01-exws_wilentz-diprima
Abstract
Correspondence received by bookseller Ted (Theodore) Wilentz from the poets Diane di Prima and Barbara Guest between the late 1960s and late 1990s.
Dates:
1967-1991
Collection
Identifier: 02-exws_aelfric
Abstract
Archive of research materials relating to Aelfric of Eynsham (c. 955 CE - c. 1010 CE). Archive consists mostly of photocopied materials and offprints used by Proffessor Luke Reinsma compiled the work, Aelfric: an annotated bibliography, published by Garland in 1987.
Dates:
1850-1998; Other: Majority of material found within 1881-1985; Other: Date acquired: 1997
Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_shadow
Abstract
Press kit for the 1994 Universal Studios film, The Shadow, starring Alec Baldwin, John Lone and Penelope Ann Miller, and directed by Russell Mulcahy. The archive alsos includes four issues of the detective fiction serial The Shadow published the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
1932-1994
Collection
Identifier: exws_whitman
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of 5 framed photographs and one framed poem, illustrated. The photographs feature portraits of Walt Whitman. Poem entitled Leaves of Grass.
Dates:
1871-1882
Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_welborn
Abstract
This collection is housed in 2 boxes and contains pamphlets on aspects of commercial printing.
Dates:
1956-1988
