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VMs: William Romaine Newbold -- to do list
Newbold was one of the first professors of philosophy at Penn. He
didn't publish a great deal, and the story is that he went mad, either
as a result of his obsession with the Voynich manuscript, or vice
versa.
The Rare Book library at Penn is just a few blocks from the White Dog
restaurant, once the home of Madame Blavatsky. The bookseller William
H. Allen got his start in part with the acquisition of Newbold's
library; his first store was located at 3413 Walnut Street in West
Philadelphia, now the site of (among other Penn offices) the Institute
for Research in Cognitive Studies.
Newbold was variously rumored to be a medieval specialist, a
cryptologist, and a Navy consultant. He once lectured at the American
Astronomical Society:
<<Notes of Interest: the Twenty-seventh Meeting of the AAS took place
on Thursday to Saturday, December 29-31, 1921 at the Sproul
Observatory of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, upon the
invitation of the Director, Professor John A. Miller. Attendees were
housed in Parrish Hall, the Main Building and Dormitory of the
College. Because of the winter season, there were no outside
excursions. On Friday evening, Dr. William Romaine Newbold, Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, gave an interesting
talk, entitled "Evidence Contained in the Voynich Manuscript That
Roger Bacon Possessed a Telescope." >>
Here are the holdings of Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania:
Title: [The cipher of Roger Bacon : advertising notices and
reviews / compiled by Roland G. Kent].
Publisher: [1921-1930]
Description: Book
1 v. (unpaged) ; 25 cm.
LC Subject(s): Newbold, William Romaine, 1865-1926. Cipher of Roger
Bacon.
Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.
Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930.
Voynich manuscript.
Ciphers.
Cryptography.
Local Subject(s): CHR 1921-1930
PRO Kent, Roland G., Mrs. (donor)
Notes: Consists of nine advertisements for, and 14 reviews of, The
cipher of Roger Bacon (by William R. Newbold and edited
by Roland G. Kent) pasted into a volume of blank leaves.
All are dated 1928. They are followed by 4 newspaper
clippings, one journal article and a typed copy of a
letter in the Times Literary Supplement (all laid in)
about the Voynich manuscript, the provisions for its
sale in Voynich's will, and Roger Bacon, dated between
1921 and 1930.
Other Contributors:
Kent, Roland G. (Roland Grubb), 1877-1952.
Newbold, William Romaine, 1865-1926. Cipher of Roger
Bacon.
Cryptology Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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Location: Rare Bk & Ms Library RBC
Call Number: 652M B135.yN.yK
Status: Available, check location
Author: Newbold, William Romaine, 1865-1926.
Title: The cipher of Roger Bacon / by William Romaine Newbold ;
edited with foreword and notes by Roland Grubb Kent.
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ; London :
H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1928.
Description: Book
xxxii, 224 p. : ill., port., facsims. ; 25 cm.
LC Subject(s): Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.
Voynich manuscript.
Ciphers.
Local Subject(s): CHR 1928
PRO Mendelsohn, Charles J. (Charles Jastrow) (autograph,
New York) (RBC copy 1)
PRO Mendelsohn, Esther Jastrow (donor) (RBC copy 1)
PRO Kent, Roland G., Mrs. (donor) (RBC copy 2)
PRO Kent, Roland G. (autograph, March 16, 1928) (RBC copy
2)
Local Note(s): RBC copy 1 has copious ms. notes by Charles Jastrow
Mendelsohn.
RBC copy 2 is one of the first six copies printed March 23,
1928.
Other Contributors:
Kent, Roland G. (Roland Grubb), 1877-1952.
Mendelsohn, Charles J. (Charles Jastrow), 1880-1939.
Cryptology Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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Location: Rare Bk & Ms Library RBC
Call Number: 652M B135.yN
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Location: Rare Bk & Ms Library RBC
Call Number: 652M B135.yN copy 2
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Location: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab
Call Number: 232 B136N
Status: Available, check location
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Location: Van Pelt Library
Call Number: Z103.B22 N5
Status: Available, check location
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Location: Van Pelt Library
Call Number: Z103.B22 N5
Status: Available, check location
Author: Newbold, William Romaine, 1865-1926.
Title: Miscellaneous pamphlets -- .
Publisher: [1907-1926?]
Description: Book
v. ; cm.
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Location: Rare Bk & Ms Library RBC
Call Number: 119 N423
Status: Available, check location
Author: Rhodes Scholarship Trust.
Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1903.
Description: Archival/Manuscript Material
4 items (9 leaves).
Summary: Misc. notes from the committee appointed in 1903 to work
out the conditions for the Rhodes Scholarship Trust.
Consists of the following: an envelope in Prof. William
R. Newbold's hand listing the people who attended the
first session in January 1903; a letter dated 16 January
1903 from George R. Parkin to Dr. Newbold; an original
draft of the conditions for state committees in the
handwriting of Woodrow Wilson; and a portion of a draft
in the handwriting of Andrew West.
Also includes accession material from September-October
1958: a letter from Kent Packard to Dr. Gaylord
Harnwell, president of the University; a letter from Dr.
Harnwell to Packard; and a letter from Neda Westlake of
the University Library to Packard. Packard was the
brother-in-law of Professor Newbold, who in 1903 was
Dean of the Graduate School.
Provenance: Gift of Kent Packard, 1958.
LC Subject(s): Rhodes scholarships.
Other Contributors:
Harnwell, G. P. (Gaylord Probasco), 1903-1982.
Newbold, William Romaine, 1865-1926.
Packard, Kent.
Parkin, G. R. (George Raleigh), 1896-
West, Andrew Fleming, 1853-1943.
Westlake, Neda M.
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
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Location: Rare Book & Ms Library Manuscripts
Call Number: Misc Mss
Author: Newbold, William Romaine, 1865-1926.
Title: Newbold memorial meeting : being the proceedings of a
meeting held at the University of Pennsylvania on
December first, 1926, in memory of William Romaine
Newbold / edited by Roland G. Kent.
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, [1926?]
Description: Book
30 p. : port. ; 25 cm.
LC Subject(s): Newbold, William Romaine, 1865-1926.
Other Contributors:
Kent, Roland Grubb, 1877-1952.
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Location: University Archives, 215-898-7024 (non-circulating)
Author: Newbold, William Romaine.
Title: The great chalice of Antioch / by William Romaine Newbold.
Publisher: [Philadelphia : Curtis Pub. Co., 1924.
Description: Book
[p. 7-8, 74, 76, 79, 81] mounted on 4 l. : ill. (1 col.) ;
36 cm.
LC Subject(s): Jesus Christ Art
Apostles
Chalice of Antioch.
Chalices
Christian art and symbolism
Notes: Extracted from The Ladies' Home Journal, November, 1924.
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Location: Fine Arts Library
Call Number: NK7215 .N487
Status: Available, check location
--
Ross Bender
http://rossbender.org
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