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Morey

Charles Rufus Morey (1877-1955) was an American art historian and chairman of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University from 1924 to 1945. Born in Hastings, Michigan in 1877, Morey later went on to earn a BA from the University of Michigan in 1899. The following year, he received his MA from the University of Michigan studying classical languages and literature and spent three years at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome. In 1903, Morey came to Princeton as a fellow in Classics. Three years later, he accepted from Allan Marquand the position of Wilson-appointed preceptor in art history at Princeton until 1918 when he was appointed the rank of full professor. Morey taught renaissance and modern art as well as his specialties in early Christian and medieval art, practicing his own belief that his faculty should be knowledgeable in all fields. In 1917, Morey founded the Index of Christian Art, which was the first thematic and iconographic index of Early Christian and medieval art objects.

While at Princeton, Morey worked tirelessly in educating students, faculty, and countless members of the academic community. Morey had a prolific publishing career, his first essay, "The Christian Sarcophagus in S. Maria Antiqua" was published in 1905 and his celebrated volumes Early Christian Art and Medieval Art were both published in 1942. Among countless other articles, reviews, chapters and contributions over his professorship, Morey also directed the Vatican's Museo Sacro catalogue of Christian art, which first appeared in 1936. For seven years he guided a group of five institutions (including Princeton) in a joint excavation of Antioch, and he supervised the ensuing publications. He helped found and cultivate the College Art Association and its publication, The Art Bulletin. In addition to teaching at Princeton, Morey similarly helped develop the art history curriculum at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Humanities.

Throughout his professional career, not limited to the time he was at Princeton, Morey helped establish the budding art history discipline as a respected field of learning. He has been partly credited with making the profession one which students would be encouraged to follow. At the end of his tenure at Princeton, there were the five years (1945-1950) that Morey spent as Cultural Affairs Officer at the United States Embassy in Rome. Morey died in 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey.

Morey

Charles Rufus Morey (1877-1955) was an American art historian and chairman of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University from 1924 to 1945. Born in Hastings, Michigan in 1877, Morey later went on to earn a BA from the University of Michigan in 1899. The following year, he received his MA from the University of Michigan studying classical languages and literature and spent three years at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome. In 1903, Morey came to Princeton as a fellow in Classics. Three years later, he accepted from Allan Marquand the position of Wilson-appointed preceptor in art history at Princeton until 1918 when he was appointed the rank of full professor. Morey taught renaissance and modern art as well as his specialties in early Christian and medieval art, practicing his own belief that his faculty should be knowledgeable in all fields. In 1917, Morey founded the Index of Christian Art, which was the first thematic and iconographic index of Early Christian and medieval art objects.

While at Princeton, Morey worked tirelessly in educating students, faculty, and countless members of the academic community. Morey had a prolific publishing career, his first essay, "The Christian Sarcophagus in S. Maria Antiqua" was published in 1905 and his celebrated volumes Early Christian Art and Medieval Art were both published in 1942. Among countless other articles, reviews, chapters and contributions over his professorship, Morey also directed the Vatican's Museo Sacro catalogue of Christian art, which first appeared in 1936. For seven years he guided a group of five institutions (including Princeton) in a joint excavation of Antioch, and he supervised the ensuing publications. He helped found and cultivate the College Art Association and its publication, The Art Bulletin. In addition to teaching at Princeton, Morey similarly helped develop the art history curriculum at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Humanities.

Throughout his professional career, not limited to the time he was at Princeton, Morey helped establish the budding art history discipline as a respected field of learning. He has been partly credited with making the profession one which students would be encouraged to follow. At the end of his tenure at Princeton, there were the five years (1945-1950) that Morey spent as Cultural Affairs Officer at the United States Embassy in Rome. Morey died in 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey.

The collection consists of professional papers, catalogues, notes, card files, photographs, and other printed matter of American art historian Charles Rufus Morey.

The collection has been organized into four series by material type, but were not physically arranged according to this scheme. During 2022 processing, the order of materials at the time of their transfer in 2019 was retained but intellectually incorporated into the collection's organizational scheme.

Gift of Mrs. Charles Rufus Morey (AM 17732). Lecture notes are a gift of Sally Floody. Materials from Sally Floody's circa 2007 donation were transferred to Firestone Library in 2019 (AM 2021-42).

