tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49812025680427308982012-01-30T11:46:26.371-05:00A closer look at items from the treasure trove of <br />the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections at Brandeis UniversityRobert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collectionsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4981202568042730898.post-46340357663437579252011-12-31T10:29:00.081-05:002012-01-17T13:03:43.899-05:00

The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department at Brandeis University houses a collection of rare autograph documents, donated by various people, which range in date from the early seventeenth century through the twentieth. The Autograph collection spans 5.0 linear feet with 10 manuscript boxes and 1 oversized folder containing signed documents, correspondence,

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The French Revolution pamphlets collection at Brandeis University's Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department consists of 94 documents (six linear feet) published during the period of the French revolution and during the years immediately preceding and following that revolution (1761-1807). The pamphlets deal with politics, religious life, literature and intellectual

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department at Brandeis is fortunate to house a small but intriguing collection of papers relating to Boston’s famed radical white abolitionist and newspaper publisher, William Lloyd Garrison.1 A gift of Philip D. Sang, the William Lloyd Garrison collection consists of lecture and editorial manuscripts, handwritten lecture notes, and

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department at Brandeis University houses 177 Jewish ceremonial objects, as well as rare Israeli coins and books on Judaica and Jewish ceremonials, given by Bernice and Henry J. Tumen in 1981. The collection principally showcases nineteenth- and twentieth-century religious artifacts, although it also contains Roman glass and clay

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Brandeis University’s Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department houses a wide array of material from the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center’s Samuel Gridley Howe Library. This collection includes several hundred books from scholars and experts in the fields of science, medicine, and disabilities; the papers of Irving Kenneth Zola and of Rosemary and Gunnar Dybwad;

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department at Brandeis houses 47 Chinese snuff bottles from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Brandeis acquired this collection from Jack J. and Therese G. Katz in December of 1964.Snuff bottles became popular in China after the introduction of tobacco by Europeans in 1537. The Chinese used snuff as a form of medication and

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Containing seven linear feet of French Consistory materials and two linear feet of international Judaica, the Consistoire Central Israélite de France collection at Brandeis provides a sweeping view of the French Jewish community from the mid-eighteenth through the first third of the twentieth century. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this collection is its provenance and relation to an

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Brandeis University’s Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department possesses an exceptionally rare unpublished handwritten manuscript by Sir Isaac Newton. The manuscript, a gift of Philip D. Sang, is entitled “Certain Arguments collected out of ye Scriptures, out of ye Civill[sic] Law & ye Common exhibited to ye Queen Majesty by some or both houses against ye Queen of

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department’s Louis Dembitz Brandeis Collection boasts approximately 101 linear feet of material by and about Justice Brandeis. The collection houses a wealth of primary-source material, most produced by Brandeis and his immediate family. In addition to providing rich resources for those interested in Justice Brandeis’s personal and

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The Eric M. Lipman collection of Nazi documents offers researchers and students alike a wide-ranging glimpse into the evolution of the Third Reich’s political and military apparatus, in addition to revealing salient aspects of Nazi racial policy in action. This unique set of documents exhibits how Nazi figures as well as institutions responded in the face of significant external and internal

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department at Brandeis houses thirty-eight original watercolor paintings by several well-known Native American artists from the San Ildefonso Pueblo just north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.Brandeis acquired these paintings along with other unique Tibetan and Indian artworks in June, 1971, when the Riverside Museum of New York City closed.

