657 rare printed books held by the Valmadonna Trust Library, London. Covers various aspects including Hebrew poetry and liturgical history, Eastern Judeo-Arabic literature, and the folklore, traditions and vernacular writings of the Jews of South Asia. Titles cataloged individually.
Collection of more than 400 printed works from colonial Spanish America, including catechisms, devotional works, hagiographies, religious biographies, orders, sermons, and more. The majority of works are from Mexico and Peru.
English translations of primary source texts chosen from published and unpublished sources to reflect the chronological, geographical, and linguistic diversity of Islamic societies. Includes folk and oral literature, poetry, geography and travel writing, legal and commercial texts, and many other genres (including texts from Europe, South/Southeast Asia, and other areas).
Collection of mission reports and field correspondence from the Board of Foreign Mission, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Included are histories, mission reports, field correspondence, Board of Foreign Missions circular letters, educational and medical work records, and missionary personal correspondence.
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain). Papers, 1701-1750.
World Microfilms
1701–50
This microfilm set contains materials in the Lambeth Palace Library consisting of approximately 2,500 letters and eight volumes of the Society’s minutes and papers concerning the establishment of the American episcopate. The correspondence is with the clergy sent to America, and covers the social, economic, and political, as well as the religious history of the period.
Die Kirchenkampf: the Gutteridge-Micklam collections.
K.G. Saur
1930–69
GUIDE: Die Kirchenkampf: the Gutteridge-Micklam collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford: [guide]. B-38533
This set includes political and theological documents from 1930 to 1969 from the German Evangelic Church. Books, periodicals, reports, correspondence, memoranda, etc., relate the church’s struggle against the Nazis’ attempt to establish a state church.
Collection of source material documenting the Lutheran Reformation in Germany during the period 1500–1600. The collection consists of 362 titles and is made up of works by prominent figures of the Lutheran Reformation, such as Johanness Bugenhagen, Jakob Andreae, Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Martin Chemnitz, Tilemann Heshusius, Aegidus Hunnius, Johann Wigand, and many others.
Collection includes books, pamphlets, sermons, journals, hymns, addresses, synod reports, and early editions of Luther’s catechism from America between 1704 and 1874. CRL owns 15 of 35 reels produced.
Early printed books on religion from colonial Spanish America, 1543/44-c. 1800
IDC (Brill)
1543-1800
Collection of more than 400 printed works from colonial Spanish America, including catechisms, devotional works, hagiographies, religious biographies, orders, sermons, and more. The majority of works are from Mexico and Peru.
Flugschriften des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts (1501-1530).
IDC (Brill)
1501–30
This microfiche set (part I of II from IDC) contains nearly 5,000 German and Latin pamphlets printed in the Holy Roman Empire during the first three decades of the sixteenth century. Topics include the early Reformation movement, the threat presented by the expansion of the Turks, and with various conflicts among the Western European countries.
GUIDE: Flugschriften des fruhen 16. Jahrhunderts (1501–30): Register. Z1033.M6 F646
GUIDE: Church Missionary Society Archive: A list and guide. B-43202 Section 1, pt. 1-3; B-46535 Section 1, pt. 4-9; B-46957 Section 1, pt. 10-14; B-46399 Section 2, pt. 1-5; B-46426 Section 3, pt. 1-5 (copy 1 and 2); B-46577 Section 5, pt. 1. See also publisher’s introduction and section guides. In addition to the missionary records from Africa, CRL has acquired record sets of the Church Missionary Society archives for other regions of the world. Records currently held include:
Part 1: Society for Promoting Female Education (FES) in China, India, and the East, 1834–99
Part 3: Homes of the East, 1910–48 (including Torchbearer from 1914); Daybreak, 1889, 1893–94, and 1906–09; and The Indian Female Evangelist, 1872–80
Part 4: The Indian Female Evangelist and successors, 1881–1956 (covering The Indian Female Evangelist, 1881–93; The Zenana: Woman's Work in India, 1893–1935; The Zenana: Women's Work in India and Pakistan, 1936–56) from Interserve, London
Part 5: Minutes of the Zenana, Medical, and Bible Mission, 1865–1937, and the Annual Reports of the Indian Female Normal School and Instruction Society, 1863–79, from Interserve, London
Part 1: Annotated Register of CMS Missionaries, History of the CMS by Eugene Stock, and the Catalogues to the Overseas Archive, CEZMS and FES Archives
Part 2: CMS Gleaner, 1841–1921 (also CMS Gleaner Pictorial Album, 1888 and CMS Missionary Atlas, 1879)
Part 3: CMS Outlook, 1922–72 (a continuation from CMS Gleaner)
Part 4: Annual Letters, 1886–1912
