Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 23/10/1909 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
22.5 x 19.5 cm
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Handwritten note on the poem "Ode & Elegy of the Streets" in a sheet made of two pieces of paper affixed onto a third one (at top right of the blank verso, another affixed piece of paper), as well as in two other pieces of paper. On one of the two, date at the bottom of the verso and number "2" on the recto, at top right. The notes are linguistic remarks and references to Ptochoprodromus and to folk songs (published by Passow) as well as to poems by Cavafy ("Walls", "In the Cemetery").
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Mainly Greek
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Writing in ink and pencil. indiscernible watermark. Physical item wear: oxidations and hole.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
"Ode and Elegy of the Streets" >Α40
"Walls" >Α50
"In the Cemetery" >Α524
Notes area
Note
Cavafy, C. P.. “Ode & Elegy of the Streets”. Notes (handwritten), 23.10.1909. GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S03-F11-0008 (821), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF01-S03-F11-0008.
Alternative identifier(s)
Παλαιά ένδειξη ταξινόμησης
Access points
Subject access points
- Notes (handwritten)
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Walls"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "In the Cemetery"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Ode and Elegy of the Streets"
- Works by other authors » Les oracles de Léon Le Sage : La bataille de Varna-La prise de Constantinople: Poèmes en grec vulgaire [Legrand, Émile]
- Works by other authors » Trois poèmes vulgaires de Théodore Prodrome publiés pour la première fois, avec une traduction française [Théodore Prodrome / Miller, Emmanuel / Legrand, Émile]
- Works by other authors » Tragoudia romaiika. Popularia carmina Graeciae recentioris [Passow, Arnold]
Place access points
Name access points
- Cavafy, C. P. (Authority)
- Passow, Arnold (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Archivist's note
Linguistic drafting of the poem "Ode and Elegy of the Streets" towards a simpler, demotic language. Examples from the folk songs of the Arnold Passow publication and from the Ptochoprodromus poems, published by Legrand, are used for the word "slow".