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department holds eleven manuscript boxes of the correspondence of famed American senator Daniel Webster. The letters, highly legible with clear script, provide an insightful behind-the-scenes look at dealings of nineteenth-century American politics.Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, on January 18, 1782, just a few

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A recent donation to Brandeis Special Collections, the Spitzer family papers tell the story of a Czechoslovak Jewish family throughout much of the last century. At four linear feet, this is a small but powerful collection, providing a rich history of the lives of the Spitzers before, during, and after World War II. Mostly written in Czech and German (the family having spent a great deal of time

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One of the most beautiful books Brandeis owns is the Kelmscott Press edition of The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (Rare -- Versh PQ1570.A7 E5 1892) by Raoul Le Fèvre, a generous gift from Arthur Vershbow. When William Caxton first printed the Recuyell in Bruges in 1473-1474 it became the world’s first printed English book. William Morris’s decision to bring it out in the second year of the

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department holds an extensive collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works of religion, history, and law as part of the personal library of the late Harvard University Professor Perry Miller, who died December 9, 1963. Brandeis University acquired the collection in the fall of 1964 from Miller’s widow, Elizabeth Miller.

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections possesses two rare editions of Dr. Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle: the original Latin first edition of 1493 (given by the Bibliophiles of Brandeis University), and the vernacular edition published in German several months later (the gift of Lewis K. and Elizabeth Land). Composed in the fifteenth century in the city of

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department at Brandeis houses a number of rare works by Dante Alighieri, such as the Aldine Press’s first edition of Le terze rime di Dante (1502), Henry Longfellow’s translation of the Divine Comedy (1867), and Dante col sito, et forma dell’inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del poeta (1515). A 1564 edition of La Divina

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The Brandeis University Special Collections contains a number of materials documenting twentieth-century European conflicts, including the two world wars. Most recently, the department acquired the diary of an American Red Cross worker (Anna Weimar, b. 1869) who was stationed at the U.S. Navy base in Nantes, France, during the final months of World War I. Weimar's diary spans a full year (June 28

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The Brandeis University Archives & Special Collections Department is fortunate to hold the papers of distinguished academic and public intellectual Lewis Samuel Feuer (1912-2002). A polymathic scholar, Feuer produced a substantial body of research on the history of science and the sociology of ideas. Aside from his prolific scholarship, Feuer was also known for his lifelong political activism. He

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The First Part of the Life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII. Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne. Written by I. H. London: John Windet (?), 1599 (1610).Brandeis Special Collections is fortunate to count among its Renaissance-era books this work of English history. Interestingly, this second edition carries with it a controversy that makes it more interesting to some scholars

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department at Brandeis houses several medieval manuscripts that depict beautiful examples of illumination. Four notable examples include an early-fourteenth-century French breviary fragment; two Books of Hours, one the Italian Office of the Virgin from the fifteenth century, and one a fifteenth-century text from the Netherlands; and a

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis is privileged to have in its holdings a substantial number of materials donated by Bern Dibner— industrialist, philanthropist, and one of the most famous American book collectors of the twentieth century.Born in a village near Kiev, in Ukraine, Dibner emigrated with his family to New York at the age of seven

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Among the holdings of the Special Collections Department at Brandeis are some dozen nineteenth-century gift books. Gift books were a popular genre of literary annual in the mid-1800s in England and subsequently in the United States; they included verse and illustrations and short stories, often romantic or moralistic, and were designed to be given as presents to daughters, sisters, and the like.

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Brandeis University Special Collections holds a wide range of materials on the Spanish Civil War, a conflict that many historians consider to be the prelude to World War II. The Spanish Civil War began in 1936 with the far-right Nationalists’ attempted coup of Spain’s leftist, duly elected Republican government; it ended in 1939, after much bloodshed, with a Nationalist victory, Spain under the

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The French journal of political satire Le Témoin [The Witness], created by Paul Iribe, was not only a scathing report on every aspect of French political life, but also a magnificent display of Iribe’s artwork in its most mature state. The journal, while short-lived—it was distributed weekly from December 10, 1933, to June 30, 1935 (at a price of 1.50 FF), for a total of 69 issues—is noteworthy

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Pimander, sive De potestate et sapientia Dei is the title of a Hermetic work in Latin that comprises all of the known Corpus Hermeticum with the exception of the last three tractates. The Corpus (and this translation) is a series of Hellenistic Egyptian mystical works attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, whose tradition may have begun with the veneration of the Egyptian god Thoth1; he was later

