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Author Archives: Janice Hansen
Found in the Stacks: The Golden Legend in Printed Waste
While putting together materials for an instructional session for a cross-listed German and Religion course titled “Luther and the Bible: German Reformation Literature,” I stumbled across a number of discoveries in the Incunabula collection at Wilson Library. The course emphasized … Continue reading
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Tagged early printed books, golden legend, incunabula, legenda aurea, printers waste
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Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Manga, and More: The Mexican Comic Collection
A unique set of comics, graphic novels, manga, fanzines, trading cards and more has made its way to the shelves of Wilson Library and is ready for research. This new collection, the Mexican Comic Collection, focuses on comic material created … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, graphic novels, manga, Mexican Comic Collection, Mexico, trading cards, zines
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Fairies, Spiritualism, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
With the recent adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes proliferating in television and film, I thought it would be interesting to see what works by Doyle could be found within the Rare Book Collection. The Rare Book Collection houses the … Continue reading
Mummy Printing in the Rare Book Collection
Recently added to the Rare Book Collection and now fully cataloged is Carl Maria Seyppel’s Christoph Columbus Logbuch, or Christopher Columbus’ logbook, one of a number of Mumiendrucke (mummy prints) created by the German author and artist. Some scholars believe that … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Egypt, Germany, Mumiendruck, mummy print, New World
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A Family Affair: Lewis David de Schweinitz’s Drawings of Fungi
One of the newest additions to the stacks of UNC’s Rare Book Collection at Wilson Library is the unpublished manuscript fourth volume of David Lewis de Schweinitz’s Fungorum Niskiensium Icones, or Drawings of fungi. The volume was separated from a larger … Continue reading
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Tagged botany, fungi, Germany, North Carolina, Pennsylvania
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