COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
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Manchester~91~1
Rylands Collection
Collection
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Image Number:
JRL21040633
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JRL21040633
Image Number
false
Reference Number:
VOB.18
reference_number
VOB.18
Reference Number
false
Parent Work Title:
Fragments from the ashes of the University of Leuven (Louvain) Library
title_larger_entity
Fragments from the ashes of the University of Leuven (Louvain) Library
Parent Work Title
false
Date Created:
c1914
date_created
c1914
Date Created
false
Description:
Cardboard box with hinged lid; written on the lid in black and red ink: ‘Bibliotheca Lovaniensis Irata Germaniae Feritate In Coneres Redacta. Amica Sollicitudine Henry Guppy Resvrgit.’ [Destruction of the library due to German violence, and due to the friend Henry Guppy, a resurgence…]
Inside the box the charred remains of printed document.
The inside lid of the box has the inscription: ‘Picked up from amongst the ruins of the University of Louvain in October 1914 by De Vocht’. [Professor Henri De Vocht, 1879-1962].
The University of Leuven (Louvain) Library was destroyed on the night of 25 August 1914. The university library was burnt to the ground; around three hundred thousand books and a thousand manuscripts were destroyed. Henry Guppy, the Librarian of the John Rylands Library, spearheaded the campaign to collect books for Leuven. By the end of 1915 some 6,000 volumes had been collected or promised. When the appeal closed in 1925, 55,782 volumes had been donated. Sadly, Guppy’s and others’ efforts were in vain: the library was destroyed for a second time by German forces in 1940.
Inside the box the charred remains of printed document.
The inside lid of the box has the inscription: ‘Picked up from amongst the ruins of the University of Louvain in October 1914 by De Vocht’. [Professor Henri De Vocht, 1879-1962].
The University of Leuven (Louvain) Library was destroyed on the night of 25 August 1914. The university library was burnt to the ground; around three hundred thousand books and a thousand manuscripts were destroyed. Henry Guppy, the Librarian of the John Rylands Library, spearheaded the campaign to collect books for Leuven. By the end of 1915 some 6,000 volumes had been collected or promised. When the appeal closed in 1925, 55,782 volumes had been donated. Sadly, Guppy’s and others’ efforts were in vain: the library was destroyed for a second time by German forces in 1940.
description
Cardboard box with hinged lid; written on the lid in black and red ink: ‘Bibliotheca Lovaniensis Irata Germaniae Feritate In Coneres Redacta. Amica Sollicitudine Henry Guppy Resvrgit.’ [Destruction of the library due to German violence, and due to the friend Henry Guppy, a resurgence…]
Inside the box the charred remains of printed document.
The inside lid of the box has the inscription: ‘Picked up from amongst the ruins of the University of Louvain in October 1914 by De Vocht’. [Professor Henri De Vocht, 1879-1962].
The University of Leuven (Louvain) Library was destroyed on the night of 25 August 1914. The university library was burnt to the ground; around three hundred thousand books and a thousand manuscripts were destroyed. Henry Guppy, the Librarian of the John Rylands Library, spearheaded the campaign to collect books for Leuven. By the end of 1915 some 6,000 volumes had been collected or promised. When the appeal closed in 1925, 55,782 volumes had been donated. Sadly, Guppy’s and others’ efforts were in vain: the library was destroyed for a second time by German forces in 1940.
Description
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Subject:
Libraries
subject
Libraries
Subject
false
Category of Material:
Visual
category
Visual
Category of Material
false
Sub-Category:
Objects
class
Objects
Sub-Category
false
Technique Used:
Handwriting
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Handwriting
Technique Used
false
Medium:
Ink
medium
Ink
Medium
false
Time Period Covered:
20th Century CE
temporal_coverage
20th Century CE
Time Period Covered
false
Places Covered:
Belgium: Flanders: Vlaams-Brabant: Leuven
spatial_coverage
Belgium: Flanders: Vlaams-Brabant: Leuven
Places Covered
false
People Covered:
Guppy, Henry, 1861-1948
people_covered
Guppy, Henry, 1861-1948
People Covered
false
Item Height:
205 mm
item_height
205 mm
Item Height
false
Item Width:
145 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
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The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work
false
Access Rights:
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2021-04-20
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2021-05
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Rylands
collection_code
Rylands
Collection Code
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