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This collection was processed by Rachel Jordan in 2004. Finding aid written by Rachel Jordan in 2004. This collection was reprocessed by Jessica Savage in 2013. Materials transferred in 2019 were added in 2022 by Amy C. Vo. Description that came with the collection during transfer was retained with minor revisions during processing in 2022.

No items were removed during 2013 or 2022 processing.

The following nitrate photograph negatives were deaccessioned in 2019: nos. 23-34, depicting Parentino Battle piece, Diana, Perino del Vaga, 'Head of Youth,' Giulio Romano, 'Satyr and Boy,' S. Nicholas of Myra, Cain and Abel, Three Apostles, and Cornelis de Wael as well as 24 photo negatives of plates from German art historical publication, and approximately 105 photo negatives on subjects of Attic vase painting, Greek and Roman sculpture, engraved medals, architectural monuments and plans.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2013
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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Curatorial notes and inventory of the Museo Sacro of the Vatican date circa 1936. Morey compiled inventory notes and kept mock catalogues of important terracottas, glass, medals and other early Christian art objects. He recorded the inventory of the Museo Sacro and Museo Cristiano museums with De Rossi numbers.

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Physical Description

5 boxes

"Stuhlman Catalog of Enamels, Photos", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro, Catalogue of Terracottas, Lamps", undated. 4 folders.
Physical Description

4 folders

"Museo Cristiano, Catalogue of Lamps, Waage's Notes", undated. 4 folders.
Physical Description

4 folders

"Museo Sacro, Photos of Lamps and Terracottas", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Cristiano, List of Accessions Since Jan. 1879", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of photographic facsimiles.

Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro, Concordance of Terracotta Lamps", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

De Rossi Inventory, nos. 1-1113, undated. 3 folders.
Scope and Contents

Typed notes in Italian on De Rossi Inventory contained in three binders.

Physical Description

3 folders

Museo Cristiano, Curatorial Records, circa 1937. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderTyped copies.

Museo Cristiano, Curatorial Notes, undated. 5 folders.
Physical Description

5 foldersHandwritten notes on Museo Cristiano objects in four binders.

De Rossi Inventory, Terracottas, circa 1937. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderTyped copies, including descriptions from the Museo Cristiano.

Museo Cristiano, Photographs of Medals, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Reliefs, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Museo Cristiano, Photographs of Rings, Crosses, Paintings, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Museo Cristiano, Photographs of Enamels, Glass, Miscellaneous, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Museo Cristiano, Photographs of Textiles, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Museo Cristiano, Photographs of Sancta Sanctorum, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Museo Sacro, Photographs for Catalogue of Ivories, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderPhotographs labelled with De Rossi numbers.

"Museo Mariotti Manuscript Vat. Lat. 9189", circa 1936. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderFacsimile with handwritten notes in Italian. Manuscript formerly in collection of Don Agostino Mariotti. Catalogue created by Abbate Francesco Cancellieri. Front board labelled, "Cancellieri: Cat. Museo Mariotti Vat. Lat. 9189."

"Museo Sacro Manuscript Arch. Bibl. Vat. 72", circa 1936. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderFacsimile with handwritten notes in Italian. Front board labelled, "Museo Sacro: Cat. of Clement XIII Arch. Bibl. Vat. 72."

Italian Manuscript Inventory, nos. 1-300, undated. 11 folders.
Physical Description

11 foldersFacsimile of unidentified Italian manuscript inventory cut into narrow strips.

"Carpegna Collection Vat. Lat. 9154", circa 1936. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderFacsimile of Carpegna collection manuscript Vat. Lat. 9154.

"Inventory Signed by Vettori Arch Bibl. 51", circa 1936. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Facsimile of manuscipt Arch. Bibl. 51.

Physical Description

1 folder

"Carpegna Collection Vat. Lat. 9153", circa 1936. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Facsimile of Carpegna collection manuscript Vat. Lat. 9153.

Physical Description

1 folder

"Dummy for Cat. of Terracottas Mus. Crist.", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Draft of catalogue of terracottas at the Museo Cristiano.

Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Late Limoges Gems Figures", undated. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

"Museo Sacro / Wood and Marble", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Descriptions of Glass Objects", undated. 2 folders.
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2 folders

"Museo Sacro / Descriptions of Glass Objects I", undated. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

"Museo Sacro / Descriptions of Glass Objects II", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Descriptions of Glass Objects Figures", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Limoges Champlevé Enamels", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Translucent and Painted Enamels", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Enamels and Gems", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Enamels Description I", undated. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

"Museo Sacro / Enamels Description II", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Metal Description I", undated. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

"Museo Sacro / Metal Figures I", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Metal Description II", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Metal Figures II", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Ivories Description I", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Ivories Description II", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Ivories Description I Figures", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Ivories Description II Figures", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Liturgical Objects Description I", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Liturgical Objects Figures I", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / Liturgical Objects Description II", undated. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

"Museo Sacro / Liturgical Objects Figures II", undated. 3 folders.
Physical Description

3 folders

"Museo Sacro / Mixed Media I", undated. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

"Museo Sacro / Mixed Media Figures I", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / 0251 to 0400 vol. I", undated. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

"Museo Sacro / 0251 to 0400 vol. II", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

"Museo Sacro / 0251 to 0400 vol. III", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

Contains miscellaneous photographic material including negatives and prints, some mounted, most reproduced from publications or assemblages of original shots, most unlabeled but encompassing trips to the Middle East, Syria, Turkey, Jordan and objects in European museum collections.

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Physical Description

2 folders

Miscellaneous Photographs, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderMounted with photo mounts.

Miscellaneous Photographs, 1954. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderMiscellaneous photographs, some fragmentary or duplicates, from the Museo Sacro, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Corning Museum of Glass.; TLs dated 1954.

Brünnow Photos, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of cloth bound ruled ledger with cloth ties, stamped "Photographien I," notations for plates and developments of various facades and views of archaeological sites, four hatched pen illustrations of unidentified monuments; 16 half-pages of printed and manuscript notes on phonetic pronunciation of Arabic language, miscellaneous manuscript notes on phonetic pronunciation of Arabic language, loose but one part bound in rope; 19 cropped photographic prints, some duplicates, of landscape and archeological sites; Carratha, seven photographic prints of landscape views and archeological ruins, some duplicates, all numbered; Petra, "Pillars of Petra Brünnow vol. I" labeled in pencil on verso of photographic print; photograph of plate, labeled in ink on verso "Wadd 2240" of Syriac inscriptions.

Physical Description

1 folder

Brünnow Photos, undated. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

Consists of approximately 105 photographs mounted on cardstock, all but few numbered and labeled, views include Austrian Consulate in Jerusalem; camps and passes in the surrounding landscape of Jerusalem, Damascus and Amman, Jordan; including castle of Al-Karak in Jordan; ruins of small temple in Rabba; Roman theater in Amman; ruins at Tell-el-Jabiyeh, and many portraits of local inhabitants at camps. Another mounted photograph of inscribed monument. Approximately 15 photographs rolled, mainly Syriac inscriptions and landscape views of archaeological sites. 8 pages typescript numbered index for photographs from Petra.

Physical Description

2 folders

Brünnow Photos, undated. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

Consists of 27 photographs mounted on cardstock and approximately 60 photographs of landscape views and archaeological sites.

Physical Description

2 folders

Brünnow Photos- Panorama, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Brünnow Photos, undated. 3 folders.
Scope and Contents

Consists of approximately 100 photographs of architectural monuments and archeological sites.

Physical Description

3 folders

Miscellaneous Photos, undated. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

Consists of approximately 50 photographs, facsimiles and cropped prints or plates on the subjects of terracottas, ceramic sculpture and vessels, glass, many labeled from the Provinzial museum in Bonn, Germany, also the Vatican Museum, and 25 photographs of an Italian manuscript inventory for stamps.

Physical Description

2 folders

Miscellaneous Photos, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of miscellaneous photographs for publication and other notable artworks, many labeled in pencil on verso, including, Rogier Van der Weyden, "Crucifixion," Donatello, "David," Duccio, "Virgin of Maesta," Fra Angelico, "Coronation of the Virgin" and Filippo Lippi, "Coronation of the Virgin." 3 pages for map of 'Mediaeval Europe' one is Morey's draft copy.

Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Photos, undated. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

Consists of approximately 125 photographs of line drawings of Gothic and Byzantine reliefs, sculpture, and important medieval, Early Christian, and Late Antique artworks, most with captions.

Physical Description

2 folders

Photo Negatives, nos. 101-114, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Nitrate negatives of The Temple of Neptune at Pesto, Italy and the Temple of Hera at Metaponto, Italy, numbered 101-114. In folder labelled, "G.K. Archire Italy 101-114 Gr.It. 101-112 Pesto 113-114 Metaponto."

