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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
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New York, NY 10027, USA
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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
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Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum records, 1946-1985 6 linear feet (11 boxes)

Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum

Manuscripts, subject files, index cards, printed materials and microfilms relating to the CATALOGUS TRANSLATIONUM ET COMMENTARIORUM. The two manuscripts are contemporary and deal with the letters of St. Basil. The subject files include correspondence, notes, and printed materials providing largely biographical information on a wide range of medieval translators and commentators. The index cards list the present day locations of many relevant medieval and renaissance books and manuscripts. The printed materials include photostatic copies and negatives of medieval texts as well as catalog listings of and articles about these texts and their authors. The microfilms, some of which are negatives, are of some of the relevant medieval and renaissance works

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Guglielmo Ferrero papers, 1871-1944, 1981, bulk 1890-1942 70 linear feet (Processed: 138 boxes: 127 document boxes 8 custom boxes 3 oversized boxes unprocessed: 13 boxes)

Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942
This collection contains correspondence, lectures, articles, manuscripts and printed material related to the life and work of Italian journalist, historian and novelist Guglielmo Ferrero.
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John L. Gerig papers, 1905-1988 3 linear feet (6 boxes)

Gerig, John L. (John Lawrence), 1878-1957

Correspondence, research notes, articles, clippings, photostats, and photographs. These files concern his interest in Pierre Bayle, Antoine Arlier, and the Renaissance in Provence, as well as the Romanic Review, philology, French, Spanish, and celtic studies. Among the correspondents are: Philippe Berthelot, Nicholas Murray Butler, F.R. Coudert, John H. Finley, the Prince de Ligne, Curtis Hidden Page, William B. Parsons, and Aime ́Puech.

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Paul Oskar Kristeller papers, 1910-1989 115 linear feet (172 boxes: 82 document boxes, 72 record storage cartons, 18 notecard boxes, 275 microfilm reels)

Kristeller, Paul Oskar, 1905-1999
Professional and personal papers of the German émigré scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller. Kristeller was a professor of philosophy at Columbia University and a world renowned scholar of Renaissance humanism and Renaissance philosophy who published widely, notably his major catalog of uncataloged manuscripts from the Italian Renaissance, the Iter Italicum.
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Shirley Hazzard papers, 1920s-2016 45 linear feet (23 document boxes (Boxes 1-12, 32-36, 50-54, 58), 1 tall document box (Box 59), 1 half document box (Box 20), 27 record storage cartons (Boxes 13-19, 21-31, 42-46, 49, 55-57) 7 card files (Boxes 37-41, 47-48), and 1 small flat box (Box 60))

Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016
Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) was a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. She also wrote two non-fiction books about the United Nations. Hazzard was born in Australia, but left the country in 1951, living in New York City and Capri, Italy. The papers include address books, appointment books, audiovisual materials, books, clippings, correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, notebooks, notes, photographs, printed materials, and research files.
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