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Cover: Manuscript painting on paper with Sanscrit text. India, 19th century.
Ornlthologlac Lib. 1 1,
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Aldrovandi: Eagle. Page 7, no. 5.
Treasures at Butler University
Some Special Collections in the
University Libraries
A Catalogue,
prepared by Richard A. Davis,
edited by Gisela Terrell
The Irwin Library
Butler University
Indianapolis, Indiana
1986
Table of Contents
Page
Introduction: Special Collections at Butler University 1
I. The Jeanette Siron Pelton Botanical Print Collection 2
II. Zoological Prints 7
III. The Clyde L. Clark Memorial 10
IV. Portraits of Authors 11
V. Prints from Alexander Wilson's Copper Plates 12
VI. Manuscript Specimens 13
VII. Piranesi Engravings of Latin Epigraphs 14
VIII. Tibetan Woodblock Prints 15
IX. Scholars and Characters 17
X. Donors and Benefactors 18
Index 20
Chinese Scroll (R.A. Davis, Warren Andrew, William S. Dawn). Page 13, no. 10.
Introduction: Special Collections
AT Butler University
On April 30, 1877, David Starr Jordan, professor of natural
history at Butler University, presented a collection of preserved
fishes to the University Cabinet. Shortly after the announce-
ment of this gift the Board of Directors conferred upon Professor
Jordan the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Dr. Jordan
went on to become the first president of Stanford University.
This auspicious beginning did not produce many progeny.
In fact, it remained the only gift of a special collection to the
University, of which there is a record, until the year 1925 when
the Charles W. Moores collection of Lincoln material was
acquired. Six years later, in 1931, the William F. Charters collec-
tion of books about the South Sea Islands was given to the
University, and it remains today one of the largest and most
important single gifts yet received by the Butler University
libraries.
From 1931 until the Irwin Library was opened for service in
1963, no special collections were acquired. New libraries seem to
inspire donors, and the first gift to the Irwin Library was the Kin
Hubbard-Gaar Williams collection of original art, books, manu-
scripts, and memorabilia given by Blanche Stillson in 1964.
The construction of the Hugh Thomas Miller Rare Book
Room, which was dedicated on November 20, 1971, provided
proper housing for library special collections for the first time in
the history of Butler University. Joan Morris was appointed Rare
Books Librarian in 1970 and served in that capacity until August
1974, when support funds ran out. Significant publicity in the
form of press and television coverage, plus potential donor
cultivation, focused public attention upon the collections during
this period.
Another important series of events were the sales of
original old master prints held in the Rare Book Room in 1972,
1973, and 1974. Mr. Percy Simmons, Honorary French Consul for
Indianapolis, personally selected the prints from collections in
London and Paris. These sales made it possible for students,
faculty, and the general public to acquire original works of art at
very low cost. The proceeds from these sales were used to buy
suppUes for the Rare Book Room.
During its first four years, the new facility saw the
acquisition and donation of a wide variety of special collections.
However, accompanying this largesse was an enormous
increase in problems and responsibilities for the care,
cataloguing, and maintenance of this material. Lack of support
funds brought a temporary halt to Rare Book Room activities in
August 1974.
Proof of the powerful stimulus which special collections can
exert upon a trained mind came in the form of a visit to the Rare
Book Room in 1977 by Harrison Eiteljorg, local businessman, art
collector, and chairman of the Board of the Indianapolis
Museum of Art. The Charters South Seas Collection so
impressed him that a year later, in May 1978, he presented
Butler University with the Eiteljorg Gallery of Ethnographic Art.
In 1979, the Rare Book Room received a substantial legacy
from the estate of Blanche Stillson. A search was immediately
begun for a qualified person to manage the neglected collec-
tions. By great good fortune Gisela Terrell, formerly Gisela
Hersch, cataloguer at the Lilly Library of Indiana University was
available and was appointed Rare Books Librarian in January
1980. Her knowledge, experience, enthusiasm, concern for
engaging student and faculty interest, plus boundless energy
have permeated into every corner of the University and far
beyond. In a word, library special collections have been infused
with new and vital meaning for Butler University, the larger
community, and the world of learning.
Richard A. Davis
Associate Librarian 1967-1968
University Librarian 1968-1984
NOTE: The collections featured in this catalogue deal primarily
with visual materials. The following collections have
already appeared in printed form: the Gaar Williams
Collection; the William F. Charters South Seas Collection
(an introductory pamphlet); parts of the Charles W.
Moores Lincoln Collection. Other collections of note to
be dealt with in the future are the Kin Hubbard Collec-
tion, the Alice B. Wesenberg Collection of Modern
American Poetry, donated by Dr. Allegra Stewart in 1975
and supplemented by her in 1981 with Wesenberg's
private papers and correspondence, and foremost the
Harold E. Johnson Sibelius Collection, received in 1982-
1984, the largest and most important Sibelius collection
outside Finland.
Important collections in the branch libraries are the Stitt
collection of popular sheet music, the Wesler collection
of recordings, and the Broude collection of romantic
music in the Music and Fine Arts Library; the John
Potzger papers in the Science Library.
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The Jeanette Siron Pelton
Botanical Print Collection
The idea of forming a study collection of original plates
from important books in the history and development of
botanical illustration was first proposed to Dr. John F. Pelton,
chairman of the Botany Department, by Richard A. Davis,
University Librarian, in 1969. Dr. Pelton's enthusiastic support
of the project, plus available funds from the Jeanette Siron
Pelton Memorial Fund quickly led to a search for antiquarian
book and print dealers who carried this kind of material. As the
prints were acquired and matted, print storage boxes were
purchased to house them. In 1972, the Butler Women's
Committee donated a print cabinet for the collection.
The collection begins with a leaf from the Hortus Sanitatus
of 1491, illustrated with woodcuts copied from manuscripts;
followed by leaves from Leonhart Fuchs's New Kreiiterbuch of
1543, one of the earhest botanical works to reflect the new spirit
of empirical observation and the beginnings of modern science.
As scientific inquiry gathered momentum, the woodcut was
replaced in the mid-sixteenth century by the copperplate
engraving which dominated the "golden age" of botanical
illustration until the end of the eighteenth century, when
printing from the surface of stone, or lithography, was invented
by Aloys Senefelder in 1798. The lithograph quickly supplanted
the costly engraving as a much cheaper and faster method of
reproducing pictures. Thomas Bewick's revival of "white line"
wood engraving at about the same time, was used for
illustrating the cheaper popular natural history books.
The collection provides primary source materials
illustrating the technological developments of early modern
science, and has served the University as an important
educational resource for seminars, community groups.
Continuing Education programs, Elderhostel, and exhibition
purposes. The entire collection was exhibited under the title
"Art in the Service of Science" at the Indianapolis Museum of
Art in 1973. The botanical prints were displayed in the Miami
Museum of Science, Miami, Florida, in April 1979 where Mr.
Davis presented a public lecture on the collection.
These prints and the zoological prints which follow, were
selected to represent technical innovation in scientific
illustration, and for their intrinsic beauty. A few portraits of
botanists and zoologists were added, and are listed and
described at the end of each list.
The Plates
Hortus Sanitatus (Garden of Health). Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach,
1491. Perhaps the most important medical book printed
before 1500. As illustrations, the more than 1,000 woodcuts
have little descriptive value, but out of such crude
beginnings grew the great sciences of botany and medicine.
1. Hortus Sanitatus-De Herbis. Leaf Miiii recto.
Zizania and thistle.
11% X 8 in. (sheet)
Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), the successor of Otto Brunfels (1488-
1534) who was the first to make drawings from living
plants. Fuchs was the first to give full credit and
recognition to his artists by publishing their portraits in De
Historia Stirpium, Basel, 1542. Fuchs's woodcut illustrations
were to have a far-reaching influence on botanical
illustration for many years to come. The New Kreiiterbuch
contains 518 woodcuts.
2. New Kreiiterbuch. Basel, 1543, Leaf Yy2 recto.
Weiss Schliisselblum (handcolored)
13y4X 93/8 in. (sheet)
This woodcut is reproduced in full on the front cover.
3. Ibid. Leaf Tt2 verso.
Cypressene Wolffsmilch (handcolored)
133/4 X 93/8 in. (sheet)
Pier Andrea Mattioli (1501-1577), the Italian physician who
practised in Siena, Rome and Prague where he served as
physician to Emperor Maximilian II. Mattioli's most famous
work is the Commentarii in sex Libros Pedacii Dioscoridis
published at Venice in 1554. The woodcuts in his books are
of a completely different character than those of Fuchs, far
more use having been made of shading.
