Collection Guide

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Biographical Note

Nellie S. Aurner was born in 1874 in Eldora, Iowa. At the State University of Iowa, she earned B.Ph., MFA and Ph.D. degrees. Later she was a dean of women at SUI and in 1935 she became a professor in English. She is the author of several books, including Hengest, A Study in Early English Hero Legend and Caxton: Mirrour of Fifteenth-Century Letters. She translated the dedications of Matteo Bandello, but these were not published. Nellie Aurner died in 1961 at the age of 87.

C. Pummer and J. Roethler, August 2004

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Scope and Contents

Manuscripts and notes concerning Nellie S. Aurner's work on Matteo Bandello.

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Acquisition and Processing Information

These papers were given to the University of Iowa Libraries by Ruth Aurner Tabb in 1982.

Guide posted to Internet: August 2004

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Box Contents List

"Bandello, To Candid and Humane Readers"

(Manuscript of translations of Bandello's dedications to his patrons)

Notes on Bandello taken by Aurner [2 folders]

Krey, A.C. "Padua in the English Renaissance," Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 2 (February 1947), pp. 129 -- 134. Together with notes taken by Aurner

Tutte le Opere di Matteo Bandello. 2 volumes

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