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Imago Mundi MS 25-33
- Record Id:
- 033-001578570
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001578543
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000056.0x000032
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Imago Mundi MS 25-33
- Title:
- Roukema papers
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001578543
033-001578570 - Is part of:
- Imago Mundi : The Imago Mundi Archives
Imago Mundi MS 25-33 : Roukema papers - Contains:
- Imago Mundi MS 25 : Imago Mundi. Correspondence with RA Skelton.'
Imago Mundi MS 26 : Imago Mundi. Correspondence with Mouton & Co. N.V.'
Imago Mundi MS 27 : Imago Mundi. Correspondence with Mrs V. Busch.'
Imago Mundi MS 28 : Imago Mundi XV.'
Imago Mundi MS 29 : Imago Mundi XVI.'
Imago Mundi MS 30 : Imago Mundi. Current Correspondence.'
Imago Mundi MS 31 : Miscellaneous correspondence.
Imago Mundi MS 32 : Negative microfilm of a file of Roukema's correspondence with contributors to Imago Mundi.
Imago Mundi MS 33 : Typescript of [unpublished] article by Giuseppe Caraci, 'The Date of the Castiglione Planisphere', with corrections by RA…
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- 032-001578543[0003]/033-001578570
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Imago Mundi
- Record Type (Level):
- SubFonds
- Extent:
- 9 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish - Scripts:
- Cyrillic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1957
- End Date:
- 1960
- Date Range:
- 1957-1960
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Life and career
Edzer Roukema (1895-1960), of Majorca and later of Holland, was a retired Dutch merchant navy captain, who had spent much of his life at sea. He had first met Bagrow in 1955, and had acted as translator of some Dutch material early in 1957. He had excellent English.
Imago Mundi XVII (1963), page 6, contains a short obituary, by Skelton.
Work for Imago Mundi
Roukema was no academic. Bagrow chose him as his successor because he was competent and reliable, with a strong personal interest in old maps. After Bagrow's death, Roukema and Skelton edited Imago Mundi together and kept it alive. Roukema acted as 'Secretary-Editor', liaising with contributors and publishers. Skelton, 'Consultant Editor', was the quality controller, providing academic judgment and background knowledge, as well as reading typescripts and proofs.
Bagrow had delivered the scripts for Imago Mundi XIV to the printers/publishers, Mouton & Co, two weeks before his death, and had intended this issue to comprise around 200 pages. However Mouton & Co, for financial reasons, limited the issue to 128 pages, because the Swedish subsidy received by Bagrow had ceased upon his death.
Various scripts were therefore held over to volume XV, so that all of Imago Mundi XIV, and most of XV, consisted of material edited by Bagrow, not Roukema or Skelton. Imago Mundi XIV finally appeared in May 1959.
Roukema died unexpectedly on 12 April 1960, shortly after passing the final proofs of XV for publication. This issue finally appeared in March 1961. He had also forwarded the scripts for XVI to Mouton & Co. This issue was subsequently published by Skelton and Koeman in May 1963, using a different publisher, Nico Israel of Amsterdam. (The date '1962' on the title page is misleading.)
Roukema's Imago Mundi papers
Roukema had received Bagrow's papers in 1959. Roukema's widow delivered Roukema's own papers, which now included Bagrow's, to Skelton soon after Roukema's death. Skelton forwarded them all to Koeman in 1962. Most were collected back from Utrecht, with Koeman's own Imago Mundi papers, in the spring of 1976, and delivered to Eila Campbell. She deposited them in the British Library Map Room in 1978. (See MS 60.) However four files of Roukema's papers, not now identifiable, were only sent on by Koeman in October 1988, long after his retirement. (See MS 61.) A further file is now amongst Koeman's academic papers in the Dutch National Archives. A microfilm of this file is catalogued as MS 32.
Roukema's filing, careful and precise, has survived largely unaltered in its original covers. A few papers removed by Skelton in order to complete Imago Mundi XVI after Roukema's death have been replaced during cataloguing. Other papers added by Skelton as he continued using Roukema's file on a topic have been removed to Skelton's own papers.
Unlike Bagrow's and Skelton's papers, Roukema's include a few authors' scripts.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)