Other students have searched newspaper databases for late 18th- and 19th-century American book owners with distinctive names. Some students have been able to find out information about former owners of their texts by consulting family history materials (church birth registers, census data and other vital records) in. The AAS website on bookplates provides some helpful information. The American Antiquarian Society has a collection of book plates and Excel spreadsheet of their holdings. What sources can I consult to try to learn more about the identity of this owner? My text has a bookplate or the signature of an individual who appears to have owned my volume. The British Library has a similar image repository here: Try a sample search for images relating to Paracelsus at this link: The Austrian National Library has a number of digitized engravings and woodcuts that relate to many authors, artists and printers from the late 15th century through the nineteenth century. Is there a way that I can locate visual sources that connect to my author, printer, illustrator, engraver or publisher? In some cases, WorldCat bibliographic records will supply information about previous owners of a given text. Students can also use subject headings in WorldCat to try to uncover more details about the authors, publishers, printers, illustrators, engravers (and possibly binders) who created their texts. What other secondary source can help me learn about my text, its printer, illustrator, engraver, or author? Cole’s “Reformation Printers: Unsung Heroes” in The Sixteenth-century Journal and Maria Grossman’s “Wittenberg Printing, Early Sixteenth Century” helped my student discuss the competitive atmosphere in the printing world, particularly between two of Luther’s printers. Students can find an abundance of articles on JSTOR to flesh out the life story of their text. Search results in Google Books for works that discuss Melanchthan’s Liber de Anima Remember, it’s a really good idea to type a quotation mark at the beginning and end of the title. science and religion in which the authors discuss the cultural context for Melanchthon and his writings. A student studying Melanchthon’s Liber de Anima, for instance, can readily find several different works on 16 th c.
How do I find secondary sources in which scholars discuss my book?Ĭonducting a title search in Google Books is a good way to start.
How do I locate digitized copies of my text using WorldCat? This is the Advanced Search screen in WorldCat where the user inserts “Liber Chronicarum” next to the words “Title Phrase.” The user limits type by clicking on the box marked “Internet Resources.” This is what your search screen would look like if you were searching an English-language version of Schedel’s “Liber Chronicarum.” Type the short title of you text in quotation marks. How do I find an English language translation of my text?
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