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Johns Hopkins University Maryland ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0673
Abstract
This is an artificially-assembled collection with manuscript items selected by curators in Special Collections. This collection contains diaries, postcards, letters, and other material related to history and life in Maryland, 1818-2015 (Bulk: 1818-1957).
Dates:
1818-2015
Found in:
Special Collections
Montalto delle Marche citizenship document for Marcolino Monsignano
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0735
Abstract
Montalto delle Marche is a municipality in the Province of Ascoli Piceno in the Italian region Le Marche, located about 43 miles south of Ancona and about 9 miles north of Ascoli Piceno. The Venetian printer Giovanni Giubari was active at Montalto between 1586 and 1590 and also worked at Fabriano, Fermo and Ascoli Piceno. This item is the official document, issued by the heads of the city council of Montalto delle Marche, conferring lifelong citizenship to Marcolino Monsignano, governor of...
Dates:
1587 - 1587
Found in:
Special Collections
Office of General Counsel records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-02-010
Abstract
In 1975 Johns Hopkins University decided to establish the Office of General Counsel due to increased litigation in American society, the Federal Government's regulation of various aspects of the University's academic and non-academic activities, and the new and, at times, complex business and other relationships the University was entering into with outside parties. Series 1 of the records of the Office of General Counsel include contracts, agreements, deeds, leases, wills, receipts and...
Dates:
1839 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1882 - 1997
Found in:
Special Collections
Peabody Institute Board of Trustees records
Record Group
Identifier: PIRG-02
Abstract
Records documenting activities of the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Institute. Includes: 12 volumes and several additional folders of recorded minutes of board meetings (1857-1985); Treasurer's reports (1867-1969); Provost's reports (1869-1912); Executive Secretary's reports (1912-45); miscellaneous general records and correspondence; records of the Offices of the President (1859-1970), Vice-President (1876-1905), Secretary (1860-1922), and Treasurer (1857-1941), the bulk of the latter...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1832-1989; Majority of material found within Bulk: 1857-1985
Found in:
Peabody Archives
Peabody Institute founding documents
Record Group
Identifier: PIRG-01
Abstract
The Peabody Institute was founded by George Peabody in Baltimore in 1857 as a cultural institution comprising a library, public lecture series, academy of music, and art gallery. The founding documents in the collection include the original letter establishing the institute drafted by John Pendleton Kennedy and signed by George Peabody, a list of individuals approved by George Peabody for inclusion on the board of trustees, a letter of acceptance signed by 22 original members of the...
Dates:
1857-1859
Found in:
Peabody Archives
Royal Council of Castile legal documents
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0722
Abstract
Charles I (1500-1558), of the Spanish Empire from 1516, and as Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 until his voluntary abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I as Holy Roman Emperor and his son Philip II as King of Spain in 1556. The Royal Council was a ruling body and key part of the domestic government of the Crown of Castile, second only to the monarch himself. It was established under Queen Isabella I in 1480 as the chief body dealing with administrative...
Dates:
1552-circa 1650
Found in:
Special Collections
Spanish language paleography collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0713
Abstract
Copied from dealer description: Confirmations of privileges, wills, powers of attorney, payment agreements, contracts, arrangements for official events, an account of a riot, an order for excommunication, letters, matters
of inheritance, royal decrees, a royal appointment, imposition of a mo1tgage, and a variety of other
types of documents compose this small collection; 13 are from the 16th century, 11 from the 17th, 14
from the 18th, and 4 from the 19th, with one from 1477. The documents...
Dates:
1477 - 1826
Found in:
Special Collections