No. 2 of 2 titles bound together. and Signatures: [sec.]⁸2[sec.]⁴ (2[sec.]4 blank).
Publisher:
Nella Stamperia di S A.R., per li Tartini, e Franchi,
Subject (Name):
Cosimo--III,--Grand-Duke of Tuscany,--1642-1723--Death and burial., Franchi, Santi, printer., Stamperia di S.A.R., printer., and Tartini, Giovan Gaetano, printer.
97 letters and cards. Delaney writes first from Yaddo in New York and then from Paris. Delaney's letters are primarily personal in nature with frequent comments about his philosophy of life and the value of friendship, and inquiries about mutual friends. Delaney also mentions his work, exhibits, and the sale of paintings in Wallrich's possession.
Description:
Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), artist, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1929 he moved to New York where he gained a reputation as a portraitist. Delaney spent the last 26 years of his life in Paris., Larry Wallrich, founder of the Phoenix Bookshop in Greenwich Village, was a close friend of Delaney's and assisted him in the sale of his paintings in the United States., and Purchased from Serendipity Books, 1994.
Subject (Name):
Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979 and Wallrich, Larry
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American artists--France--Paris, African American painters, Expatriate painters--France--Paris, and Painters--United States
Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 40
Image Count:
14
Abstract:
Records related to a community government formed by Japanese American internees at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1942-1945. Material includes reports from committees on health care, social welfare, and education, as well as a charter for the community government. The collection also includes memoranda about camp governance and other publications in English and Japanese distributed by the United States War Relocation Authority, as well as contemporary newspaper clippings about relocation centers and Japanese Americans.
Description:
The Poston Relocation Center in Arizona was the largest of the ten Japanese American internment camps operated by the United States War Relocation Authority during World War II, 1942-1945.
Subject (Geographic):
Poston (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.) and United States.--War Relocation Authority
Subject (Topic):
Concentration camps--Arizona, Concentration camps--United States, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, Japanese--United States, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States, and World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Manuscript on paper (variety of watermarks) of Part I: Dionysius the Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia with the Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part II: Dionysius the Areopagite, De divinis nominibus I.1-II.9, with Paraphrasis of George Pachymeres. Part III: Nicetas of Serres, Commentarius in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationes. Part IV: Theophanes Cerameus, Homiliae (text of 13 sermons). Part V: Andrew of Crete, Encomium in Martyres X. Part VI: Nicephorus Blemmydes, De anima. Part VII: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De compositione verborum, extract (ch. 14-15).
Description:
Belonged to Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827). Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9480). Purchased from L. C. Witten with funds from the Jacob Ziskind Charitable Trust in 1957., Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum, rebacked., In Greek., Part I: Carefully executed woven headpieces in black and red on ff. 1r and 7r; beginning of each portion of the text marked by large initial in red, accompanied by flowers outlined in red and filled with pale yellow. Rubrics stop on f. 22v. Part II: Crude headpiece (in imitation of that on f. 7r?) occurs on f. 100r. Large painted initials, in red, with vine-leaf appendages, mark sections of the text. Part III: Delicate floral headpiece on f. 138r: each flower is outlined in red and painted with pale grey and red washes; details added in black. More modest headpiece in similar style, but painted with yellow, occurs on f. 148v; intricate initials in same colors on ff. 138v and 148v. Part IV: Simple woven headpieces, in red, on ff. 266r and 269r. Initials with floral motifs accompany rubricated titles for each sermon; decoration is incomplete (stops on f. 320r). Part V: One initial, in black, occurs at the beginning of the text (f. 330r). Part VII: Small decorative initial and heading, in red, at the beginning of the work., and Script: The codex is composed of several small manuscripts and booklets, each copied by a different scribe but all written in similar styles of minuscule, that were originally bound together in the 17th century shortly after being copied.
Subject (Name):
Andrew, of Crete, Saint, approximately 660-740, Dionysius, of Halicarnassus, Dionysius,--the Areopagite, Saint,--1st cent, Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint, Nicephorus, Blemmydes, 1197-1272, and Pachymeres, George, 1242-ca. 1310
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs, Cosmology, Ancient, Fathers of the church, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholia, Sermons--Early works to 1800, and Theology--Early works to 1800
Two ALS dated at Columbia, California, written by Alvah I. Davis to "Wm. B." and "Dear Will," a friend in the East. A letter dated 1854 Nov 11 discusses his plans to return to the East from Oregon via California, his subsequent decision to remain in California following the wreck of the ship Yankee Blade during his passage from San Francisco, and his work as a miner near Columbia. A letter dated 1855 Jan 27-28 describes in detail his experiences during the wreck of the Yankee Blade and discusses his impressions of Columbia and his life as a miner. The letters are accompanied by typed transcripts.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Gold discoveries and Columbia (Calif.)