Paul Oskar Kristeller papers, 1910-1989

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Series III: Professional Activities, 1941-1996

This series consists of Kristeller's correspondence, research, and writings with various associations, societies, and committees. The records focus on project research for articles and books along with administrative tasks for each organization. The three prominent components of the series are on the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum, the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, and the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Subseries III.1 : General, 1941-1996

Subseries 1 contains mainly correspondence, with some research and writings, with various committees, societies, and organizations. Prominent records are with the Renaissance Society of America and The State of Learning in the Humanities in Higher Education, also known as the Bennett Committee. Other folders pertain to literary projects, conferences and lectures given on both the west and east coast. The file on the Madrid Leonardo Report are the contents of a dossier assembled by Kristeller, Theodore Beardsley, Jr., and Carlo Pedretti to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery of a Leonardo manuscript in a library in Madrid.

Request Box 86

Box 86 American Association for the Advancement of the Humanities, 1981

Box 86 American Committee on Renaissance Studies, 1953-1954

ACLS

Box 86 General, 1954-1979

Box 86 Advisory Committee on Medieval and Renaissance Texts, 1950-1954

Box 86 Committee on Protection of Cultural Treasures in War Areas, 1944

Box 86 Committee on Renaissance Studies, 1944-1950

Box 86 Committee on Renaissance Studies--Notes, undated, 1947

Box 86 Archivi Danneggiati, 1966

Box 86 Articella Project, 1975-1995, (2 Folders)

Box 86 Arts Research, 1973-1990

Box 86 Berkowitz, David Sandler--The Legacy of Humanism, undated

Box 86 Bertalot, Ludwig--Plato Latin Translations, 1980, (2 Folders)

Box 86 Bibliographical Inquiries, 1941-1958, (2 Folders)

Box 86 Blackwell, Constance

Brown, Alison Chorley

Bartolomeo Scala: Humanistic and Political Writings

Box 86 Manuscript, (5 Folders)

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Box 87 Manuscript, (5 Folders)

Box 87 Correspondence, 1982-1992, (2 Folders)

Box 87 "Carmina,", 1982-1991

Box 87 Book Distribution Lists, 1953-1985

Box 87 Cabeen, David-- Critical Bibliography of French Literature, 1951-1955

Box 87 Cambridge History of Renaissance Philisophy , 1980-1988, (2 Folders)

Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies

Box 87 1964-1976

Box 87 1976-1980

Box 87 1980-1985

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Box 88 Center for Research on the Transmission of Classical Texts Through Oriental Languages,, 1987

Box 88 Chiesa, Carlo Alberto, 1993

Box 88 Clark, Elizabeth-- Notes Taken During Kristeller's History of Philosophy Course,, 1963-1964

Columbia University Libraries

Box 88 Correspondence, 1994-1996

Box 88 Exhibition, 1991-1996

Box 88 Cornell, William J. and Giles Constable-- "Sacrilege and Redemption in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Antonio Rinaldeschi,", 1997

Box 88 Cusanus Congress, 1959-1964

Box 88 Dannefeldt, Karl H.

Box 88 Davies, John, 1990-1991

Box 88 Dictionary on the History of Ideas, 1969-1971

Box 88 Encyclopedia of Aesthetics Article, 1997

Box 88 Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, 1976-1981, (2 Folders)

Box 88 Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, 1996-1997

Box 88 Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1992

Box 88 Fellowship Applications and Correspondence, 1947-1949

Box 88 Ferrari, Lena-- Antonio Ivani, 1984-1994

Folger Shakespeare Library

Box 88 Correspondence, 1973-1974

Box 88 Report and Bibliography, 1973-1974

Box 88 Forte dei Marmi, 1968-1970

Box 88 Friedrich Frommann Verlag (Günther Holzboog), 1963-1966

Box 88 Fulbright Fellowship in Italy, 1951-1953

Box 88 German Higher Education, 1947-1948

Box 88 Giovannetti, Alberto, 1961

Box 88 Götte, Christian, 1986-1987

Box 88 Hankins, James-- "The Baron Thesis After Forty Years,", 1994

Box 88 Hebrew Edition of Kristeller's Works-- Permissions, 1974-1978

Box 88 Hellenistic Philosophy , (4 Folders)

(contains manuscripts, publicity material and correspondence with Columbia University Press)

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Box 89 Heller, Peter, 1957-1964

Box 89 Higher Education--Discrimination, Tenure, and Other Issues, 1970-1979, (2 Folders)

Box 89 Historiches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, 1989

Box 89 International Federation of Renaissance Societies, 1954-1964, (2 Folders)

Box 89 Jaspers, Karl-- Recollections of Karl and Gertrude Jaspers, 1988-1994

Box 89 Journal of the History of Ideas-- Renaissance Essays from the Journal of the History of Ideas , 1989-1993, (2 Folders)

Box 89 Journal of the History of Philosophy--Proposals, 1957-1960

Box 89 Klustein, Ilana, 1981

Box 89 Knauer, G.N.

