April Actions for Peace, Jobs, & Justice (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Published / Created:
1985 Apr 20
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 36
Collection Title:
Printed ephemera of African American political activism and arts
Container / Volume:
Bsd | Folder 165
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
Verso blank.
Subject (Geographic):
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists--Ephemera, African American politicians--Ephemera, African Americans--Civil rights--Ephemera, African Americans--Ephemera , African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Ephemera, Black power--Ephemera, Political activists--United States--Ephemera, and Pressure groups--United States--Ephemera
Conference in Solidarity with the Liberation Struggles of the Peoples of Southern Africa (New York
Published / Created:
1981 Oct 10
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 36
Collection Title:
Printed ephemera of African American political activism and arts
Container / Volume:
Bsd | Folder 167
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists--Ephemera, African American politicians--Ephemera, African Americans--Civil rights--Ephemera, African Americans--Ephemera , Black power--Ephemera, Civil rights movements--United States--Ephemera, Political activists--United States--Ephemera, and Pressure groups--United States--Ephemera
Printed ephemera of African American political activism and arts
Container / Volume:
Bsd | Folder 166
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name):
Communist Party of the United States of America--Ephemera
Subject (Topic):
African American political activists--Ephemera, African American politicians--Ephemera, African Americans--Civil rights--Ephemera, African Americans--Ephemera , Black power--Ephemera, Civil rights movements--United States--Ephemera, Political activists--United States--Ephemera, and Pressure groups--United States--Ephemera
Manuscript on parchment (calfskin) of a collection of prayers, passion narratives and hymns.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century. Plain brown leather over pasteboard. The spine gold-tooled, with five raised bands. Paper pastedowns; red sprinkled edges., Headings in red. Heightening of the majuscules in yellow. 1-line plain versals alternately red and blue; 2-line plain initials and 4-line initials (plain or of the littera duplex type, but without penwork; 5-line on ff. 2r, 126v and 145r) in red and/or blue. Although the main prayers and hymns generally begin with a 4- or 5-line initial, the distribution of the various kinds of initials often seems at random., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Textualis Libraria (Textus Quadratus, approximately Oeser variant II), with a tendency to develop cadels on the top line, in some cases (f. 57v) featuring a human profile.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Hymns, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Passion narratives (Gospels)
Dedication of the Sterling Hall of Medicine at Yale University, 23 February 1925. Dean Winternitz presiding. Presentation of the Building — George Hervey Church, representing the Sterling Trustees. Acceptance for the University — James Rowland Angell, President of the University Address — Harvey Cushing, Professor of Surgery, Harvard University Address — William Henry Welch, Director School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University.
Manuscript on parchment of 1-2) Registrum brevium. 3) Novae narrationes (in Anglo-Norman). 4) Part of an article of indenture (13 lines; 18th-century hand), in English, concerning William Jenninges of Birmingham.
Description:
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Original sewing on four double, tawed cords laced into flush wooden boards. The covering extends over the endbands and is sewn around them. Traces of a secondary embroidery. Spine lined with tawed skin extending to outside of boards. Covered with tawed, cream-colored skin. A brass catch on the lower cover and traces of a clasp attachment on the first few leaves. Lower board detached, upper board and most of the spine covering wanting, probably for some time., In Latin and Anglo-Norman., Lower half of ff. 33, 78 torn; large portions of text stained and illegible., Script: Written in small, cramped anglicana by one scribe., and Twelve illuminated initials (crudely drawn and much rubbed), in dark red, blue, gold, green, and orange, with simple borders extending the length of the folio. Paragraph marks in blue or gold throughout.
Subject (Topic):
Anglo-Norman literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Law--Great Britain, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library