Finding aid for the Myra Dickman Orth research papers, 1952-2003
Scope and Content of Collection
Series I. Education, 1952-1995
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Subseries I.A. Course notebooks, 1954-1995
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Cornell University, 1952-1956
Fine Arts 101-102: Introduction to Fine Arts, 1952-1953
Fine Arts 505: Italian Renaissance Art, 1953-1954
Fine Arts 111-112: History of Architecture, 1954-1955
Fine Arts 424-425: History of American Architecture, 1954-1955
Fine Arts 309: English Renaissance Literature, 1954
Fine Arts 944: Baroque Painting Seminar, 1956
The New School for Social Research, 1961, undated
Modern Art, 1961
Music, undated
French, undated
The New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 1962-1995
Colin Eisler: French Renaissance Art, 1962
José Lopez-Rey: Spanish Baroque, 1962
Charles Sterling: French 15th Century Art, 1962
Wolfgang Lotz: Italian Villa, 1962
Charles Sterling: French Court Painting, 1962
Harry Bober: Medieval Art, 1962-1963
Colin Eisler, Charles Sterling and Craig H. Smyth Seminars, 1962-1970
Henry Russell Hitchcock: XIXth Century Architecture, 1970
Press cuttings : Professor Ernst Gombrich and Institute of Fine Arts (NYU), 1959-1975
Robert Goldwater: Symbolism, 1971
Colin Eisler: North Italian Painting, 1971
Katherine Weill-Garris Posner: Renaissance Patronage, 1971
Colin Eisler: Transformations, 1971
Henry Russell Hitchcock: Northern Architecture, 1973
Irving Lavin: XVIIth Century Sculpture, 1973
Donald Posner: Caravaggio, 1973
Bibliography Seminar, 1973
Course listings, 1961-1995
Other notebooks and documentation, 1971-1992
Notebooks and papers, 1971-1982
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Correspondence related to Vladimir Nabokov lectures, 1979-1992
Subseries I.B. MA and PhD, 1952-1976
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MA thesis, 1952-1971
Copy, undated
Correspondence, 1952-1971
PhD dissertation, 1976
Corrections, manuscripts notes and documentation, 1976
Copy, undated
Series II. Publications and research, 1970-2003
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Series II.A. Publications, 1970-2003
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Articles, 1970-2003
"Alexander and Apelles," 1970
"Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Netherlands (1470-1515)," 1971
"Attitudes towards Space in XVIth Century French Graphics before the School of Fontainebleau," 1973
"François Ier as a Subject in French History Painting," 1975
"A French Illuminated Treaty of 1527," 1978
"A Portrait Enamel of the French Renaissance," 1979
"Geoffroy Tory and French Manuscript Illuminations" in Revue de l'art, 1979
"Geoffroy Tory and French Manuscript Illuminations" in Revue de l'art, 1981
"Two Books of Hours for Jean Lallement le jeune," 1980
"The Magdalen Shrine of la Sainte-Baume in 1516," 1981
"François du Moulin and the Journal of Louise de Savoie," 1981
"Godefroy le Batave, miniaturiste à la cour de François Ier : les Triomphes de Pétrarque," 1982
"Godefroy le Batave, Illuminator of the French Royal Family (1516-1526)," 1982
"The Prison of Love: Medieval Romance in French Renaissance and its Illustrations," 1983
"The Triumphs of Petrarch illuminated by Godefroy le Batave," 1984
"From Imitation to Reformation in France: The Carrying of the Cross and Devotional Texts in Angoulême family," 1984-1985
"Antwerp Mannerist Models of Drawings in French Renaissance Books of Hours: A Case Study of the 1520s Hours Workshop," 1984-1990
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'Madame sainte Anne: the Holy Kinship, the Royal Trinity and Louise of Savoy," 1987-1991
Book reviews, 1988-1991
"The Master of François de Rohan: A Familiar French Renaissance Miniaturist with a New Name," 1989-1994
"Jean du Tillet and the Illustrations of the Grand recueil des roys for Charles IX (1566)," 1992-2000
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"Marguerite et la tradition du manuscrit à la Renaissance en France," 1995
"Hours of Henri II," 1995
"What Goes Around: Borders and Frames in French Manuscripts," 1996
Book reviews, 1996-1997
"Dedicating Women, Manuscript Culture in the French Renaissance: The Case of Anne de Graville and Catherine d'Amboise," 1997
"Louise de Savoie et le pouvoir du livre," 1997
"L'enluminure au temps de Henri II," 1997-2001
"Family Values: Manuscripts as Gifts and Legacies among French Renaissance Women," 1999-2001
"Reconsidering Radical Beauty: Marguerite de Navarre's Illuminated Evangelical Catechism and Confession (Arsenal, ms. 5096)," 1999-2001
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Contribution for the Festschrift in honor of James Marrow, 2000-2002
