Embryological chart for "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses, 1920
Scope and Contents
1 large leaf. Drawn on one side of a leaf of wove paper are nine numbered ovals of different sizes representing the monthly stages of gestation. The ovals are in red ink, beginning with the smallest almost at the lower edge of the page, each successive oval including its predecessors, the last almost reaching the top of the page. At the apices of seven of the ovals are notations about the related stage in fetal development, written in ink in James Joyce's hand. The apex of the sixth oval is distinguished by a star in red ink. In the upper left corner in a large parenthesis is the notation "Oxen of the Sun." Scholes 58.
Also includes annotations and transcription.
Dates
- 1920
Creator
- From the Collection: Joyce, James, 1882-1941. (Person)
- From the Collection: Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1878-1957. (Person)
- From the Collection: Joyce, Charles. (Person)
- From the Collection: Joyce, John S. (Person)
- From the Collection: Joyce, May. (Person)
- From the Collection: Joyce, Nora Barnacle, 1884-1951. (Person)
- From the Collection: Mathews, Elkin, 1851-1921. (Person)
- From the Collection: Murray, Josephine. (Person)
- From the Collection: Pinker, James B. (Person)
- From the Collection: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. (Person)
- From the Collection: Quinn, John. (Person)
- From the Collection: Richards, Grant, 1872-1948. (Person)
- From the Collection: Weaver, Harriet Shaw. (Person)
- From the Collection: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. (Person)
- From the Collection: Monro, Saw and Co (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
5.7 cubic feet. (5.7 cubic feet.)
1 mapcase folders. (1 mapcase folders.)
3 microfilm reels. (3 microfilm reels.)
Physical Description
genreform: AM
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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