Physical Description

1 folder

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Photographs, circa 1925-1950. 3 folders.
Scope and Contents

Includes official department portraits and photographs of Morey using the Index of Christian Art and at art gallery shows. Also includes photographs of Charles Rufus Morey at cultural events and meetings in Rome, Italy, including at the American Embassy in Rome.

Physical Description

3 folders

Postcards, Photographs and Negatives, 1901-1950. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

Includes a framed portrait, four negatives of other official portraits of Morey, and various postcards and three mounted thumbnail study photographs of Roman architecture taken by Morey.

Physical Description

1 box

Study Photographic Negatives, undated. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

Includes both cellulose and glass plate negatives.

Physical Description

1 box

Ink Portrait and American Embassy Photograph, circa 1945. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Contour drawing in ink of Charles Rufus Morey, date and artist unknown. Signed by American ambassador James Clement Dunn "Rome, 1949."

Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

Materials from the time of Morey's tenure with Princeton University, including his typed drafts for lectures at Princeton and New York University, and also correspondence and printed matter from working with students.

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Physical Description

5 boxes

"Ren. & Mod. Sculpt.", undated. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes for Renaissance and Modern Sculpture 401.

Physical Description

2 foldersCarbon typescripts in binders

"Lectures on East Christian Art at the Morgan Library", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderMimeographed copy in binder

"Lectures on East Christian Art at the Morgan Library", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderMimeographed paper-bound copy

"Medieval Art Lectures", 1927-1928. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderBound carbon typescript

"Byzantine Art", 1941 September. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Notes from various courses taught at New York University.

Physical Description

1 folderMimeographed lecture notes

"Art 103, The Art of Antiquity", 1942-1943. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Contains lecture notes for courses taught on Ancient Art at Princeton University.

Physical Description

1 folderCarbon typescript

"Lecture Notes on Latin Manuscripts", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Contains lecture notes for New York University course on Latin manuscripts inclusive of the Vatican Vergil, Cod. Vat. Lat. 3225; the Itala of Quedlinburg: Berlin, 485 Theol. Mss.; the Chronograph of 354, Cod. Barb. xxxi. 39; the Vatican Terence, Vat. Lat. 3868; the Codex Romanus, Vat. Lat. 3867; the Codex Purpureus: Munich; the Cambridge Gospels; and the Ashburham Pentateuch.

Physical Description

1 folderMimeographed paper bound copy

"Lecture Notes on East Christian Manuscripts", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Lecture notes for Fine Arts 246, New York University.

Physical Description

1 folderMimeographed paper-bound copy

Physical Description

1 box4 bound carbon typescript copies.

I. East Christian, 1923. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderBound carbon typescript

II. Early Illusionistic Mss. and their Copies, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderBound carbon typescript

III. Mediaeval Illumination Latin-Style Anglo-Celtic Mss. The School of Tours, 1923. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderBound carbon typescript

IV. Mediaeval Illumination. The Ada School and its Continuation. School of Reims., 1923-1924. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderBound carbon typescript

"Roman Archaeology", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of lecture notes on Roman architecture, sculpture and painting.

Physical Description

1 folderHandwritten notebook

Notebook on Terracottas and Glass, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Contains notes from the Museo Cristiano, Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Kunstgewerbe Museum. Laid-in are three photos of terracottas.

Physical Description

1 folderLabelled, "C.R. Morey Amer. Express 5 Marktgasse Basel Koln Hotel Tils" and "Cologne and other Notes C.R. Morey: Amer. Exp."

Miscellaneous Drafts, 1944-1945. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and drafts of student papers and photos.

Physical Description

1 folderCarbon typescripts with photos laid-in

"Fourth Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion", 1943 September. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Full conference title, "Fourth Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in their relation to the Democratic Way of Life," Columbia University, 1943 September. Morey presented "Art as a Means to Unify Mankind," herewithin typescript copy of 8 pages, and including general conference correspondance and other papers by co-presenters Arnold M. Walter, Arnold Dresden, Walter Pach, Emanuel Winternitz, William G. Constable and William Heard Kilpatrick, with the original conference program.