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The Leo Frank Trial Collection at Brandeis University documents one of the most notorious capital-punishment cases in early twentieth-century America. Leo Frank, a pencil-factory superintendent in Atlanta, Georgia, and a northern Jew, was at the center of a murder trial and lynching that continues to reverberate almost ninety-five years later. Frank was born in Texas in 1884 but spent his

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A year after his first novel appeared, Joseph Heller got a query from his Finnish translator, who needed to solve the following riddle: “Would you please explain me one thing: What means Catch-22? I didn’t find it in any vocabulary.”[1] By 1974 the translator could have consulted Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language (2nd College Edition), which classifies “catch-22” as a

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Originally published as a series of pamphlets in 1751, the first collected edition of Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America by Benjamin Franklin was the fourth publication of his groundbreaking experiments in this field. It is clear that the work was written with the intention of conferring with like scientists working overseas, not of publishing its findings

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During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation of American radicals protested the Vietnam War, proclaimed black power, and demanded women’s liberation. Partly in response to the era’s political ferment, the Brandeis University Special Collections library began to collect radical literature from throughout the twentieth century. The resulting Radical Pamphlet collection contains over four

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A fascinating and varied set of documents, the Léon Lipschutz collection of Dreyfusiana and French Judaica is a font of information for those interested in French history and Judaic studies. While the majority of the collection is made up of materials specifically related to the Dreyfus Affair—an explosive, all-encompassing, and monumental episode in French and Jewish history—there is also a

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The phenomenon of Christian Hebraism—that is, Christian interest in Jews and Jewish literature—dates back at least to Jerome (d. 419/420). Some Christian Hebraists, motivated by conversionary and polemical interests, wanted to convince Jews that a true understanding of Scripture would lead to their conversion to Christianity. Others sought to understand the culture of Jesus’ time. Such

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The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections at Brandeis has the distinction of holding an example of the earliest known bookplate, which comes from the collection of Brother Hildebrand (Hilpbrand) Brandenburg of Biberach. Scholars date the bookplate to the 1470s, and it must have been completed by 1480, at which time Hildebrand, a Carthusian monk, donated his collection,

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This large and elaborately illuminated vellum document is an establishment charter known as a "patent of erection" for a chapter of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary, one of the largest devotional societies in the Roman Catholic Church. Confraternities, also known as sodalities, are religious counterparts to secular clubs and are most often associated with Roman Catholicism, though similar

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Brandeis University houses a number of special collections that focus on anti-Semitism, Jewish resistance to persecution, and radical social movements in the United States and Europe. One such collection is the Helmut Hirsch Collection, donated to Brandeis by Hirsch’s surviving sister, Kaete “Katie” Hirsch Sugarman. Comprised of correspondence, notebooks, diaries, artwork, poetry and other

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On April 15, 1865, newspapers were given the awful task of announcing the assassination of the sixteenth president of the United States: Abraham Lincoln. The night before went down in history with one gunshot. John Wilkes Booth, an actor and confederate, mortally shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., jumped from the balcony, and yelled, "sic semper tyrannis" ("thus always

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The development of music printing at the onset of the sixteenth century changed the European musical world. Before Petrucci’s first printed collection in 1501, written music was available only to those who had the time or the money to copy it by hand. With the advent of printed music, new works could be disseminated quickly and across great distances. An even greater boost to the publication

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In a Boston Globe article from May 7th, 1967, independent collector, archivist, and researcher Gordon Hall is quoted: “What I do is essentially engage them eyeball to eyeball. Confrontation on a daily basis. No one else does it.” [1] Hall was speaking of his interactions with the extreme left- and right-wing groups whose materials he painstakingly collected for the better part of his life. A

