A collection of Danish plays from the 18th and 19th century has recently been cataloged. This collection of roughly 70 items includes translations of contemporary popular plays from France and Germany. The bulk of these items were found in the cataloging backlog section that our team is currently working through. The rest, which were in […]
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Collection of Danish plays uncovered
June 28, 2010
Collection of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Romances (IUA19102-IUA19170)
June 21, 2010
While working through our miscellaneous backlog, we came across a stack of unbound short dramas printed in Barcelona. This small collection (about 70 items) turned out to be a group of Spanish Romanceros, or ballads, printed by two different printing families. The ballad was a popular form in Spain from the 15th century, and often […]
Unidentified coat of arms found in the Incunabula collection
June 17, 2010
While cataloging a copy of Leonardus de Utino’s Sermones aurei de Sanctis (Venice: Johann von Koln and Johann Manthen, 1475) we came across a coat of arms that is so far unidentified. This coat of arms has been added to the recto of leaf a2 and is located after the incipit to the prologue. […]
To the End of the World and Back (Post-1650 MS 334)
May 25, 2010
Under the direction of Captain Sir William Parry, the HMS Hecla and HMS Griper left port on 11 May 1819 destined for the Arctic. Their objective was to continue the search for the Northwest Passage and to pursue the Longitude prize by surpassing the record for a sailing vessel traveling the farthest north (previously set […]
Moon Type Books
May 18, 2010
At the early age of four Dr. William Moon (1818-1894) lost sight in one eye due to scarlet fever and by 1839, he became totally blind. Moon quickly devoted his attention to learning the various types of type for the blind and eventually began teaching other blind pupils of various ages, which led to the […]
Spanish Antiphonal Manuscript (Pre-1650 MS 209)
April 27, 2010
Recently donated by Roberta Lynn Hay, Pre-1650 MS 209 is a large and imposing addition to The Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Once used for the observance of the Divine Office, this manuscript is one volume of an incomplete antiphonal of the Temporale cycle of a non-Dominican monastery […]