Alfred I. Gudeman manuscripts, 1880-1940

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Description

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Typescript copies and copyrights to seven of Gudeman's scholarly publications. These are MANUAL OF THE HISTORY OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY (which has had eight editions), typescript with six large envelopes of illustrative material, photographs, etchings, and various other types of reproductions; IMAGINES PHILOLOGORUM, a new edition of a biographic, bibliographic index to the field of philology; bibliography of Aristotle's DE POETICA; a manuscript in Greek of the text of Aristotle's DE POETICA; Sallust CATALINE, 4th ed., numbers 1-5 "ready for publication;" English translation of Gudeman's own work containing HISTORY OF LATIN LITERATURE; and COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS and THE WORLD'S LITERATURE, 30 volumes. Also, various letters, lecture notes, club membership lists, and Gudeman's own lists of and notes about his works.

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Conditions Governing Use

Columbia University received copyright to the seven publications listed above. A copy of that part of Mr. Gudeman's will dated July 1, 1941, pertaining to this bequest, is filed in the Acquisitions Department.

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Alfred I. Gudeman manuscripts; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Gudeman, Alfred I. Method of acquisition--Bequest; Date of acquisition--1952. Accession number--M-52.

Bibliography

Hurley, Donna W. "Alfred Gudeman, Atlanta, Georgia, 1862 -- Theresienstadt, 1942" Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-2014). Vol. 120 (1990), pp. 355-381 See https://www.jstor.org/stable/283997

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Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.

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History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Graduate of Columbia College, 1883.