Books reviews, 2000
"The English Great Bible of 1539 and the French Connection," 2000-2001
"Lyon et Rome à l'antique : les illustrations dans les Antiquités romaines de Guillaume du Choul," 2000-2003
List of offprints, 1981-2001
"Godefroy le Batave: His Miniatures in their Manuscript Setting," undated
"A Manuscript Leaf from the French Renaissance: A Celestial Assembly of Virgins and Martyrs (Ecouen, Musée de la Renaissance, EC 287)," undated
Exhibition catalogs, 1999-2002
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Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections , 1999-2000
L'art du manuscrit de la Renaissance en France, Musée Condé-Château de Chantilly , 2001
From Medieval to Modern Times: 700 years of French Art from the Fitzwilliam, The Fitzwilliam Museum , 2001-2002
Introduction to catalog for an exhibition of manuscripts, Château d'Ecouen-Musée national de la Renaissance, undated
Other projects, 1988-2002
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Entries in the Dictionary of Art related to Godefroy le Batave, the 1520s Hours Workshop and the production and trade of manuscripts in the Renaissance, 1988-1993
Renaissance Manuscripts. The Sixteenth Century: A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France , 1992-2002
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Commentary for an edition of Les petites prières de Renée de France , 1994-1999
Subseries II.B. Lectures, 1962-2002
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"Morgan Library," The New York University, 1962
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"Geoffroy Tory" (Warburg Institute), 1974
"François du Moulin" (Warburg Institute, Ernst Gombrich seminar), 1975
"Three Devotional Manuscripts of the French Renaissance" (Central Renaissance conference), 1979
"Francis I, Caesar, and the Empire in a Manuscript: Commentary on the Gallic Wars" (Johns Hopkins University), 1979
"The Manuscripts of Godefroy le Batave" (Warburg Institute, colloquium Manuscripts After the Invention of Printing), 1982
"The French Sixteenth Century Printed Books" (Tafts), 1982
"The Way of the Cross in Late Fifteenth Century French Art" (International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo), 1983
"A Rediscovered Series of Illuminations to Jacques le Lieur's Poem on the Passion (International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo), 1987
Chair of the session "Approaches to the Figural Arts" (College of American Art, 77th Annual Meeting, San Francisco), 1987-1989
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"Madame Sainte Anne: the Holy Kinship, the Royal Trinity and Louise of Savoy" (23rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo), 1988
"A Royal Funeral in Paris in 1531: The Epitaphia and the Heart Monument for Louise of Savoy (National Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, New York)," 1988
"The Eloquent King: Patronage and Humanism at the Court of Francis I" (The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and The School of Art), 1988-1989
"Antwerp Mannerist Model Drawings in French Renaissance Manuscripts" (The Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Cleveland), 1989
"Myth in Action: Shifting Allegiances at the Court of Francis I" (Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference, New York), 1989-1992
"The Manuscript Tradition in the French Renaissance" (Freie Universität, Berlin, and Getty Museum, Los Angeles), 1991
"Marguerite et la tradition du manuscrit à la Renaissance en France" (Colloquium of Pau), 1991-1996
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"All the King's Men: Henri II and French Renaissance Manuscripts" (College of American Art, Seattle, and Oxford), 1993
"Jean du Tillet and the Illustration of the Grand recueil des roys for Charles IX" (The Robert Branner Forum, Columbia University), 1993
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"Manuscripts to Exhort King and Court in the French Renaissance" (Princeton), 1993
"Author as Entrepreneur" (International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo), 1993
"Marguerite de Navarre as a Book Collector" (Colloquium in Washington), 1994
"A Parisian Book Artist: The Master of François de Rohan, Manuscripts and Woodcuts" (Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Francisco), 1995
"What Goes Around: Bordures and Frames in French Renaissance Manuscripts" (Walters Art Gallery), 1995
"Power of Books and Power of Women in French Renaissance" (Colby College), 1995
"Louise de Savoie et le livre" (Colloquium of Blois), 1995-1998
