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Title : Bunche (Ralph J.) Papers. Collection 2051 Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, articles, publications, and photographs related to the life and career of Ralph J. Bunche. Includes materials related to his teaching and research, his affiliations with various organizations and conferences, and his participation in The Negro in America project spearheaded by Gunnar Myrdal. Includes materials on Africa: photographs, field notes, US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) reports, and Institute of Pacific Relations documents. Also materials related to Bunche’s involvement with the United Nations , including UN records and materials dealing with his appointment as undersecretary of the UN in 1954. There are two boxes of materials on Bunche’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, and material from Joan Bunche and Brian Urquhart’s notes from the biography he wrote, Ralph Bunche : an American life. -
Title : Conoximent de las Orines Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : A treatise on urines is followed by some 200 prescriptions for a wide variety of conditions and diseases. The urine treatise discusses the relation of urine to illness, diagnosis, and treatment. It names 27 different kinds of urine, defining them and offering remedies and advice. It is notable as being an early detailed and exhaustive study of urine, and also as one of the earliest medical treatises written in a vernacular language (Catalan) rather than Latin (Dealer note by Thomas Heller laid in book). -
Title : Dissertation on the Voluntary Eating of Blood Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : An 18th-century justification of the eating of meat. -
Title : Ethiopic Manuscripts Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : Ethiopic manuscripts, consisting of sixty-four items, including fifty-four bound volumes and ten scrolls, primarily on vellum, with some paper. The manuscripts range in date from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, with bulk dates in the 1700s and 1800s. The codices are primarily service books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and also include a few rare Jewish manuscripts written in Ge’ez and Agaw, and fourteen magical prayers. Languages included are Ge’ez and Amharic. -
Title : Los Angeles Urban League Records, 1933-1945 Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : Collection consists of correspondence and papers relating to African Americans, immigrant labor and problems of social planning in Los Angeles. Correspondents include Ralph Bunche, and papers include Carey McWilliams' Report on importation of Negro labor to California. Also contains forms related to the Carnegie-Myrdal study. -
Title : McAfee (Byron) Papers. Collection 339 Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : Byron McAfee's research papers and original manuscripts from Mexico's colonial period. The research papers contain drafts of translations and essays by McAfee and his major collaborator, John Hubert Cornyn, on a variety of subjects including colonial codices, Spanish-Nahuatl dictionaries and vocabularies, and Nahua history and culture. The papers also include printed instructional and linguistic materials on Nahuatl, such as an 1887 Nahuatl grammar from Mexico; full transcriptions of important 16th century works by friars Bernardino de Sahagún, Alonso de Molina and Andres de Olmos; translations and linguistic studies of Nahuatl dramas; and material extracted from Mexican political and social movements related to Nahua studies. -
Title : Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : Manuscripts and manuscript leaves, in scripts of the Latin alphabet, ranging from Carolingian minuscule to Burgundian letter and humanist script, written across Europe before 1600 and representing the Latin, Italian, German, Netherlandish, Italian, English, French, Spanish, and Czech languages. Types of manuscripts include liturgical works, collections of sermons and the florilegia used for sermon composition, confessionals and penitentials for pastoral care, vernacular literature such as romances and verse, business and administrative records, including Italian and French land records—charters, cartularies, terriers, and rent rolls dating from the late thirteenth century to the seventeenth. -
Title : Solinus (C. Iulius) De situ orbis terrarum Browse By : Language Name Subject Type Description : An annotated copy of De situ orbis terrarum ... [Polyhistor] by the 3rd or 4th century grammarian and compiler, C. Julius Solinus. This 1512 edition has been extensively annotated by Camillo Capilupi. -
Title : Urquhart (Brian) Collection of Material about Ralph Bunche, ca. 1932-1972 Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : Sir Brian Urquhart (b.1919) was active in the organization and direction of the United Nations (UN) Emergency Force in Middle East (1956) and responsible for the organization and direction of UN peace-keeping operations and special political assignments. Ralph Bunche (1904-1971) was the undersecretary for special political affairs at the UN (1958-67) and undersecretary general (1968). He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. The collection consists of papers of, about, and collected by Ralph J. Bunche and later used by Brian Urquhart to write Ralph Bunche: an American Life (1993). -
Title : Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) Collection Browse By : Coverage Language Name Subject Type Description : The Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) Collection is a mixture of papers and organizational records, publications, ephemera and audio-visual materials collected by organization member Dani Adams (national office in Los Angeles). Of particular interest are the internal memos and complete run of national newsletters produced by the Los Angeles Chapter for national chapter distribution and slides and scripts from the WAVAW slide show, the presentation that chapter members showed to audiences nationwide. There is also extensive coverage of WAVAW's actions against the film "Snuff" and the Rolling Stones' "Black and Blue" advertising campaign and national boycott of Warner Communications, Inc. (WCI).