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Bruce and Dorothy Brown collection
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ca. 2000 B.C.-1970 (Creation)
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87 items
20 maps
64 medals and decorations
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Custodial history
Bruce and Dorothy Brown are collectors of rare documents of antiquarian interest. They have collected widely, purchasing many of the objects from John Maggs, a dealer in London, and from dealers in Victoria. Their purpose is to bring together a variety of documents to expose students to documents of historic interest or beauty.
Scope and content
The collection consists of ancient documents, including a cuneiform tablet and an Egyptian hieroglyph; Medieval and Renaissance documents from England, France, Spain and Italy, 1243-1599, including deeds, charters, illuminated manuscript leaves, letter, letters patent, papal bulls, fragments from religious manuscripts, manuscripts on medicine and magic, a catalogue of English armorial shields, statutes of the Garter, and a manuscript of a Spanish Armelite prioress; modern literary and political manuscripts, records, and autographs, including policies of assurance, letters, and World War I and World War II surrender documents; autographs of various world figures; maps of Europe, Asia and North America; medals, decorations, and flags, mostly from Europe.
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- America--Discovery and exploration--Russia--1770--Maps
- Autographs--Collections
- Berkshire (England)--1756--Maps
- Book collecting
- Brazil--1740--Maps
- Burgh, Hubert de, d. 1243-- Charter
- Cambridgeshire (England)--1648--Maps
- Charters
- Deeds
- Deeds--Great Britain
- Edinburgh (Scotland)--1582--Maps
- Great Britain--1806--Maps
- Hieroglyphics
- Historical geography--Maps
- Hudson Bay--1745--Maps
- India--c.1630--Maps
- Islamic Calligraphy--Manuscript
- Legal documents
- Manuscripts
- Manuscripts, Latin--England
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Maps--Early works to 1800
- Medals
- Northumberland (England)--1722--Maps
- Northwest Coast of North America--c1784--Maps
- Russia--1651--Maps
- Westmorland (England)--c1610--Maps
- World--1663--Maps
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- Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598 (Subject)
- Beatty, David Beatty, Earl, 1871-1936 (Subject)
- Bismarck, Otto, Furst von, 1815-1898 (Subject)
- Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598 (Subject)
- Chaplin, A. H. (Arthur Hugh), 1905-1996 (Subject)
- Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 (Subject)
- Coward, Noel, 1899-1973 (Subject)
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 (Subject)
- Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 (Subject)
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 (Subject)
- Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl, 1859-1935 (Subject)
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 (Subject)
- Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935 (Subject)
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (Subject)
- Madison, James, 1751-1836 (Subject)
- Montgomery of Alamein, Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount, 1887-1976 (Subject)
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 (Subject)
- Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805 (Subject)
- Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918 (Subject)
- Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 (Subject)
Genre access points
- Ancient Egyptian (language)
- armorials (reference sources)
- bulls (papal records)
- charters
- cuneiform writing
- decorations (personal artifacts)
- deeds
- detached leaves
- early maps
- Early Renaissance
- extracts (partial documents)
- flags
- hieroglyphics
- High Renaissance
- illuminated manuscripts
- Late Medieval
- Late Renaissance
- leaves (gathered matter)
- letters patent
- maps (documents)
- medals
- signatures (names)
- statutes
- Sumerian (language)
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Final
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Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised by JF, June 19, 2013.
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- English
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brown_collection_manuscripts.pdf
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