Part 5: CMS Medical Journals: Mercy and Truth, 1897–1921; The Mission Hospital, 1922–39; The Way of Healing, 1940; The Medical Mission Quarterly, 1892–96; and Preaching and Healing, 1900–06
Part 6: CMS Circular Books & Letters, 1799–1921
Part 7: CMS Minutes, 1799–1837
Part 8: CMS Minutes, 1837–1853
Part 9: CMS Minutes, 1854–76 and Indexes to Minutes, 1799–1878
Part 10: The Missionary Papers, 1816-1884, CMS Monthly Paper, 1828-1829, A Quarterly Token for Juvenile Subscribers, 1856-1878 and 1888-1917, The Home Gazette, 1905-1906 and The CMS Gazette, 1907-1934
Part 11: General Review of Missions, 1919, Annual Reports, 1922-1944 and CMS Historical Record, 1944-1986
Part 12: The CMS juvenile instructor, 1842-1890, Children's world, 1891-1900, The round world, 1901-1958
Part 13: CMS collection of lives of missionaries held at the Church Mission Society Library
Part 14: CMS collection of lives of missionaries held at the Church Mission Society Library
Part 15: The Church Missionary Society record, 1830-1875 held at the Church Mission Society Library
Part 16: CMS awake!--a missionary magazine for general readers, 1891-1921, continued as Eastward Ho!, 1922-1940
Part 17: CMS minutes, 1876-1898, and indexes to minutes, 1875-1907
Part 18: CMS Minutes, 1898-1949
Part 19: Papers of Henry Venn (secretary of CMS, 1841-1873) and family
Part 20: Papers of Henry Venn (secretary of CMS, 1846-1873) and family
Part 21: Diaries of Dr Max Warren (General Secretary of CMS, 1942-1963) and Family
These records of the London Missionary Society and the Commonwealth Missionary Society (which later merged to become the Congregational Council for World Mission) are some of the oldest archives on missionary work with files of correspondence dating back to the 18th century. The originals are at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The records are arranged by geographic area as described in the manuscript inventories.
GUIDE: Council for World Mission. Inventory of the archives, 1775-1940. [119 fiche.]
Collection of mission reports and field correspondence from the Board of Foreign Mission, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Included are histories, mission reports, field correspondence, Board of Foreign Missions circular letters, educational and medical work records, and missionary personal correspondence.
Catholic reformation, including French diocesan catechisms, 1615-1900
IDC (Brill)
1615–1900
Includes fiche of original printed sources, many from the Bibliotheque des Fontaines of the Society of Jesus in Chantilly, France.
CRL holds sections on theology, philosophy, controversies, biographies and foreign missions, but does not hold the French diocesan catechisms. Titles cataloged separately.
GUIDE: Catholic reformation, including French diocesan catechisms, 1615–1900, on microfiche. E-8614
Reformed Protestantism : Sources of the 16th and 17th Centuries
IDC (Brill)
16th-17th centuries
This set includes published materials from the 16th and 17th centuries. The Center's guides are a short-title list of the volumes and the publisher's printed reel guide. The Center holds the following parts:
Section 1A. Heinrich Bullinger and the Zurich Reformation (350 titles)
Section 1B. Reformation: Geneva (95 titles)
Secton 2A. Reformation: Strasbourg (64 titles)
Section 2B. Reformation: France (52 titles)
Section 3. Reformation: The Netherlands and Germany (158 titles)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Papers, photocopy of manuscript notebooks.
Cornell University
1914–51
Description from guide:
Professor Norman Malcolm, of Cornell University, and Professor Georg Henrik von Wright, Academy of Finland, Helsinki, have collected the papers by assignment of the literary trustees of the Wittgenstein estate. The originals are primarily in the library of Trinity College in Cambridge, and in the hands of a private owner in Vienna; original negative microfilms were made partly in England and partly at Cornell. The final negative microfilms were made at Cornell, and are held by Cornell University Libraries in Ithaca, New York.
This set includes published materials from the 16th and 17th centuries. The Center's guides are a short-title list of the volumes and the publisher's printed reel guide. The Center holds the following parts:
This microfilm set contains materials in the Lambeth Palace Library consisting of approximately 2,500 letters and eight volumes of the Society’s minutes and papers concerning the establishment of the American episcopate. The correspondence is with the clergy sent to America, and covers the social, economic, and political, as well as the religious history of the period.
These records of the London Missionary Society and the Commonwealth Missionary Society (which later merged to become the Congregational Council for World Mission) are some of the oldest archives on missionary work with files of correspondence dating back to the 18th century. The originals are at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The records are arranged by geographic area as described in the manuscript inventories.
