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611. Imago Mundi MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 5
Title:
Correspondence, as in MS 1, with scholars researching maps drawn by Indians [i.e. Native Americans].
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1952-1957
Extent:
1 bundle in folder

612. Imago Mundi MS 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 6
Title:
Bibliotheken, Museum etc.' Correspondence, as in MS 1, with various libraries and museums.
Scope & Content:
Language(s): In English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Swedish and other languages.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Swedish
Date Range:
1947-1957
Extent:
1 bundle in folder.

613. 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.

614. 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 The draft text was partially edited by RA Skelton, and includes a note by him, 15 Sept 1965, recommending that it not be published.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)

615. 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

616. 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

617. 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

618. 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

619. Imago Mundi MS 12-24

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 12-24
Title:
Skelton papers
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1939-1971
Extent:
c 23 items

620. 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