Japanese stab bound manuscript book in cursive or grass script
Collection — Box: Shared Box 41, Folder: 4
Identifier: GTM-0068
Traditional stab bound book filled with an unidentified Japanese or Chinese text written in cursive, or grass script. A library index card found in the curatorial file may suggest that this manuscript is a book of poems by the Japanese author Nakayama Tadanao (1895-1957) titled "Chikyu wo tomurau", or "Earth Elegy", published in 1938, but it has not yet been identified.
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0.04 Linear Feet (1 folder)
English
GTM-0068 was at some time prior to 1970 housed with the wooden map box of the Nicholas Cleary Collection, GTM-0020, and counted among its contents. Curatorial file found with the Nicholas Cleary Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition unknown.
Book is moderately wormed throughout.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository