In early 2017, Union College Geology Department started a public outreach program (Union College Water Initiative, UCWI), spurred by drinking water quality problems in Flint, MI, Hoosic Falls, NY, and many other places. The program seeks to analyze carefully collected drinking water samples for lead, zinc, and copper. At present, the outreach is restricted to the Union College campus and nearby areas.
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Rare Book collection set: This compilation is one of six known extant sets, and is the only fully intact instance, without loss or addition of leaves and with portfolio and mattes intact -- Conversation with Scott Gwara, 2022/03/04
Title from portfolio cover. Individual leaves are identified by typed descriptions inside the mattes.
Although the intermediate provenance was originally unclear, the roster of leaves and the matting style are entirely consistent with Otto F. Ege's Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts. The portfolio was acquired prior to the posthumous issuance of "Fifty leaves" and the portfolio is simpler than the later "Famous books" sets put out by Duschene in 1947-1949. Unlike the formally issued sets, this set lacks the index page and letterpress annotations. Subsequently, by virtue of Gwara's scholarship, this portfolio is identified as no.9 of Ege's initial "Sets of Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts," titled in the catalog as "Five original illuminated manuscript leaves from the finer scriptoria of Europe."
A leaf from a manuscript Missal (use of Rouen), produced in France, 1380, ascribed to Franciscans. The leaf is unfoliated, encompassing the Proper for the 11th-12th Sunday after Pentecost. Decorated with illuminated initials in blue, yellow, and gold. Gwara Handlist entry HL26.
The artworks in this section were created by students enrolled in the courses Intro to Digital Art (AVA-160), Digital Aesthetics(AVA-270) and 3D Computer Modeling (AVA-370) during the Spring/Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 terms.
