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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
rbml@library.columbia.edu
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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Paul Oskar Kristeller papers, 1910-1989

115 linear feet
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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Marlboro Press Records, 1932-2001, bulk 1982-2000

18.5 linear feet
The Marlboro Press Records contain the administrative, financial, and working files of the Marlboro Press, a small publisher of European works in translation between 1982 and the mid 1990s, when it merged with Northwestern University Press.
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Lorenzo Da Ponte papers, 1809 - 1831

9 folders

Letters, some verse, and a few documents.

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Hans Nachod papers, 1930-1950

2 boxes

Notes, transcripts, and corrected typescripts relating to various scholarly studies of the Italian poet Petrarch, made by Nachod. The material includes both published and unpublished writings.

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Guglielmo Ferrero papers, 1871-1944, 1981, bulk 1890-1942

70 linear feet
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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Mario Emilio Cosenza papers

24 linear feet

Files and records of Professor Cosenza, for his monumental work, BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ITALIAN HUMANISTS AND OF THE WORLD OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP IN ITALY, 1300-1800. Also, his notes on Petrarch, the Italian Renaissance, and the Italian Humanists.

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Luciano Rebay collection of Giuseppe Ungaretti, 1964-1970, bulk 1927-1989

2.1 Linear Feet
Rebay and Ungaretti were close friends. Rebay held the first endowed Ungaretti chair of Italian literature and assembled this collection of recording and files.
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George A. Plimpton collection of portraits, 1550-1920

40 items

Primarily oil portraits of 18th century literary figures. There are also engravings, and pen and ink and pencil sketches. Among the literary figures are portraits of Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle; Colley Cibber; Charles Dickens; John Evelyn; John Foxe; David Garrick; Thomas Gray; Charles Lamb; Sir Thomas More; Sir Walter Raleigh; Samuel Richardson; Richard B. Sheridan; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; William M. Thackeray; and others. There is also a portrait by Blanche Ames of George A. Plimpton. Among the artists represented in the collection are James Maubert, Frederick Sandys, and William Hogarth (attrib.)

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George A. Plimpton Papers, 1634-1956

24 linear feet
The George A. Plimpton Papers consist largely of personal and professional correspondence, financial and real estate records, personal diaries and albums, writings, and lectures produced by or for George Arthur Plimpton. But the Papers also contains not only the correspondence and records of Plimpton's colleagues at Ginn and Company, the publishing house that Plimpton led for decades, but also correspondence and records relating to the dozens of other institutions and organizations that Plimpton helped lead. In addition to extensive correspondence relating to Plimpton's collecting of rare books, manuscripts, and historical artifacts, the Papers also contain such diverse items as autographs of presidents, handwriting specimens, studies of medieval manuscripts, and documents relating to the American slave trade.
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