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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.

7.5 Cubic Feet 12 document boxes, 2 os boxes and 1 cubic box

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building is an artificial collection and periodic additions are expected.

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Cahier d'Ecriture par Mercier (calligraphy book) sharing illustrations and emotions of a French teenager. (Addition 40) 2024-0065 0.05 Cubic Feet Flat_Box 1

Compiled in 1858, the decorative title page Cahier d'Écriture par Mercier dédié à mes bien-aimés parents, the book features twenty-four calligraphy entries from a teenage student at the Grand-Classe St. Etienne in Saint-Étienne, France. The entries include the author's reflections on friendship, anger, anxieties, family life, hopes, and religious devotion.

  1. Series 2. 1800-1971

Francoise Marie Gabrielle Delecey de Changey children's book (Addition 52) 2024-0091 Box 11, Folder 7

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains one handmade picturebook of hand-colored engraved cutouts. A later inscription on the front pastedown reads, "Fait par la baronne de Chalancey née Delcey pour as fille Clémence devenue Ctsse d' Esclaibes d'Hurst." The book was was created by the Baroness de Chalancey for her little girl Clemence, born in 1797.

  1. Series 2. 1800-1971

Hans Rudolf Gujer calligraphy notebook ViU-2024-0092 (Addition 53) 0.04 Cubic Feet 1 volume. Box 11, Folder 8

Addition 53 of MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building contains one calligraphy manuscript of Hans Rudolf Gujer from Wermatswil, Switzerland. The book contains thirty-seven leaves in landscape format, in various colored inks and watercolor, with some use of gouache.

  1. Series 1. 1700's
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John Gottfried Watenbach calligraphic sample book

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder (legal-sized)

This collection contains an oblong folio book (197 X 328 mm) of calligraphic samples created by Johann Gottfried Watenbach, of whom we have no information. He was German or Austrian and possibly a student at the time of the creation of the work. The book contains sixty-five unnumbered leaves, written on rectos only, in pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, and gouache, containing a title leaf, with the author's name and colored figures. It is bound in 18th-century half blind-ruled calf and marbled paper over boards, plain pastedown endpapers. There is a watermark of a key within a crowned shield flanked by the letters H.B.

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John Gottfried Watenbach calligraphic sample book 0.04 Cubic Feet One folder (legal-sized)

Musinsky Rare Books

This collection contains an oblong folio book (197 X 328 mm) of calligraphic samples created by Johann Gottfried Watenbach, of whom we have no information. He was German or Austrian and possibly a student at the time of the creation of the work. The book contains sixty-five unnumbered leaves, written on rectos only, in pen and ink, pencil, watercolor, and gouache, containing a title leaf, with the author's name and colored figures. It is bound in 18th-century half blind-ruled calf and marbled paper over boards, plain pastedown endpapers. There is a watermark of a key within a crowned shield flanked by the letters H.B.

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