Bibliographical References (in progress)


I.   Abbreviated references

Ahmanson-Murphy
Ahmanson-Murphy   University of California, Los Angeles.   Library.   The Aldine Press:  catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of books by or relating to the Press in the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles, incorporating works recorded elsewhere.   Berkeley, Los Angeles, London:  2001.

AmBCat
Pollard, Alfred W. Catalogue of books ... from the presses of the first printers, collected by Rush C. Hawkins and deposited in the Annmary Brown Memorial Library at Providence, Rhode Island. Oxford: 1910.

Aquilon 
Aquilon, Pierre.   Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France.   Vol. 10:  Région Centre.   Paris:  1991.

Baudrier  
Baudrier, Henri Louis.   Bibliographie lyonnaise:  recherches sur les imprimeurs, libraires, relieurs et fondeurs de lettres de Lyon au XVIe siècle, 12 vols plus Tables and Supplément.   Lyon & Paris:  1895-1967.

BMC
British Museum (London).   Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum.   Vols 1-10, 12.   London:  1908-85.   Vol. 11.   ‘t Goy Houten:  2007.

BMC(Fr)  
British Museum (London).   Short-title catalogue of books printed in France and of French books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum.   London:  1924.   Supplement.   London:  1986.

BMC(Ger)  
British Museum (London).   Short-title catalogue of books printed in the German-speaking countries and German books printed in other countries from 1455 to 1600 now in the British Museum.   London:  1962.

BMC(It)
British Museum (London).   Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum.   London:  1958.   Supplement.   London:  1986.

Bod-inc  
Bodleian Library (Oxford).   A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, by Alan Coates, Kristian Jensen, Cristina Dondi, Bettina Wagner, and Helen Dixon, with the assistance of Carolinne White and Elizabeth Mathew;  blockbooks, woodcut and metalcut single sheets by Nigel F. Palmer;  and an inventory of Hebrew incunabula by Silke Schaeper.   6 vols.   Oxford:  2005.

Bragaglia
Bragaglia, Egisto. Gli ex libris italiani dalle origini alla fine dell’ Ottocento. 3 vols. Milan: 1993.

Briquet
Briquet, C.M. Les filigranes: dictionnaire historique des marques du papier des leur apparition vers 1282 jusq’en 1600. A facsimile of the 1907 edition, with supplementary material contributed by a number of scholars; edited by Allan Stevenson. 4 vols. Amsterdam: 1968.

BSB-Ink  
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich).   Inkunabelkatalog.   7 vols.   Wiesbaden:  1988-2009.

C (and H.C.)   
Copinger, Walter Arthur.  Supplement to Hain’s Repertorium bibliographicum.   Part II.   2 vols & Addenda.   London:  1898-1902.

CIBN  
Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris).   Catalogue des incunabules.   Vol. 1, fasc. 1-3 (Xylographes et A-D).   Paris:  1992-2006.   Vol. 2 (H-Z).   Paris:  1985.

Coll(U)  
Collijn, Isak.   Katalog der Inkunabeln der Kgl. Universitätsbibliothek zu Uppsala.   Uppsala & Leipzig:  1907.

DeR(C)  
De Ricci, Seymour.   A census of Caxtons.   Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs, 15.   Oxford:  1909.

Duff  
Duff, Edward Gordon.   Fifteenth century English books:  a bibliography of books and documents printed in England and of books for the English market printed abroad.   Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs, 18.   Oxford:  1917.   Reprinted as:  Printing in England in the fifteenth century:  E. Gordon Duff’s Bibliography, with supplementary descriptions, chronologies and a census of copies by Lotte Hellinga.   London:  2009.

Foster 
Foster, Joseph.  Alumni Oxonienses:  the members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714:  their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees.   4 vols.   Oxford & London: 1891-2.

Franks
Howe, E.R.J. Gambier. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the trustees of the British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks. 3 vols. London: 1903

Giessen 
Schüling, Hermann.   Die Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek Giessen.   Giessen:  1966.

Girard   
Girard, Alain.   Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France.   Vol. 4:  Bibliothèques de la Région Basse-Normandie.   Bordeaux:  1984. 

Goff  
Goff, Frederick Richmond.   Incunabula in American libraries:  a third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections.   Reproduced from the annotated copy maintained by Frederick R. Goff, compiler and editor.   New York:  1973.