4. Kreutterbuch. Frankfurt a.M., 1590. Leaf 129 recto.
Rattich 1. II. Schwartz Rattich (handcolored)
13 3/16 X 81/8 in. (sheet)
5. Ibid. Leaf 168 verso.
Wicken Wilde Wicken (handcolored)
13'/8 X 8V4 in. (sheet)
John Parkinson (1567-1650), the English apothecary, was the last
of the great herbalists. His Paradisi in Sole Paradisus
Terrestris (1629) contained 110 woodcuts and is considered
the most important of all seventeenth century gardening
books. The use of woodcut illustrations is something of an
anachronism at this late date when copper engraving had
taken over as the chief means of producing illustrations.
6. Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or, a Garden of all
sorts of pleasant flowers . . . London, 1629. Page 137.
Starr flowers.
103/8 X 6 9/16 in. (border)
7. Ibid. Page 185.
Woodcut with 6 figures: Iris.
103/8 X 6 9/16 in. (border)
Abraham Munting (1626-1683), Dutch botanist and physician
who taught at the Academy of Groningen. His opus
magnum Accurate description of terrestrial plants contained
more than 250 copper engravings of great beauty, and was
published posthumously in 1696.
8. Naaiiwkeurige beschryving der aardgewassen . . . Halma, 1696.
Rubia Minor Hispanica.
12% X 8 in. (platemark)
9. Ibid.
Cyclamen Aestivum anemones effigie radicatum.
12 9/16 X 8 7/16 in. (platemark)
10. Ibid.
Convolvulus Indicus Pennatus (handcolored).
153/4 X 10 in. (platemark)
Hendrik Adrian Van Rheede Tot Draakestein (1636-1691) rose
from plain seaman to governor of Malabar. He assembled
and published a rich collection of material of Malabar's
flora. The famous 794 engraved plates are by Pietro Foglia
(1617-1691).
11. Hortus Indicus Malabaricus. Amsterdam, 1689.
Asjogam (also in Malabarese, Brahmin and Arabic).
13V4 X 16% in. (platemark)
Dionys Dodart (1634-1707), French pubhsher and member of the
Academie Royale des Sciences who planned a vast history
of plants for Louis XIV. Nicolas Robert (1614-1685) made
vkfatercolor drawings on vellum, and Abraham Bosse (1602-
1676) supervised and engraved many of the 319 engravings,
38 of which were finally pubhshed in 1701. The plates are in
the Chalcographie du Louvre.
12. Estampes pour servir a I'histoire des plantes. Paris, 1701.
Helenium Indicum maximum (handcolored)
Engraved by Bosse.
16 X 11% in. (platemark)
A restrike from the original Louvre plate.
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) was director of the
longest established pharmacy in Regensburg. His
Phytanthoza konographia (1737-1745) with more than a
thousand colored pseudo-mezzotint engravings forms one
of the largest series of botanical illustrations ever produced.
They are among the earliest examples of color printing from
a single plate.
Munting: Cyclamen. Page 2, no. 9.
13. Phytanthoza Iconographia. Regensburg, 1737-1745.
Frontispiece, mezzotint in blue: Portrait of Johann
Wilhelm Weinmann.
Artist: Hirschman. Engraved by I. Haid.
12V2 X 7% in. (platemark)
14. Ibid.
Etching and Aquatint: Scolymocephalus Africanus . . .
(some handcoloring)
12% X 8'/4 in. (platemark)
15. Ibid.
Etching and Aquatint: A. Smyrnium Greticum
Perfoliatum . . . B. Smyrnium majus seu hipposelinum . . .
C. Solanum arborescens molucanum . . . (some
handcoloring)
131/4 X 8 5/16 in. (platemark)
Diderot and D'Alembert: L'Enajclopedk. Paris, 1751-1780. The
monumental Enci/clopedie of Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and
Jean Le Rood d'Alembert (1717-1783) in 35 volumes contains
a large section devoted to natural history.
16. L'Encydopedie: Histoire Naturelle, Principes de
Botanique - Systeme de Tournefort (35 figures of plant
parts)
Artist: Goussier. Engraved by Benard.
14 X 8% in (platemark)
17. [As above] - Systeme de Linnaeus.
Artist: Goussier. Engraved by Benard.
14 X 8?8 in. (platemark)
Charles Louis L'Heritier de Brutelle (1746-1800) was one of the
ablest botanists of France. His publications were issued in
very small editions. Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) got
his start with L'Heritier, and achieved great fame as a
painter of roses. The Stirpes novae contained 91 engravings.
18. Stirpes novae aiit minus cognitae. Paris, 1784.
Bystropogon Punctatum.
Artist: P.]. Redoute. Engraved by Er. Hubert.
15% X 10% in. (platemark)
19. Ibid.
Zanthorhiza Apiifolia.
Artist; P.J. Redoute. Engraved by Er. Hubert.
155/8 X 103/4 in. (platemark)
Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (1778-1841), Swiss botanist who
established a new system of plant classification in his
Prodromus Systcmatis Regni Vegetabilis (1824-1874). In 1798
Candolle published Redoute's illustrations that he had
begun for L'Heritier in his Plantarum succulentarum Historia;
oil Histoire naturelle des plantes grasses, Paris, 1798-1829.
20. Plantarum succulentarum Historia. Paris, 1798-1829.
Cacalia ficoides Cacalie ficoide (handcolored)
Artist: P.J. Redoute.
ll'/s X 7% in. (platemark)
Pierre Joseph Buchoz (1731-1807), at one time physician to
Stanislaus, King of Poland. He devoted his prodigious
energies to a long series of publications on natural history.
Buchoz's luxuriously illustrated copperplate books are more
notable for their beauty than for their contribution to the
history of the biological sciences.
21. Le Grand Jardin de I'Universe. Paris, 1785.
Protea Sceptum Gustavianum, Sparm. (handcolored)
12% x 8% in. (platemark)
William Curtis (1746-1799), the English botanist and apothecary
who founded the Botanical Magazine in 1787 which is still
being published today. Curtis's first publishing venture was
the Flora Londinensis, an artistic success but a financial
disaster. He began the Botanical Magazine with a completely
different point of view from his first publication, which was
to illustrate and describe "the most ornamental foreign
plants cultivated in the open ground, the green-house, and
stove." All of the plates were handcolored and continued to
be so from February 1787 to February 1948. Of the many
artists and editors who contributed to the Botanical Magazine
certainly the most famous was William Jackson Hooker
(1785-1865), the first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens
at Kew in London. Note: all dimensions are measured to the
platemark.
22. Flora Londinensis. London, 1777-1798.
Ardium Lappa.
17% x 101/4 in.
23.
Ibid.
Conium Maculatum.
Artist: Kilburn.
17% X 101/4 in.
24. Ibid.
Polygunum Persicaria (handcolored)
171/2 X 93/4 in.
25. Ibid.
Stellaria Ugliginosa (handcolored)
103/4 X 8% in.
26. Botanical Magazine. London, 1787-
Palm trees (handcolored)
Artist; J. Harrison. Engraved by Swan.
Published May 1, 1827.
81/4 X 5 5/16 in.
27. Ibid.
A Nightshade (handcolored)
Artist: CM. Curtis. Engraved by Swan.
Published May 1, 1827.
10% X 81/4 in.
28. Ibid.
Prickly pear (handcolored)
Artist: Rev. L. Guilding. Engraved by Swan.
Published June 1, 1827.
91/2 X 8 in.
29. Ibid.
Cycadaceae (handcolored)
Artist; William J. Hooker. Engraved by Swan.
Published June 1, 1828.
93/4 X 9 13/16 in.
30. Ibid.
Breadfruit (handcolored)
Artist; Rev. L. Guilding. Engraved by Swan.
Published Dec. 1, 1828.
lOVs X 81/4 in.
31. Ibid.
Unidentified dicotyledon (handcolored)
Artist: William J. Hooker. Engraved by Swan.
Published April 1, 1829.
9% X 8 in.
32. Ibid.
Passion Flower (handcolored)
Artist: William J. Hooker. Engraved by Swan.
Published Feb. 1, 1830.
91/2 X 8 in.
33. Ibid.
Unidentified dicotyledon (handcolored)
Artist: William J. Hooker. Engraved by Swan.
Published Aug. 1, 1831.
9'/2 X 8 in.
34. Ibid.
Unidentified dicotyledon (handcolored)
Artist: Rev. L. Guilding. Engraved by Swan.
Published Feb. 1, 1832.
93/4 X 8 in.
