ADDITIONAL LISTS Already issued: CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. Hand-list of framed reproductions of pictures and portraits belonging to the Dante Collection. Compiled by THEODORE W. KOCH. Ithaca, N. Y., 1900. A list of Danteiana in American libraries, supplementing the Cornell collection. Compiled by THEODORe W. KOCH. Boston, Ginn & Co., 1900. Reprinted from the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Dante Society, Cambridge, Mass. For sale by Ginn & Co. In preparation : Additional list of Danteiana supplementing the Cornell collection; being titles gleaned from European libraries. Compiled by THEODORE W. KOCH. To appear in a later report of the Dante Society, Cambridge, Mass. CATALOGUE OF THE DANTE COLLECTION,, PRESENTED BY WILLARD FISKE COMPILED BY THEODORE WESLEY KOCH 3 VOLUME I PART I. DANTE'S WORKS PART II. WORKS ON DANTE (A-G) ITHACA, NEW YORK 1898-1900 THE present catalogue was begun as a mere finding list when Mr. Fiske commenced sending Dante books to Cornell in 1893. The plan then was to give but brief entries of those works already fully treated in Mr. Lane's catalogue of the "Dante Collections in the Harvard College and Boston Public libraries," and to refer to the latter for tables of contents and notes helpful to the student. Before long, however, Mr. Fiske had brought together more volumes than were contained in the Harvard collection and it then seemed desirable to have a catalogue which would adequately represent the vast amount of Dante literature accumulating at Cornell. Accordingly, Miss Van Dusen, the cataloguer at that time in charge of the work, was asked to revise the entries to the inclusion of more detail, to give the contents of the volumes, and to make full analytical entries. No inconsiderable confusion resulted from the change of plan, increased, no doubt, by the continual addition of new books demanding attention and diverting the energies of the cataloguer from the work of revision. Next came the relinquishment of the task by Miss Van Dusen, and it was temporarily placed in the hands of another member of the staff. When, in December 1895, I came to Ithaca to undertake the thorough revision and completion of the catalogue and to see it through the press, it was impossible to say what had been finished and what still remained to be done. A thousand books, pamphlets, magazine articles, and newspaper clippings which had not yet been touched, were the first to claim my attention. These, however, were no sooner out of the way than there were others to take their place. I had discovered the richness of the field and was content to work it over from corner to corner. The scheme of the catalogue expanded once more, this time to include notes on the textual value of the various editions of Dante's works, fuller treatment of their translations, brief quotations from authors' prefaces giving in a few words the end aimed at, with occasional opinions from authoritative Dante scholars. L'Alighieri and Giornale dantesco, with the Bullettino della Società dantesca italiana, were to be fully analyzed and cards made for the authors included in such works as Papanti's "Dante secondo la tradizione e i novellatori" and Del Balzo's " Poesie di mille autori intorno a Dante Alighieri." But Most important was the decision to include in the catalogue all pertinent articles in periodical and general literature in the University library, whether on the Dante shelves or not. Some few years before I had planned and had gone so far as to make considerable headway with an index to the periodical literature of Dante. I had been led to the endeavor by the fact that much valuable material in the more learned magazines was worthy of being treated as fully as those articles which had been separately printed or |