Gb. Jb.  
Gutenberg-Jahrbuch.   Mainz:  1926-

GW  
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, .   Vols 1-7 (ed. Kommission für den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke).   Leipzig:  1925-40;  Vols 8- (ed. Deutsche Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin).   Stuttgart, Berlin & New York:  1972-.

H  
Hain, Ludwig.   Repertorium bibliographicum, in quo libri omnes ab arte typographica inventa usque ad annum MD. typis expressi ordine alphabetico vel simpliciter enumerantur vel adcuratius recensentur.   2 vols.   Stuttgart & Paris:  1826-38.

Hargreaves  
Hargreaves, G.D.   A catalogue of medical incunabula in Edinburgh libraries.   Edinburgh:  1976.

Hawkins
Hawkins, Rush C.   Catalogue of books mostly from the presses of the first printers ... Collected by Rush C. Hawkins, catalogued by Alfred W. Pollard, and deposited in the Annmary Brown Memorial at Providence, Rhode Island.   Oxford:  1910.

HC  
Copinger, Walter Arthur.   Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum.   Part I.   London:  1895.

Heawood 
Heawood, Edward:  Watemarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries.   Hilversum:  1950.   Monumenta chartae papyraceae, I.

Hepburn
Hepburn, A.G. Catalogue of incunables and S.T.C. books in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Compiled by A.G. Hepburn. Glasgow: 1964

Hillard(Mazarine)
Hillard, Denise. Bibliothèque Mazarine. Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France, VI. Paris; Bordeaux: 1989.

HPT
Hellinga, Wytze and Lotte. The fifteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries. 2 vols. Amsterdam:  1966.

HR
Reichling, Dietrich. Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum. Additiones et emendationes. 6 vols + Indices. Monachii: 1905-11.

Hubay(Augsburg)
Hubay, Ilona. Incunabula der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg. Wiesbaden: 1974.

Hubay(Würzburg)
Hubay, Ilona. Incunabula der Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg. Wiesbaden: 1966.

IBE
Biblioteca Nacional (Madrid).   Catálogo general de incunables en bibliotecas españolas.   Coordinado y dirigido por Francisco García Craviotto.   2 vols.   Madrid:  1989-90.   (Adiciones y correcciones.   I-II, Madrid:  1991-94)

IBP  
Incunabula quae in bibliothecis Poloniae asservantur.   Moderante Alodia Kawecka-Gryczowa;  composuerunt Maria Bohonos et Elisa Szandorowska.   3 vols.   Wrocław, Warsaw & Cracow:  1970.

IDL  
Incunabula in Dutch libraries.   Editor-in-chief Gerard van Thienen.   2 vols.   Nieuwkoop:  1983.

IGI 
Indice generale degli incunaboli delle biblioteche d’Italia.   6 vols.   Roma:  1943-81.

ILC
Incunabula printed in the Low Countries:  a census. Edited by Gerard van Thienen and John Goldfinch, Nieuwkoop:  1999.  Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica, 36.

IPI
Needham, Paul. Index possessorum incunabulorum. <https://data.cerl.org/ipi/> accessed June 2019.

ISTC
Incunabula short-title catalogue [online database, British Library, London].

Jammes  
Jammes, Bruno.   Catalogues régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France.   Vol. 7:  Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Bibliothèque Thiers.   Paris:  1990.

Ker
Ker, Neil R.  Medieval libraries of Great Britain: a list of surviving books, 2nd ed.  London: 1964.

Lőkkös(Cat BPU)
Lökkös, Antal.  Les incunables de la Bibliothèque de Genève 1478-1500.  Geneva: 1978.

Lőkkös(Genève) 
Lőkkös, Antal.   Catalogue des incunables imprimés à Genève 1478-1500.   Genève:  1978.

Mitchell(Aberdeen)
Mitchell, William Smith. Catalogue of the incunabula in Aberdeen University Library. Edinburgh: 1968.

Moreau  
Moreau, Brigitte.   Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle.   [In progress.]   Paris: 1972-.

Oates
Oates, J.C.T. A catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge. Cambridge: 1954.

ODNB
Oxford dictionary of national biography. 60 vols. Oxford: 2004. Also available, with additions, as an electronic resource <https://www.oxforddnb.com/> accessed June 2019.

