page_title: Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin
section_title: Collection
hierarchical_section_title: Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin / Collection
caption_attribution_description: Português: Sala de exposições do andar de baixo.
context_page_description: The project of the Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin began in January 2005 to hold the Brazilian collection gathered throughout eighty years by José Mindlin and his wife Guita. Important works for understanding the culture and history of Brazil compose the collection donated to the University of São Paulo in 2006. Among them, there are works of literature and history, travellers’ accounts, historical and literary manuscripts, documents, journals, maps, scientific and didactic books, iconography and artists’ books.
  The building of the Brazilian Special Collections, where BBM is located, was officially opened on March 23, 2013 in the University of São Paulo. There are approximately 60 thousand volumes in the collection.
  Other items that composed the collection and deserve to be highlighted include first editions books, maps, diaries, art albums, journals, etc.
context_section_description: The collection is composed by works about Brazil, both by Brazilian authors and by foreign authors. It counts with some of the most famous and rare works, as for example:
  The first edition of O Guarani (1857), by José de Alencar, that took 17 years to be concluded.
  Translations made by Brazilian writers, as for example the one made by Machado de Assis of Les travailleurs de la mer, by Victor Hugo, in 1866.
  Some rare books, famous by their dedications, as one of the copies of Tu, Só Tu, Puro Amor, also by Machado de Assis, dedicated to Joaquim Nabuco.
  Some manuscripts, as the original of Banguê, by José Lins do Rego, 29 diaries of Condessa do Barral and a series of originals of Graciliano Ramos and Guimarães Rosa.
caption: Art and literature exposition room.
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