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Special Collections at The Claremont Colleges Library
The Claremont Colleges can boast two special collections libraries. Located in Honnold/Mudd Library, Special Collections is a place where you can connect to the past by examining rare books, reading original letters and manuscripts, and studying historical photographs and other objects. We collect, preserve, and make accessible collections that span more than 900 years of human history, with particular depth in 16th-20th centuries, the American West, science, music and theater, Asian history and culture, books and printing, and the history of The Claremont Colleges and the larger Claremont community, among other subjects, places, and eras.
The Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College housed in the uniquely beautiful, historic Kaufmann Wing of the library building offers a wide variety of primary resources to The Claremont Colleges and wider community of scholars. Subject strengths include fine printing and artists' books, women's history, literature, and art; Denison holds the papers for the College's founder, Ellen Browning Scripps, as well as the Scripps College archives.
The Daniel C. Holtom Papers include letters, published and unpublished articles, printed items, photographs, clippings, and manuscript writings.
Daniel Clarence Holtom was among the first American scholars to study Shinto in Japan. He was born in Michigan in 1884, earned degrees from Kalamazoo College, The University of Chicago, and Newton Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Baptist ministry in 1910 and went immediately to Japan as a missionary. In Japan he was professor of modern languages at Tokyo Gakuin, professor of church history in the Tokyo Japanese Theological Seminary, and professor of the history of religion and church history in the Kanto Gakuin of Yokohama. Dr. Holtom was dean of theology in the Aoyama Gakuin of Tokyo from 1936-1940.
When he returned to the United States he was Haskell Lecturer at The University of Chicago then lectured at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School and taught Japanese language at Redlands University. He died in 1962 in San Gabriel, California.
The Crispin Collection of exquisite examples of early bookmaking and fine binding was given to Honnold Library by Dr. Egerton Crispin during the decade of the 1950s and early 1960s. Nearly fifty Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, many of them in leather gilt-tooled slip cases, including 12th century sermons, 13th century Bibles, 14th and 15th century books of hours, missals, psalters and antiphonals are among the contents of the collection. These are now cataloged definitively in Dutschke and Rouse, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Claremont Libraries (University of California Press, 1986). 17th century patents of nobility, early 18th century Slavonic manuscripts—one with colored primitives, and 19th century Turkish, Persian and West African Qur'ans complete the manuscript holdings.
Printed books include fifty-three incunabula and 226 fine editions of classics, and related reference books. Among the examples of fine printing are a 1541 Cranmer’s Bible, a first edition, second issue King James Bible, and a fourth folio Shakespeare.
See:
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Claremont Libraries (University of California Press, 1986)
http://blais.claremont.edu/record=b1308272~S0
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The Michael G. Wilson Collection, presented by Mr. Wilson to his alma mater, Harvey Mudd College, and to Sprague Library in 1986, provides the college community with a splendid opportunity for the examination and appreciation of the beauty and quality of finely printed books. Most of the books are testaments to 15th and 16th century English, German, French, and Italian printing and book illustration. There are twenty-six outstanding examples of early printed books, eleven of which are incunabula.
Examples include a Book of Hours (Paris, 1502), printed on vellum and notable for the ornamental borders surrounding each woodcut; beautifully hand-colored initial letters appear throughout the text. The Nuremberg Chronicle (Nuremberg, 1493), a monumental work of world history by the town physician Dr. Hartmann Schedel, contains hundreds of fine woodcuts by the artists Wohlgemuth, under whom Duerer apprenticed, and Pleydenwurff. Among other items are Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Great
World Systems (Florence, 1632), Liber Geographiae of Ptolemy (Venice, 1511), an early world atlas, The Great Herbal by Peter Treveris (London, 1526), and Calendario (Venice, 1476) of Johannes Regiomontanus.
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Forming the core of the Rare Book Room at Denison Library is the John I. Perkins Collection of more than six thousand volumes bequeathed in 1941 by this Los Angeles book collector who wished his books to be used by students. Subsequently, there have been many generous benefactors and donors. Important resources for the study of the history of the book are here: cuneiform tablets, papyrus and palm leaf books, thirteenth to sixteenth century illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, and splendid examples of modern press work from the turn-of-the-century to the present. The great English presses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries are here; all of the books printed by William Morris at his Kelmscott Press are in perfect condition. Books produced at the Ashendene Press and others printed and bound at the Doves Press are included. Famous American presses run by John Henry Nash, Bruce Rogers, the Grabhorn brothers, and Ward Ritchie are represented. More contemporary presses include Andrew Hoyem’s Arion Press, Walter Hamady’s Perishable Press, and the Bird and Bull Press of Henry Morris.
