Handwritten catalogue of the periodicals in Cavafy's library, comprising five sheets, the last of which is blank. The first sheet is in lieu of cover. Cancellations and notes. The dates mentioned cover the period 1883-1905.
Cavafy, C. P.Ethnikon Imerologion (K. F. Skokou)
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Handmade folder with the annotations "Dictionary 1" and "Abb-Apo". Pieces of paper and print clippings with notes and quotes for the Dictionary. It includes the entries "Abbatia-Aperifronos". Quotes from various bibliographical sources below each entry. The title and author of each work are cited and often the place of publication and the publishing house.
Cavafy, C. P.Handmade folder with the annotations "Dictionary 4" and "Eut-Kty". Pieces of paper and print clippings with notes and quotes for the Dictionary. It includes the entries "Eftychos-Ktypito". Quotes from various bibliographical sources below each entry. The title and author of each work are cited and often the place of publication and the publishing house.
Cavafy, C. P.Handmade folder with the annotations "Dictionary 5" and "Kyv-Mpa". Pieces of paper and print clippings with notes and quotes for the Dictionary. It includes the entries "Kyverti-Bampogria". Quotes from various bibliographical sources below each entry. The title and author of each work are cited and often the place of publication and the publishing house.
Cavafy, C. P.Handmade folder with the annotations "Dictionary 6" and "Mpo-Pin". Pieces of paper and print clippings with notes and quotes for the Dictionary. It includes the entries "Bona-Pino". Quotes from various bibliographical sources below each entry. The title and author of each work are cited and often the place of publication and the publishing house.
Cavafy, C. P.Handmade folder with the annotations "Dictionary 8" and "Sal-Tri". Pieces of paper and print clippings with notes and quotes for the Dictionary. It includes the entries "Salos-Trykia". Quotes from various bibliographical sources below each entry. The title and author of each work are cited and often the place of publication and the publishing house.
Cavafy, C. P.Handwritten letter by Konstantinos F. Skokos to Cavafy on the first and fourth pages of a bifolio. Reference to Pavlos Gneftos as well as to the publication of the National Diary 1898, which is to include poems by Cavafy. There is also a kind request that the poet mediates for the registration of subscribers from Egypt. (Athens)
Skokos, K. F.Handwritten letter by K. F. Skokos to Cavafy. Thanks for the despatch of a poem and "his care" regarding the volume of the 1907 Imerologio. Reference to the Olympic Games (1906 Intercalated Games). (Athens)
Skokos, K. F.Handmade folder of hard paper with the handwritten title "Linguistic" as well as handwritten notes on papers of various sizes, with remarks and quotes of linguistic content: Cavafy's comments on his own poems and on works by other authors. Notes on the demotic and katharevousa, on the declination of certain nouns, and references to periodicals. Extensive excerpt from Xenopoulos' article in the Panathinaia (issue 56, 31/1/1903) regarding the language of Psicharis and Palamas. Copied verses by other poets. Some of the notes are written in English. Four pages torn off from a 1895 issue of Parnassos. Extensive use of abbreviations.
Cavafy, C. P.Handwritten list of thirteen poems by Cavafy, with reference to the printed media in which they were published. They are the poems "Brindisi", "Vain, vain love", "The Poet and the Muse", "Word and Silence", "Sham-el-Nessim", "Good and Bad Weather", "The Inkwell", "Athena's Vote", "Sweet Voices", "Voice From the Sea", "The Eumenides' Footfalls", "Elegy of the Flowers" and "Candles". The publications cover the period 1886-1900. The list is written on the recto of two sheets by a person other than Cavafy. Blank verso.
[Unidentified]Handwritten note on both sides of a ruled sheet. Titles in quotation marks and (page?) numbers are recorded. The titles are grouped chronologically and cover the period 1902-1906 period.
Cavafy, C. P.Handwritten notes by G. A. Papoutsakis on both sides of a ruled sheet. Twenty-three titles of books and their authors are recorded under the title "Missing". They are most probably volumes which had not been located in Cavafy's library.
[Papoutsakis, G.A.]Handwritten notes of linguistic nature on two pieces of paper. References to books, newspapers and journals. Date indication: 1898.
Cavafy, C. P.Handwritten list on 12 sheets, 6 double sheet notepapers and 7 half-sheets, with phonetic transliterations of word endings. Next to them, words that rhyme with the previous ones. The former are in alphabetical order.
Cavafy, C. P.Handwritten titles of poems on the first three pages of a double sheet notepaper. Bibliographical references to the printed media (of the period 1886-1912) in which the poems referred to were published. The last page is blank.
Cavafy, C. P.Handwritten titles of poems by Cavafy, accompanied by bibliographical references, on the verso of a printed broadsheet with fragment of a poem. Cancellations. The citations mention the years "1892/3, 1895-1898, 1901" as well as the printed media in which the poems were published. The broadsheet was printed in 1920.
Cavafy, C. P.Handwritten list of books and periodicals, entitled "Taken by Peridis" and written on twelve sheets; they are all numbered at top right of the recto. Among them, a volume with translations by John Cavafy and a large number of issues of Greek and foreign newspapers and journals. It is obviously material borrowed by Michalis Peridis from the remnants of Cavafy's belongings.
[Singopoulo, Alekos D.]Series of handwritten notes referring mostly to the poet's mother, Charikleia (Fotiadi) Cavafy, in two parts. The first includes three loose sheets folded in bifolios; they are written on both sides and enclosed in a folded sheet entitled "T. Last D. 1899". Pages 2-7 are numbered. The notes pertain to the last days of Charikleia Cavafy – the narration starts on 15 January 1899. The second part includes seven loose sheets of various sizes, written both on the recto and the verso, with one page number (4) marked. The content has the same subject, however it follows an inverse narrative sequence, starting on 3 February and ending on 27 January 1899. Both texts abbreviated. Cancellations and emendations.
Cavafy, C. P.Manuscripts of poems on four sheets. The item comprises a total of four ruled sheets (the last three of which had been initially pasted together so as to form a double sheet notepaper) and two pieces of paper (initially affixed on two of the sheets' pages). On one side of the first sheet, the title "The Funeral of Sarpedon", note on the publication of the poem (in Skokos' Ethnikon Imerologion), emendations and variations in some of the verses, all written by Cavafy and crossed out. At the top of the page, two crossed out verses of a poem and number "115" at right. On the other side of the sheet, part of the poem "The Mimiambs of Herodas", written by another person. Cancellations and emendations by Cavafy. Small paper with note by the poet (emendation of four verses) initially pasted on the middle of the page. On one side of the second sheet, the continuation of the previous poem with cancellations, emendations and notes by Cavafy. Number "117" at top right; the date indication "Novem. 1892" at bottom right. Initially affixed over the middle of the page, a piece of paper with a variation of the last stanza of the poem, handwritten by Cavafy. The other side of the sheet is blank. Part of a poem on one side of the third sheet, which has not been written by Cavafy. Cancellations and emendations, handwritten by Cavafy. This side of the sheet had been initially affixed on the blank side of the second sheet. On the second page of the third sheet, the poem "Azure Eyes", written by Cavafy. The blank side of the fourth sheet had been initially affixed on the second page of the previous sheet (and, consequently, covered the poem "Azure Eyes"). On the other side of the last sheet, the poem "Alexandrian Merchant", written by Cavafy. Indicated date ("Apr. 1893") and notes by the poet in pencil, below the text.
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