"Records of civilization" records 5802592Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-01-10 10:55:32 -0500.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard2018-02-21File created.2019-05-20EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration. Rare Book and Manuscript Library "Records of civilization" records Columbia University. Department of History 5802592 UA#0248 English . 2.5 linear feet 2 record cartons 1915-1954 This collection consists of the correspondence and administrative records of the "Record of Civilization" series editor Austin P. Evans. Arrangement

Material is arranged into one series.

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Summary

This collection consists of the correspondence and administrative records of the Record of Civilization series editor Austin P. Evans. From finding the right translator and sometimes a separate writer for the introduction and notes, making corrections on the manuscript, choosing the illustrations, collecting published reviews, to ordering a new print run, the letters cover all aspects of the bookmaking process. There is correspondence related to works that were ultimately not published in the Records of Civilization series: one went to a different press and another was canceled when another translation was released.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); "Records of civilization" records; Box and Folder (if known); University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

2002.012.

Biographical / Historical

Records of Civilization was a series of volumes edited under the auspices of the Department of History, Columbia University. Originally, the series had two main goals. The first was to make primary sources of the early history of Europe and the Near East accessible to students by providing English translations of the original documents. The second was to introduce students to the work of modern scholars and recent criticism on these ancient and medieval works. The series was edited by James T. Shotwell (1915-1926), Arthur P. Evans (1926-1953), and Jacques Barzun (1953-1962).

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Joanna Rios, February 2018. Finding aid was written by Joanna Rios, February 2018.

Accrual

No additions are expected

Selected Related Material at Columbia

Austin P. Evans papers, 1920s (MS#0404)

Selected Related Material at Columbia

Department of History Records, 1890-1959 (UA#0009)

Evans, Austin P (Austin Patterson) Columbia University. Department of History Series I. Correspondence1915-1954Scope and Contents

This series contains the correspondence between the series editor, Austin P. Evans, and the authors and representatives at Columbia University Press (CUP). The records are organized by the title of the work and/or the author of the original ancient or medieval text to be translated and annotated. The files include correspondence with the translators and/or commentators and the representatives from Columbia University Press. There are also files with published reviews.

Abelard's Sic et Non (not published by Columbia)1938-19461Scope and Contents

(Richard McKeon)

Al-Taftazani's A commentary on the creed of Islam1930-1949Scope and Contents

(Earl Edgar Elder)

Ambroise's The crusade of Richard Lion-Heart1940-1942Scope and Contents

(John L. La Monte and Merton Jerome Hubert)

Andreas Capellanus's The art of courtly love1939-1941Scope and Contents

(John Jay Parry)

Bodin's Method for the easy comprehension of history1939-1949Scope and Contents

(Beatrice Reynolds)

Boniface's Letters (The letters of Saint Boniface)1932-1942Scope and Contents

(Ephraim Emerton)

Book of the Popes, Reviews1917Scope and Contents

(Louise Ropes Loomis)

Brant's Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools)1942-1946Scope and Contents

(Edwin H. Zeydel)

Cassiodorus's An introduction to divine and human readings1939-1946Scope and Contents

(Leslie Webber Jones)

Castellio's De haereticis (Concerning Heretics)1930-1935Scope and Contents

(Roland H. Bainton)

Cato's De agri cultura (On Farming)1928-1935Scope and Contents

(Ernest Brehaut)

Conquest of Lisbon (De expugnatione Lyxbonensi)1932-1936Scope and Contents

(Charles Wendell David)

Copernicus Astronomy (Three Copernican treatises)1937-1951Scope and Contents

(Edward Rosen)

English translations from medieval sources, bibliography1929-1951Scope and Contents

(Clarissa P. Farrar and Austin P. Evans (2 folders))

Gesta Friderici (The deeds of Frederick Barbarrosa)1930-1953Scope and Contents

(Charles Christopher Mierow)

Gregory VII, Letters1930-1932Scope and Contents

(Ephraim Emerton)

Erasmus's Institutio principis Christiani (The education of a Christian prince),1927-1937Scope and Contents

(Lester K. Born)

Gregory of Tours's Historia Francorum (History of the Franks)1924-1939Scope and Contents

