MS C189 Donor
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. Wilson and 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 from Book Nook in May 1966. It is available for study at the Spencer Library in the Marilyn Stokstad Reading Room.