Found between the pages – Macdonald College Magazine

We recently received a shipment of books from our Macdonald campus library for a new digitization project we’re starting up this summer. While going through the volumes we came across the unusual find of what we think is a pressed corsage!

Flowers found in the pages of the Macdonald College Magazine - volume XII, No.4, April-May 1920. p. 236 - 237.

Flowers found in the pages of the Macdonald College Magazine – volume XII, No.4, April-May 1920. p. 236 – 237.

 

The Macdonald College magazine was published between 1910 and 1932 by the students and contained articles on student activities and other various topics, specifically agricultural ones. The magazine also contains a number of advertisements for local businesses which will be valuable in the student of Montreal and McGill history. This spring we’ll be digitizing the full run and making it available online.

For more information on Macdonald college campus visit the history feature, Founding Macdonald College.

References

MCGILL UNIVERSITY. (2004). A guide to archival resources at McGill University. Montréal, McGill University Archives. R.G. 75: Student Organizations. http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/resources/guide/vol1/rg75.htm

 

The manuscripts of Cardinal Bessarion

Guest post by Jillian Tomm, Postdoctoral Fellow in Rare Books & Special Collections

This volume, the Inventaire des manuscrits grecs & latins donnés à Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468, records a number of Greek and Latin manuscripts, once owned by the fifteenth-century scholar Cardinal Bessarion (1403-1472), which formed the nucleus of the Bibliotheca Marciana of Venice. The list is heavily marked by a reader with a parallel and different set of numbers.

It is possible that this volume was used and marked by Bessarion specialist Lotte Labowsky, who published on Bessarion’s library. The volume is part of the Raymond Klibansky Collection—Klibansky and Labowsky worked closely for decades on several topics including Labowsky’s Bessarion work, and a number of books in the Klibansky Collection were previously owned by her. The handwritten numbers resemble those left by Labowsky in her corrections to Klibansky’s Latin edition of Locke’s Epistola de tolerantia.”

Inventaire des manuscrits grecs & latins donnés à Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468 (Book)
Inventaire des manuscrits grecs & latins donnés à Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468 (eBook)

Title page of "Inventaire des manuscrits grecs & latins donnés à Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468"

Title page of “Inventaire des manuscrits grecs & latins donnés à Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468”

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Page 29 of “Inventaire des manuscrits grecs & latins donnés à Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468”