The Hannah Arendt Personal Library comprises hundreds of volumes bearing marginalia and annotations. As part of our ongoing preservation initiative, we aim to scan and digitize all pages containing these distinctive markings. For each annotated volume, a direct link to the corresponding catalog record has been provided.
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Politics
Aristotle
The Modern Library, 1943 Call #: JC71.A41 J6 1943
Arendt copy contained ephemera. Seven handwritten notes, and one typed note were found between pages of book. The notes would appear to function as extended marginalia, though most of the original locations have been lost. Arendt Ephemera file, folder 009.
PDF Information: 63 pages- 31mb
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Rhetorica et Poetica
Aristotle
Berolini: Typis et impensis Georgii Reimeri, 1859 Call #: PA3890 .A9 1859
Contains underlining and marginal lining.
PDF Information: 6 pages – 7.3mb
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Les Guerres en chaîne
Raymond Aron
[Paris] Gallimard [1951]
Call #: D843 .A7
Contains marginalia, underlining, marginal lining and endpaper notes (front and back)
PDF Information: 46 pages – 4.7 MB
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Collected Shorter Poems
W. H. Auden
London, Faber, 1966
Call #: PR6001.U4 A17 1966
Contains marginalia, underlining, marginal lining and endpaper notes
PDF Information: 20 pages – 5 MB
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Epistle to a godson, and other poems
Wystan Hugh Auden
New York, Random House [1972]
Call #: PR6001.U4 E6 1972
Arendt copy contains marginal lining
PDF Information: 7 pages – 284 KB
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Basic Writings of Saint Augustine v.1
Saint Augustine of Hippo
New York: Random House, 1948
Call #: BR65.A52 E6 1948
v.1 contains marginalia, underlining and marginal lining.
PDF Information: 18 pages – 17.1mb
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Basic Writings of Saint Augustine v.2
Saint Augustine of Hippo
New York: Random House, 1948
Call #: BR65.A52 E6 1948
Contains marginalia, underlining, marginal lining and endpaper notes.
PDF Information: 47 pages – 47.8mb
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S. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi De civitate Dei libri XXII
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Lipsiae: Sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii, 1825
Call #: BR65 .A64 1825
Contains underlining & marginal lining.
PDF Information: 9 pages – 5.9mb
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Selected Writings of Frances Bacon
Frances Bacon
New York : Modern Library, c 1955 Call #: B1155 .S35
Contains moderate underlinings and marginal linings
https://bardcollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/722271PDF Information: 112 pages – 8 MB
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Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau
Ernest Barker Sir
New York, Oxford University Press, 1962
Call #: JC336 .B27 1962
Contains marginal lining Contained ephemera. 5 x 3 in. notepad page inserted in book with brief notes pertaining to the text. See Arendt ephemera file, folder 005.
PDF Information: 17 pages – 1.2 MB
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Greek Political Theory, Plato and His Predecessors
Ernest Barker Sir
London: Methuen; New York: Barnes & Noble [1960]
Call #: JC73 .B23 1960
Contains underlining and marginal lining
PDF Information: 13 pages – 971KB
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The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle
Ernest Barker Sir
New York : Dover Publication, 1959
Call #: JC72 .B26
Contains underlining
PDF Information: 10 pages – 3.5 MB
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The Romans
R.H. Barrow
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1953
Call #: DG77 .B34 1953
Contains underlining & marginal lining.
PDF Information: 73 pages – 64mb
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Augustinus
Matthias Baumgartner
Leipzig : Quelle & Meyer, [19–?]
Call #: BR1720.A9 B38 1900
Contains inscription
PDF information: 2 pages – 105 KB
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Dialogue avec Heidegger
Jean Beaufret
[Paris] Éditions de Minuit [1973]-c1985
Call #:B3279.H49 B37
All 3 volumes inscribed to Hannah Arendt from author. v.1 contains underlining
PDF Information: 8 pages – 486 KB
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Dialogue avec Heidegger Vol. 3
Jean Beaufret
[Paris] Éditions de Minuit [1973]-c1985
Call #: B3279 .H49 B37
Contains inscription
PDF Information: 2 pages – 292 KB
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The Declaration of Independence : A Study in The History of Political Ideas
Carl L. Becker
New York : Vintage Books, 1959, c1942
Call #: JK128 .B4 1959
Contains marginalia
PDF Information: 42 pages – 2 MB
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A Commentary on Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason
Lewis White Beck
Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1966, 1963]
Call #: B2774 .B4 1966
Contains marginalia and underlining.
PDF Information: 34 pages – 14 MB
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Studies in the Philosophy of Kant
Lewis White Beck
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965
Call #: B2798 .B36
Arendt copy contains marginalia, underlining and marginal lining
PDF Information: 28 pages – 11.8 MB
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Work and Its Discontents
Daniel Bell
Boston : Beacon Press, [1956]
Call #: HD4904 .B44
Contains marginalia, underlining and marginal lining
PDF information: 25 pages – 1.4 MB
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Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert
Walter Benjamin
[Frankfurt am Main] Suhrkamp Verlag [1950]
Call #: PT2603.E455 B4 1950
Inscribed by author and has light marginalia
PDF information: 4 pages – 141 KB
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Briefe
Walter Benjamin
(Frankfurt a.M.) Suhrkamp, 1966
Call #: PT2603.E455 Z53
Copies v. 1 & 2 contain marginalia and heavy underlining and marginal lining; v.1 has endpaper notes
PDF Information: 117 pages – 177 MB
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Briefe v.1
Walter Benjamin
(Frankfurt a.M.) Suhrkamp, 1966
Call #: PT2603.E455 Z53 v.1
Contains marginalia and heavy underlining and marginal lining; v.1 has endpaper notes
PDF information – 140 pages – 9 MB
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Briefe v.2
Walter Benjamin
(Frankfurt a.M.) Suhrkamp, 1966.
Call #: PT2603.E455 Z53 v.2
v. 1 & 2 contain marginalia and heavy underlining and marginal lining
PDF information: 146 pages – 10.3 MB