35. Ibid.
Hibiscus family (handcolored)
Artist: Prof. Bojer. Engraved by Swan.
Published April 1, 1832
8x9 13/16 in.
36. Ibid.
Morning glory (handcolored)
Artist: W. Curtis. Engraved by Swan.
Published Sept. 1, 1834.
9 13/16 X 7%
37. Ibid.
Leguminosae (handcolored)
Artist: William ]. Hooker. Engraved by Swan.
Published Oct. 1, 1835.
73/4 X 51/8 in.
38. Ibid.
Nightblooming cereus (handcolored)
Engraved by Swan.
Published Jan. 1, 1836.
73/4 X 51/8 in.
William Woodville (1752-1805), English physician and botanist.
He pubhshed the first volume of his great work Medical
Botany in 1790, in which he described all of the medicinal
plants in materia medica catalogs published by the Royal
Colleges of physicians at London and Edinburgh.
39. Medical Botany. London, 1790-1793. 3 vols, containing 210
engravings.
Eleven handcolored plates.
71/4 X 5 in. (mat openings)
Framed in one mat; on display in the Science Library.
Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), English artist who originated the
"white line" technique of engraving on wood. He thus
restored the use of the woodblock to favor after its long
eclipse by the copperplate. The wood engravings for
Thornton's herbal are Bewick's only botanical illustrations.
40. Robert John Thornton
A Neiv Family Herbal. London, 1810.
Dandelion.
83/8 X 51/8 (sheet)
The complete book itself is also in the Rare Book Room
collections.
Jean Henri Jaume Saint-HUaire (1772-1845), French botanist who
introduced Solygonum Tinctorum, which yields a valuable
blue dye, into France. His publications are distinguished for
their delightful stipple engravings.
41. Plantes de la France. Paris, 1808. 10 vols.
Chicoree Sauvage (printed in color)
10 X 6V4 (sheet)
Pierre Corneille van Geel (1796-1836), Belgian botanist and
publisher. After the invention of lithography in 1798, this
printing method monopolized natural history illustration
until the middle of the nineteenth century.
42. Sertum Botanicum. Bruxelles, 1827-1832.
4 vols, with 594 lithographs.
Gongora Speciosa (handcolored)
135/8 x 103/8 in (sheet)
Eliza Eve Gleadall
43. The Beauties of Flora . . ., arranged emblematically with
directions for coloring them. London, 1834-1836. 2 vols,
with 41 lithographs.
Unidentified dicotyledon (plate 9, handcolored)
Lith. by Dean and Munday.
12% X 91/2 in. (sheet)
Benjamin Maund (1790-1864), English pharmacist, bookseller,
and publisher.
44. The Botanic Garden and Fruitist. London, 1851-1854.
Lilium superbum; Scutellaria macrantha;
Calandrinia speciosa; Spirea Barbata (all handcolored)
Artist: Mills. Engraved by S. Watts.
63/8 X 4% in. (border)
John Torrey (1796-1873) American botanist, chemist, and
physician. He was appointed botanist for the State of New
York in 1836.
45. Flora of the State of Neiv York. Albany, 1843. 2 vols.
Peltandra Virginica/Virginian Peltandra.
Lith. by Endicott
17% X 1111/4 in. (sheet)
Note: The lithographic firm of Endicott was founded by
George Endicott (1802-1848), and flourished for some 60
years, specializing in natural science illustration.
GotlhUf Heinrich von Schubert (1780-1860), and Christian
Ferdinand Hochstetter (1787-1860), German professors of
natural history and science.
46. Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreichs in Bildern. Stuttgart and
Esslingen, 1853. Illustrated with lithographs.
XXV: Almond, plus 4 other plants (handcolored)
10 X 71/4 in. (border)
47. Ibid.
XLVIII: Juniper, plus 4 other plants (handcolored)
10 X 71/4 in. (border)
A set of 7 chromolithographs of miscellaneous plants from an
unidentified late nineteenth century work in English.
48. 9 X 5% in. each sheet
Portraits
49. Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), Swedish pioneer ecologist
and plant geographer. His single most important
contribution to science was his binomial system for the
classification of plants and animals.
Robert John Thornton: Temple of Flora. London, 1805.
Frontispiece: "Linnaeus in His Lapland Dress. From an
original picture in the possession of Dr. Thornton.
Hoffman pinxt. H. Kingsbury sculpt. London,
pubhshed by Dr. Thornton, June 1, 1805."
19'/2 X 135/8 in. (platemark)
This famous work contained 28 plates in mezzotint and
aquatint by the most eminent artists of the day. This
print is framed and on display in the Science Library.
50. Albrecht de Haller (1708-1777), Swiss physiologist,
anatomist, and botanist at Gottingen. He was also a
prolific author and poet.
Stipple engraving.
Artist: Freudenberger. Engraved by Tardieu.
7 X 5 in. (platemark)
51. Jean Herman (1738-1800), French physician and
botanist, professor of medicine at Strasbourg.
Stipple engraving.
Artist: Guerin. Engraved by Tardieu.
7 X 5 in. (platemark)
52. Edme Verniquet (1727-?), French author, city planner,
and architect of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. He was
a member of the Athenee des Arts and other learned
societies.
Stipple engraving.
Artist: Bouche. Engraved by J.B. Dien.
13% X 11 Vs in. (platemark)
II. Zoological Print Collection
In 1970 the library received a portion of a grant awarded to
Butler by Sears, Roebuck and Company, which was to be used
for library enrichment. It seemed reasonable at the time to form
a parallel collection of zoological prints to accompany the
botanical prints. Both collections begin with leaves containing
woodcuts from the Hortus Sanitatus of 1491, and both terminate
with lithographic illustrations from mid-nineteenth century
American and European natural history publications.
Hortus Sanitatus (Garden of Health). Mainz: Jacob Meydenbach,
1491. The two-volume work contained 1,066 chapters, and is
divided into sections dealing with herbs, land animals,
fishes, stones and minerals; a therapeutical index of
diseases appears at the end. Nothing is known about the
author, although the preface states that a learned physician
was commissioned to compile the work from Avicena,
Hippocrates, Galen, and other ancient authors. There are
over 1,000 woodcuts which were copied from manuscripts
of works by the ancient authors cited above.
1. Hortus Sanitatus-De Animalibus. lUus. LXX, LXXI.
Beetles, and three wild pigs.
11% X 8 in. (sheet)
2. Ibid. Leaf o2 recto.
Frogs and toads.
11% X 8 in (sheet)
Conrad Gessner (1516-1565) was city physician of Zurich, and
the first Renaissance biologist to establish empirical obser-
vation as the basis for investigation in the biological
sciences. The main labor of his life was the compilation and
publication of the monumental work Historica Animalium,
Zurich, 1551-1587, which attempts to classify and describe
the entire animal kingdom. Extensive notes and drawings
for a similar work on the plant kingdom were discovered
after Gessner's death. These were published in Niirnberg in
1753.
3. Historia Animalium. Ziirich, 1558. Page 317.
Large fish.
145/8 x 9 in, (sheet)
4. Ibid. Page 78.
Alauda sine crista, Alauda cristata albicans.
145/8 X 9 in. (sheet)
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) was the Italian successor to
Gessner. Aldrovandi received his doctorate from the
University of Bologna at the age of 31. At his urging the city
of Bologna estabhshed a botanical garden in 1568. Taking
Gessner's books as a guide, Aldrovandi began to publish his
own enlarged and expanded works on zoology and botany.
He did not use Gessner's alphabetical order, but arranged
his animals and birds into groups. His Ornithologia
contained 685 woodcuts.
5. Ornithologia. Bologna, 1559-1603, 3 vols. Lib. II, page 201.
Eagle.
14 X 95/8 in. (sheet)
6. Ibid. Lib. XII, page 803.
Toucan.
14 X 9% in. (sheet)
Ibid. Page 814.
Manucodiata cirrata.
14 X 95/8 in. (sheet)
Adriaen Collaert (1560-1618), Flemish engraver who engraved
the illustrations for two books on natural history subjects,
one on fishes in 1610, and the other on mammals in 1612. In
these beautiful engravings the artist not only provides us
with a generous array of the subject, but also gives us an
exquisite landscape as a setting.
8. Piscium vivae icones in aes incisae et editae. [Antwerp, 1610?]
Plate 10.
Lobster and other Crustacea.
5 x 7% in. (platemark)
9. Ibid. Plate 19.
Lica, Erica, Raya, Lampreta.