Olivier
Olivier, E.   Manuel de l’amateur de reliures armoriées françaises.   29 vols.   Paris:  1924-35.

Pell  
Pellechet, Marie [and Marie-Louis Polain].   Catalogue général des incunabula des bibliothèques publiques de France.   3 vols (A-Gregorius Magnus).   Paris:  1897-1909.

Polain(B)
Polain, Marie-Louis.   Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique.   4 vols.   Bruxelles:  1932.   Supplément.   Bruxelles:  1978.

Poynter
Poynter, F.N.L.  A catalogue of incunabula in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.   London:  1954.

Proctor
Proctor, Robert. An index to the early printed books in the British Museum from the invention of printing to the year MD, with notes of those in the Bodleian Library. 2 vols. London: 1898. 4 Supplements. London: 1899-1902.

R    
Reichling, Dietrich:  Appendices ad Hainii-Copingeri Repertorium bibliographicum:  Additiones et emendationes.   6 vols.   Monachii:  1905-11, Supplementum.  Münster:  1914.

Renouard  
Renouard, Philippe.   Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle.   [In progress.]   Paris:  1964-.

Rhodes (Oxford Colleges)  
Rhodes, Dennis E.   A catalogue of incunabula in all the libraries of Oxford University outside the Bodleian.   Oxford:  1982.

Sack(Freiburg)
Sack, Vera.   Die Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek und anderer öffentlicher Sammlungen in Freiburg im Breisgau und Umgebung.   3 vols.   Wiesbaden:  1985.

Sajó-Soltész
Sajó, Géza &  Soltész, Erzsébet.   Catalogus incunabulorum quae in bibliothecis publicis Hungariae asservantur.   2 vols.   Budapest:  1970.

Schramm
Schramm, Albert.   Der Bilderschmuck der Frühdrucke.   23 vols.   Leipzig:  1920-43.

Schreiber, Manuel, IV
Schreiber, W.L.  Manuel de l’amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle.  Tome quatrième contenant un catalogue des livres xylographiques et xylo-chirographiques, indiquant les différences de toutes les éditions existantes.   Leipzig:  1902

Thorndike-Kibre
Thorndike, Lynn & Kibre, Pearl. A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin. London: 1963.

Thorp
Thorp, Nigel. The glory of the page: medieval & Renaissance illuminated manuscripts from Glasgow University Library. London: 1987. Includes some printed books.

Torchet
Torchet, Louis. Bibliothèques de la Région des Pays de la Loire. Catalogues régionaux des incunables des Bibliothèques publiques de France. V. Bordeaux: 1987.

VD16

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: 1983-1997. (Continued online at http://www.gateway.bayern.de/index_vd16.html)

Vindel(A)   
Vindel, Francisco.   El arte tipográfico en España durante el siglo XV.   9 vols.   Madrid:  1945-51.

Walsh  
Walsh, James E.   A catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library.   5 vols.   Binghamton, NY;  Tempe, AZ:  1991-97.   Supplement by David Whitesell.   Harvard Library Bulletin, 16 , nos 1-2 (2005).

Warnecke  
Warnecke, F.   Die deutschen Bücherzeichen.   Berlin:  1890.

Weale
Weale, W.H. James. Bookbindings and rubbings of bindings in the National Art Library, South Kensington Museum. 2 vols. London: 1894-98.

Weale-Bohatta  
Weale, W.H. James. Catalogus missalium ritus latini ab anno M.CCCC.LXXIV impressorum.   Collegit W.H.J. Weale, iterum edidit H. Bohatta.   Londini:  1928.

Weale-Taylor
Weale, W.H. James & Taylor, Lawrence. Early stamped bookbindings in the British Museum. London: 1922.

WILC
Watermarks in incunabula printed in the Low Countries:  a database maintained at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag (http://watermark.kb.nl/)


II. Other references

(including personal library and sale catalogues)

Addison, William Innes.   The matriculation albums of the University of Glasgow from 1728 to 1858.   Glasgow:  1913.

Anon.   A catalogue of a scarce collection of books, in English, French and Italian, being part of a well known library.   London:  Baker & Leigh, 29 April [1771?]).   Copy in British Library – S.C.S. 12(2) – annotated throughout with prices and names of buyers.

Arthur, Archibald.   Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis secundum literarum ordinem dispositus.   Glasguae:  1791.

