Finding aid for the Hilde Wendland manuscripts and Plaut family memorials collection 6181

Bo Doub
USC Libraries Special Collections
2019 January
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu


Language of Material: German
Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Hilde Wendland manuscripts and Plaut family memorials collection
creator: Wendland, Hilde
Identifier/Call Number: 6181
Physical Description: 0.44 Linear Feet 1 box
Date (inclusive): 1901-1922
Abstract: Four manuscript books in German, created by Hilde Wendland for Stefanie Henders-Grunewald in 1920. Wendland hand-copied text from known poetry and fairy tales and hand-colored accompanying illustrations to create these manuscripts. Also included are two memorial works regarding brothers, Jacob Plaut and Moritz Plaut, two German-Jewish bankers.

Content Description

Four manuscript books in German, created by Hilde Wendland for Stefanie Henders-Grunewald in 1920. Wendland hand-copied text from known poetry and fairy tales and hand-colored accompanying illustrations to create these manuscripts. Also included are two memorial works regarding brothers, Jacob Plaut and Moritz Plaut, two German-Jewish bankers.

Conditions Governing Access

Advance notice required for access.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], Hilde Wendland manuscripts and Plaut family memorials collection, Collection no. 6181, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the USC Gould School of Law, March 2, 2018.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Fairy tales -- Germany -- 19th century -- Archival resources
German poetry -- 19th century -- Archival resources
German poetry -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- Archival resources
Commemoratives
Manuscripts
Scrapbooks
Wendland, Hilde -- Archives
Plaut, Jacob, 1817-1901 -- Archives
Plaut, Moritz, 1822-1910 -- Archives

 

Hilde Wendland manuscripts

General

All six of these works contain the following inscription: "Dieses Werk wurde von Hilde Wendland für Frau Stefanie Henders-Grunerwald mit der Hand in einem Exemplar geschrieben 1920"
Box 1

Minnelieder 1920

Physical Description: 152 leaves : illustration ; 20 cm

General

Author
Walther, von der Vogelweide, active 12th century.
Contributor
Henders-Grunewald, Stefanie, active 1920, former owner.
Wendland, Hilde, artist calligrapher.
Subject
German poetry -- Middle High German, 1050-1500
Manuscripts
Tooled doublures (Binding) -- Germany -- 20th century
Leather bindings (Binding) -- Germany -- 20th century
Gold-tooled bindings (Binding) -- Germany -- 20th century
Bookplates (Provenance) -- United States -- 20th century
Description
"Dieses Werk wurde von Hilde Wendland für Frau Stefanie Henders-Grunerwald mit der Hand in einem Exemplar geschrieben 1920"--leaf preceding title page
With a hand-colored illustrations and initials.
Poem in manuscript.
Includes a bookplate of Stefanie Henders on the front flyleaf.
Bound in red leather stamped in gold, title stamped in gold on spine and gold-tooled doublure front and back boards.
Box 1

Von den drei Schwestern mit den gläsernen Herzen 1920

Physical Description: 152 leaves : illustration ; 20 cm

General

Author
Volkmann, Richard von, 1830-1889.
Contributor
Henders-Grunewald, Stefanie, active 1920, former owner.
Wendland, Hilde, artist calligrapher.
Subject
Fairy tales -- Germany -- 19th century
German poetry -- Middle High German, 1050-1500
Manuscripts
Leather bindings (Binding -- Germany -- 20th century
Tooled doublures (Binding -- Germany -- 20th century
Bookplates (Provenance) -- United States -- 20th century
Description
"Dieses Werk wurde von Hilde Wendland für Frau Stefanie Henders-Grunerwald mit der Hand in einem Exemplar geschrieben 1920"--leaf preceding title page
With a hand-colored illustrations and initials.
Fairy tale in manuscript.
Includes a bookplate of Stefanie Henders on the front flyleaf.
Bound in brown leather stamped in gold, title stamped in gold on spine, with gold doublures in front and back boards.
Box 1

Der Turmhahn : Idylle 1920

Physical Description: 29 pages : illustration ; 16 cm

General

Author
Mörike, Eduard, 1804-1875.
Contributor
Wendland, Hlide, active 1920, artist calligrapher.
Henders-Grunewald, Stefanie, former owner.
Subject
German poetry -- 19th century
Manuscripts
Bookplates (Provenance) -- United States -- 20th century
Description
"Dieses Werk wurde von Hilde Wendland für Frau Stefanie Henders-Grunewald mit der Hand in einem Exemplar geschrieben ins November 1920"--title page verso.
With a hand-colored frontispiece, and hand-colored initials.
Poem in manuscript.
Includes a bookplate of Stefanie Henders on the front flyleaf
Bound in half red cloth with speckled paper boards.
Box 1

Lyrisches Intermezzo -- Im wunderschönen Monat Mai... 1920

Physical Description: 24 leaves : illustration ; 14 cm

General

Author
Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856.
Contributor
Henders Grunewald, Stefanie, active 1920, former owner.
Wendland, Hilde, artist calligrapher.
Subject
German poetry -- 19th century
Manuscripts
Bookplates (Provenance) -- United States -- 20th century
Description
Title provided by the cataloger based on the first line of the poem.
"Dieses Werk wurde von Hilde Wendland für Frau Stefanie Henders-Grunewald mit der Hand in einem Exemplar geschrieben 1920"--title page verso.
With a hand-colored frontispiece.
Poem in manuscript.
Includes a bookplate of Stefanie Henders on the front flyleaf.
Bound in decorated paper wrapper.
 

Plaut family memorial books

Box 1

A la mémoire de Jacob Plaut : discours prononcés à l'occasion de ses Obsèques, Nice 1901 February 8

Physical Description: Format: 16 pages ; 18 cm
Language of Material: French

General

Publisher: Nice : Imprimerie Speciale du "Petit Niçois"
Box 1

Dem Andenken unseres Vaters Moritz Plaut 1922 June 24

Physical Description: A scrapbook with photographs, news clippings, certificates, and postcards pasted onto the pages alongside printed German text.

General

Full title: "Dem Andenken unseres Vaters Moritz Plaut seine Töchter Franziska Model, Margarete Lehmann, and Susanne Blumenthal, Berlin"
Box 1, Folder 1

Notes and catalog descriptions 1920, 2018-2019

General

Prior to being described as an archives collection, some of the manuscripts in this collection were cataloged individually as books -- with catalog records posted to OCLC WorldCat. This folder contains printouts of these WorldCat records; a note from the USC Gould School of Law, which previously held these works; and the detached spine from Von den drei Schwestern mit den gläsernen Herzen.