Arthur Kingsley Porter Photographs of Architecture and Manuscripts, 1980s

• PH.BZ.007
• Collection
• 1980 - 1989

Selections from Porter's photograph collection at Harvard that Porter took and compiled in the early 20th century. These duplicate photographs depict Byzantine and Medieval architecture, wall paintings, and sculpture from Egypt, France, Greece, Is...

Porter, Arthur Kingsley

Corpus of Early Christian and Byzantine Silver, 1981-1986

• MS.BZ.020
• Collection
• 1981 - 1986

The collection documents approximately 1,500 Byzantine silver vessels and utensils produced for liturgical and domestic use between 300 and 1453 CE within the geographical boundaries of the Roman and Byzantine empires (as known, ca. 1985). Silver ...

Diebold, William

Franklin M. Biebel Photograph Albums of Mosaics, ca. 1950s

• PH.BZ.006
• Collection
• 1950 - 1959

Assembled by Biebel around 1955, the albums include photographs, plans, and documentary information on floor mosaics from Byzantium and the West. It also includes one album of coptic textiles. The most extensive coverage is of the Gerasa (Jerash) ...

Biebel, Franklin M. (Franklin Matthews)

Kurt Weitzmann Photographs of Manuscripts, 1980s-1990s

• PH.BZ.008
• Collection
• 1980 - 1999

Duplicate photographs of Greek manuscripts, Latin manuscripts, and ancient book illuminations originally compiled by Kurt Weitzmann throughout his career from the early 1930s to the 1980s.

Weitzmann, Kurt

Paul Underwood Research Papers and Project Materials on the Reconstruction of the church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople , ca. 1936-1950s

• MS.BZ.019
• Collection
• 1936 - 1959

This collection is divided into five (5) series, and contents are roughly arranged in chronological order. First, it highlights Paul Underwood’s early research interests as a graduate student at Princeton University in the mid-1930s and as a Junio...

Friend, Albert Mathias, Jr.