See also, his letter collection:
http://blais.claremont.edu/record=b3570059~S0
For further information, contact
Special Collections at Denison:
Ella Strong Denison Library
1090 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: (909) 607-3941
Fax: (909) 607-1548
denison@scrippscollege.edu
Judy Harvey Sahak, Director of the Ella Strong Denison Library
Dorran Boyle, Library Associate
Here are letters from primarily American and English artists, pioneers, suffragists, jurists, statesmen, poets, scientists, humorists, actresses, essayists, educators, generals, novelists, and musicians. Documents are often on vellum and are signed by Presidents, Kings, Queens and two Popes. Mr. Perkins original collection of correspondence has been augmented by about 600 items in collections and gifts acquired since Mr. Perkins’ bequest. The Autograph Letter, Signed inventory (PDF) lists contents of the collection.
This digital Perkins Autograph Letter Collection includes not only the texts of the documents, but images of supporting material such as envelopes, bills of sale, transcripts, clippings, articles, biographies, photographs, and other ephemera and association items.
The Oxford Collection encompasses the world of Oxford University, the city of Oxford, England, its men and women, and their influence on the outside world. The collection began with William W. Clary’s (1888–1971) “respect for learning and a veneration of age.” He believed “that the importance of Oxford as an educational institution and the similarity of our plan of organization at Claremont to that of Oxford ought to make a study of Oxford's history and methods of direct and immediate value to us.” It was Mr. Clary’s desire that the collection be used for active reading and study; and by the very fact of bringing books together on the subject of Oxford, that the whole would be of greater use to students and scholars than the scattered parts.
The collection has grown to include a wealth of material on the history and governance of Oxford University, its system of education, Oxford reforms, and student life. Literature, poetry, prose, and drama which relate to the University, as well as biographies of prominent Oxford men and women may be found in the collection. There are books on philosophy, religion, and science at Oxford from the 13th century to present times. The works of John Wesley and the Methodist and Tractarian Movements are well represented.
Though developed as a useful rather than antiquarian collection, there are many rare items. These include incunabula relating to Medieval philosophy; 16th century imprints of the Oxford University Press; Daniel Press publications; first editions; undergraduate manuscript notebooks written by John Abbott at Balliol College, ca. 1599; and books whose bindings, illustrations, inscriptions, or provenance confer special value. An endowment and gifts from the Clary family make possible the continuing growth of the collection.
Nineteenth-Century Religious Pamphlets, the gift of William Clary, deal primarily with religious subjects current during the latter half of the nineteenth century in England. In the main, the categories of the approximately eight hundred, uncataloged pamphlets include some of the sermons and speeches of Henry P. Liddon; the “Occasional Papers” of the Eastern Church Association; the Speeches of William E.Gladstone; charges by Bishops of the Church of England; controversies, including one over the alleged heresy of Bishop Colenso; pamphlets by Richard Littledale; the Public Worship Regulation Bill; and Ritualism, an outgrowth of Tractarianism.
Also see,
"NineteenthCentury Religious Pamphlets," Honnold Library Record , Vol.III, No.1, Spring 1960.
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/hlr/id/5/rec/1
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The Robert Guy McCutchan Collection of Hymnology was a gift in 1957 of McCutchan (1851–1920) and his wife Helen C. McCutchan. For many years Dean of the School of Music at DePauw University, McCutchan was editor of the 1935 edition of the Methodist hymnal. The collection is particularly rich in Methodist hymnals and psalters including early editions by John Wesley, but it also contains hymns that have been sung in America by all denominations.
The collection dates from the early 17th century to the present, the majority are American publications. The range is broader than hymnology: song books of temperance societies, Grange and fraternal organizations, and political parties; Civil War songs; and children’s song books are to be found among the titles.
In 1954, S. E. Boyd Smith compiled an annotated Catalog of American Tune Books Printed before 1851 in this collection, in which the more than two hundred volumes printed in America between 1757 and 1851 are described. A supplement lists twenty English, French, and German tune books printed from 1612 to 1850 and Sunday School songbooks of the same period. Dr. McCutchan’s papers in the collection include the editor’s dummy of the 1935 Methodist hymnal. Reference books and the microfilm edition of Dictionary of American Hymnnology: First-Line Index are useful to the research of hymnologists. A file from 1949 to present of The Hymn, the publication of the Hymn Society of America, rounds out the collection.
Catalog of American Tune Books Printed before 1851
http://blais.claremont.edu/record=b1038915~S0
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The Congregational Church Papers brings together records from a number of Southern California Congregational Church organizations. The earliest records include those of the Congregational Ministerial Union of Los Angeles and vicinity, 1908–1934; Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Southern California, 1888–1925; and Woman’s Board of Missions for the Pacific, 1889–1914. However, the greatest portion of the collection is annual reports and miscellaneous items from member churches of the Congregational Conference of Southern California and the Southwest, 1952–1963, though a few items date to the early 1900s. Papers from women’s organizations account for more than a third of the collection.