Box 89 Latin Learning--General and Financial, 1956-1966

Latin Manuscript Books

Box 89 Research and Correspondence, 1949-1984, (7 Folders)

Box 89 Indexing, 1983

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Box 90 Manuscript Drafts, 1950-1990

Box 90 Correspondence, 1987-1995, (4 Folders)

Box 90 Volume II-- Manuscript

Box 90 Lectures and Conferences--Correspondence, 1949-1977

Box 90 Lectures--Correspondence (West Coast), 1959-1967

Box 90 Libraries, 1941-1945

Madrid Leonardo Report

Box 90 Contents List for Dossier

Box 90 Documentation, 1959-1993

Box 90 Newspapers and Magazines, 1967-1993

Box 90 Scholarly Articles, 1968

Box 90 Mahoney, Edward

Manual of Research Techniques in Medieval and Renaissance Hinstory

Box 90 Notes and Drafts, 1982-1995

Box 90 Drafts and Correspondence, 1994

Box 90 Correspondence with Cynthia Pyle, 1993-1994

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Box 91 Manuscript Drafts, 1995-1996

Manuscripts Catalog

Box 91 Bibliographies, 1957

Box 91 Microfilm Catalogue of POK, undated

Box 91 Microfilm Program, 1946-1961, (3 Folders)

Box 91 Mauro, Thomas

Box 91 Mediaeval Academy of America, 1959-1983, (5 Folders)

Box 91 Medieval and Renaissance Encyclopedia--Proposals, 1945-1946

Box 91 Microfilm Conference--Proposed, 1967-1968

Box 91 Microfilm Corpus, 1986-1987

Box 91 Microfilm and Photostat Collection Lists, 1962-1987

Box 91 Monfasani, John--"Ad Divinum Paulum…"

Box 91 Moyer, Ann-- "Brandolinus: De Musica et Poetica,", 1989

Box 91 Naldi--Grant, Leonard, 1965-1974

Box 91 National Gallery of Art (Ginerva De'Benci), 1967-1969

Box 91 Peroso and Cordie--"Folengus, Nicodemus, and Theophilus,", 1987-1989

Box 91 Philology and History Seminar, 1993-1994

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Box 92 Pisa Lectures (Columbia University Press), 1980-1992

Box 92 Pierpont Morgan Library, 1992

Box 92 Pomponazzi, 1968-1971

Box 92 Pyle, Cynthia, 1992

Box 92 Renaissance Club--New York City, 1945-1947

Renaissance Society of America

Box 92 General, 1953-1979, (8 Folders)

Box 92 Bennett, Josephine--Correspondence, 1954-1960

Box 92 Committee on International Cooperation, 1953-1958, (3 Folders)

Box 92 Richards, John, 1963-1966

Box 92 Salz, Jerome

Box 92 Sanford, Eva Matthews, 1952-1954

Box 92 Schnusenberg, Christine, 1996

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Box 93 The State of Learning in the Humanities of Higher Education, 1980-1985, (5 Folders)

Box 93 Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters , 1978-1995, (15 Folders)

(contains correspondence, permissions agreements, distribution lists and manuscripts)

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Box 94 Text File, 1941-1977

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Box 95 Text File, 1941-1977

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Box 93 Todd, Robert-- Themistius

Box 93 Weiss, Helen, 1936-1940

Box 93 Zintzaen, Clemens, 1938

Subseries III.2: Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum, 1942-1986

Referred to as CTC, theCatalogus Translationus et Commentariorumis a compilation of Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin translations and commentaries. Subseries 2 is comprised of two sections, correspondence and topical files. Correspondence is arranged by date, with some alphabetized folders, including a portion on the Editorial Board. Multiple people can be found in all three areas. Topical files are alphabetized with an emphasis on Greek and Latin author lists, Libanius, Persius, contributors (under Subject Files), and a draft of Volume I.