Physical Description

1 folderCarbon typescripts and mimeographs in ring binder

Lecture Notes for Columbia University Fine Arts Course 201-2, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Also includes the following essays: "Pseudo-Realism in Sculpture: The Hellenistic Reliefs" and "Hellenistic Art: An Essay on the Evolution of Style in Mediterranean Lands from 300 B.C. to 300 A.D."

Physical Description

1 folderCarbon typescripts in binder

Equipment for the Teaching of Art in Colleges, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Catalogue of Reproductions of Medieval Sculpture printed for the Equipment for the Teaching of Art in Colleges. Distributed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Physical Description

1 folderCarbon typescript

"The Golden Age of Serbian Fresco Painting" by Edith Sidway Stevens, 1938 June. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Master's Thesis submitted to New York University in June 1938.

Physical Description

1 folderCarbon typescript

"Coptic Style," vols. I-II, by Arthur E. Bye, undated. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

Transcript with illustrations of Coptic, Roman, Greek and Early Christian Art on fabric and pasted-in.

Physical Description

2 foldersCarbon typescripts with pen illustrations

Miscellaneous Documents, Reports and Grant Application from the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1949-1954. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of grant application for an excavation, dated 8 January 1954; financial report on purchases of books, dates inclusive of 1949-1950; and report on the Barr Ferree Foundation, dated 20 February 1951.

Physical Description

1 folder

"Art and the Nazis or The Story of the Protection of Art in Italy", undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of approximately 130 pages of manuscript draft for an unpublished work on the protection of art during World War II in Europe.

Physical Description

1 folder

"Art and the Nazis or The Story of the Protection of Art in Italy", circa 1953. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of typed draft and translations from Italian by Morey and TLs dated 3 February 1953.

Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Documents and Correspondence, 1945-1954. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Items date from Morey's period at the American Embassy in Rome from 1945-1950.

Physical Description

1 folder

"The Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity", 1930. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of miscellaneous typed correspondence, manuscript letters, financial records and expenditure reports concerning "The Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity" which was chaired by Morey at the Art and Archaeology Department, Princeton University.

Physical Description

1 folder

"Council for Old World Archaeology", 1953-1954. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of official report of the Council for World Archaeology, pertaining to the history, aims, publications and financial. Also various articles and laws for its activities and related correspondence.

Physical Description

1 folder

"National Resources Planning Board and Science Committee", 1939-1944. 6 folders.
Scope and Contents

Consists of bulletins from the Higher Education and National Defense council, including "Adjustment of the College Curriculum to Wartime Conditions and Needs," various notices, bulletins, minutes from meetings and correspondence between Morey and the National Resources Planning Board and Science Committee in Washington.

Physical Description

6 folders5 folders of carbon typescripts

Lectures and Typed Drafts for Publication, circa 1945. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of typed drafts of "The Cross in the Nimbus of Christ," "Scholarship in the Arts: Past and Future," "Medieval Culture: Ecclesiastical or Secular," "A Mediaevalist looks at Modern Art," "The Maid-Servant in the Annunciation and in the Visitation," "Maplewood Lectures: I & II," "Early Christian Art," "The Reliquary of St. Adrian."

Physical Description

1 folder

Lecture Notes on Carolingian Illuminated Manuscripts, 1929. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Paper bound copy of lecture notes on Carolingian Illuminated Manuscripts for Fine Arts 240, New York University, published by New York University.

Physical Description

1 folder

Early Latin Illustrated Manuscripts, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Paper bound copy of Morey's lecture notes on early Latin manuscripts including "The Vatican Vergil," "Chronograph of 354," "Vatican Terence," "Codex Romanus," "Codex Purpureus," "Cambridge Gospels," "The Ashburnham Pentateuch," "Miniatures of the Terence Manuscripts," and "The Illustrations of Prudentius."

Physical Description

1 folder

"The Castings of the 4 Groups for the Arlington Memorial Bridge Washington DC", 1951. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

44pp. of illustrated pamphlet.

Physical Description

1 folder

Colorado College Summer Session: 1937, European Art from Antiquity to the Renaissance, Outlines for the Course, 1937. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of brief lecture notes on the various styles of Classical, Hellenistic, Greco-Egyptian, Byzantine, Barbarian Element in Latin Art, Romanesque, Gothic, Early Flemish and Renaissance.

Physical Description

1 folder

Architectural Plans of McCormick Hall, Princeton University, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Titled, "Completed Scheme for McCormick Hall at Princeton University."

