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| Resources for Electronic Research |
The Vaults Online | Early Modern
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Rotating exhibitions of rare books, leaves, and manuscripts. |
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Individuals, departments, libraries, and programs of interest to early modern scholars. |
| CRRS
Library: Hours & Location |
CRRS Library: Holdings & Acquisitions |
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The CRRS, located in Room 301 of the E. J. Pratt Library, Victoria College, is normally open from 9:00 to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday. |  |
Rare books, most printed before 1700 (ca. 4,000 titles), modern
books (ca. 25,000 volumes), and microforms (several thousand microfiches
and reels).
For more information, see below.
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In the Library drop-down menu, limit your search to "Victoria University CRRS". |
The Centre's library holdings fall into three main categories: rare books, most of which were printed before 1700 (currently about 4,000 titles), modern books (currently about 25,000 volumes), and microforms (several thousand microfiches and reels). CRRS books are listed in the University of Toronto Library Catalogue.
The library contains primary and secondary materials relating to virtually every aspect of the Renaissance and Reformation. In particular, it houses the Erasmus collection, one of the richest resources in North America for the study of works written or edited by the great Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. The collection holds a substantial number of pre-1700 editions of his works, including the Novum Instrumentum of 1516. Many of these books were a bequest to Victoria University by Professor Andrew James Bell (d. 1932).
Although the CRRS library's major focus is the cultural, intellectual, political, and social milieu of Erasmus, the Centre's collection also supports teaching and research on the Renaissance and Reformation in England, France, the Low Countries, and the area bisected by the Rhine, including Southwestern Germany, Alsace, and German-speaking Switzerland.
The Centre's rare books include a significant number of humanist editions of the classics as well as works in history, religion, theology, philosophy, language, and literature. Our modern books include a comprehensive collection of bibliographies, a large number of critical editions of the works of both major and minor authors, other printed sources (chronicles, letters, government documents), and an impressive array of relevant monographs and journals. Since 1989, the CRRS has become the repository for publications received by the Society for Confraternity Studies.
New acquisitions of rare books are occasionally publicized in our Newsletter. New modern books are prominently displayed on the shelf over Erasmus' right shoulder, in the photo at right.
In addition to books, the CRRS possesses a very extensive collection of microfilm and microfiche, particularly strong in English, German, and French. These include the entire IDC collection of Flugschriften, which consists of a complete collection of pamphlets printed in Germany between 1500 and 1600; the collection German Books Before 1601 (3,500 titles); much of the German material in the Reformed Protestantism collection and The Lutheran Reformation: Sources, 1500-1650; a microfiche collection of the writings of the reformer Philipp Melanchthon; the Thesaurus Baumianus; the Cornell-based selection of editions of Petrarch; and a large number of major Renaissance rhetorical texts. In addition, the CRRS has most of the collection French Books Before 1601, and part of the collection Books Printed in the Low Countries Before 1601. The Centre also subscribes to the series: Incunabula: The Printing Revolution in Europe, 1455-1500. English manuscript and archival material on microfilm include the Complete State Papers Domestic for the reigns of English monarchs from 1509 through 1625, the Uncalendared State Papers (foreign) of Elizabeth I; the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts from Society of Antiquaries; the Talbot Papers; the Tanner Manuscripts, and the Unpublished Records of the Established Church of England from the Lambeth Palace Library. The CRRS has also an extensive collection of documents amassed on microfilm by the Records of Early English Drama project (University of Toronto Press), and the Collected Works of Erasmus in English (University of Toronto Press).
The CRRS is also the repository for the archives of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/la Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance and of the journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme.
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For more information
about the CRRS, contact our Assistant to the Director, Dr.
Stephanie Treloar.
This site was originally designed by Michael Ullyot and is now maintained by Alexandra Guerson. Last updated: 29 June, 2010 |