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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The Columbia Museum of Art is offering for sale a copy of Volume I of the Cicognara Library on microfiche. The Cicognara Library is a major resource in art history and the humanities. More than 5,000 volumes in these areas were collected by Conte Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834), and were acquired by the Vatican Library in 1824. The library includes resources in art criticism, aesthetics, the history and literature of art, and related disciplines. The Leopoldo Cicognara Program at the University of Illinois Library is the joint project of the Vatican Library and the University of Illinois Library. The microfiche collection is produced in two volumes by Chadwyck-Healey, Ltd., Cambridge, England. A patron of the arts and a poet, Cicognara was a founder of art history as a discipline. This broad collection of literature includes books, treatises, poems, pamphlets, etc. concerning the relationship of the history of art to literature, theology, music, an other areas. There are bound volumes of engravings, instructions on how to paint and draw, and information on the building of fountains, houses, bridges, and other structures. There is also a large body of literature on the holdings of museums and private collections, as well as artistic and historic sites. Access to the library is through Cicognara's annotated Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichita posseduti dal Conte Cicognara (Pisa, 1821), one of the earliest and most important bibliographies in art. Volume I of the Cicognara Library contains about 3,000 titles and a photocopy of the Catalogo, Volume II can be purchased through the Cicognara Program, Undergraduate Library, University of Illinois. The museum's copy is housed in acid/lignin free microfiche boxes and will be shipped postage paid for a cost of $15,000. This is $3,000 less than the current price for new subscribers. Three year equal payments man be arranged. For more information please contact Libby Rich in the Columbia Museum of Art Library at 803-343-2215 (phone), 803-343-2204 (fax), [log in to unmask] (e-mail) or 1112 Bull Street, Columbia, SC 29201 Sincerely, Libby Rich Librarian Columbia Museum of Art [log in to unmask]