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Journalist, critic, and feminist Margaret Fuller wrote an essay in 1846 entitled “American Literature; Its Position in the Present Time, and Prospects for the Future.” Its first line read, “Some thinkers may object to this essay, that we are about to write of that which has, as yet, no existence.” Walt Whitman (1819–1892) took up the implicit challenge (as well as explicit ones from other pens,

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Brandeis University’s World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters Collection includes nearly a hundred different images illustrating scores of different wartime topics. Initially inspired by the examples in western European countries, the creation and production of visually stunning, applicable pictorial publicity immediately gathered a substantial level of artistic involvement and industrial

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While we were recently moving a series of rare items in the Brandeis Archives & Special Collections department, a small leaf of paper was discovered, which, from a cursory analysis of the paper and handwriting, likely dates to the sixteenth century. When an item such as this is donated or discovered, the task becomes to identify the item and determine, to the greatest degree possible, its age,

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The McKew Parr Collection was donated to Brandeis in 1961 by Connecticut State Senator Charles McKew Parr and his wife, Ruth. Comprised of nearly 7000 items, the McKew Parr Collection, titled “Magellan and the Age of Discovery,” was one of America’s premier private collections devoted to the era of exploration, the period from the mid-fifteenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries. Of these items

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The case against Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti is among the most widely known and debated criminal trials in United States history. On April 15, 1920, two paymasters from the Slater-Morrill Shoe Company were shot and killed in an armed robbery on the streets of South Braintree, Massachusetts. Though robberies of this kind were by no means exceptional during the post–World War I period,

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Due to the generosity of Samuel Nass, Brandeis Special Collections has in its holdings three interesting volumes of Renaissance cryptography: the Cryptographia of Johannes Balthazar Friderici, a French translation of the work of Johannes Trithemius, and the important ninth book of the Systema Integrum Cryptographiae of Gustavus Selenus. All three are rare and important examples of a craft that

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The Victor Young Collection at Brandeis includes more than one hundred musical scores and LP recordings as well as awards (including an Oscar and Golden Globe), clippings, photographs, and memorabilia. Donated to Brandeis by Young’s family, the collection is frequently used by musicologists and other researchers. Victor Young (1900–1956) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, and

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The adage “never judge a book by its cover” could have been coined to describe the work we are highlighting this month: Sermones Thesauri Novi de Tempore, by Peter Paludanus, Patriarch of Jerusalem (died 1342), published in Nuremberg by Anthonium Koberger in 1496. Peter was a French theologian and archbishop. Among his works are commentaries on all the books of the Bible and on Thomas Aquinas.

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The Brevarium or Breviary is a book containing the offices, hymns, and prayers for the canonical hours, which are appointed by the Catholic Church to be recited daily by priests and members of certain religious orders. The first of the seven canonical hours is matins, traditionally celebrated at daybreak, followed by lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline, the last of which is

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Michael Lally, an immigrant to Massachusetts from Ireland, fought for the Union in more than a dozen major battles of the Civil War, including the first and second Bull Run (Manassas), the Siege of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. A soldier in the 11th Massachusetts Regiment, Lally wrote letters from Maryland and Virginia to his wife and children in

Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collectionsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4981202568042730898.post-45017889532661071262007-12-17T12:51:00.004-05:002008-09-04T12:04:44.284-04:00

The English Geneva Bible, published in completed form in 1560, was issued at a time when the Roman Catholic Church had banned all vernacular translations of the Bible. Building on the work of William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale, whose early English translation appeared in 1535, the Geneva Bible was the first English Bible to draw its translation entirely from the original Greek and Hebrew texts,

Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collectionsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4981202568042730898.post-84467244191722868502007-11-16T11:55:00.006-05:002008-09-04T12:05:15.620-04:00

At Brandeis we are lucky to have a complete set of the rare, serial-box surrealist publication conceived by New York artist William N. Copley (1919-1996) and known by the acronym S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop). The work is a series of folders, available by subscription, containing objects and artworks contributed by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Ray Johnson, and Man Ray. As a publication, its mission

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