"Portraits and Presentation Miniatures: François I and His Royal Secretaries" (Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis), 1996
"Dedicating Women, Manuscript Culture in the French Renaissance: The Cases of Anne de Graville and Catherine d'Amboise" (Renaissance Society of America conference, Vancouver, and Pennsylvania State University), 1997
"L'enluminure au temps de Henri II" (École du Louvre et Musée National de la Renaissance), 1997
"Circles of Maternal Devotion: Manuscripts for Francis I and Louise of Savoy" (University of Pittsburgh), 1998
"Surveying French Renaissance Manuscript: Why and How" (Renaissance Society of America annual meeting, MD), 1998
"Complaints at the Court: The Illumination of Marguerite de Navarre's La Coche" (University of British Columbia medieval workshop), 1998
"Les puys en image : l'illustration des palinods de Rouen dans les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (ms. fr. 379 et 1537)" (Colloquium in Rouen), 1998-1999
"The Primacy of the Word in French Renaissance Psalms Manuscripts" (University of Bamberg), 1998-2000
"French Renaissance Books of Hours" (Cleveland Museum of Art), 1999-2001
"French Renaissance Manuscripts, Elegant Survivors" (University of California, Los Angeles, and Manuscript Study Group, Cambridge, MA), 1999-2001
"Reconsidering Radical Beauty: Marguerite de Navarre's Illuminated Evangelical Catechism and Confession (Arsenal, ms. 5096)" (Canadian Society of Renaissance Studies, Sherbrooke/Lennoxville), 1999
"The Blossoming of the Last Flowering: Exhibitions of French Late Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, 1982-1993" (College Art Association, 88th annual conference, New York), 1999-2000
"Guillaume du Choul's Antiquities of Rome" (Sixteenth Century Studies conference, Cleveland), 2000
"Lyon et Rome à l'antique : les illustrations dans les Antiquités romaines de Guillaume du Choul" (Colloquium of Lyon), 2000
"Family Values: Manuscripts as Gifts and Legacies among French Renaissance Women" (Colloquium of La Bretesche), 2000
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"Simon Bourgouyn" (The Sixth Cardiff Conference, Santiago de Compostelle), 2001
"La splendeur renouvelée du manuscrit au temps de la Renaissance" (Sotheby's France, Paris), 2001
"Manuscript Illumination in Renaissance Paris: Something Old, Something New" (Medieval Academy Meeting, New York), 2001-2002
Attendance to the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference (Antwerp, March 2002), 2002
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Attendance to Medieval Manuscript Society Meeting (Baltimore, October 2002), 2002
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"An Illuminated Protestant Catechism for Marguerite of Navarre: L'Initiatoire instruction en la religion chrestienne pour les enffans ", undated
"French Renaissance Manuscripts: An Introduction" (University of Michigan), undated
Subseries II.C. Topical research files, 1959-2002
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Artistic influences in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: France, Italy, Northern Europe, 1973-2001
Fifteenth century visual arts in France, Burgundy, Flanders and Italy, 1965-1995
Flemish drawings, paintings and miniatures, undated
The School of Fontainebleau and its influence on Parisian artists, 1994-2001
Northern and Italian Renaissance, 1973
Intellectual life in French Renaissance, 1961-2002
Bibles, 1991-1997, undated
Printed bibles, bibles in vernacular language, illustrations, 1997
Iconography, 1991
Bernard Salomon's Illustrations pour l'Ancien Testament , undated
Bourgouyn, Simon, 1997-2002
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Dante, undated
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Desmoulins, François, 1978-2001
Commentaires de la guerre gallique , 1978-2001
Other works and life, 1992-1995
Evangelical reform, 1999, undated
Protestant writings and ideas, 1999, undated
Psalms texts, 1999
Humanism, 1991-1997, undated
Clériande Macé de Villebresme, Lefèvre d'Etaples, Erasmus, 1997
Guillaume Budé, 1991
Reign of Francis I, undated
Le Lieur, Jacques, 1997
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Mallart (or Mallard), Jean, 1999-2000
Marot, Clément, 1980-2000
Thirty Psalms of David, 1980-2000
Translations after Ovid, 1997-1998
Other works, 1996-1998
Marot, Jean, 2001
Mythology, undated
Ovid, undated
Mythological figures in Antiquity, undated
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Patronage, 1969-2001
Royal patronage, 1980-1997, undated
Francis I and Louise of Savoy, 1980
Henri II, 1997
Catherine de' Medici, undated
Royal residences and institutions, undated
