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Early Modern European Historical Resources
- English Book Series I and II
- English Civil War and Restoration
(Social and Political Aspects)
- English Records
- Enlightenment Writers
- French Politics
- Italian Economic and Social History
- Urban Life in Germany
English Book Series I and II, 1475-1640 and 1641-1700
- Microfilm set that reproduces over 86,000 titles published during
the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. It is based on
the Short Title Catalogue that attempted to list and describe
every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in Great Britain as well
as English books printed abroad. There is naturally a great deal of
material in the set of historical interest, but there are also many
texts related to religion, medicine, and women's studies.
This set includes the Thomason Tracts, listed below.
Contact: University of Pennsylvania, Van
Pelt Library, Microfilms, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia. (215) 898-7088.
English Civil War and Restoration - Social and Political
Aspects
- The Thomason Tracts. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International,
1977. 256 microfilm reals.
U. of Penn - Van Pelt Microfilm 3942 Guide
Remarkable collection of pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts
relating to the Civil War and Restoration collected by George Thomason
from 1640 to 1661. Thomason, a bookseller and sometimes publisher, began
a systematic collection of every book, pamphlet, and newspaper issued
in London as well as publications from other cities in Britain and overseas.
Topics are not restricted to politics, but cover all public issues of
the day. Haverford and Bryn Mawr have an earlier guide to Thomason's
collection (H Magill Z 2018 B8 and B Canaday q 942.06 AB77), that gives
some idea of the breadth of topics covered. Examples of titles in the
collection include: -"A Genealogie of All Popish Monks, Friers,
and Jesuits. By Lewis Owen. Written Eighteen Yeares Since and Now Reprinted."
Printed for George Gibbes. June 4, 1646.
-"A Most Certain, Strange, and True Discovery of a Witch, Being
Overtaken as She Was Standing on a Small Planck Board and as Sayling
on It Over the River of Newbury." Printed by John Hammond. Sept.
28, 1643.
Contact: University of Pennsylvania, Van
Pelt Library, Microfilms, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia. (215) 898-7088.
English Records
- Haverford College has a number of series from the British Government
as well as from many British historical societies that reprint documents
and other primary sources. Materials range from official court documents
to letters, diaries, and wills of the genry and crafts people. For example:
-Parlimentary Debates, 1803-1990. (H Magill DA25 G71)
-London Consistory Wills, 1492-1547 (H Magill DA 675 L65 P8 V.3
-Two Elizabethan Women: Correspondence of Joan and Maria Thyne, 1575-1611.
(H Magill DA 670 W69 W7 V. 38 1982)
Some titles are catalogued individually in Tripod. Others are only represented
by a series entry. If you are interested in a particular region of England,
you can browse Magill's stacks in that specific call number for pertinent
documents and recoreds.
Enlightenment Writers
- Bryn Mawr holds a collection of books from the enlightenment, published
in the 18th century. Check the list here.
French Politics
- The Univeristy of Pennsylvania has a substantial collection of mazarinades,
inflammatory pamphlets critical of Cardinal Mazarin, first minister
of France (1643-1661). The collection provides a rich resource for the
study of seventeenth-century French political controversies.
Contact: University of Pennsylvania, Van
Pelt Library, Special Collections, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia. (215)
898-7088.
Italian Economic and Social History
- The Medici-Gondi Archive comprises approximately 240 manuscript items
and collections within the Lea Library and documents the commercial
activities of the Medici and Gondi families of Florence. A few other
families, such as the Amadori, are also represented. This archive contains
accounts, ledgers, correspondence, and other records, mostly of financial
and commericial nature. Business activities of the family firm specifically
as well as the commercial, social, and familial relationships of the
period in general. Most iems date from the sixteenth century, though
many are from the seventeenth and eighteenth and even a few from the
nineteenth. In addition, there is a separate archive of approximately
twenty items and collections pertaining to the commercial activities
of the Concini family.
Contact: University of Pennsylvania, Van
Pelt Library, Special Collections, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia. (215)
898-7088.
Urban Life in Germany
- An extensive collection of broadsides and pamphlets documents multitudinous
aspects of civic life and its regulations in Brunswick (Brauenschweig)
from 1547 through 1857.
Contact: University of Pennsylvania, Van
Pelt Library, Special Collections, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia. (215)
898-7088.
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