Physical Description

1 folder3 stapled pages of plans for three floors of McCormick Hall, Princeton University, and folded tracing sheet.

Lecture Notes and Manuscript Essay, undated. 3 folders.
Scope and Contents

Consists of notes for "Roman Archaeology Lectures and Reading," "Greek Sculpture: Introduction to Med. Art 302," "Hellenistic Sculpture," "The Gothic Cathedral."

Physical Description

3 folders

Miscellaneous Correspondence to Dorothy Graves Thomas, circa 1930. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Concerning the Codex Amiatinus.

Physical Description

1 folder

Unpublished Lecture, "The Humanist at Large: Charles Rufus More in Rome" by Richard T. Arndt, circa 1955. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notes for Lecture, "Archaeology Lecture I", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lecture, "The Greek Archaic / Lecture 2", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Notes for Lecture, "The Gothic Cathedral", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lecture, "Hellenistic Sculpture / Lecture 1", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lectures and Papers, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes an edited typescript of "Scholarship in the Arts: Past and Future," and also "The Princeton Index of Christian Art" and "A Medievalist Looks at Modern Art"

Physical Description

1 folder

Lectures, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Lectures from New York University, including "Lectures on East Christian Art at the Morgan Library," "Byzantine Style c. 1000," "Byzantine Style at the end of the Ninth Century (2 copies)," "The Joshua Roll," and "Latin Use of Septuagint Illustration: The Mosaics of S. Maria Maggiore"

Physical Description

1 folder

Lecture Notes on "East Christian Manuscripts", 1929. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lecture Notes on "Carolingian Illuminated Manuscripts", 1929. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lecture Notes on "Carolingian Illuminated Manuscripts", 1929. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Lecture Notes on "New York University, Lectures on East Christian Art at the Morgan Library", undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of the contents of Morey's personal vertical files including drafts, journals, correspondence and other printed matter from Morey's teaching career.

Arrangement

Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.

Physical Description

6 boxes

Museo Cristiano, Card Catalog, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Subjects are Early Christian Art from the Museo Cristiano.

Physical Description

1 folderConsists of 11.5 inches of handwritten index cards.

Index for the Codex Amiatinus Manuscript, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Index of Artists and Bibliography, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of tabs for "Trecento Painting," "Giotteschi Orcagna," "Early Renaissance," "Renaissance, Hist. Background, Political, Economic," "Spanish Painting," "Byzantine," "Early Christian," "French Painting," "Antiquities," "Architecture," "Sculpture, Painting and Minor Arts" and "Costumes, Armour, and Weapons."

Physical Description

1 folderIndex cards in box.

Index of Art and Artists, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folderApproximately 20 inches of index cards with descriptions, photographs, reproductions and facsimiles.

Leather Purse, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Inscribed, "R.K. Stone."

Physical Description

1 folder

Index of Art, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Consists of approximately 34 inches of index cards classified by iconographical subject, style, region, object type and cards for particular notable works of medieval art, manuscripts and sculpture.

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1 folder

Miscellaneous Art Journals, Bulletins, Pamphlets, circa 1923-1943. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Various reprints and extracts from art journals including "The Art Bulletin," "The Gazette des Beaux-Arts," "Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism," "American Journal of Philology (July 1943)," "Bulletin of the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University," and various German and Italian journals.

Physical Description

1 folder

"American Council of Learned Societies", circa 1944. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous papers and correspondence.

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1 folderCarbon typescripts

"Fifth Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion", circa 1944. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous drafts of papers.

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1 folder

"Proposal for the Establishment of the Bureau of Urban Research, Princeton University", undated. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders2 paper bound copies

"Today is Tomorrow" by Dawson Brown, undated. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Typed script of play.

Physical Description

1 folder

Miscellaneous Vertical Files, undated. 8 boxes.
Scope and Contents

Consists of lecture notes, journal extracts, reviews, course syllabi and related correspondence.

Physical Description

8 boxes

Miscellaneous Vertical Files, 1930-1944. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

Consists of research notes, photographs and photostats for book illustrations, articles, outlines, reviews and related correspondence.

Physical Description

1 box

Anthony, Romanesque Frescoes Correspondence, Cook/Morey, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Biographical Materials, circa 1945-1955. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes obituaries, memorials, newspaper clippings, issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, vol. XXIII. no. 24 (1923), and four copies of Erwin Panofksy's printed biography.

