Articles tagged with: manuscript

Einstein Manuscripts Sell in Excess of $1.2 Million

on Mittwoch, 18 April 2012. Posted in General Autograph News

Eclipsing the auction price of $1,050,000 achieved in 1987 for Einstein’s manuscript on the Theory of Relativity and $500,000 for the Einstein/Besso Manuscript, sold in 2002, Lion Heart Autographs sold on April 14, 2012, to an American collector for more than $1,200,000, over 110 pages of hitherto unknown Einstein manuscripts spanning a wide range of scientific subjects.

Unpublished Borges manuscript found in Argentina's National Library

on Mittwoch, 04 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Buenos Aires, Sep 5 (EFE).- Researchers combing the archives of Argentina's National Library have found an unpublished manuscript written by literary giant Jorge Luis Borges.

Manuscript of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel digitized for public access

on Mittwoch, 11 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

BY PATIENCE HAGGIN

The original manuscript of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, “This Side of Paradise,” has been digitized and made publicly accessible online, the Princeton University Library announced today.

Govt to ask for 900-year-old manuscript back from Oxford University

on Montag, 23 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

The Annals of Inisfallen – written in 1092 – have been on display in the Bodleian Library.

Harry Belafonte sues Martin Luther King Jr's heirs

on Mittwoch, 16 Oktober 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By Layne Weiss

New York - Harry Belafonte, 86, sued the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Tuesday over three documents that used to be in Mr. Belafonte's collection of memorabilia, The New York Times reports.

Ransom Paid for 1874 Kidnapping

on Freitag, 15 November 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

An anonymous buyer purchased the Charley Ross kidnapping letters for $20,000

Long-lost diary of Nazi Alfred Rosenberg turned over to Holocaust Museum

on Dienstag, 17 Dezember 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By Michael E. Ruane

Alfred Rosenberg joined the Nazis before Adolf Hitler did. He later served as the party’s interim leader. He wrote a virulent, best-selling book about the “Aryan” struggle against Jews.

Jane Austen fragment found: but what's behind it?

on Montag, 03 Februar 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

by Alison Flood

Scrap of paper, transcribing part of a sermon by her brother, shows imprint of other writing on its reverse, which scholars are investigating

Working Draft of Orson Welles’s Script for ‘Citizen Kane’ to Be Auctioned

on Donnerstag, 27 Februar 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By ALLAN KOZINN

Orson Welles’s personal copy of an early script for “Citizen Kane” will be offered for auction at Sotheby’s in London on March 6.

John Lennon manuscripts, drawings sell for $2.9 million at auction

on Mittwoch, 04 Juni 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

(Reuters) - Original manuscripts and drawings by former Beatle John Lennon, produced for two acclaimed books he wrote in the mid-1960s, sold for $2.9 million on Wednesday, more than double the pre-sale estimate, Sotheby's auction house said.

Did Bach’s wife write his finest works?

on Samstag, 25 Oktober 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

by Hannah Furness

JS Bach and his wife, Anna Magdalena - Photo: Alamy

Martin Jarvis, professor of music at Charles Darwin University in Australia, claims some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s best-loved works were actually written by his wife.

From the Hand of Albert Schweitzer

Written by Markus Brandes on Sonntag, 11 Januar 2015. Posted in Brandes publications

written by Markus Brandes

“I must not allow myself to fail anyone who believes I can help him, even if it is just with an autograph. Perhaps he will found encouragement in the darkest hours”

Special reproduction for the Consortium of Autograph Collectors

From the autograph collection of Markus Brandes

This edition is limited to 600 copies.
ISBN 978-3-9807905-1-2

X-Rays Reveal Snippets From Papyrus Scrolls That Survived Mount Vesuvius

on Dienstag, 20 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Buried by a volcano, the scorched papyri may yet yield their secrets. written by Dan Vergano, National Geographic

X-Rays Reveal Snippets From Papyrus Scrolls That Survived Mount Vesuvius

The charred scrolls of ancient Herculaneum may yet yield their secrets, suggests an x-ray analysis released Tuesday of one previously impenetrable roll of papyrus.

Museo del Prado Acquires Rubens Sketchbook, Rare Manuscripts

on Donnerstag, 29 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

by David LaGaccia, Thursday, January 29, 2015

Museo del Prado Acquires Rubens Sketchbook, Rare Manuscripts

Madrid's Museo del Prado announced Tuesday the acquisition of the Juan Bordes Library, comprising around 600 historical manuscripts that trace the study of the human anatomy in art.