Noble families and court officers patronage, 1994-2001
Armagnac and Rohan families and Claude d'Urfé, 1996-1997
Guise family, 1994-2001
François de Tournon, Florimond Robertet, Galiot de Genouillac, undated
Amboise Family, Castle of Gaillon, undated
European courts: King Ferdinand the Catholic, Eleonora Gonzaga, Alessandro Farnese, undated
Ancient Greece : Alexander and Apelles, 1969-1980
Romances : Carcel de amor, 1981-2001
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Sala, Pierre, 1961-1998
Thénaud, Jean, 1986-2001
Translators and translations from Latin and Greek, 1991-2002
Women, 1969-2001
Marguerite de Navarre, 1978-1998
Initiatoire instruction chrestienne , 1978-1998
La Coche, undated
Other works and patronage, 1992
Marguerite de Savoie, 2001
Anne de France, duchess of Beaujeu, 1995
Anne de Graville, 1997-1998
Louise de Savoie, 1996-2000
Others, 1969-2000
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Miscellaneous, 1969-2000
Libraries, bibliophiles and collections, 1985-2000
Duprat collection, De Thou collection, Paulmy collection, books of Diane de Poitiers, Harvard Libraries and John Ryland University Library of Manchester, 1994
"Museo di Vanves", Gaston Olivier collection, 1987-1996
Ambroise Firmin-Didot collection, Glasgow University Library, books of the Granvelle family, undated
Hamilton collection, Beckford collection and Estelle Doheny collection, 2000
Huntington Library and Hague Royal Library, 1985-1989
Meermano Museum, Rosenwals collection, Royal library of the castle of Blois, 1991-1999
Dutuit collection, Yemeniz collection, Pichon collection, Ruggieri collection and Sauvageot collection, undated
Others, 1981-2001
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Manuscripts, 1959-2002
Books of hours and prayer books, 1985-2002
Henri II Hours, Dinteville Hours and Montmorency Hours, 1985-2000
Catherine de' Medici Hours, 1997-1999
Others, 1993-2002
Cailleau, Hubert, undated
Clouet family, 2001
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Collault, Étienne, 2000
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Cuttings and leaves, 1998-2001
Godefroy le Batave, 1971-1998
Gouffier manuscripts, 1995-1999
Heraldry, emblems, mottos, symbols, 1959-1988
"Histoires prodigieuses" manuscripts, 1996-2001
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Lallemant manuscripts, 1979-2000
Master of Claude de France, 1997-1999
Mirepoix manuscripts, 1996-2001
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Miscellaneous, 1962-2002
Attribution, 1999-2001
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Bibliography, undated
Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. fr. 5109 and fr. 145, undated
Bodleian Library manuscripts, 1998-1999
Chantilly manuscripts, 1996
University of Liège library manuscripts from the Wittert's collection, 1997-1999
Others, 1962-2002
Parisian masters, 1995-2001
Passio, Carrying of Cross and Imitatio Christi, 1982-1983
Perréal, Jean, undated
Poyet, Jean, undated
Royal ceremonies, 1987-1991
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Saint Anne, 1976-1988
Saint Mary Magdalene, 1995-1996
Saint Michael's order statutes manuscripts, 1993-2000
Savoy, Dukes and Counts of, library, 1995-2001
School of Rouen, 1984-1998
Master of Ango's Hours, 1998, undated
Master of Girard Acarie, undated
Patronage of Georges d'Amboise, 1984-1997
Others, undated
Triumphs of Petrarch, 1982-1999
Vie de saint Jérôme manuscripts, 1996-2001
1520s Hours Workshop, 1975-2000
Miscellaneous, 1987-2001
Architecture and decorative arts in sixteenth-century France, 1987-1991
French Renaissance historiography, 1996-2001
Printers, printings and printed books, 1962-2002
Du Choul, Guillaume, 1993-2002
Des antiquités romaines, vol. 1, undated
Correspondence with Jean Guillemain, 2002
Work and life, 1993-2001
Illuminators and printers in Renaissance Lyon, 1998-2001
Parisian printing, undated
Printed books : general points, 1998-2001
Tory, Geoffroy 1962-2002
Prayers Obsecro te and Intemerata in Tory's books of hours, 1973-2002
Others, 1962-1995
Stained-glass and painters-glassblowers, 1970-1985
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Subseries II.D. Research tools, 1957-2003
Administrative files, 1962-2003
Calls for papers, 1998-2003
Consultation requests for manuscripts, 1985-2001
Cambridge University Library, 2001
Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1985-1998
Loan of slides from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2002
Bills for orders of slides, negatives and photographs, 1962-1986
Library reproduction rates, undated
Microfilms, circa 1962
Index cards, undated
