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Preliminary Inventory of the Allan H. Gilbert Papers, 1926-1976

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Descriptive Summary

Title
Allan H. Gilbert Papers, 1926-1976
Creator
Gilbert, Allan H., 1888-
Extent
12.56 Linear Feet
11,525 Items
Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
However, patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.
Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Allan H. Gilbert Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Allan H. Gilbert Papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a gift in 1994.
Processing Information
Processed by Katherine A. Crassons, Ming Guo
Completed July 6, 2001
Encoded by Ming Guo, Alice L. Poffinberger
Addition (2007-0141) minimally processed by John Mayrose.
Completed September 26, 2007
Encoded by John Mayrose
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
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Biographical Note

Professor of English at Duke University, specialist in Renaissance Italy.

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Collection Overview

Manuscripts, research files, correspondence, approximately 1287 black-and-white photographs and photostats of documents from various repositories and used in his research, and 3 reels of microfilm. Subjects of the research files and manuscripts include: Dante, Machiavelli, Milton, Jonson, and Aristotle (his POETICS).
Addition (2007-0141; 400 items, 0.5 lin. ft.) contains index files documenting the Gilbert's book collection. Many of these books are now in the collection at the Rare Book, Manuscript and Sepcial Collections Library at Duke University.
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Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
List of Series in Collection
Accession 1994-0081
Accession 1994-096
Accession (2007-0141)
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Preliminary Description of Unprocessed Collection

Accession 1994-0081

Box 1
Professional Correspondence   (10 folders)
Academic Work
Ariosto and Machiavelli   (14 folders)
Box 2
Academic Work (cont.)
Ariosto and Machievelli   (36 folders)
Literary Manuscripts, Reproductions
Boiardo CF 1049, photo-reproduction   (2 folders)
Cinque Canti - Codex Toddei   (2 folders)
OF 1.1 -24.110, photocopy
OF 24.110 - 46. last, photocopy
Box 3
Academic Work (cont.)
[English] Renaissance Literature and Art   (26 folders)
[Classical Literature and Poetics]   (13 folders)
Box 4
Academic Work (cont.)
Poetics   (28 folders)
Orlando Furioso   (6 folders)
Machiavelli: Photos of early editions   (3 folders)
Box 5
Academic Work (cont.)
Machiavelli: Photos of early editions cont.   (5 folders)
Orlando Furioso   (17 folders)
Poetics   (9 folders)
Box 6
Academic Work (cont.)
Poetics (cont.)   (39 folders)
Text of Cinque Canti 1.69   (Index cards, 2 boxes)
Orlando Furioso March '55, vol. 2 of Debenedetti, Microfilm   (3 reels)
Box 7
Academic Work (cont.)
Machievelli: Photos of early editions   (2 folders)
Ariosto, photos of mss.   (3 folders)
[Il Testo de Cinque Canti]
Box 8
Academic Work (cont.)
Vincent de Beauvois, De Morale Principis Institutione, photos of mss.
Trinity College Cambridge, ms. No. 347(8)
Ryland's Furioso, photos of mss.   (4 folders)
Box 9
Acedemic Work (cont.)
Castruccio
Cinque Canti Variants- Ribbon Copy (empty)
Cinque Canti Variants- Anna maria's Version
English Rejected, copy 3 of copy Anna Maria, 1957 October, Carbon as sent to Laterza
The Frick Collection Veronese Wisdom and Strength
Florentine Portraits
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Ariosto 5 Canti and Composition   (two folders)
La Poesia (complete carbon with revision by Panope's notes)   (three folders)
Virtues II (empty)
Metrics of P(aradise) Lost
Poesia Postille Carbon   (three folders)
Madison Papers
[Machiavelli]
Victory Winged Nat'l Musemn, Naples; Victory Winged Nat'l Musemn; Victory of Samothrace, Louvre
Urania (See Edgar Wind) Astronomy Campanile del Duomo, Firenze
Venus, Birth.
Rubens, Musée Royal de Bruxelles. See Johnson Collection: Venus and Vulcan
[Letters]
[Raccomandate]
Manoscritto Senza Lettera
MLA 1947
Leopere Minore Di Ariosto. In Writing Should Use Subjunctive After "I Think" , "I believe"
Lettera
2 Negromante
Translation of 2 Negromante
Monuments
S. Mara Del Popolo, Rome (Virtues Shown); Chiesa di S. Domenico, Bologna( Virtues Shown); Chiesa Di S. Agostino, San Gimignano, by B. Da Maiano (Virtues Shown); Castel Nuovo, Naples, Arco dii Trionfo del Re Alfonso I. D' Aragona
Virtues IV, Venetian Lace, Hope, Temperance
Winds, See Edgar Wind( empty)
Tarquin and Lucretia, by Titian
Bronze Head of Persephone 4th Century B.C., Syracus
Persephone and Pluto (Frenth Translation of Ovid, 1539). See Pluto, also Devil
Orpheus and Eurydice, paris Psalter
Nymph (River),
by fountain (wearing necklace, bracelet, and "a lawn" ) Cranack?
San Marco, Piazza, See Blue Venezia (empty)
Silenve, Rubens
Dancing Faun. Nat'l Museum, Naples. See Edgar Wind: Satyr, Bacchus; See Johnson Collection: Faun, Silenvs
5 Canti   (six folders)
Of Variants Ribbon on Text of Cinque Canti
Rough Copy Corrected to 1956 August 8
Anna Marias' Translation for Cinque Canti
Hercules in His Bowl (Michigan)
cf. Bacon and Jonson and Herymick (Sp?)
Armor Stibbert
Croce Bulletin etc (not all here), 1961 February 14
Tobit
Botticelli, Florence, Savoldo, Borghese Gallery, Filippino Lippi, Kress Collection, Titian, Venice, Chiesa di San Marziale

Accession 1994-096

Box 1
Academic Work
Peacham   (7 folders)
Professional Correspondence
Box 2
Greek Manuscript, photo-reproduction

Accession (2007-0141)

1 Box
Addition (400 items, 0.5 lin. ft.) contains index files documenting the Gilbert's book collection. Many of these books are now in the collection at the Rare Book, Manuscript and Sepcial Collections Library at Duke University.
Box 1
Card index files