Arthur, Archibald.   Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis secundum pluteorum ordinem dispositus.   Glasguae:  1791.

Askew, Anthony.   Bibliotheca Askeviana;  sive catalogus librorum rarissimorum Antonii Askew …   London:  13 Feb. 1775.   Copy in University of Glasgow Library (Mu36-c.8) priced throughout in manuscript.

Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex.   Bibliotheca Sussexiana:  catalogue of the extensive and valuable library of His Royal Highness the late Duke of Sussex …   6 parts.   London:  Evans, 1844-46.   Copy in University of Glasgow Library (BD17-e.15) priced throughout in manuscript.

Bietenholz , Peter G. & Deutscher, Thomas B., ed.   Contemporaries of Erasmus:  a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation.   3 vols.   Toronto:  1985-7.

Burmann, Pieter, the Younger.   Bibliotheca Burmanniana, sive catalogus librorum ... bibliothecae Petri Burmanni Secundi ...   Lugduni Batavorum:  S. & J. Luchtmans, 27 Sept. 1779.

Chasles, Michel.   Catalogue de la bibliothèque scientifique, historique et littéraire de feu M. Michel Chasles.   Paris:  1881.

Clark, Lilian G.   Collectors and owners of incunabula in the British Museum:  index of provenances for books printed in France, Holland and Belgium.   Bath:  1962.

Colbert, Jean Baptiste.   Bibliotheca Colbertina:  seu catalogus librorum bibliothecae, quae fuit primum  … J.B. Colbert, Regni Administri, deinde … J.B. Colbert, March. de Seignelay;  postea … J. Nic. Colbert, Rothomagensis Archiepiscopi;  ac demum … Caroli-Leonorii Colbert, Comitis de Seignelay.   3 vols.   Parisiis:  1728.   Copy in University of Glasgow Library (Hunterian Add. 49-51) priced throughout in manuscript.

Cottineau,  Laurent Henri.   Répertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés.   3 vols.   Mâcon:  1939.

Cottrell-Dormer, Sir Clement:  see Dormer, Lieut.-General James.

Coutts, James.   A history of the University of Glasgow from its foundation in 1451 to 1909.   Glasgow:  1909.

Davenport, Cyril.   English heraldic book-stamps.   London:  1909.

Davies, Martin, ed.   Incunabula:  studies in fifteenth-century printed books presented to Lotte Hellinga.   London:  1999.

De Bure, Guillaume.   Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M***.   Paris:  1770.

De Bure, Guillaume François.   Supplément à la Bibliographie instructive, ou Catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu M. Louis Jean Gaignat.   2 vols.   Paris:  1769.   Copy in University of Glasgow Library (BD17-g.22, 23) priced throughout in manuscript.

De Ricci, Seymour.   English collectors of books & manuscripts (1530-1930) and their marks of ownership.   Cambridge:  1930.

Dessain-Hunter correspondence.   Collection of letters to William Hunter mainly relating to Dessain’s purchases for Hunter at the sale of the library of Louis Jean Gaignat (Paris, 1769);  a few letters relate to the sale of books from the library of the Duc de la Vallière (Paris, 1767).   University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36.

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall.   A descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, lately forming part of the library of the Duke di Cassano Serra, and now the property of George John Earl Spencer ... By ... Thomas Frognall Dibdin.   London:  1823.

Dormer, Lieut.-General James.   A catalogue of the genuine and elegant library of the late Sir Clement Cottrell Dormer, collected by Lieutenant-General James Dormer.   London:  20 Feb. 1764.   Copy in British Library – S.C.S. 5(3) – annotated throughout with prices and names of buyers.

Durkan, John & Ross, Anthony.   Early Scottish libraries.   Glasgow:  1961.

Emden, A. B. A biographical register of the University of Oxford A.D. 1501 to 1540.  Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1974.

Farge, James K.   Biographical register of Paris Doctors of Theology, 1500-1536.   Toronto:  1980.

Fava, Mariano & Bresciano, Giovanni. La stampa a Napoli nel XV secolo. 2 vols + Atlante. Leipzig: 1911-12.

Ferguson, Mungo.   The printed books in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow:  a catalogue.   Glasgow:  1930.

Foster, Joseph.   Alumni Oxonienses:  the members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714.   4 vols.   Oxford:  1891-92.

