#uncataloged

[centralidahohistory]

Getting those skis from Pizza Slice to French Fry.

Children skiing on Dollar Mountain, circa 1980.

F 10429

[uispeccoll]

This is a very strange book I’ve been working with. It’s a Mexican antiphonary and was acquired by Charles August Ficke of Davenport in 1901, on his third trip to Mexico.

It is not fully cataloged, partially because it is such an odd manuscript in comparison to others in our collection. The script suggests to me that it is late, perhaps from the 19th century, and the letters look stenciled and seem to be modeled on typescript. Strange.

In addition to these factors, I have found a fly trapped in the parchment pages, some odd scribal errors--someone drew a B before correcting it to a P and ran out of space at the bottom of the page, resorting to lowercase letters instead of capitals--and evidence of someone drawing the outlines of letters in another hand under a melisma in the music.

The book has a medieval-style binding with some serious hardware, but the boards are lighter than traditional medieval covers. It’s all very odd.

-John