Classical and Byzantine Studies 

UCLA Department of Special Collections Special Collections has several collections particularly useful for those interested in classical antiquity. In recent years, the Department has had two exhibitions concerned with classical antiquity: "The Development of Classical Scholarship" and "Philodemus and Greek Papyri".

• Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection (printed catalogue; list on-line). **The Department's Aldine Collection is the largest in North America and rivals in size the largest collections in Europe. The press itself began publishing in 1495 and ceased in 1597. Aldus Manutius (ca 1452-1515) and his heirs published the first editions of Aeschylus, Aristotle, Demosthenes, most of Euripides, Herodotus, Pindar, Plato, Sophocles, Thucydides, Xenophon et al. See "The Aldine Press" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
• Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of Early Italian Printing to 1600 (on-line list under construction). **The collection includes approximately 5,000 volumes, many of which are by classical authors or treat classical antiquity. There are notable groups of books printed by Blado, Giolito de Ferrari, the Giuntas, Jenson, and Ratdolt.
• Truesdell S. Brown (collection 390, 24 boxes: finding aid at Department). Brown (1906-1992) was Professor of History at UCLA (1947-1973). He specialized in the Hellenistic historians. His collection consists primarily of offprints.
• Classical Dissertations Collection (coll. 357: finding aid at Department). **Approximately 1500, mostly German, dissertations (1813-1939) concerned with classical antiquity. The finding aid includes both author and text, subject and name indexes.
• Paul Friedlaender Collection (coll. 1551, 46 boxes: finding aid at Department). **Paul Friedlaender (1882-1968) was perhaps the most eminent classical scholar to teach at UCLA. Removed from his chair at Halle because he was Jewish, and imprisoned for six weeks at Sachsenhausen, Rudolf Bultmann arranged for his release and, in 1939, Friedlaender and his family emigrated. His papers include letters from Bultmann, E. R. Curtius, Albin Lesky, Paul Maas, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff as well as Thomas Mann. The correspondence with Wilamowitz has been published in the Department's Occasional Papers series.
• Louis Havet Collection (coll. 606, six boxes). **Louis Havet (1849-1925), whose classical library was acquired by the University of California, was a notable Latinist, working on Nonius, Plautus, Propertius and others.
• Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb Collection (coll. 100 bx 57: finding aid at Department). **Sir Richard Jebb (1841-1905), Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge. A collection of his papers was acquired by the University of California with the C. K. Ogden collection. Additional materials are preserved at U. C. Berkeley.
• Gonzalez Lodge Collection (coll. 563, twenty boxes). The library of Gonzalez Lodge (1863-1942), who is best remembered for his "Lexicon Plautinianum", is divided between Columbia University, New York; Franklin & Marshall College; and UCLA. UCLA's portion consists of about 900 books and bound pamphlets and offprints, chiefly treating Latin grammar, Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Seneca, Tacitus and Terence.
• Edward Noon O'Neil Collection (coll. 628: in process). This collection includes the nearly complete typescript and manuscript 'Index verborum Plutarcheus' prepared by William B. Helmbold and E. N. O'Neil, but never published: unlike the Thesaurus linguae Graecae, the indexers take cognizance of the apparatus criticus. The Loeb Classical Library index to the Moralia was excerpted from another, larger, typescript. In addition, there is considerable unpublished matter on the late Roman poet Maximianus and course-notes concerned with Plutarch, the New Testament, et al.
• Mike Wasserman collection of Latin mottoes [not processed]