5 x 73/8 in. (platemark)
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733), Swiss physician and
professor of mathematics was one of the earliest scientists
to realize the true nature of fossils. In addition to being an
empirical scientist Scheuchzer was a Christian who
believed in the Bible. He conceived the idea of supporting
the latest knowledge in the natural sciences with the
biblical text. This resulted in his magnum opus, a gigantic
Kupfer-Bibel containing 759 copperplate engravings, which
was at the same time a physica sacra. The sanctification of
the earth was accomplished in the light of modern science.
This unique work remains a monument of baroque book
illustration.
10. Kupfer-Bibel. Augsburg and Ulm, 1731-1733. Tab.
CCXLVII.
Levitici cap. XI.V.17., Ardia, Ibis.
Artist; J.M. Fiissli. Engraved by M. Tyroff.
121/2 X 8 in. (platemark)
Georg Wolfgang Knorr (1705-1761), German collector, artist, and
naturalist whose publications are distinguished for the
beauty of the handcolored engravings.
11. PhU. Ldw. Statius Miiller: Deliciae naturae selectae.
Nurnberg, 1766-1767. 2 vols. Plate 77.
Kudu (handcolored)
Artist: Georg Knorr. Engraved by Jac. Andreas
Eisenmann.
13V2 X 9V4 in. (platemark)
12. Ibid. Plate 58.
Three fishes, seapurse, seahorse.
Artist: Christian Leinberger. Engraved by S. Leitner.
131/4 X 9 1/16 in. (platemark)
13. Ibid. Plate 34.
Three cow fishes.
Artist: J.C. Keller.
13 3/8 X 8 3/4 in. (platemark)
f*'/ 4'
Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel. Page 7, no. 10.
14. Verpmgen der Augen und dcs Gcmiiths [Visual and
Spiritual Pleasures]
Nurnberg, 1764-1772. Plate XVI.
Five shells.
Artist; Georg Knorr. Engraved by G.P. Trautner.
8 X 6'/4 in. (platemark)
15. Ibid. Plate XXI.
Two shells.
Artist: J.C. Keller. Engraved by G.P. Trautner.
71/8 X 5% in. (platemark)
George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) was
appointed to the post of zoologist to King Louis XV of
France. He began his duties by cataloging the king's
collections of wild animals and plants in the royal botanical
gardens, and the contents of the royal cabinets of natural
curiosities. However, the main achievement of his career
was the publication of a monumental Histoire Naturellc in 44
volumes from 1749-1788. The best artists and engravers
available were commissioned to work on this most noble
and beautiful of volumes in the history of biological
illustration.
16. Histoire Naturelle. Paris, 1749-1788. Tom. VI, pi. IX, p. 212.
L'amazone a tete blanche (handcolored)
Artist: De Seve. Engraved by Cath. Haussard.
8V'2 X 6% in. (platemark)
17. Ibid. Tom. XII, pi. XLVI.
Le Cariacori (handcolored)
Artist: De Seve. Engraved by C.F. Fritzsch.
SYs X 61/8 in. (platemark)
18. Ibid. Tom. XIV. PI. II.
Le Grand Gibbon (handcolored)
Artist: De Seve. Engraved by C.F. Fritzsch.
8V4 X 6 1/16 in. (platemark)
19. Ibid. Tom. XV., PI. XLVII.
L'Antilope (handcolored)
Artist: C. Ed. Engraved by C.F. Fritzsch.
8'/4 X 61/8 in. (platemark)
20. Ibid. Tom. XVI, PI. XXI.
La Vigogne (handcolored)
Artist: De Seve. Engraved by O. de Vries.
81/4 X 61/8 in. (platemark)
21. Ibid. Plate 23.
Manchette de Neptune.
Designed and engraved by Martinet.
81/4 X 6 1/16 in. (platemark)
Pierre Joseph Buchoz (1731-1807), French physician and
naturalist who devoted his prodigious energies to the
publication of a series of books on natural history. They are
famous for the beauty of the engraved illustrations by the
most eminent artists of the day.
22. Les dons merveilleux et diversement colorify de la nature dans
le rd animal, Paris, 1782. Plate L.
Le Daim (handcolored)
Descriptive text engraved on lower half of plate.
Artist; De Seve. Engraved by Magd. Th. Rousselet.
123/4 x 8 in. (platemark)
23. Ibid. Plate T.
La Daine (handcolored)
Descriptive text engraved on lower half of plate.
Artist: De Seve. Engraved by Magd. Th. Rousselet.
123/4 X 8 in. (platemark)
24. Ibid.
La Taupe (handcolored)
Descriptive text engraved on lower half of plate.
Artist: De Seve. Engraved by Magd. Th. Rousselet.
12% X 8 in. (platemark)
25. Premiere (Seconde) Centurie de planches. Paris and
Amsterdam, (1775)-1781. 2 vols. Plate V, Decad.4.
Insects (handcolored)
Artist: Desmoulins. Engraved by Vidal.
121/4 X 71/2 in.
26. Ibid. Plate IX, Decad. 4.
Marine worms, bivalves, and snails (handcolored)
Artist: Jac. De Favanne. Engraved by Jac. Juillet.
12% X 81/4 in.
27. Ibid. Plate X, Decad. 4
Vase encrusted with barnacles and coral (handcolored)
Artist: Desmoulins. Engraved by Breant.
125/8 X 73/4 in.
28. Ibid. Plate IX, Decad. 6
Bivalves and seabiscuit (handcolored)
Artist: G. de Favane. Engraved by Dupin.
123/4 X 8 3/16 in.
Diderot and D'Alembert: L'Encydopedie. Paris 1751-1780. The
monumental EncydopMie of Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and
Jean Le Rond d'AIembert( 1717-1783) in 35 volumes contains
a large section devoted to natural history.
29. L'Encydopedie: Histoire Naturelle. Plate XLI.
Le Barbre de Cayenne, Le Coucou bleu de la Chine, Le
Couroucou verd de Cayenne, Le Bout de petun.
Artist: Martinet. Engraved by Benard.
14 X 8% in. (platemark)
30. Ibid. Plate L.
Distribution Methodique des Oyseaux par le Bee et par
les Pattes.
Artist: Goussier. Engraved by Benard.
13% X 8?8 in. (platemark)
31. Ibid. Plate LIII.
Le Turbot, L'Orbis, La Mole.
Artist: Martinet. Engraved by Benard.
14 X 9 in. (platemark)
32. Ibid. Plate LXXIV.
Coquilles de mer multivalves.
Artist; Martinet. Engraved by Benard.
14 X 9 in. (platemark)
33. Ibid. Plate LXXVII.
Insectes.
Artist; Martinet. Engraved by Benard.
14 X 9 in. (platemark)
34. Ibid. Plate LXXXVIII.
Polypiers.
Artist; Martinet. Engraved by Benard.
14 X 9 in. (platemark)
Plates 3539 are the gift of Dr. and Mrs. Murrill Lowry in
memory of Marvin Lowry, 1973.
39. Ibid. Plate XXXL
Das Murmelthier (label MUS MARMOTA LINNE pasted
above title)
(handcolored) Artist and engraver unknovvn.
11% X 8 in. (platemark)
James Ellsworth DeKay (1792-1851), American naturalist, author
and physician. He was commissioned by the State of New
York to prepare the zoological section of the Natural
History Survey of New York. He described 1,600 species of
mammals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc.
The lithographic plates were printed by George Endicott
(1802-1848).
40. Natural History of Nea' York. Albany, 1842-1844. Plate 68.
Three fishes.
Artist unknown. Lith. by Endicott.
IP/s X 83/4 in. (sheet)
41. Ibid. Plate 21.
Four rodents.
Artist; J.W. Hill. Lith. by Endicott.
11 3/8 X 8 3/4 in. (sheet)
Portraits
42. Claude Perrault (1613-1688), French physician and
architect. As a physician he became well known for his
studies of animal anatomy; as an architect he designed
the Paris Observatory and the new facade of the
Louvre.
Artist: Vercelin. Engraved by G. Edelinch.
9V2 X 6% in. (platemark)
43. Edward Jenner (1749-1823) English physician and
discoverer of vaccination.
Edward Jenner, M.D.L.L.D.F.R.L.
Artist: Sir Thomas Lawrence, R.R.A. Lithograph by J.H.
Lynch.
163/8 X 12 in. (mat opening)
Framed and on display in the Science Library.
35. Johann Daniel Meyer: Populcire Zoologie. Niirnberg 1802.
Plate XVI.
Wolf (label CANIS LUPUS LINNE pasted above title)
(handcolored)
Artist and engraver unknown.
