Rariora Collection of Early Printings
Printed books dating from the early sixteenth century to the eighteenth
century. In the main these are works of medieval and Reformation scholars. |
| Luther Texts (over 100 volumes) |
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Works about Luther and his thought (580
volumes)
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Calvin Texts (over 60 volumes)
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| Works about Calvin and his thought
(260 volumes) |
Zwingli Texts
Includes the first collected
Zwingli edition
(Zurich, 1545). |
| Works about Zwingli and his thought
(124 volumes) |
| Council of Trent (13 folio volumes) |
| Texts about the Council of Trent and the Catholic
Reformation (135 volumes) |
| Collected Works (or Major Works) of the medieval
Philosophers and Theologians |
| Works about medieval thinkers and their thought
(1,560 volumes) |
Supporting Texts
Anti-Semitica (295 volumes); histories of the universities (60 volumes);
popular religion, including apocalypticism, Peasants' War, daemonica, etc.
(320 volumes); political and social history of Germany, France, The Netherlands,
and Switzerland (840 volumes); urban histories (120 volumes); and ecclesiology
(420 volumes) |
| Journal Collections (20) |
| Scholarly Series (10) |
| Encyclopedias and Reference Works |
| Offprint Collection |
Second Vatican Council
This collection is probably the only complete holding outside of official
Catholic Church archives of the various drafts of each document, as well
as the final printing of each document. The whole comprises a unique archive
for research on the evolution of Roman Catholic thought from the Council
of Trent through Vatican II. |
