Onassis Cavafy Archive

REFERENCE CODE:

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GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S01-F02-SF001-0013 (2072)

TITLE:

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Collection of broadsheets

DATE(S):

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1917-1920

LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:

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Item

EXTENT AND MEDIUM:

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25 x 16 cm

NAME OF CREATOR(S):

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C. P. Cavafy

SCOPE AND CONTENT:

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Collection of poems by Cavafy, comprising 44 loose printed broadsheets, with 40 poems on the recto. The verso of all sheets is blank, except for one, which bears handwritten notes. They have all been printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house during the period 1917-1920. Two of the broadsheets have an indication of the month in which they were printed (July 1919). They bear printed numbering (3-41) at top right of the recto, crossed out and corrected on several instances in ink by Cavafy. The first poem (“But Wise Men Apprehend What Is Imminent”) bears the number 14, crossed out in ink. The next poem (“In the Entrance of the Café”) bears the number “3” (corrected by hand from the printed “16”). From there on, the numbering is sequential. There is no front cover, rear cover or table of contents. Handwritten notes by Tellos Agras in pencil on some of the broadsheets. A hole at top left of all sheets indicates that they were bound using a paperclip. Accompanied by envelope.

CONDITIONS GOVERNING REPRODUCTION:

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CC BY-SA 4.0 Cavafy Archive Onassis Foundation

LANGUAGE AND SCRIPT NOTES:

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Greek

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

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Writing in ink and pencil. Oxidations, tears and wears; paperclip holes.

RELATED WORKS BY C. P. CAVAFY:

Reference to the works of C. P. Cavafy that are directly related to the described digital object, followed by their number of entry in the C. P. Cavafy Bibliography (ed. by D. Daskalopoulos).

“But Wise Men Apprehend What Is Imminent” >Α385
“In the Entrance of the Café” >Α152
“He Swears” >Α195
“One Night” >Α141
“Morning Sea” >Α141
“Painted” >Α141
“Orophernes” >Α142
“The Battle of Magnesia” >Α142
“Manuel Comnenus” >Α142
“The Seleucid’s Displeasure” >Α142
“Whenever They Are Aroused” >Α145
“In the Street” >Α160
“In the Presence of the Statue of Endymion” >Α581
“In a City of Osrhoene” >Α152
“Passage” >Α160
“For Ammon, Who Died at 29 Years of Age, in 610” >Α160
“One of Their Gods” >Α160
“In Evening” >Α152
“To Pleasure” >Α164
“Gray” >Α147
“Tomb of Iases” >Α147
“In the Month of Hathor” >Α147
“I’ve Gazed So Much-” >Α147
“Tomb of Ignatius” >Α160
“Days of 1903” >Α160
“The Window of the Tobacco Shop” >Α249
“Caesarion” >Α160
“Remember, Body…” >Α153
“Tomb of Lanes” >Α153
“Comprehension” >Α153
“Nero’s Deadline” >Α158
“Envoys from Alexandria” >Α162
“Aristobulus” >Α159
“Safe Haven” >Α159
“Aemilian Son of Monaës, an Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D.” >Α162
“Since Nine” >Α162
“Below the House” >Α163
“The Next Table” >Α163
“The Afternoon Sun” >Α164
“To Stay” >Α232