12'/4 X 81/4 in. (platemark)
36. Ibid. Plate XXI.
Der Stein oder Buchmarder (label MUSTELA FOINA
LINNE pasted above title)
(handcolored) Artist and engraver unknown.
12'/4 X 8 7/16 in. (platemark)
37. Ibid. Plate XXV.
Das weise Wiesel (label MUSTELA ERMINEA
LINNESIVE' HERMELN pasted above title)
(handcolored)
Artist and engraver unknown.
123/8 X 83/8 in. (platemark)
38. Ibid. Plate XXVI.
Das rothbraune Wiesel (label MUSTELA ERMINEA
LINNE pasted above title)
(handcolored) Artist and engraver unknown
123/8 X 83/8 in. (platemark)
III. Clyde L. Clark Memorial
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695): Les Fables. A set of seven
engravings with accompanying text leaves, from the 1783
edition of these famous French verse tales in v/hich animals
behave like human beings. First published from 1668-1695, the
Fables appeared in many versions, the most famous of which is
this one, illustrated with engravings after drawings by Jean
Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), and published after his death by the
engraver Nicholas Cochin in Paris between the years 1755-1759,
in four volumes.
Gift of Butler University's Modern Foreign Language
Department in memory of Professor Clyde L. Clark, 1970.
The Plates (all plates measure 12 x 8 3/4 inches to the plate
mark)
Frontispiece: Allegorical portrait of La Fontaine. A bust on a
pedestal surrounded by animals and a dwarf (no text page)
XH: Le Cygne et le Cuisinier (The swan and the cook)
XXI: Les Frelons et les Mouches a Miel (The hornets and the
honey bees)
XXIV: ConseU tenu par les rats (The council of the rats)
L: La Goutte et I'Araignee (Sir Gout and Sir Spider)
XCVII: Le Cerf et la Vigne (The stage and the vine-bower)
XCIX: Le Lievre et la Perdrix (The hare and the partridge)
Cochin: Le Cygne et le Cuisinier (La Fontaine). Plate XII.
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IV. Portraits of Authors
In a letter to David Laing (Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland) dated May 3, 1854, in reference to an
exhibition of Scottish historical portraits in Edinburgh, Thomas
Carlyle expressed his high regard for portraits in the following
terms: "First of all, then, 1 have to tell you, as a fact of personal
experience, that in my poor historical investigations it has been,
and always is, one of the most primary wants to procure a
bodily likeness of the personage inquired after; a good portrait if
such exists; failing that, even an indifferent if sincere one. In
short, any representation, made by a faithful human creature, of
that face and figure, which he saw with his eyes, and which I
can never see with mine, is now valuable to me, and much
better than none at all."
It was in this spirit that a collection of portraits, mainly of
English and American authors, was purchased in 1970 to grace
the bare walls above the card catalog, and to give animation to
the tops of the bookshelves in the John S. Wright Great Books
Room. The Katharine Merrill Graydon Club, and the Butler
Women's Faculty Club were the principal donors.
Prints
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist.
Artist: Celestin Nanteuil. Lithograph by J.J. Martinez,
Madrid.
11% X 81/4 in. (image)
Gift of the Woman's Faculty Club in memory of Professor
Clyde L. Clark, 1969.
William Cowper (1731-1800), Enghsh poet and essayist.
Artist: F. Abbot. Stipple engraving by H. Meyer, 1816.
13V4 X 9% in. (mat opening)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English novelist.
Caricature by Andre Gill on the cover of the French
periodical L'Eclipse for June 14, 1968.
18 X ll'A in. (mat opening)
John Dryden (1631-1700), English poet and dramatist.
Artist: Godfrey Kneller. Mezzotint by George White.
13 X 93/8 in. (platemark)
John Evelyn (1620-1706), English diarist, traveler, and tree
culturist.
Etching by Thomas Worlidge, 1727.
5V2 X 3% in. (platemark)
The following six portraits are engravings from the book
The Heads and Characters of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, with
their portraits engraved by Mr. Houbraken and Mr. Vertue. 2
vols. London, 1743-1747.
Ben Jonson (1573-1637), English dramatist and poet.
Artist: Isaac Oliver. Engraved by J. Houbraken.
14% x 9 in. (platemark)
John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher.
Artist: Godfrey Kneller. Engraved by G. Vertue, 1738.
14'/4 x 9'/4 in. (platemark)
John Milton (1608-1674), English poet.
Artist unknown. Engraved by J. Houbraken, 1741.
14'/2 x 9V8 in. (platemark)
Sir Thomas Moore (1478-1535), English author and statesman.
Artist: Hans Holbein. Engraved by J. Houbraken, 1740.
141/2 X 9'/4 in. (platemark)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet.
Artist: Arthur Pond. Engraved by J. Houbraken, 1747.
13% X 8% in. (platemark)
WiUiam Shakespeare (1564-1616), English dramatist and poet.
Artist unknown. Engraved by J. Houbraken, 1747.
14% X 9Vi in. (platemark)
Sculpture
The first six plaster busts listed, by the American sculptor
Ron Tunison, were acquired from the Gale Gallery (a subsidiary
of Gale Research Company) in 1971.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English novelist.
12 in. high (terra cotta)
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961), American writer.
12 in. high (green)
James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish writer.
14V2 in. high (terra cotta)
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), American writer.
13 in. high (green)
Mark Twain (1835-1910), American writer.
13 in. high (terra cotta)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English writer.
14'/2 in. high (green)
Robert Frost (1875-1963), American poet.
Cast stone bust by Leo Cherne (1912- )
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William F. McLean, Jr., 1971.
Drawing
Andre Durand (1807-1867). Drawing of a village street. Pencil
and ink on transfer paper. Obviously a preliminary drawing
for a wood engraving or a hthograph because the lettering
on the shop sign is in reverse.
12 X 8 3/16 in.
Gift of Mr. Percy Simmons.
V. Prints from Alexander
WILSON'S Copper Plates
A set of 10 engravings printed from the original
copperplates used to illustrate Alexander Wilson's American
Ornithology, from the rare book collection of the Field Museum
of Natural History, Chicago. In April 1972, Richard A. Davis,
Butler University Librarian, and George McCuUough of Fort
Wayne were granted permission by the Field Museum to print
six sets of the ten plates in the graphic studio at Albion College
in Albion, Michigan, (see: Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin,
Vol. 44, Number 2, Feb., 1972.) Gift of R.A. Davis, 1972.
The Plates (all plates measure 13V4 x 10% inches to the plate mark)
1 - Plate 52. Engraved by A. Lawson
1. Red-tailed Hawk. 2. American Buzzard. 3. Ash-
colored Hawk.
2 - Plate 53. Engraved by J.G. Warnicke.
1. Black Hawk. 2. Variety of ditto. 3. Red-
shouldered Hawk. 4. Female Baltimore Oriole.
5. Female Towhee Bunting.
3 - Plate 54. Engraved by J.G. Warnicke.
1. Broad-winged Hawk. 2. Chuck-wills-Widow.
3. Cape-May Warbler. 4. Female Black-cap W.
4 - Plate 55. Engraved by J.G. Warnicke.
1. Ring-tail Eagle. 2. Sea Eagle.
5 - Plate 56. Engraved by A. Lawson.
1. Esquimaux Curlew. 2. Red backed Snipe.
3. Semipalmated S. 4. Marbled Godwit.
6 - Plate 57. Engraved by A. Lawson.
1. Turnstone. 2. Ash-colored Sandpiper. 3. The
Purre. 4. Black-bellied Plover. 5. Red-breasted
Sandpiper.
7 - Plate 58. Engraved by A. Lawson.
1. Red-breasted Snipe. 2. Long-legged Avocet. 3.
Solitary Sandpiper. 4. Yello-shanks Snipe. 5. Tell-
tale Snipe.
8 - Plate 59. Engraved by J.G. Warnicke.
1. Spotted-Sandpiper. 2. Bartram's S. 3. Ring
Plover. 4. Sanderling P. 5. Golden P. 6. Killdeer P.
9 - Plate 60. Engraved by A. Lawson.
1. Great Tern. 2. Lesser T. 3. Short-tailed T.
4. Black Skimmer. 5. Stormy Petrel.
10 - Plate 61. Engraved by J.G. Warnicke.
1. Green Heron. 2. Night H. 3. Young. 4. Great
White H.
Reference: American Bird Engravings, all 103 plates from American
Ornithology by Alexander Wilson. Dover, 1975.
Also: 1. Rubbing of the Wilson Monument in Spring
Mill State Park taken by R.A. Davis, Fall 1971.
