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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 444 Collections and/or Records:

Lists / Cory, Jean-Jacques., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-20496-20893
Scope and Contents

Cory is a pseudonym of Richard Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Littera Scripta Manet: A History of the Roman Alphabet / Ellis, Elsi Vassdal ; Zapf H ; Goudy F ; Morison S ; Lubalin H ; Baskerville J ; Peignot C., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-14088-14393
Scope and Contents

The author describes the history of the typeface using a layout in which each letter of the alphabet is printed at the top of the page with a different typeface that incorporates text. The traces the history of each letter. Text at the lower half of the page layed out in three columns provides the history of a different typeface, one each to a page. The typefaces include among others, Baskerville, Helvita, Optima, Times Roman, Univers, Bernhard Fashion, Hellena, Casion Openface, Clarendon, Avant Garde, Quadrata, Souvenir, Tiffany, Copperplate Gothic, Bodoni, Serif Gothic, and Brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Love Letters] / Baker, Jan., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42291-44301
Scope and Contents

This was Baker's annual Valentine's gift to the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

[Man's Red Head] / Dale, Kelsey., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-49295-70337
Scope and Contents

Kelsey Dale is a student at Art Center College under direction of Gloria Kondrup, the Director of Archtype Press where the work was printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Mediterranean Alphabets/Les Alphabets Mediterraneens / Bernard Vuarnesson., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-27170-27645
Scope and Contents

This wooden puzzle shows the five alphabets that originated in the Mediterranean basin and are still in use: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic. The six side of the block is composed of Cuneiform characters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Mercato Del Sale: alfabeti. No.17/Sep / Pino Tovaglia., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-37766-39645
Scope and Contents

The same print in this folder is also printed with large white borders and signed in an addition of 100 copies; the latter is held by the Sackner Archive and catalogued under the artist's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Mes Enluminures / Messager, Annette., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-06645-6764
Scope and Contents

Each page has a letter of the alphabet drawn with a visual reference and forms a letter of the word it represents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Midrash / Avadenka, Lynne., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-25699-26159
Scope and Contents

The poems and prints that are affixed to facing pages deal with each Hebrew letter making up the word, "Midrash,' which is the early Hebrew commentary on the bible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Mysteries of the Alphabet / Ouaknin, Marc-Alain ; Josephine Bacon, translator ; Lalou F ; Massoudy H., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32538-34117
Scope and Contents The subtitle of the book is "The Origins of writing." Part one consists of "Origin & Development;" part two "The Alphabet;" in which each letter is separately traced from the Proto-Sinaitic down to the modern alphabets; part three"the Archeographic Revolution." The book is dedicated to the Proto-Sinaitic or Proto-Semitic alphabet discovered during excavations in the Sinai desert, that was used for writing a Semitic language by the Hebrew slaves in Egypt. Proto-Sinaitic consisted of pictograms. It is the alphabet from which the Canaanite, Phoenician, Aramaic, paleo-Hebrew, Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic scripts were derived, continuing down to the modern European alphabets, via Etruscan and Latin. Reproductions of stylized Hebrew calligraphy by Frank Lalou (pages 73-75, 245, 259, 269, 331) and a shaped poem in Arabic (page 59) by Massoudy are included in the book. Oukaknin describes the birth of a letter and the alphabet. The first stage is pictographic, i.e., images or drawings that...
Dates: 1999

Nailsworth Series: A is for Artist... / Furnival, John., 1994

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13186-13487
Scope and Contents

This is part of the Nailsworth series of prints and consists of a listing of phrases beginning with the letter "A." In a letter to the Sackners, Furnival indicates that he intends to do the entire alphabet in this format. The print is stored in the Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Nailsworth Series: I Is for Improvement... , 1996

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Identifier: CC-13192-13493
Scope and Contents

This print is completely textural and relates to the British poet, William Davies, who lived in the town of Nailsworth. Each line of text begins with the letter I, e.g. I is for Implements In May, I am the Poet Davies, William In Neath Valley, etc. This is stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Nailsworth Series: X is for Expecting... , 1995

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Identifier: CC-13187-13488
Scope and Contents

Stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Nailsworth Series: Z is for Zany... , 1995

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Identifier: CC-13188-13489
Scope and Contents

Stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Neues U, B, C und Lesse=Buch / Haussius, Carl Gottlob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-36402-38194
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of a German lesson book on reading first published in 1795 in Leipzig. The typeface is based upon an old style German alphabet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Neues U,B,C und Lefe = Buch / Haulius, Carl Gottlob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-09577-9768
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of a book published in 1795. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969