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Publications, 1967-2002
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Journals, 1972-1998
Orth publications, 1975-1997
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1972-1974
1981-1983
1984-1985
1987
1988-1990
1991-1993
1993-1995
1995-1996
1996-1997
1997-1998
1998
Articles, 1967-2002
Albis-Audebrand, 1990-2001
Backouse-Barolsky, 1967-1998
Bartz-Brisoon, 1988-1998
Brown, 1981-2000
Buettner-Büttner, 1978-1996
Camille-Cuttler, 1985-1999
Dacos-DuBon, 1983-1999
Edmunds-Friedman, 1986-2002
Gatouillat-Griffiths, 1978-1998
Hamel-Hindman, 1972-2000
Ives-Jenny, 1991-1996
Katzenstein-Kren, 1988-2000
Lacaze-Lyons, 1981-1994
Marks-Murphy, 1978-2001
Ouy - Polleross, 1975-1999
Randall-Rudy, 1981-2000
Scallierez-Szabo, 1973-1999
Tanaka-Truhn, 1988-2001
Van Buren-Vrochtka, 1989-1998
Wanklyn-Wissman, 1979-1998
Yates, undated
Unidentified, 1966-1996
Photographs, 1959-1999
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Slides and negatives, 1957-2001
Series III. Teaching files, 1963-2002
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Letters of reference, 1990-2002
Job applications, 1987-1991
Course notes, 1963-1994
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American College, Paris, 1963-1994
Sixteenth century Italian art history, 1973-1982
Sixteenth century Northern art history, 1979-1994
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Seventeenth century French and Italian art history, 1975-1981
Seventeenth century Flemish and Dutch art history, 1977-1982
Seventeenth century Spanish art history, 1978
Eighteenth century French and English history of art and architecture, 1973-1982
Nineteenth century French history and art history, 1963-1980
Graphic arts, 1980-1983
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Renaissance history, 1980-1982
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Course outlines and topics for exams, 1977-1983
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University of Virginia, 1976-1994
Fifteenth century Northern art history (Burgundy and France included), 1982-1994
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Sixteenth century French and Italian art history, 1976-1994
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University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) : history of Paris, 1989-1992
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1989
1989-1992
Series IV. Correspondence, 1966-2002
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Individuals, 1966-2002
Alexander, Jonathan
Arsmtrong, Lilian
Avril, François
A
Backhouse, Janet
Barnet, Peter
Barolsky, Paul
Baron, Robert A.
Bayle, Jeanne
Béguin, Sylvie
Belkin, Kristin
Bloem, Hélène
Brown, Cynthia
Brown, Elizabeth Peggy
Brunel-Lobrichon, Geneviève
B
Calkins, Robert G.
Catanzarik, Christina
Chapman, Perry
Clark, Gregory
Cooper, Richard
Crépin-Leblond, Thierry
Cuttler, Charles
C
Day, Richard
De Kesel, Roger
Desrosiers-Bonin, Diane
Driver, Martha
Dunbar, Burton
D
Edelstein, Mel
Edom, Jean
Eichberger, Dagmar
Eisler, Colin
E
Fogg, Sam
Ffolliott, Sheila
F
Gauthier, David
Griffiths, Jeremy
G
Hackenbroch, Yvonne
Hand, John
Heckscher, William S.
Higman, Francis
Hindman, Sandra
H
Johnston, Barbara
I-J
Kemp, William
K
Lecoq, Anne-Marie
Liou, Elaine
L, Diverse
Marrow, James H.
Massing, Jean-Michel
M
N-O
Pearson, Andrea
Persels, Jeff
Plesch, Véronique
P
Rice, Eugene F.
Rouse, Mary
Russell, Daniel
R
Scaillierez, Cécile
Schaeffer, Claude
Scheller, R. W.
Sider, Sandra
Steenbock, Frauke
Sterling, Charles
Stirnemann, Patricia
Sutton, Kay
S
Tenschert, Heribert
Tesnière, Marie-Hélène
Testa, Judith
Thompson, Glenda G.
T
Unger, Dick
Van Buren, Anne
V
Winn, Mary Beth
W
Z
Unidentified
Institutions, 1971-2000
American College, Paris
Arsenal, Bibliothèque de l'
Art Resource
Bourges
Burlington Magazine
Cambridge University
Central Renaissance Conference
Chantilly
Christie's
Columbia University
Doheny Library
Droz
Duke University
Early Book Society
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École du Louvre
Écouen
Faksimile Verlag Luzern
Fitzwilliam Museum
Garland Press
Gazette des Beaux-Arts
Getty Center
Grolier Club
Houghton Library
Huntington Library
Jones University
Lyon
Maggs Bros.
Pierpont Morgan Library
Renaissance Quarterly
Revue de l'Art
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
The Sixteenth Century Journal and Conference
Smith College
Society of architectural historians
Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance
Sotheby's
Staatliche Museen
Van Ghemmert
Victoria and Albert Museum
Vieilles maisons françaises
Walters Art Gallery
Warburg Institute
Address book, undated
Sealed materials