2. Bird man in Indiana, by Humphrey A. Olsen.
Indianapolis Star Magazine, September 28, 1969.
^^
..<iai.i5ww-,itef»-^
.M^^ sSi. ■ i..
Wilson: Turnstone and other birds. Plate 57.
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VI. Manuscript Specimens
By their very nature, manuscripts are an immediate and
most intimate human record. They often become removed from
their original context and survive in fragments. The value of
these specimens lies not only in their intrinsic beauty and
quality of penmanship but also in the challenge to find and
understand their origin.
Vellum leaf from a book of Psalms (Psalms 88-91)
English, circa 1260. Written in brown, red, and blue ink.
Provenance: from a bible formerly in the collection of Christ
Church, Oxford University, England.
63/8 X 4y8 in. (sheet)
Vellum leaf from a book of Psalms (Psalm 118)
German, circa 1450. Written in brown, red, and blue ink.
5'/2 X 3% in. (sheet)
Vellum leaf from a book of Psalms (Psalm 148)
Dutch, circa 1460. Written in brown, red, and blue ink.
6% X 4% in. (sheet)
Vellum leaf from a calendar or almanac.
Dutch, circa 1460. Written in brown, red, and blue ink.
6% X 4% in. (sheet)
English legal contract on vellum between John Weston of
Surrey County and Thomas Turgis of London, involving
numerous parties. Dated October 6, 1654. Main contract
consists of 39 lines. Signatures of the main parties involved
appear on the back.
Gift of Dr. Roland Usher, 1971.
19V2 X 19 in. (sheet)
Manuscript painting on paper with text in Sanscrit, and two
scenes from the life of Krishna. India, Jodhpur school.
Nineteenth century. Script in black and red; scenes in
green, blue, yellow, red, and purple, surrounded by orange
and yellow borders.
11x8 in. (sheet)
Two manuscript leaves on paper with paintings, and text in
the Tibetan Umed script. Tibet, nineteenth century. Script
10.
in black ink; paintings of Buddhist deities in black, red,
green, and ochre.
2 7/16 X 9 in. (each sheet)
Five vellum leaves with music and Latin text from an
Antiphonary. Possibly of Spanish origin. Written in brown,
red, and blue ink.
30 X 21 in. (approximate sheet sizes)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Levey in memory of Milton
Levey, 1972.
Six vellum leaves, two containing the Credo and Benedictus
from a Latin Mass, and four with text only, probably
written in Germany before 1450. Written in brown, red, and
blue ink.
29 X 22'/2 in. (approximate sheet sizes)
Gift of Allen Whitehill Clowes, Butler Trustee, 1973.
Mr. Clowes has also given numerous rare eighteenth and
nineteenth century books of English literature and history,
a three-volume set of the Wilson, Bonaparte, and Jardine
American Ornithology, and two bound Koran manuscripts in
Arabic.
A Chinese calligraphy scroll written by Ching-tsing about
1860. The subject of the poem recalls the long-ago scholar
Tang-Po, while at Shih-pi on the bank of the Yangtze River.
26 X 73 in. (size of scroll)
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Warren Andrew, 1976.
Two Taliput palm leaf manuscripts dealing with Buddhist
canons, and written in Pali, the literary language of India,
Burma and Ceylon. Prepared leaves from the Taliput palm
were incised by the scribe, with a sharp stylus. The leaves
were strung together with thongs which held them
securely between wooden covers.
A. One leaf with two holes, from Ceylon. Probably
eighteenth century.
IVsxllVsin.
B. Two broad short leaves with one hole in each, from
Burma. Probably nineteenth century.
2V4 x 9% in.
Gift of Eleanor and Otto N. Frenzel.
air ^S<'ss^i^ns.^ '^V^i^'^
"■■Ppi
Tibetan Manuscripts. No. 7.
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VII. PiRANESi Engravings
OF Latin Epigraphs
Epigraphy is the science concerned with the classification
and interpretation of inscriptions found on Roman funerary
monuments. These inscriptions are the main source of our
knowledge of the chronological development of the Roman
name; the cursus honorum, or the sequence of public offices
held by senators; and the names and titles of the Roman
emperors.
The Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
recorded what was left of the Roman Empire in an unparalleled
series of engravings of the architecture, monuments, and
artifacts known as The Antiquities of Rome. First published in 1756,
this monumental work became an instant success and was
reprinted in countless editions. Reference: Focillon, Henri:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Paris, 1964.
All of the plates (with the exception of number 4) are the
gift of Eleanor and Otto N. Frenzel in memory of Timothy
Sweeney. Acquired in 1980.
Plates from Le Antichita Romane... by G.B. Piranesi (1720-1778).
Second edition, Rome, 1784.
1 - Tom. II, VII. QUESTA ISCRIZIONE dalla Facciata delle
camere Sepolcrali ... La Famiglia
Arrunizio . . . Focillon 229.
Sheet size: 31 1/4 x 21 inches (plates 1-8 are
this size)
2 - Tom. II, XIX.
Tom. II, LII.
Tom. Ill, XI.
5 - Tom. Ill, XXXII.
Iscrizione e Frammenti della Stanza
sepolcrale vicina a quella di L. Arrunzio.
Focillon 241.
Iscrizioni de Soldati Pretoriani. FociUon 274.
Iscrizione / del Maufoleo / della Famiglio /
de Plauzi / a Ponte / Lugano. Focillon 296.
Gift of Barbara Lieber in memory of
Mildred Grayson Egbert.
Iscrizioni delle Camere sepolcrali de Liberti
e Servi, ec. della Famiglia di Augusto.
Focillon 314.
6 - Tom. in, XXXIV. Iscrizioni nelle Camere sepolcrali de Liberti,
e servi, ec. della Famiglia de Augusto.
Focillon 316.
7 - Tom. in, XXXV. Iscrizioni delle Camere sepolcrali de Liberti
e servi, ec. della FamigUa di Augusto.
Focillon 317.
8 - Tom. IV, XXII. Pianta del ponte Ferrato detto dagl'
Antiquari Cestio. Focillon 357.
9 - Tav. III. Prospetto del Sarcofago di Scipione
Barbato, e del Monumento d'Aula Cornelia.
Engraving by Francesco Piranesi (1756-
1810) who, with his brother Pietro,
continued to publish his father's work. 2V4 x
165/8 inches.
Piranesi engraving. No. 2.
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VIII. Tibetan Woodblock Prints
Tibet became a Buddhist theocracy in the seventh century
A.D. when Buddhism was introduced into that country from
India. The subsequent demand for devotional objects produced
craftsmen and workshops for a wide variety of liturgical goods.
The most important of these was the woodblock print, which
became the primary means of duplicating and preserving the
literature and iconography of Buddhism. Woodblock libraries
were formed from which prints of sacred texts could be ordered
on demand. This oldest form of printing also served as the
means of duplicating four types of charms, amulets, and sacred
images:
1. Columns or patterns of letters, verses or phrases which
could be folded and worn as an amulet, placed inside a
prayer wheel, inserted into religious images, or rolled
up and eaten as medicine.
2. "Lucky" symbols or designs with magical phrases to be
pasted on walls or ceilings in shrine rooms, flown as
prayer flags, or worn for attracting good luck, wealth,
and happiness.
3. Amulets for getting rid of sickness-bringing demons, or
as effigies for magical rites.
4. Wheels or psychocosmograms, a form of circular
structure incorporating figures of protective entities, or
simple circles within circles with phrases and patterns
of letters around a central axis to be used on altars or
ceilings, or as personal meditation aids.
As the old blocks became worn out, new blocks were cut to
replace them. The prints in this collection are contemporary
impressions from old blocks and were purchased from
Kathmandu, Nepal, in the summer of 1981. They were exhibited
in the Irwin Library along with other Tibetan artifacts from the
collection of George D. Smith Jr., in November of 1981. They are,
with one exception, the gift of an anonymous donor.
Tibetan woodblock print. Page 16, no. 11.
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The Woodblock Prints
1. A prayer flag commissioned by a man born in a wood-pig
year (the Tibetan calendar identifies years through
combinations of elements and animals). ISVs x 143/8 inches
(to extent of image or border).
2. NA RO KHA CHO MA: She is a Dakini, invoked for the
granting of superhuman powers or Siddhi. She is stepping
on ignorance, drinking blood from a skull bowl and holding
a ritual chopper in her right hand. 1274 x 9% inches.
3. Mandala of the five Dhyani Buddhas of Meditation.
Center - Vaiiocan; Mudra (gesture): teaching. Emblem: the
wheel.
Above - Amitabha; Mudra: meditation. Emblem: the lotus.