€500 Million Ponzi Scheme Suspected at Paris Museum

on Freitag, 06 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

by Coline Milliard, November 20, 2014

€500 Million Ponzi Scheme Suspected at Paris Museum

The cosily niche books and manuscripts market may be about to be hit by one its biggest scandals in recent years. And Paris's Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits, as well as its sister organization the Institut des Lettres et Manuscrits, is in the eye of the storm.

Rescuing the priceless manuscripts of Timbuktu

on Dienstag, 10 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

For centuries, Timbuktu was a center of learning, home to a university and a vast collection of manuscripts containing priceless written records of Islamic and African history. When, a few years ago, jihadists invaded the city and set about to destroy its cultural treasures, one man organized a mission to smuggle out most of the manuscripts. Jeffrey Brown reports from Mali.

'American Pie' lyrics sell for $1.2 million

on Dienstag, 07 April 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By Todd Leopold, CNN

(CNN) That's some rich "American Pie."

The lyrics to the famed Don McLean song sold for $1.2 million Tuesday morning at an auction held by Christie's.

Stolen manuscripts worth 4 mn euros recovered in Italy

on Dienstag, 27 August 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Rome: Italian police said on Friday they had recovered 36 manuscripts by novelist Giovanni Verga worth some four millions euros (USD 5.25 million). The manuscripts were stolen in the 1930s.

A lucky find, but not for her

on Sonntag, 08 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By Edward Colimore, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: September 09, 2013

Curiosity got the better of Christine Ridout a year ago when she browsed through an estate sale at a Buffalo home and spotted the gray cardboard glove box on a kitchen table.

Inside were six fragile, tattered documents. The timeworn parchment and graceful handwriting were eye-catching.

Bellini opera fragment found in Spain

on Dienstag, 17 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Rare fragment of an opera score handwritten by 19th century Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini found in Spain.

By Telegraph Reporters and AFP

Historic Mohave County records rescued - but why did they need saving?

on Dienstag, 24 September 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Decades of documents were abandoned at Kingman Airport

KINGMAN - Nearly 100 years of Mohave County records would have disappeared into the desert dust if it had not been for the Mohave Museum of History and Arts.

The digital Dickinson

on Mittwoch, 23 Oktober 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Sophisticated site gathers her poems, in her handwriting, for all to see and study

By Corydon Ireland, Harvard Staff Writer

A biographer once praised reticent and retiring Emily Dickinson for “the modest littleness of her person.”

So what might this 19th-century poet make of the decidedly immodest archive of her poems being released today, bringing to light in one digital place most of her surviving manuscripts?

Springsteen’s Handwritten ‘Born to Run’ Lyrics Head to Auction

on Mittwoch, 27 November 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

By ALLAN KOZINN

The lyrics to “Born to Run,” the evocative title track of Bruce Springsteen’s third album, from 1975, seem to roll off Mr. Springsteen’s tongue on the recording, a torrent of inspired urban car-culture imagery.

On View | Long Live “The Little Prince”

on Donnerstag, 23 Januar 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By ADRIENNE GAFFNEY

The little-known New York roots of a French classic are unearthed in “The Little Prince: A New York Story,” a Morgan Library exhibition that explores the origins of the deceptively profound children’s book.

Lost Albert Einstein Manuscript Reveals Alternative Big Bang Theory

on Dienstag, 25 Februar 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By Hannah Osborne

Albert Einstein once suggested an alternative theory to the Big Bang in a previously undiscovered manuscript.

Shaken and stirred: letters reveal Ian Fleming's tempestuous first love

on Mittwoch, 26 März 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

In letters from early 1930s to Edith Morpurgo, Fleming writes: 'I would like to hurt you because you have earned it'

Shaken and stirred: letters reveal Ian Fleming's tempestuous first love

It might sound more Fifty Shades of Grey than 007, but a series of letters by a young Ian Fleming to his Austrian lover see the man who would go on to create James Bond detailing how he would like "to hurt you because you have earned it and in order to tame you like a little wild animal".

Samuel Beckett manuscript of first published novel to go on display

on Montag, 09 Juni 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

Nobel laureate's notebooks that cost Reading University almost £1m at auction will be on show for just one day

Six cheap dark blue notebooks, sacred relics to admirers of Samuel Beckett, will go on display this week for the first time since an English university paid almost £1m for them at auction.

