Metadata: Benito Arias Montano Collection
Collection
- Country:
- Spain
- Holding institution:
- The Tomas Navarro Tomas Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- Biblioteca Tomas Navarro Tomas
- Postal address:
- Calle Albasanz 26-28. 28037 - Madrid
- Phone number:
- +34 916 022 699
- Web address:
- http://biblioteca.cchs.csic.es
- Reference number:
- ATN/MM/001-ATN/MM/036
- Title:
- Benito Arias Montano Collection
- Title (official language):
- Instituto de Estudios Hebraicos, Sefardies y del Oriente Proximo Benito Arias Montano
- Creator/accumulator:
- Benito Arias Montano Institute for Hebrew, Sephardic and Near Eastern Studies
- Date(s):
- 1941/1988
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains documentation related to the Benito Arias Montano Institute for Hebrew, Sephardic and Near Eastern Studies of the Spanish National Research Council. The documentation can be classified in several sections:
Correspondence of the Institute (1-1-1944/31-12-1990). It contains 21 boxes ordered alphabetically [ATN/HSO/001-021].
Correspondence of the Institute’s Secretary (1974/1978) [ATN/HSO/022].
Reports of the years 1958-1960, 1962-1964, 1967-1976, and 1978-1984; work plan for 1970-1974; publications plan for 1968-1969; Institute’s management positions and staff; curricula (1958/1984) [ATN/HSO/023].
Minutes and staff meetings of the Benito Arias Montano Institute (1975/1985) [ATN/HSO/024].
Documentation regarding the personnel of the Institute. It contains five boxes ordered alphabetically (1950/1985) [ATN/HSO/025-029].
Documentation regarding scholarships and fellows of the Institute (1967/1985) [ATN/HSO/030].
Indexes and volumes of the Spanish State Official Gazette and reports of the CSIC (1983/1985) [ATN/HSO/031].
Official communiqués and correspondence maintained between the Benito Arias Montano Institute and the central services of the CSIC (1964/1984) [ATN/HSO/032].
CSIC Bulletins (1979/1987) [ATN/HSO/033].
Official communiqués and correspondence maintained between the Benito Arias Montano Institute and the Marcelino Menendez Pelayo Trust of the CSIC (1957/1981). It contains two boxes [ATN/HSO/034-035].
CSIC logistical manuals (1977/1987). It contains four boxes [ATN/HSO/036-039].
Humanities scientific programs of the CSIC (1976) [ATN/HSO/040].
Documentation of the Institute regarding academic programs and research projects on Hebrew, contracts, economic issues, office material, bookshop, publications, reports, and interviews (1960/1986). It contains 12 boxes [ATN/HSO/041-052].
Organic documentation of the Arias Montano’s Institute and the CSIC (1970/1984) [ATN/HSO/053].
Correspondence of the Institute (1944/1991): Gonzalo Maeso; Jose Maria Millas Vallicrosa; Misgav Yerushalayim; Molho; Morreale; Sabatino Moscati; Isaac Moscona; Netanyahu; Simon Neuman; Elie J. Nahmias; Gratianiano Nieto; Jacques M. Pinto; Israel S. Revah; David Romano Ventura; Cecil Roth; Jose A. Ruberte; Carlos del Valle Rodriguez; Susana Weich; Gerard E. Weil; Albert Adatto; Manuel Alvar Lopez; Alexander Habib Arkin; Samuel G. Armistead; Moshe Attias; Jean Marie Bauchet; Haim Beinart; Carlos Benarroch; Raphael Benazeraf; Jacobo Bentata; Zeev Ben-Hayyim; Ben Zvi Institute; Henry V. Besso; Bodleian Library; Diego Catalan; Angelina Camhy; Ovadia Camhy; Inquisition Conference; Maimonides Conference; Israeli General Consulate; Convencion Weizman; Federico Corriente; Cynthia Mary Crews; Moshe David; Isaac Barbani; Maria Espinal; Jose Estrugo; Leon Feldman; Salomon Gaon; Mark Alexandrovitch Gabinski; David L. Gold; F. G. Grijelmo; Alberto Hemsi; IBM; Central Institute in Jerusalem; The Jewish Publication Society of America; The Jewish National & University Library; Sephardic Studies Conference; E. Kahle; I. Kanchev; I. J. Katz; I. J. Levy; A. I. Laredo; Libreria Cientifica General (General Science Bookstore); Libreria Fidalgo; R. Loewe; M. Sala; Seminario Menendez Pidal; V. Sephina; J. H. Silverman; J. Schirmann; J. M. Sole Sole; Isidore Twersky; G. Vajda [ATN/HSO/054-066].
Correspondence and personal files, such as J. L. Lacave’s (1948/1987) [ATN/HSO/067].
Outgoing correspondence (1983/1984) [ATN/HSO/068].