Right - Ratnasamabhava; Mudra: giving. Emblem: jewel.
Left - Amoghasiddhi; Mudra: fearlessness. Emblem: double
dirje.
Below - Aksobhya; Mudra: earth-touching. Emblem: dirje.
The five figures are surrounded by mantras and prayers. 16
X 16'/2 inches.
4. Tara: In Tibetan, her name is Dolma, which means
saviouress or deliveress. Her origin is directly linked with
Avalokitesvara. A tear fell from the eye of this god of
compassion and formed a lake from which arose a lotus
flower, which upon opening its petals disclosed the pure
goddess Tara. 14% x 12 inches.
5. A scorpion charm: a guard against red demons, earth
demons, snake demons, and plague-causing demons. lOys x
8 1/16 inches.
6. Amitavus: The Buddha of Infinite Life, adorned with the
thirteen ornaments of a Bodhisahtva holding a protection
mandala. ISYs x 11% inches.
7. Dorje Pa Mo: one of the four tutelary deities of the
Kargyupta sect of Tibetan Buddhism. She is shown in the
Heruka posture brandishing a copper hook knife and
holding a skull bowl. 1872 x 12V8 inches.
8. Ling Kesar: a famous culture hero of Tibet, who was
canonized as a saint and is revered among the ranks of the
Guardians of the Dharma. 14V8 x lOVs inches.
9. Manjushri: The God of Divine Wisdom whose worship
confers mastery of the Dharma, retentive memory, mental
perfection, and eloquence. In his right hand he carries the
all-victorious sword of wisdom and light. In his left hand he
holds the book of Divine Wisdom on a lotus. 14V2 x IIV4
inches.
10. Kubera: The Lord of Wealth and Guardian of the Northern
Direction. His origin lies in Hindu mythology where he is
said to have performed austerities for a thousand years, in
reward for which Brahma gave him immortality and made
him God of Wealth, and guardian of all the treasures of the
earth. His abode is said to be on Mount Kailas in Western
Tibet. 11 x 15% inches.
11. Mandala of Ganaspati: The Buddhist equivalent of the
Hindu God Ganesh, son of Shiva and deity of Good Luck,
Good Fortune and Wealth. Here he is shown in his 12-
armed form, riding on a mongoose, symbol of wealth. 16% x
16% inches.
12. Killava: a fierce deity whose lower body takes the shape of
a phurpa, or ritual exorcising dagger. The right arms hold
ritual hatchets, and the left lotus buds. 22 x 14 inches.
13. Great disease binding charm: a powerful charm against all
demons of terrible diseases. Central horrific chained male
figure with seed syllables at main parts of the body, and
encircled with invocations, and spells. 13 x 10% inches.
14. The Wheel of Life: a pictorial and symbolic representation
used to illustrate the states of rebirth and the conditions
that give rise to them. 25 V2 x 18% inches. Gift of Gisela
Terrell, 1980. On permanent display in the Irwin Library
atrium.
15. Lung-ta: a large wind-horse prayer flag used to send a
supplicant's prayers to deities. The wind-horse is in the
center, and the four guardian animals, and the eight
auspicious emblems are all shown. At top center are the
Rey Sum Gompo, the three great protectors, Chen Rezi,
Manjushri, and Vajra Pani. 24 x 16% inches. On permanent
display in the office of the vice-president for academic
affairs.
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IX. Scholars and Characters
Twenty-seven woodcut portraits of Butler Faculty members
by Richard A. Davis. This collection evolved over a 16-year
period. In spirit it carries on a tradition of paying homage to
individuals of achievement established by Sir William
Rothenstein (1872-1945) in the 1890's. This English artist, bon
vivant, and seeker of the famous, recorded the physiognomy of
leaders in the arts and public life in a vast number of drawings
and lithographs. Such single-minded devotion has left us not
only with a unique visual record of outstanding individuals of
an era, but also inspired this likeminded artist to go forth and
do likewise within his own milieu.
The collection is gratefully dedicated to Blanche Stillson
(1890-1977), patron and benefactor of the Hugh Thomas Miller
Rare Book Room. Her legacy has allowed for the establishment
of library special collections as a viable and indispensable part
of the University.
The Portraits
Theodore Walwik - Speech. 1967. IVi x 7 5/16 inches.
Frank Cooper - Music. 1968. 9 x 55/8 inches.
George W. Geib - History. 1969. SVi x 6V8 inches.
Richard E. Cauger - English. 1970. 11% x 8'/4 inches.
Lynn Z. Bloom - English. 1971. 83/4 x 6V2 inches.
Thomas E. Willey - History. 1971. 91/2 x 6 inches.
Theodore K. Shane - History. 1972. 10 x 6% inches.
Howard G. Baetzhold - English. 1972. 10% x 6V2 inches.
Richard A. Cassell - English. 1972. llVa x 8 inches.
William P. Walsh - English. 1973. 10% x 7^/4 inches.
Victor E. Amend - English. 1974. 11% x 8 inches.
Emma Lou Thornbrough - History. 1974. 9V4 x 6V2 inches.
Nicholas M. Cripe - Speech. 1974. ll'/2 x 7% inches.
Benjamin E. Haddox - Sociology. 1974. IOV4 x 7 inches.
James T. Watt - English. 1974. 11 x 8^/2 inches.
Albert P. Steiner - Classics. 1976. 11 x 6% inches.
Nicholas J. Vesper - Computer Science. 1976. 9% x 6V2 inches.
Edward L. Shaughnessy - English. 1977. 10 3/16 x 6 inches.
Rex N. Webster - Botany. 1977. 8'/2 x 5% inches.
John F. Pelton - Botany. 1977. 93/4 x 7V8 inches.
Irving Fine - Spanish and French. 1978. 9y8 x 6>/4 inches.
Daniel Pugh - Drama. 1979. 93/4 x 7 inches.
Roland G. Usher - History. 1980. 9V4 x 6V4 inches.
George P. Rice - Speech. 1981. 11 5/16 x 7% inches.
Werner W. Beyer - English. 1981. 10 x 678 inches.
AUegra Stewart - English. 1982. IIV4 x 83/8 inches.
H. Marshall Dbcon III - Physics. 1982. 113/4 x 8V4 inches.
Allegra Stewart
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Cornelia K. Allen
Victor E. Amend
Ida Anderson
Nancy and Warren Andrew
Marble F. Arbuthnot
Howard Armstrong
Walter S. Athearn
Mrs. T.W. Ayton
Charles S. Bacon
Howard G. Baetzhold
Tarkington Baker
Margaret Barrett
A.R. Benton
Ira C. Billman
Eliza A. Blaker
Eliza Blaker Club
Harold E. Boisen
Betty T. Boyd
Fredric Brewer, The Raintree Press
Hilton U. Brown, Sr.
Jane Moore Brown
Ida Bunker
Mrs. Leo Burnett
Mrs. David Burns
Chauncey Butler
Butler Alumnae Literary Club
Butler Poetry Club
Butler University Mothers' Council
Butler Women's Committee
Butler Women's Faculty Club
Bertha Green Caldwel
Howard Clay Caldwell, Jr.
Mrs. Keith Canan
Mrs. Carter
William J. Castleman
Yvonne D. Chamilovitch
William F. Charters
Class of 1917
Class of 1964
Class of 1965
Class of 1967
Allen Whitehill Clowes
Willard N. Clute
Lenora Coffin
Mrs. William H. Coleman
Caroline V. Collins
Mrs. H.M. Colston
George O. Comfort
Verna Margaret Corbett
P.A. Cundiff
X. Donors and Benefactors
Past and Present
This honor roll is intended as a smaU tribute to all past and
present contributors to our special collections until December
1985, regardless of the size of the gift. We sincerely regret any
omissions.
