Poetics.

gilbertallan Preliminary Inventory of the Allan H. Gilbert Papers, 1926-1976 Processed by: Katherine A. Crassons, Ming Guo; machine-readable finding aid created by: Ming Guo, Alice L. Poffinberger

Aleph Number: 003010592

Machine-readable finding aid derived from automated markup system. Date of source: July 6, 2001 Processed by Katherine A. Crassons, Ming Guo July 6, 2001; Finding Aid encoded by Ming Guo, Alice L. Poffinberger, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, August 27, 2001 Description is in English. 09-26-2007 Addition (2007-0141) made to electronic finding aid. Scope and content notes added, item count changed from 12.36 to 12.86 linear ft., linear feet changed from 11,125 to 11,425. These changes were made by John Mayrose. 10-21-2005 PUBLIC "-//David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library//TEXT (US::NDD::::Allan H. Gilbert Papers)//EN" "gilbertallan.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Also, the top level of the finding aid (above the dsc) changed to conform to current Rubenstein Library and NC EAD standards as laid out in the Inventory Style Guide and in the NCEAD Best Practice Guidelines. Within the dsc, dates for series were normalized. These changes were made by Michelle Belden. Also, container TYPE and LABEL attribute values were standardized according to the Rubenstein Library EAD 2002 manual and the NCEAD eadlocal.ent by Ruth E. Bryan.The tag list inside index was changed to indexentry by Ruth E. Bryan. Preliminary Inventory of the Allan H. Gilbert Papers, 1926-1976 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

Descriptive Summary Allan H. Gilbert Papers, 1926-1976 Gilbert, Allan H., 1888- 12.56 Linear Feet 11,525 Items David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. English. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Allan H. Gilbert Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University

Provenance

The Allan H. Gilbert Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript 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.

Biographical Note

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

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.

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.

Gilbert, Allan H., 1888- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Milton, John, 1608-1674. Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Homer. Aristotle. Aristotle. Poetics. Black-and-white photographs. Microfilms. Stats. Contents of Collection Accession 1994-0081 1 Professional Correspondence (10 folders) Academic Work Ariosto and Machiavelli (14 folders) 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 3 Academic Work (cont.) [English] Renaissance Literature and Art (26 folders) [Classical Literature and Poetics] (13 folders) 4 Academic Work (cont.) Poetics (28 folders) Orlando Furioso (6 folders) Machiavelli: Photos of early editions (3 folders) 5 Academic Work (cont.) Machiavelli: Photos of early editions cont. (5 folders) Orlando Furioso (17 folders) Poetics (9 folders) 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) 7 Academic Work (cont.) Machievelli: Photos of early editions (2 folders) Ariosto, photos of mss. (3 folders) [Il Testo de Cinque Canti] 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) 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 stats A B C D G H 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 1 Academic Work Peacham (7 folders) Professional Correspondence 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.

1Card index files