Edmonds: 'Fragments of Attic Comedy' manuscript by John Maxwell Edmonds (1875-1958), classicist, poet and dramatist
Scope and Contents
Rough copy and Fair copy of Edmonds' 3 volume publication, The Fragments of Attic Comedy (pub. 1957). This material was returned to Edmonds by the publishers, Brill of Leiden, probably between 1958-9. There is one post-mark on a piece of packaging from 1958, and the parcels of manuscript were packed with leaves of The Times Literary Supplement, dated Friday April 10, 1959.
Dates
- Creation: 1948 - 1957
Creator
Extent
12 archive box(es) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Custodial History
Transferred to the Faculty Archives from the Classics Faculty Library in August 2023. Bundles of loose leaves wrapped in thick brown paper and tied up with string. The original label for each bundle, pasted on to the brown paper packaging, has been retained.
Physical Description
Loose leaves, handwritten in ink, individual leaves of paper often spliced together, at the top or bottom edge respectively, with small rectangles of coloured paper and glue which still hold strongly.
Topical
- Author
- Sophia M. Asbell
- Date
- October 2023
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Cambridge: Faculty of Classics Archives Repository
Faculty of Classics
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom
+441223 335193
archives@classics.cam.ac.uk