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101. 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.

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 The draft text was partially edited by RA Skelton, and includes a note by him, 15 Sept 1965, recommending that it not be published.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

103. 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

104. Imago Mundi MS 70-72

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 70-72
Title:
Eila Campbell's papers about the International Conferences on the History of Cartography organised under the auspices of Imago Mundi. Introductory note
Scope & Content:
In 1964, at the 20th International Geographical Congress held in London, RA Skelton, Helen Wallis and GR Crone (who was Librarian and Keeper of Maps at the Royal Geographical Society) organised a symposium on the History of Cartography. The success of this symposium led them, with Eila Campbell,...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1967-1992
Extent:
c 13 items

105. Imago Mundi MS 103

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 103
Title:
J12. International Society for the History of Cartography (proposed).' Discussion paper by Tony Campbell, Oct 1993, about whether there should be a more formal body to promote the International Conferences in the History of Cartography; with related papers.
Scope & Content:
This discussion paper revisited the debate at the 1985 Ottawa conference on the organisation of future conferences. (See MS 71.) The related papers include the Rules of the existing International Society for the History of Cartography, 21 Sept 1971; copy correspondence 1985-6 between Brian Harley...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1971-1995
Extent:
1 original bundle in file cover, in folder

106. Imago Mundi MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 3
Title:
Correspondence, as in MS 1, with scholars in, or researching maps of, India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Thailand.
Scope & Content:
Language(s): In English and Russian.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English and Russian
Date Range:
1948-1957
Extent:
1 bundle in folder

107. Imago Mundi MS 33

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 33
Title:
Typescript of [unpublished] article by Giuseppe Caraci, 'The Date of the Castiglione Planisphere', with corrections by RA Skelton.
Scope & Content:
The bundle contains the top copy and a carbon of the typescript, both corrected by Skelton, together with the original longhand script of the second part of the text ('The Gomez Voyage').
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1958
Extent:
1 bundle in folder

108. 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

109. Imago Mundi MS 47

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 47
Title:
Correspondence, as an English 'Corresponding Editor' of Imago Mundi, with Leo Bagrow and various contributors, 1947-58; with one item of 1945.
Scope & Content:
Most papers relate to the years 1948 and 1949. There are a few letters from RA Skelton from 1950 onwards. For the role of the two English 'Corresponding Editors' (the other one was Skelton), see MS 13. Bagrow's papers, specifically MS 1/11, dovetail with these. Language(s): Partly in German.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1945-1958
Extent:
1 bundle in folder

110. Imago Mundi MS 106

Reference (shelfmark):
Imago Mundi MS 106
Title:
Miscellaneous papers of Peter Barber relating to Imago Mundi, comprising Board minutes and agendas, notes of meetings and correspondence.
Scope & Content:
Peter Barber was a colleague of Tony Campbell in the British Library Map Room, and succeeded him as Map Librarian. He became a Director of Imago Mundi Limited in November 1994, and Company Secretary in November 1996. These papers were discovered in the Map Room filing, and have been included here...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1993-2001
Extent:
1 bundle in folder

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