Gassendi, Pierre.  Peiresc & his books [with an introduction by Arthur Freeman].  Boston: Godine, 1970.

Glasgow:  Mitchell Library.   Catalogue of incunabula and S.T.C. books in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.   Glasgow:  1964.

Glasgow:  University Library.   Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis anno 1691:  a manuscript press catalogue of the University Library begun in 1691 and continuing into the early part of the 18th century.   University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 1313.

Guigard, Joannis. Nouvel armorial du bibliophile: guide de l’amateur des livres armoriés. 2 vols. Paris: 1890.

Harman, Marian.   Incunabula in the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.   Urbana:  1979.

Harvey, George C.   Catalogue of the library of the late George C. Harvey.   London:  Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 16 Jan. 1885.

Heber, Richard.   Bibliotheca Heberiana:  catalogue of the library of the late Richard Heber …   13 parts.   London:  1834-37.

Hellinga, Wytze & Lotte. The fifteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries. 2 vols. Amsterdam: 1966.

Hellinga-Querido, Lotte.   “Notes on the incunabula of Consul Smith.”   In D.V. Reidy, ed.   The Italian book, 1456-1800:  studies presented to Dennis E. Rhodes on his 70th birthday.   London:  1933:  335-48.

Hoblyn, Robert.   Bibliotheca Hoblyniana:  sive, catalogus librorum, juxta exemplar, quod manu suâ maximâ ex parte descriptum reliquit Robertus Hoblyn …   Londini:  1769.

Hoym, Karl Heinrich, Reichsgraf von.   Catalogus librorum bibliothecae ... Caroli Henrici Comitis de Hoym ... Digestus & descriptus à Gabriele Martin, bibliopola Parisiensi ...   Parisiis :  1738.   Copy in University of Glasgow Library (Sp Coll 945) priced throughout in manuscript (some prices cropped by binder).

Hunter Papers: Papers of Dr William Hunter. GUL MSS Hunter H1-542.

Huzard, Jean-Baptiste.   Catalogue des livres, dessins et estampes de la bibliothèque de feu M. J.-B. Huzard ...  Mis en ordre et rédigé par P. Leblanc.  Paris:  1842.

Innes, Cosmo, ed.   Munimenta alme Universitatis Glasguensis.   Glasgow:  1854.

Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard.   Catalogue of the library of Dr. Kloss, of Franckfort a M. …   London:  Sotheby, 7 May 1835.

Laing, David.   Catalogue of the first [-fourth] portion of the extensive and valuable library of the late David Laing ...   4 parts.   London:  Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, 1879-81.

Lee, Brian North.   British royal bookplates.   Aldershot:  1992.

Lökkös, Antal.   Les incunabula de la Bibliothèque de Genève.   Genève:  1982.

Loring, Rosamond B.   Decorated book papers.   2nd ed.   Cambridge, MA:  1952.

Manzoni, Giacomo.   Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. le comte Jacques Manzoni.   4 vols.   Città di Castello:  1892-94.

Martín Abad, Julian. Catálogo bibliográfico de la colección de incunables de la Biblioteca Nacional de España. 2 vols. Madrid: 2010.

Mead, Richard.   Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. qui prostabunt venales … 18vo Novembris, M.DCC.LIV iterumque ... 7mo Aprilis, M.DCC.LV.   London:  1754.   Copy in University of Glasgow Library (Q.6.23) priced throughout in manuscript;  another copy (Mu33-e.30) priced throughout in manuscript and with some names of buyers added.

Moreau, Brigitte.   Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle. I: 1501-1510; II: 1511-1520; III: 1521-1530; IV: 1531-1535.   Paris:  1972-93.

Morrison, Stuart.   “Records of a bibliophile:  the catalogues of Consul Joseph Smith and some aspects of his collecting.”   The Book Collector, vol. 43, no. 1 (Spring 1994):  27-58.

Munby, A.N.L. & Coral, Lenore.   British book sale catalogues, 1676-1800:  a union list.   London:  1977.

Munk, William. The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of Londo : compiled from the annals of the College and from other authentic sources.  London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861.

Museum records: Records relating to William Hunter’s museum and library. GUL MSS MR1-61. 

Needham, Paul. ‘Ulrich Zel’s early quartos revisited’, Cambridge Bibliographical Society Transactions, 15 (2012), pt. I, pp. 9-58.