(Ernest Brehaut)

Gregory of Tours, Reviews1917Hellenistic Civilization (unpublished)1929-1933Scope and Contents

(Harry Mortimer Hubbell (H.M. Hubbell))

Hellenic Civilization, Reviews1915-1916Scope and Contents

(G. W. Botsford and E. G. Sihler)

Helmold's Cronica Slavorum (The chronicle of the Slavs)1928-1936Scope and Contents

(Francis Joseph Tschan)

History of History1923-1927Scope and Contents

(James T. Shotwell)

History of History, Reviews1923History of Mar Yaballaha (Yaballaha III)1925-1927Scope and Contents

(James A. Montgomery)

Irish History Sources (The sources for the early history of Ireland),1923-1935Scope and Contents

(James F. Kenney)

Jean de Venette (The chronicle of Jean de Venette)1929-19542Scope and Contents

(Jean Birdsall and Richard A. Newhall)

Lanzelet; a romance of Lancelot1948-1951Scope and Contents

(Kenneth G. T. Webster and Roger Sherman Loomis)

Literature of the New Testament1932-1941Scope and Contents

(Ernest Findlay Scott)

Literature of the New Testament, Reviews1922-1924Liutprand's Antapodosis (unpublished)1928-1929Scope and Contents

(Frances Harper and Loren C. MacKinney)

Macrobius's Commentary on the dream of Scipio1939-1951Scope and Contents

(William Harris Stahl)

Odo of Deuil's De profectione Ludovici VII in orientem1941-1951Scope and Contents

(Virginia Gingerick Berry)

Old Norwegian Law (The earliest Norwegian laws)1928-1935Scope and Contents

(Laurence M. Larson)

Orosius (The seven books of history against the pagans; the apology of Paulus Orosius),1923-1937Scope and Contents

(Irving Woodworth Raymond)

Otto of Freising (The two cities; a chronicle of universal history to the year 1146 A.D.), 1919-192911461919-1929Scope and Contents

(Charles Christopher Mierow)

Papal Finance (Papal revenues in the Middle Ages)1925-1936Scope and Contents

(William E. Lunt)

Pascal's Equilibrium of Liquids (The physical treatises of Pascal: the equilibrium of liquids and the weight of the mass of the air),1931-1937Scope and Contents

(Frederick Barry)

Peasant Life in Old German Epics (Meier Helmbrecht and Der arme Heinrich),1926-1936Scope and Contents

(Clair Hayden Bell)

Penitentials (Medieval handbooks of penance)1925-1939Scope and Contents

(John T. McNeill and Helena M. Gamer)

Peterborough Chronicle1939-1951Scope and Contents

(Harry A. Rositzke)

Philip de Novare's The wars of Frederick II against the Ibelins in Syria and Cyprus,1930-1936Scope and Contents

(John L. La Monte and Merton Jerome Hubert)

Puritan Tracts (Tracts on liberty in the Puritan Revolution)1929-1937Scope and Contents

(William Haller)

Redentin Easter play (Das Redentiner Spiel)1936-1941Scope and Contents

(A. E. Zucker)

Robert de Clari's Conquest of Constantinople1930-1935Scope and Contents

(Edgar Holmes McNeal)

Russian Law (Medieval Russian laws)1939-1947Scope and Contents

(George Vernadsky)

Salvianus's On the government of God1927-1932Scope and Contents

(Eva M. Sanford.)

See of Peter1925-1927Scope and Contents

(James T. Shotwell and Louise Ropes Loomis)

Social and Economic History (A guide to the printed materials for English social and economic history, 1750-1850),1920-1926Scope and Contents

(Judith Blow Williams)

University records (University records and life in the Middle Ages),1937-1954Scope and Contents

(Lynn Thorndike)

Usamah's An Arab-Syrian gentleman and warrior in the period of the crusades,1928-1930Scope and Contents

(Philip K. Hitti)

William of Tyre's A history of deeds done beyond the sea1925-1948Scope and Contents

(Emily Atwater Babcock and A. C. Krey)

Zabara's The book of delight1928-1932Scope and Contents

(Moses Hadas and Merriam Sherwood)