12022-10-20T16:02:34-07:00MS C189 Donor23plain2022-10-22T03:03:55-07:00 University of Kansas Connection: Donor:Alpha Loretta Owens (1877-1965) Born: Rockwell City, IA Died: Lawrence, KS
Owens’ family moved to Lawrence, KS after she finished high school.
Education:
University of Kansas - 1901
University of Kansas, MA - 1903
University of Chicago
John Hopkins University, PhD - 1929
Teaching Experience:
French professor at the University of Kansas ROTC
French professor and Head of the French Department at Baker University
Professor of Modern Languages, at Morris Harvey College in West Virginia (now the University of Charleston). She taught French, Spanish and German until her retirement in 1947.
Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts MS C189 is one of three manuscripts listed in the collection of Alpha Loretta Owens in the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada compiled by Seymour de Ricci with assistance from W. J. Wilsonand published between 1935 and 1940. According to the Census, the three manuscripts were examined by Wilson in 1935. Therefore, MS C189 was purchased by Owens sometime before 1935. It is not known where and from whom she obtained the manuscript. There are no records on the origin of the manuscript or its previous owners. The binding is considered original in the Census. The Kenneth Spencer Research Library purchased the manuscript fromBook Nookin May 1966. It is available for study at the Spencer Library in the Marilyn Stokstad Reading Room.