Nixon, Howard M. ‘Harleian bindings’ in Studies in the book trade in honour of Graham Pollard, ed. R.W. Hunt et al., Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications, N.S. XVIII, Oxford: 1975, pp. 153-94.

Oates, J.C.T.   A catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the University Library, Cambridge.   Cambridge:  1954.

Oldham, James Basil.   Notes on bindings in the Hunterian and general libraries in Glasgow University.   Duplicated typescript (1938).   University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 759.

Oldham, James Basil.   English blind-stamped bindings.   Sandars Lectures, Cambridge, 1949.   Cambridge:  1952.

Pearson, David.   Provenance research in book history.   London:  1994.

Pinelli, Maffeo.   Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti magno jam studio collecta a Jacobo Morellio …   Venice:  1787.

Pinelli, Maffeo.   Bibliotheca Pinelliana:  a catalogue of the magnificent and celebrated library of Maffei Pinelli, late of Venice.   London:  2 Mar. 1789.

Ratcliffe, John.   Bibliotheca Ratcliffiana:  a catalogue of the elegant and truly valuable library of John Ratcliffe, Esq;  late of Bermondsey …   London:  Christie, 27 Mar. [1776].

Renouard, Philippe.   Imprimeurs & libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle.   [In progress.]   Paris, 1964-.

Renouard, Philippe.   Les marques typographiques parisiennes des XVe et XVIe siècles.   Paris:  1926.

Rhodes, Dennis E.   A catalogue of incunabula in all the libraries of Oxford University outside the Bodleian.   Oxford:  1982.

Scholderer, Victor.   Fifty essays in fifteenth-and sixteenth-century bibliography. Edited by Dennis E. Rhodes  Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger & Co., 1966.

Schüling, Hermann. Die Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek Giessen. Giessen: 1966.

Selwyn, David G.   “The library of Thomas Cranmer.”   Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications, 3rd ser., vol. 1, 1996.

Serra, Giuseppe, Duca di Cassano.   Catalogo dell’edizioni del sec. XV. esisenti nella biblioteca del Duca di Cassano Serra.   Napoli:  1807.

Serra, Giuseppe, Duca di Cassano:  see also Dibdin, Thomas Frognall.

Severne, John Edmund:  see Wodhull, Michael.

Smith, Joseph.   Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii angli par cognomina authorum dispositus.   Venetiis:  1755.

Smith, Joseph.   Bibliotheca Smithiana:  a catalogue of the curious, elegant, and very valuable library of Joseph Smith ...   London:  Baker & Leigh, 25 Jan. 1773.

Spencer, George John, 2nd Earl:  see Dibdin, Thomas Frognall.

Spencer, Charles, 3rd Earl of Sunderland.   Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana:  sale catalogue of the truly important and very extensive library of printed books known as the Sunderland or Blenheim Library.   6 parts.   London:  Puttick & Simpson, 1881-83.

Stirling-Maxwell, Sir John Maxwell.  Catalogue of important printed books and an illuminated manuscript: the property of the trustees of the late Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, which will be sold at auction by Christie, Manson & Woods ... May 20, 1958 and three following days ... London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1958.

Sykes, Sir Mark Masterman.   Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes …   3 parts.   London:  1824.   Copy in University of Glasgow Library (Mu37-d.7) priced in manuscript throughout and with names of buyers added.

Thorndike, Lynn & Kibre, Pearl.   A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin.   London:  1963.

Thorold, Sir John Hayford.   The Syston Park Library:  catalogue of an important portion of the … library of the late Sir John Hayford Thorold ...   London:  Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 12 Dec. 1884.

Thorp, Nigel.   The glory of the page:  medieval & Renaissance illuminated manuscripts from Glasgow University Library [together with some early printed books].   London:  1987.

Van Praet, Joseph.   Catalogue des livres imprimés sur vélin de la bibliothèque du Roi.   6 vols.   Paris:  1822-28.

Voynich, Wilfrid Michael.   A first list of books offered for sale by W.M. Voynich ...   London:  July, 1898.

Wodhull, Michael.   Catalogue of the extensive & valuable library collected at the end of the last and beginning of the present century by Michael Wodhull ... the property of J.E. Severne, Esq. M.P., of Thenford House, Banbury, Northamptonshire …   London:  Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 Jan.  1886.

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