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31. Imago Mundi MS 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 7
Title:
UNESCO correspondence: (1) proposal [unsuccessful] for an International Commission of UNESCO for Historical Studies of Cartography and navigation; (2) request [unsuccessful] for financial assistance for Imago Mundi; (3) comments by Bagrow on UNESCO's planned 'Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind'.
Scope & Content:
Correspondents are: Armando Cortesão; Johannes Keuning; Ricardo Levene; Hans von Mžik; C Northcote Parkinson; Jean Pelseneer; 'Dr Reparaz' [presumably Gonzalo de Reparaz Ruiz]; Pierre Sergescu; Henry R Wagner; Herr Wieder. Includes a day ticket to the United Nations General Assembly, Palais de ...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Russian
Date Range:
1947-1951
Extent:
1 bundle in folder. Partly printed.

32. Imago Mundi MS 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 8
Title:
Draft text and illustrations by Bagrow concerning a 13th-century Greek codex of Ptolemy's Geographia (Istanbul, Top Kapu Saray, Constr. Gr. 27).
Scope & Content:
1. Draft text and 2 photographs2. 36 glass negatives (in 3 boxes). This was intended for an Imago Mundi Supplement, or an issue of Anecdota Cartographica. The draft text was partially edited by RA Skelton, and includes a note by him, 15 Sept 1965, recommending that it not be published. These pap...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1957]
Extent:
1 folder (1) and 1 bundle of 3 boxes (2)

33. Imago Mundi MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 9
Title:
Manuscript text (unfinished and incomplete) by Dr George E Nunn entitled 'The World in which Columbus Dreamed', compiled c1954; with correspondence between A Elgin Heinz and Bagrow, 1955.
Scope & Content:
'The World in which Columbus Dreamed' was intended by Nunn to summarise his lifetime's research. The manuscript was left incomplete at his death in 1954, breaking off abruptly at page 238. Some pages are no more than rough drafts. Two days before his death, Nunn had asked A Elgin Heinz to finis...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954-1955
Extent:
1 bundle

34. Imago Mundi MS 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 10
Title:
Imago Mundi address file.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[c 1947-1957]
Extent:
1 bundle of cards

35. Imago Mundi MS 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 11
Title:
Obsolete folders and one obsolete label for Bagrow's correspondence.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1950-1955
Extent:
1 bundle in folder

36. Imago Mundi MS 12

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 12
Title:
Correspondence of Edward Lynam, of the British Museum Map Room, with Leo Bagrow concerning Imago Mundi, and Bagrow's History of Cartography.
Scope & Content:
Lynam was Skelton's predecessor as Superintendent of the Map Room. These papers appear to have been acquired by Skelton after he became involved in Imago Mundi in 1949. Further Lynam papers, from his youth in the 1920s, are now amongst the Skelton papers in Newfoundland. Language(s): Partly in ...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1939-1949
Extent:
1 folder containing 10 items

37. Imago Mundi MS 13

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 13
Title:
Correspondence of Skelton as one of the two English 'Corresponding Editors' of Imago Mundi, with Leo Bagrow and others.
Scope & Content:
This correspondence covers the period up to Bagrow's death on 9 August 1957. For the continuation see MS 15. See also MS 20. The other English 'Corresponding Editor' was Eila Campbell. On 11 October 1957, after Bagrow's death, Skelton explained the role of the English Corresponding Editors thus...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1949-1957
Extent:
1 bundle in folder

38. Imago Mundi MS 14

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 14
Title:
Correspondence with Mrs V Busch, Bagrow's former secretary, in Stockholm, and with Fru Olga Bagrow, his widow, concerning arrangements for continuing Imago Mundi after Bagrow's death; the preparation of obituaries of Bagrow in various journals; the future of Bagrow's books and papers; and the assignment to a new limited company of all Fru Bagrow's rights in Imago Mundi.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1957-Jan 1963
Extent:
1 bundle in folder

39. Imago Mundi MS 15

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 15
Title:
Further correspondence of RA Skelton as English 'Corresponding Editor' and then 'Consultant Editor' of Imago Mundi.
Scope & Content:
1. Aug 1957 – Sept 19582. Oct 1958 – May 19593. June 1959 – Apr 1960, with some miscellaneous items. This correspondence covers the period from Bagrow's death on 9 August 1957 until the death of Capt Edzer Roukema on 12 April 1960. Bundles 1 and 3 include various published obituaries of Bagrow. F...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Dutch and English
Date Range:
1957-1960
Extent:
3 bundles in folders

40. Imago Mundi MS 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 16
Title:
Correspondence with Capt Roukema's family, concerning the transfer of Roukema's Imago Mundi papers to London, and the loan of a photograph of Roukema for his obituary in Imago Mundi.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1960-Aug 1960
Extent:
1 folder containing 11 items