E. Fay Kinoyer and William A. Daily
Mrs. T.A. Daily
Byron Davis
James Davis
Richard A. Davis
Robert H. Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dean
Otto Degener
George Dellinger
A.J. Denny
Joseph L. Dessert
Arthur Orison Dillon
Mrs. William H. Dobbins
H.M. Dowling
Donald Charles Durman
Mrs. W.A. Dyer
H.W. Edwards
Harrison Eiteljorg
The Elizabethan Bookseller
Constance Ellison
Henry K. English
Ginny Estin
Charles E. Feinberg
CM. Fesler
Eleonora Flaige
Jackson Fleming
Franklin United Methodist Home
Eleanor and Otto N. Frenzel
Ira J. Friedmann
Francis J. Funke
Edward F. Gallahue
Mrs. John Garrigan
George W. Geib
H.M. Gelston
Clara Gilbert
Bertha Gilpin
V.B. Ging
Laura D. Gise
Katharine Merrill Graydon
Marian Greene
Mrs. Tilden Greer
A.C. Grooms
Paul Guenther
Rudolph Haerle
Alfred Haeussermann
Mrs. Gordon E. Hall
Ann Harper
J.S. Harrison
Diane and Peter Healey
Corinne Helm
J. William Hepler
Mrs. Robert Henrey
William Herschell
J.S. Holcomb
Mrs. William Hofman
William Robeson HoUoway
Samuel K. Hoshour
Katherine and Irene Hunt
Harry T. Ice
H.L. and O.S. Ihrig
Indiana Historical Commission
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana State Library
Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation
Indianapolis Historical Council
The Indianapolis News
Jessie Hoote Jack
Mary Kinnick Jewett
Mrs. Fred Bates Johnson
Harold E. Johnson
John G. Johnson
Edward H. Jones
David Starr Jordan
Jordan College of Fine Arts
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Katharine Merrill Graydon Club
William Harrison Kemper
Sidney A. Kilsheimer
Mrs. C.P. Kingsley
Mrs. B.F. Kinnick
Edgar F. and Cleone H. Kiser
John P. Kondelik
Robert C. Konzelman
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Grace Shoney Larkin
Edward A. Leary
Mary Ledgerwood
Beldon Clemens Leonard
Mrs. Harry Lett
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Levey
Joan and David Lewis
Shannon G. Lieb —
Barbara Lieber
Eli Lilly
The Lilly Library, Bloomington, Ind.
Lilly Research Laboratories Library
Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Lowe
Mr. and Mrs. Murrill Lowry
F.H. Luck
Mrs. Charles J. Lynn
MacManus Corporation
C. Walter McCarty
Neet McCauliss
Rex McConnell
Barbara McCrimmon
Robert Mansfield
John Calvin Mellett
Mrs. Meredith
Eli Messenger
Emory P. Miller
Hugh Thomas Miller
Mrs. J. Don Miller
John U. Miller
Modern Foreign Languages Department,
Butler University
Nancy Moore
Paul Moore
Charles W. Moores
Harold Moorin
Florence E. Morrison
Oliver P. Morton
J.G. Mueller
Joseph Muller
Netherlands Information Bureau
Ralph E. Newman
Edward H. Niles
Patricia and Frank Owings
Esther A. Renfrew Paddock
George Thomas Parry
John F. Pelton
William Lyon Phelps
Catherine Coffin PhiUips
Pi Beta Phi
Henry D. Pierce
John E. Potzger
Power Foundation
Sarah Smith Pratt
Princeton University Library
Purdum, Jack
Mrs. Bill Ramey
Red Cross, Indianapolis Chapter
Mr. and Mrs. Denis E. Ribordy
George P. Rice
William Robb
Reginald Chauncey Robbins
Mrs. A.M. Robertson
A.K. Rogers
Mrs. Hermann Rogge
H.N. Ronald
Edah M. Ropkey
Maurice O. Ross
Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Inc.
George A. Schumacher
Louis Schwitzer
Mrs. Pratt F. Searle
Sears, Roebuck, and Company
Shortridge High School, Indianapolis
David M. Silver
Percy Simmons
Mrs. A.C. Sinclair
Minnie L. Spaan
Mr. and Mrs. C.N. Spiher
State System of Higher Education, Eugene
Ore
Greg Stephenson
Edward Luther Stevenson
Allegra Stewart
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stewart
Blanche Stillson
Asel Spellman Stitt
Alfred J. Stokely
Benjamin Stout
O.H. Stout
Emma C. Strading
Edward B. Taggart
Florence Marie Taylor
Franklin N. Taylor
Dennis C. Terrell
Gisela and Clyde E. Terrell
Mr. and Mrs. G. CuUen Thomas
Emma Lou Thornbrough
Louis C. Tiffany
J. Russell Townsend
Mrs. V.A. Trask
Will H. Trimble
Roland G. Usher
Mrs. Russel P. Veit
George Verdak
Martha Waller
Vera Ware
Rex N. Webster
Corinne Welling
Matthew B. Welsh
Alice Bidwell and Thor Wesenberg
Marion Wesler
Wayne W. Wilson
Worcester (Mass.) Free Pubhc Library
H.M. and G.C. Wright
John S. Wright
Judy K. and Charlie Young
Zeta Tau Alpha
Anna Zumpfe
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Index
The following list contains the names of authors, artists,
and engravers as they appear in their works. All references are
to pages.
Abbot, F. 11
Aldrovandi, Ulisse 7
Benard 4, 9
Bewick, Thomas 5
Bojer, Prof. 5
Bosse, Abraham 3
Bouche 6
Breant 8
Buchoz, Pierre Joseph 4, 8
Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, comte de I
CandoUe, Augustin de 4
Cherne, Leo 11
Ching-tsin 13
Cochin, Nicholas 10
CoUaert, Adriaen 7
Curtis, CM. 4
Curtis, William 4-5
D'Alembert, Jean Le Rond 4, 9
Davis, Richard A. 17
Dean & Mundy 5
DeKay, James Ellsworth 9
Desmoulins 8
De Seve 8
De Vries, 0. 8
Diderot, Denis 4, 9
Dien, J.B. 6
Dodart, Dionys 3
Dupin 9
Durand, Andre 11
Edelinch, G. 9
Eisenmann, Jac. Andreas 7
Endicott, George 5, 9
Favane, G. de 9
Favanne, Jacques de 8
Foglia, Pietro 3
Freudenberger 6
Fritzsch, C.F. 8
Fuchs, Leonhart 2
Fussli, J.M. 7
Gessner, Conrad 7
Gill, Andre 11
Gleadall, Eliza Eve 5
Goussier 4, 9
Guerin 6
Guilding, Rev. L. 4
Haid, I. 4
Harrison, J. 4
Haussard, Cath. 8
Herman, Jean 6
Hill, J.W. 9
Hirschman 4
Hochstetter, Christian Ferdinand 5
Hoffman 6
Holbein, Hans 11
Hooker, William Jackson 4-5
Hortus Sanitatus 2, 7
Houbraken, J. 11
Hubert, Fr. 4
Juillet, Jacques 8
Keller, J.C. 8
Kilburn 4
Kingsbury, H. 6
Kneller, Godfrey 11
Knorr, Georg Wolfgang 7-8
La Fontaine, Jean de 10
Lawrence, Sir Thomas 9
Lawson, A. 12
Leinberger, Christian 7
Leitner, S. 7
L'Heritier de Brutelle, Charles Louis 4
Lynch, J.H. 9
Martinet 9
Martinez, J.J. 8, 11
Mattioli, Pier Andrea 2
Maund, Benjamin 5
Meyer, H. 11
Meyer, Johann Daniel 9
Mills 5
Miiller, PhU. Ludwig Statius 7
Munting, Abraham 2
Nanteuil, Celestin 11
Oliver, Isaac 11
Oudry, Jean Baptiste 10
Parkinson, John 2
Piranesi, Francesco 14
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 14
Pond, Arthur 11
Redout, Pierre Joseph 4
Robert, Nicolas 3
Rousselet, Magd. Th. 8
Saint Hilaire, Jean Henri Jaume 5
Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob 7
Schubert, GotthUf Heinrich von 5
Swan 4-5
Tardieu 6
Thornton, Robert John 5, 6
Torrey, John 5
Trautner, G.P. 8
Tunison, Ron 11
Tyroff, M. 7
Van Geel, Pierre Corneille 5
Van Rheede Tot Draakestein,
Hendrik Adrian 3
Vercelin 9
Vertue, G. 11
Vidal 8
Warnicke, J.G. 12
Watts, S. 5
Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm 3
White, George 11
Wilson, Alexander 12
WoodvUle, William 5
Worlidge, Thomas 11
Hugh Thomas Miller Rare Book Room
Occasional Publications
The William F. Charters South Seas Collection: an introduction. 1970.
Softbound; 14 pages. Out of print.
Gaar Williams 1880-1935: a checklist of the Blanche Stillson Collection in the Irwin
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Softbound; 16 pages. Free.
Lincolniana: a collection of pamphlets, booklets, manuscripts, magazine and newspaper
articles relating to the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. 1983.
Softbound; 75 pages. $7.50. Purchase entitles to receipt of all addenda. Addendum I,
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The Dellinger Collection of Educational Materials Printed in the United States Before 1945.
This is a descriptive checklist, with name and title index.
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American Popular Music Printed Before 1901.
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