mshm190 The song of songs : the most beautiful of songs / by Solomon ; illustration, calligraphy and binding by Konstanin Kalinovich Finding Aid Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
South Hadley, MA
© 2004

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 Finding aid generated in MARC format from database, then encoded using Perl scripts and XSL stylesheet. 2004-04-06 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mshm190 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections The song of songs : the most beautiful of songs / by Solomon ; illustration, calligraphy and binding by Konstanin Kalinovich Finding Aid MS 0053 Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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 Collection Overview Kalinovitch, Konstantin. The song of songs : the most beautiful of songs / by Solomon ; illustration, calligraphy and binding by Konstanin Kalinovich MS 0053 26, [5] p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
South Hadley, MA
Kalinovitch, Konstantine, b. 1960, artist. Unique edition of the Song of Solomon with calligraphy and watercolors by the artist. Bound in silk and leather with an inset wooden apple on the front cover. English. Biographical Note

Konstantine Kalinovitch was born in Novokuznetsk, Russia, in 1960. He received his training at the Ukraine Institute of Polygraphy. He specializes in highly-detailed small-scale etchings and wood-engravings, particularly book plates. In 1992 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in Great Britain. His work has been widely exhibited from Toronto to Moscow. There were four showings of his work in London during the 1990s alone.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The text of the Song of Solomon in the Today's English version illustrated in watercolors accented with gilt. The binding is three-quarter silk brocade and maroon leather with a low-relief wooden apple with ivory inset mounted on the front cover; in vellum-covered presentation box.

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Kalinovitch, Konstantine. Song of songs. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, Massachusetts

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