Preliminary Guide to the Augusta G. Stanley Collection
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Preliminary Guide to the Augusta G. Stanley Collection, ca. latter 1940s-1960s
Collection number: Mss 120
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- 1994
- Latest revision:
- Mar. 19, 2012
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Augusta G. Stanley Collection
Dates: ca. latter 1940s-1960s
Collection number: Mss 120
Creator:
Stanley, Augusta G.
Collection Size:
1 box.
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: Correspondence and manuscripts of writings (with illustrations) by Augusta Stanley, about what she termed 'The Greatest Mystery'
surrounding the
Imitation of Christ, the medieval Lubeck manuscripts, and Father J. van Ginneken of Nijmegen University [Netherlands].
Physical location: Annex 2.
Languages:
English
Access Restrictions
Collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Augusta G. Stanley Collection. Mss 120. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Jo Beth van Gelderen, apparently daughter of Stanley and wife of Wilbur Jacobs, ca. 1970.
Scope and Content of Collection
Augusta E.G.K. Stanley was a journalist who lived and worked in Europe during World War II. She became intrigued with the
question of the authorship of the
Imitation of Christ, and apparently planned to write about the controversy. The collection contains correspondence and manuscripts of writings
(with illustrations) by Augusta Stanley, about what she termed 'The Greatest Mystery' surrounding the
Imitation of Christ, the medieval Lubeck manuscripts, and Father J. van Ginneken of Nijmegen University [Netherlands]. Three books are mentioned
in her papers,
The Greatest Mystery in Literature,
Censored for Six Centuries, and
The Nijmegen Story, but searches for these titles were unproductive.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Imitatio Christi.
Stanley, Augusta G.
Ginneken, J. van
Box 1
Correspondence and Illustrations
Box 1
The Greatest Mystery: Book Draft
Box 1
The Greatest Mystery: Magazine Article
Box 1
Photocopy of MS, "Dat Leven Ons Leven Heren" - original in Bibliotheek, Kruisherenklooster, St. Agatha Cuyk, The Netherlands
(in mylar)
Box 1
Two boxes film of medieval MSS from UCLA (one film seems to be a copy of the other)