General Correspondence

Request Box 96

Box 96 1945-1948

Box 96 1949-1950

Box 96 1950-1951

Box 96 1952-1954

Box 96 1955-1957

Box 96 1957-1959

Box 96 1967-1970

Box 96 1970

Box 96 1971

Box 96 1971-1972

Box 96 1972-1973

Box 96 1973

Box 96 1974

Box 96 1974-1975

Box 96 1975

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Box 97 1976, (2 Folders)

Box 97 1977

Box 97 1978

Box 97 1978-1979

Box 97 1979-1986

Box 97 1990

Box 97 1992-1993

Box 97 1994-1996

Box 97 1997

Alphabetical Correspondence

Box 97 A through L, 1946-1948

Box 97 M through Z, 1946-1948

Editorial Board

Box 97 1942-1946

Box 97 1947-1952

Box 97 1954-1961

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Box 98 1962-1966

Box 98 1967

Box 98 Hutton, James, 1942-1957

Box 98 Hutton, James, 1957-1972

Box 98 Kibre, Pearl, 1946-1948

Box 98 Addenda and Corrigenda, 1972-1975

Box 98 Bibliography, 1946-1948

Box 98 Bibliography, 1950-1958

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Box 99 Bibliography

(card file)

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Box 98 Cranz, Edward--Correspondence, 1953-1958

Box 98 Cranz, Edward--Manuscripts, 1954

Box 98 Floridi, Luciano, 1993-1999

Box 98 General, 1952-1978

Box 98 General, 1978

Greek Author Lists

Box 98 1948

Box 98 1950-1952

Box 98 1953-1955

Box 98 1955-1959

Box 98 Klustein, Ilana, 1965-1982

Box 98 Latin Author Lists, 1953

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Box 100 Libanius, 1953-1969

Box 100 Libanius, 1955-1965

Box 100 Lockwood, Robert, 1980

Box 100 Marsh, David,-- Xenophon, 1988-1989

Persius

Box 100 1972

Box 100 1973-1974

Box 100 1979

Box 100 Published Articles, 1948-1956

Box 100 Sample Entries for Commentaries, 1946-1947

Box 100 Sample Entries for Translations, 1947-1948

Box 100 Seneff, Susan, 1981-1982

Subject Files

Contributor's Reports

Box 100 1945-1947

Box 100 1948-1951

Box 100 1951-1952

Box 100 1953-1954

Box 100 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 1946-1948

Box 100 Project Documents, 1946-1948

Box 100 Project Documents, 1948-1950

Societies

Box 100 1944-1946

Box 100 1947-1949

Box 100 1950-1951

Box 100 1952-1968

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Box 101 Supplementary Translations and Addenda to Bibliography, 1950-1951

Box 101 Vergil, 1975

Volume I

Box 101 Page Proofs, 1959, (2 Folders)

Box 101 Page Proofs with Correspondence, 1958-1959

Box 101 Typescript through Page 120, [1950s1960s]

Box 101 Typescript Pages 121 through 410, [1950s-1960s]

Box 101 Typescript Pages 411 through End, [1950s-1960s]

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Box 102 Card Files: Bibliography and Contributor Address File

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Box 103 Card Files: Bibliography and Contributor Address File

Subseries III.3: Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA), 1966-1968

CRIA is a committee formed in response to the flood of 1966 in Florence, Italy. Subseries 3 contains: committee correspondence, photographs of the flood damage, academic articles on the damage done to works of art and manuscripts, and reports on committee work. Included are related books and articles on the flood.

General

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Box 104 1966

Box 104 1967

Box 104 1967-1969

Box 104 Archivio di Stato di Firenze , 1966

Box 104 Articles, 1966-1967

Box 104 Articles, 1967-1968

Box 104 Booklets, 1966

Box 104 Photographs, 1966

Box 104 Reports and Related Material, 1966-1967

Box 104 Reports and Related Material, 1967-1968

Box 104 Scuola Città Pestalozzi Pamphlets--Numbers 1 through 6, 1967

Box 104 Scuola Città Pestalozzi Pamphlets--Numbers 7 through 10, 1967

Subseries III.4: Journal of the History of Ideas, 1941-1987

Subseries 4 includes committee correspondence, minutes and reports. Note that general folders include a mix of these three.

Request Box 105

Box 105 General, 1941-1946

Box 105 General, 1947-1955, 1977, 1947-1955, 1977

Correspondence

Box 105 1979-1982

Box 105 1983-1984

Box 105 1984-1985

Box 105 1985

Box 105 1992-1993

Minutes and Reports

Box 105 1950-1968

Box 105 1969-1972

Box 105 1972-1977

Box 105 1978-1987

Subseries III.5: Professional Contacts

This series is comprised of notecards listing Kristeller's colleagues from around the world along with their addresses, affiliations, and research interests.

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Box 106 Colleagues

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Box 107 Colleagues

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Box 108 Colleagues and Academic Institutions

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Box 109 Offices

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Box 110 Deceased and Institutions

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Box 111 Institutions

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