Physical Description

1 folder

Typescript Proof Text of "Early Christian Art", undated. 2 folders.
Physical Description

2 folders

Engraved Copperplate Signature Plate, undated. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Honorary Doctorate Degrees, 1932-1942. 4 folders.
Scope and Contents

Honorary doctorate degrees from Oberlin College, University of Michigan, University of Chicago, and New York University.

Physical Description

4 folders

Lectures, Photographs, and Correspondence, 1945-1950. 1 folder.
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Materials from Morey's time at the American Embassy in Rome, with tabs for Philadelphia, Princeton, Washington, New York, and Rome.

Physical Description

1 folder

Articles and Publications, 1906-1951. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

Includes: "Art and the History of Art in Italy" (College Art Journal, 1951); two copies of "Exhibition of Works of Art Recovered from Germany," 1947 (translated by Sara Morey); "Beginnings of Saint Worship" (The Princeton Theological Review, 1908); "A Remarkable Collection of Ancient Coins" (Princeton Alumni Weekly, vol. VI, no. 30, 1906); "Une nouvelle representation de Dusares et Autres Types de Bostra" (Revue numismatique, 1911); "A Note on the Date of the Mosaic of Hosios David, Salonica" (Byzantion, 1932); "The Landevennec Gospels: A Breton Illuminated Manuscript of the Ninth Century" (The New York Public Library, 1929); "The Origin of the Fish Symbol" (Princeton Theological Review, 1910); on Myrtilla Avery in the Wellesley College Bulletin, "Early Christian Ivories of the Eastern Empire" (reprinted from the Dumbarton Oaks Papers no. 1, 1941); "Mediaeval Art and America" (reprinted from the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 7, 1944).

Physical Description

2 folders

Offprints and Articles, 1942-1951. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Most of the materials are inscribed to Professor C. R. Morey by the authors, including Dom Anselm Strittmatter, "Christmas and Epiphany: Origins and Antecedents" (1942), A.W. Van Buren, "Archaeological News: Classical Lands" (1947), Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., "The Vain Imaginings of Frate Estefano: A Style-Critical Parable" (1943), Ernst Langlotz, "Der architektonische Ursprung der christelichen Basilika" (1951), Helmut Schlunk, " El sarcofago de Castiliscar y los sarcofagos paleocristianos espanoles de le primera mitad del siglo IV" (1947), William Forsyth American Journal of Archaeology Book Review, inscribed by Forsyth (1952), and an issue of Berytus: Archaeological Studies, vol. vii (1942).

Physical Description

1 folder

Book Reviews, 1932-1940. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes typescript for Frederick M. Clapp, "The Isaac Master" (1933), "Cimabue" in Parnassus (1933), G. H. Edgell on Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. and the Isaac Master book (1932), Montague Rhodes James on Ernest T. DeWald and the Stuttgart Psalter book (1933), and Marvin Chauncey Ross on E. Stohlman "Gli Smalti del Museo Sacro Vaticano" (1940).

Physical Description

1 folder

"Principio fondamentale originario delle arti umane", 1927. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Dummy Copy of Plates for "The Miniatures of the Manuscripts of Terence", 1930-1931. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Journal Reprints, 1939-1955. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes: one inscribed by Henry Hope Reed, "Rome: The Third Sack" (1950), Charles Rufus Morey, "Italian Gothic Ivories" (1939), Charles Rufus Morey, "A Group of Gothic Ivories in the Walters Art Gallery" (1936), and three reprints of The Art Bulletin of issues vol. 25 (1943), vol. 34 (1952), and vol. 37 (1955).

Physical Description

1 folder

"Dusares and the Coin-Types of Bostra: Catalogue of the Coinage of Bostra", 1904-1909. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

The Art Bulletin 32:4, 1950 December. 2 folders.
Scope and Contents

Includes a dedication copy signed by Morey's students.

Physical Description

2 folders

Proof Copies of "Early Christian Art: An Outline of the Evolution of Style and Iconography in Sculpture and Painting from Antiquity to the Eighth Century", circa 1942. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Diplomas and Certificates, 1895-1899. 3 folders.
Scope and Contents

High School diploma from Charlotte Public High School in Charlotte, Michigan. College diplomas "Primo" and "Secundo" from the University of Michigan. Certificate from USA Air Forces Rest Camps. Honorary certificate after Pope Pius XII.

Physical Description

3 folders

Print, Suggest