Highlights of the Valdosta State University Remnant Trust Collection include:
Politics
Includes Aristotle’s “Libri Politici” (1543), John Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government” (1694), Machiavelli’s “Li Princeps” (1580), and a rare edition of the U.S. Constitution (1788).
Slavery and Women’s Suffrage
Includes Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery: An Autobiography” (1901), Ben Franklin’s “Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society Founding Document” (1787), and Susan B. Anthony’s “History of Woman Suffrage” (1887-1922).
Literature
Includes Pope Innocent III’s “On the Misery of the Human Condition” (1250), Thoreau’s “A Yankee in Canada” (1866), and “The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer” (1687).
Religion
Includes a Koran manuscript handwritten in Arabic (18th century), Martin Luther’s “Von der Babylonischen der Kirchen” (On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church) (1520), and Augustine of Hippo’s “Confessions” (1491).
Math and Natural Sciences
Includes Newton’s “The Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy” (1729) and Francis Bacon’s “Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning” (1640).
(Source: Stephen, J. “Rare Manuscripts now on Display in Odum Library.” The Spectator. January 22, 2015.
Complete List
(Click for Detailed Descriptions of each Work)
Aristotle, Libri Politici, 1543
Aristotle, Politiques, 1598
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, 1488
Josephus, Works of, 1655
Locke, John, Two Treatises of Government ,1694
Blackstone’s Magna Carta, 1759
Montesquieu, M. de Secondat Baron, Spirit of Laws, 1752
Orwell, George, Animal Farm, 1946
Orwell, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949
Plato, Republic, 1763
Smith, Adam, Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776
Smith, Adam, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759
Thoreau, Henry David, A Yankee in Canada, 1866
Wollstonecraft, Mary, Letters, 1796
Aquinas, Thomas, Rubricated Manuscript Leaf in Latin, 1447
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, 1491
Franklin, Benjamin, Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society Founding Document, 1787
Douglass, Frederick U.S. Grant and the Colored People 1872
American Archives, American Archives (VSU has received Volume 1)
Newton, Isaac, The Mathematical Principles of, 1729
Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Works of Natural Philosophy, 1687
Plato, Apology for Socrates, 1675
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Verrine Orations Manuscript, 1476
Sunderland, Rev. La Roy, Anti-Slavery Manual, 1837
Innocent III, On the Misery of the Human Condition, 1250
Unknown Ethiopian Magic Scroll
Koran Manuscript, 18th Century
Euclid, Arithmetices Euclideae Liber Primus, 1564
Machiavelli, Niccolo, Li Princeps, 1580
The Federalist Papers, 1788
Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias libri tres, 1513
Washington, Booker T., Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, 1901
Hippocrates of Kos, Hippocratis Coi Medicorum Omnium Longe Principis, Opera Quae Ad Nos Extant Omnia, 1558
Galen, Claudius De Naturalibus Facultatibus Libri Tres De Crisibus Libri Tres De Diebus Decretoriis Libri Tres De Alimentorum Facultatius Libri Tres, Iam Recens Multis in Locis Recogniti, 1549-1550
Anthony, Susan B., History of Woman Suffrage, 1887-1922
Luther, Martin, Von der Babylonischen der Kirchen, 1520
Elliot, Jonathan, Volumes 1-4 Debates on the Constitution, 1830
Bacon, Francis, Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning, 1640
Augustine of Hippo, Citie of God, 1610
Harrington, James, Oceana, 1737
Hobbes, Thomas, Leviathan, 1651
Hobbes, Thomas, Eight Books of the Peloponnesian War, 1629
United States Constitution, 1788