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BIBLIOTECA PALATINA. DRUCKSCHRIFTEN -STAMPATI PALATINI -PRINTED BOOKS
Munich : New York: K.G. Saur, 1989.
21,103 fiche
Collection of 8,000 Greek, Latin, oriental and Humanist works reproduced in microform. Considered the foremost collection of the 15th, 16th and 17th century texts, the Palatina Collection originated in Heidelberg at the bequest of Prince Elector Ludwig III. It was transferred to the Vatican in 1623, where it currently resides. The fiche is labeled according to the original library’s shelf arrangement by size (i.e. Stamp. Pal. S., Stam. Pal. I-VI, and so on). Items are chiefly in Latin. Fiches are numbered alphanumerically in right corner of header.
Guides:
Mittler, Elmar Bibliotheca Palatina : Druckschriften = stampati Palatini = printed books : Katalog zur Mikrofiche-Ausgabe.
In German
AMERICAN PERIODICALS, 1800-1850.
Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1966.
American periodical series II
The spirit of nationalism and of westward expansion runs throughout the periodical publications of this prolific period, which marked the beginning of a distinctly American literature. Religious periodicals and magazines for women and children were numerous during this period. Godey's Lady's Book, the Juvenile Port-Folio, the Saturday Evening Post, and the New-York Mirror are representative of the most significant periodicals of the time. Because the arrangement is not alphabetical, the title index in the guide must be used to locate specific periodicals. Periodicals are one of the main sources that reflect American public opinion of the period.
Reels 1-1966
Guides:
This guide contains a title, general subject, editor, and reel index. The title index provides full bibliographic information and notes on character and content. Titles with holdings information are entered in the online catalog, MERLIN. Many of the titles are indexed in Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. Also, additional author, title, and subject access is provided by the Early American Periodicals Index to 1850 (MICPT 016.05).
AMERICAN PERIODICALS, 18TH CENTURY.
Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1946.
American periodical series I
33 reel(s)
The eighty-eight titles in this collection trace the early evolution of the American periodical. It begins with two short-lived periodicals published in 1741 by Andrew Bradford and Benjamin Franklin, and extends through the increasing magazine activity after the Revolution. Four of the era's most important and longest-lived periodicals are included: the Columbian Magazine and the American Museum, both of Philadelphia, the Massachusetts Magazine of Boston, and the New-York Magazine. Subjects covered include politics and government, slavery, religion, books, and European news. Sentimental fiction, much of which was serialized, and Revolutionary pamphlets are also included. Titles are arranged alphabetically on the film.
Guides:
This guide contains a title, general subject, editor, and reel index. The title index provides full bibliographic information and notes on character and content. Titles with holdings information are entered in the online catalog, MERLIN. Many of the titles are indexed in Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. Also, additional author, title, and subject access is provided by the Early American Periodicals Index to 1850 (MICPT 016.05).
AMERICAN PRIMERS.
Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1990.
844 fiche
From Webster's Spellers and McGuffey Readers to Dick and Jane, this collection consists of primers, readers, spelling books, alphabet books, teaching manuals, and non-instructional juvenile literature published primarily in America from 1711 to 1943. Only book or book-like items are included, thus hornbooks, broadsides, charts, reading cards, and battledores are excluded. The collection includes some British imprints that were heavily imported to the colonies in the eighteenth century as well as non-English readers, especially German textbooks from Pennsylvania; readers and spellers in Native American languages; Confederate textbooks; and textbooks of simplified orthography, including Edwin Leigh's pronouncing orthographies published circa 1870. Material in the collection documents reading instruction in the U.S., illustrating pedagogical methods and tools. The collection highlights as well issues in the history of book design and illustration, publishing, and book selling in America.
Guides:
American primers : guide to the microfiche collection.
The guide provides a background essay and secondary bibliography by Richard L. Venezky, bibliography of microfiche, and title, author, and chronological index. Individual titles are catalogued in MERLIN.
BRITAIN'S LITERARY HERITAGE: NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRE PERIODICALS PART ONE AND TWO FROM THE BRITISH LIBRARY.
Brighton: Harvester Microform Publications, 1986.
41 items
19 titles.
Each title fully cataloged in MERLIN and shelved with the microfilmed periodical collection, FILM PER. Consult MERLIN for call number for each title. A list of the titles in the collection is available in the Special Collections office or search the series title in MERLIN.
BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL RHETORIC AND ELOCUTION.
Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilm International, 1953.
16 reel(s)
An uncataloged guide, British and Continental Rhetoric and Elocution, is available in the Special Collections office. The titles included in the collection are also listed in SPEC-R Z1033 .M5 I53 Niles, Ann. An Index to Microform Collections, pp 84-89.
Guides:
An Index to microform collections.
BRITISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. SERIES ONE. THE MEDIEVAL AGE, C.1150-1500 PARTS 1-3.
Brighton: Harvester Microform Publication, 1984.
Brighton Library Heritage
49 reel(s)
191 titles. A short uncatalogued guide is available in the Special Collections Reading Room.
Guides:
British literary manuscripts from Cambridge University Library..
BRITISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE BRITISH LIBRARY. SERIES ONE. THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE, C. 1500 -1700.
Brighton: Harvester Microform Publications,
Britain's Literary Heritage
53 reel(s)
220 titles.
Guides:
British Museum Department of Manuscripts ENGLISH STAGE AFTER THE RESTORATION: ARCHIVE OF THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY BRITISH THEATRE ROYAL FROM THE BRITISH LIBRARY, PART I.
