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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.
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ENG5807: 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.
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 Early Modern Western Printing:Public-Private Classification System