Charles Wendell David

He worked tirelessly both to reconstruct Europe's war-torn repositories and to establish new libraries in the United States.

[5] Empathizing with the financial and travel problems of his students in European history, and anticipating the return of Europe to censorship and war, Prof. David travelled Europe in the mid-1930s determined to create rotogravure copies of manuscripts so that these works would remain available to American scholars (at least in copy).

[6] David published his critical edition of a rare Third Crusade manuscript through the American Philosophical Association in 1939, using one of his rotogravures to complete his study.

Medievalist Dana Cushing now studies and lectures on Prof David's rotogravure copy of the manuscript.

She provides a free, public-access, digital copy[7] of the manuscript and of Prof. David's critical edition of it (Narratio de Itinere Navali Peregrinorum Hierosolymam Tendentium et Silvam Capientium A.D. 1189) by kind permission of the Library of Congress which owns the rotogravure copies, the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino[8] which owns the original manuscript, and the American Philosophical Society[9] which published David's 1939 article.