Brighton: Harvester,
16 reel(s)
Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts 1854-1887 contains Additional Mss. 23156-23167, 25915, 29631-29643, 29709-29711, 29945-29958, 31972-31977, 33488. 61997. Each play is individually cataloged but the records do not appear in MERLIN with a description of the contents.
Guides:
British Museum. Dept. of Manuscripts. Catalogue of additions to the manuscripts in the British Museum ….
Cosenza, Mario Emilio. BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ITALIAN HUMANISTS
New York: Graphic Microfilm Corporation, 1955.
29 reel(s)
FILM 4D21:14:3
Dillard University, New Orleans Amistad Research Center. COUNTEE CULLEN PAPERS 1921-69.
New Orleans: Amistad Research Center, 1975.
7 reel(s)
Guides:
Borders, Florence E. Guide to the microfilm edition of the Countee Cullen papers, 1921-1969.
EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS, 1639-1800.
New York: Readex Microprint, 1955.
31000 card(s)
This collection is a reproduction of the complete texts of approximately 42,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides listed in Charles Evans' American Bibliography. Evans attempted to locate and describe everything printed in America up to 1800. Readex researchers added 12,000 works overlooked by Evans, as well as correcting his faulty entries. This series reflects, through the printed page, events through the American Revolutionary period. Titles are arranged chronologically in the order of entry in Evans' bibliography. They use the numbers assigned to each item by Evans. Although Evans listed magazines and newspapers, these are not included in the microprint edition but are filmed separately and described in this guide under American Periodicals and under Early American Newspapers.
Guides:
EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS, SECOND SERIES, 1801-1819.
New York: Readex Microprint, 1964.
52000 card(s)
This collection is based on Shaw and Shoemaker's American Bibliography, which attempted to list all books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the United States between 1800 and 1820. The complete text of approximately 50,000 works written in a period of rapid American expansion and intrepid exploration can be found here. Included are the writings of Robert Fulton, Henry Clay, Noah Webster, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Daniel Webster, and many others, as well as reports, letters, messages from the presidents, and resolutions of Congress and of the state and territorial legislative assemblies. Many British and European authors whose works were published in America are also represented. The titles are arranged chronologically as in the Shaw-Shoemaker bibliography, and can be located using the numbers assigned in that source. These numbers appear in eye-legible form on each microprint.
Each title is cataloged in MERLIN.
Guides:
Shaw, Ralph R. American bibliography : a preliminary checklist for 1801-1819.
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH FICTION.
Cambridge, MA: General Microfilm Company,
12 reel(s)
70 titles.
An uncataloged contents list is available in the Special Collections office.
FILM 4D21:15:1
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE.
Keswick, VA: Micrographics II,
746 reel(s)
Each title in the collection is cataloged. Uncatalogued reel lists are available in the Special Collections Reading Room.
Guides:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. RALPH WALDO EMERSON COLLECTION: 1822-1903.
Wakefield, England: Microform Academic Publishers, 1999.
British Records Relating to America in Microform
2 reel(s)
Filmed from the Alexander Ireland Collection in the Central Library, Manchester, England. This collection contains extracts from Emerson’s work in newspapers and periodicals, reviews of works by Emerson, reviews of and extracts from the correspondence between Emerson and Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish writer also admired by Alexander Ireland, reviews of Ireland’s book on Emerson, articles about Emerson, correspondence, and obituaries on Emerson’s death in the American and British press.
Guides:
Harding, Brian. The Ralph Waldo Emerson collection, 1822-1903 : a brief introduction to the microfilm edition of the Ralph Waldo Emerson collection.
The guide contains a brief account of the introduction and friendship between Emerson and Alexander Ireland upon Emerson’s visits to England, contents of the two reels, and bibliological notes.
ENGLISH BOOKS, 1475-1640.
Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1938.
2142 reel(s)
Beginning with the first book published in English, Caxton's translation of Recuyell of the History of Troye, and continuing through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains nearly all of the 26,500 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave`s Short-Title Catalogue and its revised edition. Pollard and Redgrave attempted to list every title published in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland and all works in the English language published elsewhere during this period. The collection also includes additional titles of the period not included in the above work. The series fully documents the magnificent English Renaissance, which witnessed the rebirth of classical humanism, the broadening of the known world, and the spread of printing and education. Included are the earliest editions of such classics as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, original versions of royal statutes and proclamations, military, religious, legal, parliamentary, and other public documents, numerous early English ballads and carols, and sermons, homilies, saints' lives, liturgies, and the Book of Common Prayer (1549). This collection will fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of scholars in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.
Many filmed titles have records in Ellis Library's main card catalog and in Special Collection's card catalog. Units 49-58 (reels 1699-1907) are individually cataloged in MERLIN. An online tutorial is available at http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/barkera/earlymfilm.mht.
Guides:
Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944. A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640.
This guide provides access by author to specific works.
ENGLISH BOOKS, 1641-1700.
Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1961.
1786 reel(s)
Based on Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, the collection includes books printed in Great Britain and elsewhere in English from 1641 to 1700. Books printed in America are excluded from this collection, which spans the tumultuous years of the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration. The material offers an historical perspective on an era that saw the rise of a mercantile class, the first English settlements in North America, and the development of secular philosophy and empirical science. Subject areas, such as the arts, the sciences, popular culture, and women's studies, are well represented.
Many filmed titles have records in Ellis Library's main card catalog and Special Collections' card catalog. Units 1-64 (reels 1-1733) are individually cataloged in MERLIN. An online tutorial is available at http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/barkera/earlymfilm.mht.
Guides:
Wing, Donald Goddard, 1904- Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700..
This guide provides access by author (or title in the case of anonymous works).