Ernst von Leutsch's handwritten notes for lectures he gave on the history of Greek literature (Geschichte der griechischen Poesie), at the University of Göttingen, evidently compiled over many years, circa 1847 to 1875. Included are several complete or partial versions of outlines for the lectures (see Box 17), with one version of the outline of lectures on drama dated 1865. Two separate leaves of notes headed Gentlemen (Meine Herren), found at the beginning of the manuscript (Box 17), and evidently comprising opening remarks for the course as a whole, are dated in Leutsch's hand 1870 and 1874/75, respectively. One loose note is written on the verso of an address label to Leutsch dated 1847 (see Part 5, Box 19). The manuscript covers the following topics: Part 1 (Box 17): The history of Greek literature (general introduction), overview of Greek literature by genre, and epos up to Homeric epos. Part 2 (Box 17): Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod's Works and Days, and Theogony. Part 3 (Box 18): Epos (continued): epos from the beginning of the Olympiads to the time of Alexander the Great, didactic epos, parodic epos, introduction to iambic poetry. Part 4 (Box 18): Lyric poetry (nomic, elegiac, melic, choric, dithyrambic, alexandrine, bucolic). Part 5 (Box 19): Drama (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides; Hellenic tragedy, Attic tragedy). Part 6 (Box 19): Prose: philosophic literature (mythology, Ionian and Aeolian philosophies, Platonic school, Stoics, Epicureans), scientific/scholarly literature (mechanics, astronomy, physics, political science), and rhetoric (Rhetorik, Beredsamkeit) (Attic, Rhodian, Sophist). Part 7 (Box 20): Prose (cont.): historiography (Ionian; Attic; in Alexandrine and Roman times; concepts of literary history). The manuscript includes one section of notes that may be out of place here: on the history of education or pedagogy of the Greeks (Geschichte der Erziehung bei den Griechen); see Box 17. These include notes headed Gentlemen (Meine Herren) comprising remarks at the opening of the lecture, written on the verso of a letter to Leutsch in the hand of Friedrich Schlemmer (b. 1799), of Dieterich'sche Buchhandlung, dated 15 July 1852. Schlemmer's letter expresses an apology in regard to a previous letter and also solicits Leutsch's help on an edition of Grimm's Deutsche Grammatik.
