ENG 5807: Electronic Scholarly Editing Lists and Manuscripts
Early Modern Western Printing: Modern Classification System Information, including works on language, business training and skills, education, husbandry, popular science and medicine. Ephemera, including ballads, almanacs, catalogues and news pamphlets. History, both popular and scholarly. Law & Politics, including law books and non-religious polemics. Literature, including belles lettres and popular, classical and travel works. Official Documents, including forms, and proclamations. Religion, including sermons, bibles, prayer books, instruction and commentary along with controversial and devotional works.
Early Modern Western Printing: Bookseller Classification System Divinity, including sermons, commentary, ecclesiastical controversies, instruction, psalm paraphrases, and devotionals. Bibles, including Psalm collections and the Book of Common Prayer. Physick, including medicine, chemistry, and anatomy. Histories, including current and ancient subjects, romances, travel literature, and lives. Humanities, including husbandry, philosophy, statecraft, language, education, shorthand, jests, music, and epigrams. Poetry and Plays, classical and modern. Mathematics, including astrology, architecture, navigation, physics, surveying, arithmetic, carpentry, and optics. Foreign Languages, including non-law Latin and French. Law. Miscellaneous, including state documents, political tracts, Catholic and Quaker literature, newspapers, pageants, ballads, almanacs, and “Wonderment Tracts,” all items that Arber mentions as rarely occurring in the Term Catalogues.
Early Modern Western Printing: Public-Private Classification System Grammar. Rhetoric. Logic. Arithmetic. Geometry. Music. Astronomy. Philosophy. Theology. Law. Natural Science, including medicine, chemistry, husbandry, etc. Belle Lettres, including poetry and drama. Commerce. Histories, including current and ancient subjects, romances, travel literature, and lives. Popular Theology, including inspirational and devotional texts as well as sermons. Bibles. Miscellaneous, including ephemera, popular entertainments, and informational works. Scholastic Secular
5 Chinese Bamboo Strips
6 Palm Leaf Book
7 Bark “Codex”
8 Cuneiform on Pottery
9 Stone Carving
10 Metal Tablets
11 Greek Wood Tablet
12 17th-Century Runes on Wood
13 Greek Papyrus Fragment
14 Greek Papyrus Scroll
15 Egyptian Book of the Dead
16 16th-Century Papermill
17 Paper: Sorting Rags
18 Paper: Breaking-Down Rags
19 Paper: Mechanically Beating Rags
20 Paper: Dipping & Couching
21 Paper: Drying
22 Paper: Finishing
23 Paper Mold
24 Paper Mold
25 Papermaking Surface
26 Paper Textures