Institute personal files (1978/1984): M. Abumalhan; F. Cantera Burgos; L. Carracedo Matorra; C. Carrete Parrondo; B. Celada Abad; F. Corriente Cordoba; N. Fernandez Marcos; E. Fernandez Tejero; L. Diez Merino; A. Diez Macho; J. M. Hassan; J. L. Lacave; M. A. Ladero Quesada; M. T. Ortega Monasterio; F. Perez Castro; J. B. Vilar; L. Vegas Montaner; A. Saenz-Badillos; E. Romero Castello; D. Romano; A. Navarro Peiro; Y. Moreno Koch; J. R. Magdalena Nom de Deu; P. Leon Tello; L. Giron Blanc [ATN/HSO/069-071].
“Seminario filologico Cardenal Cisneros” (1942/1992) [ATN/HSO/072, 086].
Documentation of the Institute (1963/1992) [ATN/HSO/073-074].
Documentation related to the Institute (1940/1988) [ATN/HSO/075-080].
Institute’s library (1947/1962 and 1963/1992) [ATN/HSO/081-082].
Correspondence of the Institute (1947/1961): H. Beinart, F. Perez Castro, The Bialik Foundation, the British Council [ATN/HSO/0783-085].
Institute’s acquisitions (1956/1964) [ATN/HSO/087].
UNESCO documentation (1956/1964) [ATN/HSO/088].
Institute’s Secretary. Receipts and administrative documents (1980/1995) [ATN/HSO/089].
International correspondence: Marques de Saavedra; S. Ashva; H. Serouya; M. Spitzer; Z. Szajkowski; P. N. Tablante; J. C. Trever; A. Tricard; W. Vycichl; F. Zorell; E. Peruzzi; G. Rapetti; L. Pessaj Varon; J. Roger; J. Rojas; M. Romero de Lema; J. O. Ronall; F. Ros; M. Rosen; S. Rosenblatt; E. Rosenthal; J. Rosenthal; J. N. Rosmalen; E. Rossi; L. Rost; E. Roth; J. F. Rothstein; H. Rowley; T. Ruiz de Cuevas; L. K. Rumble; Recherches de Science Religieuse (1947/1964) [ATN/HSO/090-092].
Institute’s acquisitions (1944/1954) [ATN/HSO/093-094].
Correspondence and works of Paul Eric Kahle (1950-1965) [ATN/HSO/095].
Institute’s Secretary (1949/1951) [ATN/HSO/096].
International correspondence: M. L. Gouhier, J. Gutmann, G. Habib, S. J. Hughes, S. Ibarbazal, Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, M. Madrazo, J. E. Morales, S. Morison, M. Ossa, A. Karger, A. Lafonte, M. I. Levy, Librairie Lecoffere (1947/1962) [ATN/HSO/097-099].
Works and publications: Jose Luis Lacave and Francisco Cantera Burgos [ATN/HSO/100].
Inventories, press clippings, drafts, originals, contracts, and receipts (1942/1969) [ATN/HSO/101-102].
“Seminario Filologico Cardenal Cisneros de la Biblia Poliglota” (1977/1983) [ATN/HSO/103-105].
Pictures [ATN/HSO/106-109].
- Archival history:
- The documentation was in the custody of the administrative bureau of the Institute and was preserved in the offices of the Humanities Center of the CSIC at Calle Duque de Medinaceli, 4 (Madrid). Between 2003 and 2005, the Unit for Archives and Documentation Support had custody. In this period, a brief description of the collection was made and it was incorporated into the general inventory. Finally, in 2007, it entered the new Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of the CSIC, and from 2010, it has been preserved in the Tomas Navarro Tomas Library Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) was created by Act 24/11/1939. Buildings and responsibilities of the “Junta para Ampliacion de Estudios” (JAE) were transferred to the new institution. The Benito Arias Montano Institute for Arabic and Hebrew Studies was established by Act 10/2/1940, which regulated the functions of the CSIC. Since 1941, the School of Hebrew Studies, led by Francisco Cantera, belonged to the Institute, and it was based in Madrid and Barcelona. Throughout its existence, the Institute developed several research lines: Hebrew-Biblical Section; Hebrew/Jewish-Spanish Culture Section; Near Eastern Section. In 1941, the journal Sefarad was created on the initiative of Francisco Cantera and Jose Maria Millas in order to publish the results of the Institute’s research.
In 1944, the Miguel Asin Palacios Institute for Arabic Studies was created by Act 9/11/1944. Since then, the Benito Arias Montano Institute has been exclusively devoted to Hebrew and Near East Studies. In 1951, the Cardenal Cisneros Philological Seminary was created in order to cluster the Semitic Studies inside the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Beginning in 1960, Sephardic Studies started to occupy an important position in the Institute, highlighting the works of Iacob M. Hassan. In 1984, the Benito Arias Montano Institute was merged into the new Institute of Philology.
- Access, restrictions:
- A justification must be presented to consult the material in process of being organized.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory of the collection and additional data on the collection are available at the website of the Navarro Tomas Navarro Library of the CCHS-CSIC.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://biblioteca.cchs.csic.es/index.php
- Yerusha Network member:
- Spanish National Research Council
- Author of the description:
- Marina Girona Berenguer; ILC, CSIC; September 2019
