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RBML Office Files, 1917-2022
176.26 linear feetColumbia University Cuneiform Collection, circa 3100 BCE - 2018 CE, bulk circa 3100 BCE - 539 BCE
62.5 Linear FeetSeries I: Tablets and contemporary objects, circa 3100-539 BCE
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- 625 cuneiform tablets dating from circa 3100-539 BCE, four cylinder seals, with modern impressions
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625 cuneiform tablets dating from circa 3100-539 BCE, four cylinder seals, with modern impressions of them, and fourteen clay and stone objects, nine of which are labelled A through I. Provenance of these items is mostly unclear.
RBML Publications, 1928-2016
2 linear feetThe $200 Million Campaign: The Columbia Libraries, 1969 Box 2, Folder 25
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- (On the cover, Cuneiform Tablet no. 322. "Pythagorean Triangles." Clay tablet, incomplete, ca. 1900
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(On the cover, Cuneiform Tablet no. 322. "Pythagorean Triangles." Clay tablet, incomplete, ca. 1900-1600 B.C. Old Babylonian cuneiform script. Plimpton Collection.)
George Arthur Plimpton Library
16000 VolumesThe Plimpton Library of 16,000 volumes- a 1936 gift of George A. Plimpton - covers what the collector called "our tools of learning" from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries. The cataloged books are described in the card catalog and in CLIO. There are a good number of uncataloged books, which are classed in Dewey, and findable through a shelflist and an author catalog.
George Arthur Plimpton collection of Hornbooks, 1600-1900
7 boxesThis collection includes hornbooks, battledores, and facsimiles of hornbooks, a few hornbook-adjacent items, and supporting documents. Hornbooks and battledores were used from the 14th through the 19th centuries for the earliest steps of training in literacy: learning to recognize letterforms, and sometimes to read syllables and/or short texts.