Letters unravel mystery of the death of Oscar Wilde’s wife

on Freitag, 02 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Grandson of Irish dramatist has unearthed medical evidence in private family letters which points to likely cause of death

Letters unravel mystery of the death of Oscar Wilde’s wife

The sudden death of the wife of Oscar Wilde at the tender age of 40 has long been a mystery. In the 116 years since she met her tragic end, speculative theories have ranged from spinal damage following a fall down stairs to syphilis caught from her husband. Now the mystery may have been solved.

Saving Bosnia's past from the ashes

on Samstag, 17 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By Guy De Launey, BBC News, Sarajevo

The interior of Sarajevo's Presidency building would make any historian wince. Not the decor itself - but the charred papers, piled against the walls.

This display of damaged documents stretches away down the ground floor corridors of the building, leaving dark smears on the white paint, leading to a heap of burned books, boxes and manuscripts in a stairwell.

All the Presidents’ Memorabilia

on Dienstag, 27 Januar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By SERGE F. KOVALESKI

Jordan M. Wright’s collection of political memorabilia is unquestionably prodigious.

Consisting of perhaps a million-plus items, amassed over four decades, it includes an assortment of ephemera like a George W. Bush piñata and a portrait of Lincoln made of seed and saplings, but also legions of important historical artifacts, like a George Washington picture flag from his swearing in and a purse with a Warren G. Harding logo that was used to attract newly enfranchised female voters.

Turing manuscript up for auction in New York

on Mittwoch, 04 Februar 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By AFP

A hidden manuscript written by British mathematician and code breaker Alan Turing at Bletchley Park is to go on auction in New York in April, Bonhams said Tuesday.

The extraordinary document from 1942, when Turing was working to crack the Nazi's Enigma Code, is expected to fetch at least $1 million, the auction house said.

Vatican held to ransom over stolen Michelangelo documents

on Sonntag, 08 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By Harriet Alexander

Vatican held to ransom over stolen Michelangelo documents

In popular imagination the Vatican is, away from the hallowed halls, a place of dark corridors, skulduggery and shady secrets.

On Sunday the Pope’s press secretary appeared to give weight to the Hollywood image, with the remarkable announcement that the Vatican had received a ransom demand for the return of two rare documents written by Renaissance master Michelangelo, which were stolen from its archives nearly 20 years ago.

Queen Victoria's Highland adventures manuscript on show in Edinburgh

on Mittwoch, 11 März 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

A gilded manuscript based on a book by Queen Victoria which detailed time she spent in the Highlands and north east is going on show in Scotland.

Archivists Find Fragments of an Unfinished Orson Welles Autobiography

on Mittwoch, 20 Mai 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNESMAY 20, 2015

Archivists Find Fragments of an Unfinished Orson Welles Autobiography

LOS ANGELES — Yet another unfinished work by Orson Welles, that master of the incomplete, is about to surface.

Articles tagged with: manuscript

BY PATIENCE HAGGIN

The Annals of Inisfallen – written in 1092 – have been on display in the Bodleian Library.

By Layne Weiss

By Michael E. Ruane

by Alison Flood

By ALLAN KOZINN

by Hannah Furness

written by Markus Brandes

Buried by a volcano, the scorched papyri may yet yield their secrets. written by Dan Vergano, National Geographic

by David LaGaccia, Thursday, January 29, 2015

by Coline Milliard, November 20, 2014

By Todd Leopold, CNN

By Edward Colimore, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: September 09, 2013

Rare fragment of an opera score handwritten by 19th century Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini found in Spain.

Decades of documents were abandoned at Kingman Airport

Sophisticated site gathers her poems, in her handwriting, for all to see and study

By ALLAN KOZINN

By ADRIENNE GAFFNEY

By Hannah Osborne

In letters from early 1930s to Edith Morpurgo, Fleming writes: 'I would like to hurt you because you have earned it'

Nobel laureate's notebooks that cost Reading University almost £1m at auction will be on show for just one day

Grandson of Irish dramatist has unearthed medical evidence in private family letters which points to likely cause of death

By Guy De Launey, BBC News, Sarajevo

By SERGE F. KOVALESKI

By AFP

By Harriet Alexander

By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNESMAY 20, 2015

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