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The Reverend Walton E. Cole Papers consist of correspondence, clippings, and publications on the radio battle fought in the late 1930s between Cole and Father Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest who was among the first to exploit the possibilities of preaching on the air. Coughlin, became highly controversial when his broadcasts took a political turn toward Nazism and anti-Semitism. Walton Cole, a Unitarian minister in Toledo, Ohio, tried to prevail upon the Catholic hierarchy to have Coughlin's inflammatory broadcasts stopped. Walton Cole’s widow, who donated the papers, has provided personal notes and reminiscences about this tense episode.
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The China Missionaries Oral History Project is a series of interviews conducted by the Claremont Graduate School of Oral History Program in 1970 and 1971 that recorded and transcribed the experiences of missionaries to China. Missionaries interviewed came from several denominations and geographical locations in China.
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The collection contains correspondence, diaries, writings, photographs, reports, article clippings, and booklets that document the experiences of American missionaries and educators in China. This collection was assembled through the China Missionaries Oral History Project at Claremont Graduate School from 1969-1971. The collection covers the years 1889-1972 with the bulk of the material ranging from 1910-1950.
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The Bodman Collection serves as a principal resource and focus for Italian Renaissance studies from 1450 to the 16th century. The gift of the late Harold C. Bodman (1886–1960), the collection reflects his interest in the period, which was stimulated during the time that he and his wife Ysabel Bodman made their home at the Villa Diana above Florence. The Villa Diana (given by Lorenzo de Medici in 1483 to the poet Angelo Poliziano), with its rich heritage of Renaissance associations inspired Bodman to read widely in the works of Poliziano and the group of Italian humanist scholars, philosophers, artists, and writers of the Medici court as well as those of the Platonic Academy. He explored classical sources and followed their influence on later Italian writers, an interest which led him over the years to assemble the books and manuscripts which are now known as the Bodman Italian Renaissance Collection.
Mr. Bodman gave the collection to Honnold Library in 1956 and added to it until his death in 1960. His biography of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent Realist, showed his very wide background in the period, not only in its literary and philosophical expressions, but in the details of daily life, the dress, the manners, and the customs.
Though the complete works of Homer, including the rare Miscomini printing of the Iliad and Odyssey (1488), take their place as the keystone of the collection, the works of Poliziano form the important nucleus of the collection. Among the finest volumes in this extensive section are the first and second editions of his Greek and Latin writings, the Opera printed in Venice in 1498 and in Florence in 1499, and the great Basle edition of 1553. There is also the first edition of his Miscellaneorum Centuria Prima printed in 1489. Among other first editions are his translation of Herodian’s History (1493), his Letters (1499), and his poems, Silva (1491). There are virtually all the later editions of his writings, as well as translations and scholarly studies. Works of other members of the Platonic Academy include the first three editions of Ficino’s Della Cristiana Religione (1474, 1484,and 1500), and the first editions of his Letters (1495 and 1497), Theologica Platonica (1482), De Vita (1489), and his famous translation of Plato (1484). Pico della Mirandola, Cristoforo Landino, Leonardo Bruni, and others are equally well represented. There are good, though not exhaustive, collections of the works of Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Savonarola, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Tasso, and Ariosto. And Florentine history, from the earliest chronicles of Villani, Dino Compagni, and Bruni to modern writers is covered in depth. Critical and historical studies of the Renaissance and bibliographical and other reference tools round out the book collection.
Among the 170 incunabula are the first printed text of Aristotle (1469), the first Greek grammar in Latin (1497), the first Aldine edition of Crastoni’s Greek-Latin dictionary (1497),and the Latin text of Alberti’s architectural writings (1485). Fine examples of early printing include the Sweynheym and Pannartz 1469 edition of Bessarion’s Adversus Platonis calumniatorem, showing a clear Roman type face for the first time in the history of printing with movable type. Also Nicholas Jenson’s first edition of Diogenes Laertius’ Vita et sententiae philosophorum (1475), known for the design and proportion of its magnificent Roman type, and his first edition of Pliny the Elder (1476). Incunabula are listed in Frederick Goff’s third census of Incunabula in American Libraries.
Among the manuscripts is an exquisite Book of Hours, brilliantly illuminated on fine vellum, done for the Strozzi family in fifteenth century Florence. There are manuscript letters from many of the Medici, Cosimo, Giovanni, Giuliano, Giulio, and Lorenzo and a most interesting letter from Poliziano to Lorenzo.
See both articles on the collection:
John H. Geerken,"Notes from the Fountainhead: The Bodman Collection and Italian Renaissance Studies in Claremont",
Margaret Mulhauser, "The Bodman Italian Renaissance Collection,"
Honnold Library Record, (Spring 1974): Vol.XV, No.1
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/hlr/id/17
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