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- | Link to the [[http:// | + | Access |
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=== Historical Note === | === Historical Note === | ||
- | Founded in 1837, the University of London Library | + | Senate House Library was founded, as the University of London Library, in 1871, following the gift to the University of the libraries |
- | == Historic | + | |
- | The Historic Collections | + | Heythrop College is a specialist philosophy and theology college of the University of London. Its library dates back to the founding of the college in 1614. |
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- | The Historic Collections comprise well over 55 named Special Collections, plus the vast resource dating back to the 17th century in the integrated research stack, and over 40 collections | + | == Printed Special |
+ | The printed special collections | ||
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+ | Heythrop College Library contains an important collection of c.15,000 pre-1801 items, of which the core is books by and about the Jesuits. | ||
=== Coverage of file === | === Coverage of file === | ||
- | The records submitted to the HPB database have been drawn from the current on-line computer catalogue, extracting items published in and before 1830. This of necessity | + | The records submitted to the HPB database have been drawn from the current on-line computer catalogue, extracting items published in and before 1830. They represent |
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- | Types of material include books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps contained in monographs, and scores.\\ | + | |
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- | Early serials | + | |
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- | Among the major collections substantially represented thus far are the following: | + | |
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- | NB: virtually all the pre 1830 titles from the collections named below have been submitted to HPB. | + | |
- | == Bromhead Library == | + | |
- | For scholars anywhere in or outside the United Kingdom working on the history of London or on the English Civil War, this collection is a mine of rich material, much of which has never been exploited. The collection of Colonel A C Bromhead, co-founder of the Gaumont cinemas, contains over 4,000 items (books, pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts and prints) on various aspects of the history of the City and the environs of London from the 16th to the 20th centuries.\\ | + | |
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- | It includes a large number of Civil War pamphlets and 17th-century Lord Mayors' | + | |
- | == Eliot-Phelips Collection == | + | |
- | This collection of over 3,500 items was formed by Edward Frederick Phelips (1882-1928), | + | |
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- | With its emphasis on the social history of Spanish cities, particularly Madrid, the Eliot-Phelips Collection covers an area of scholarly interest which is not strongly represented in other research collections in the UK. The Collection is widely regarded to be the best in its field outside Madrid and holds many rare and unique items (see [[http:// | + | |
- | == The Goldsmiths' | + | |
- | The Goldsmiths' | + | |
- | == Porteus Library == | + | |
- | The library of Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, (1731-1808) was housed at Fulham Palace until its deposit at the University Library in 1958. The collection is composed of approximately 4,000 volumes, including 300 volumes of pamphlets covering ecclesiastical affairs, and a wide range of other subjects such as slavery, the French Revolution, travel and topography, mostly published between 1750-1809. There are also a few earlier books and a later collection, mainly volumes of sermons and charges, added by William Howley.\\ | + | |
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- | The research significance of this collection has been brought out in an article by D.T. Richnell, a previous Librarian of the ULL:\\ | + | |
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- | "The cumulation and juxtaposition of the books and pamphlets on all the varied subjects that an influential churchman of the period had to concern himself with, or was passionately interested in, in the end provides a vivid picture of the background and mental climate of his age, or at any rate one stratum of the society of the age" | + | |
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- | The items relating to slavery and the slave trade, the subject of a separate manuscript catalogue, compiled by or for Porteus himself, are most frequently consulted by researchers. Other subjects covered in the pamphlet holdings of the Porteus Library include the American Revolution, India, the Union with Ireland, the Regency and the French Revolution. | + | |
=== Mode of cataloguing === | === Mode of cataloguing === | ||
- | The University of London | + | Senate House Library’s printed special collections |
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- | Information on provenance | + | |
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- | Forms of name for personal and corporate authors, and subject headings, follow Library of Congress authority files as far as possible. Where a personal name does not appear in the LC authority files, and no dates have been located for the person concerned, titles and epithets have been used as qualifiers. | + | |
- | === Recommendations for searching === | + | |
- | The majority of name headings follow NACO practice, but it is necessary to search different possible forms of names, especially for people with double-barrelled names or titles of nobility.\\ | + | |
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- | Titles are more easily searched by individual title words; title phrase searching is difficult unless the exact form is known.\\ | + | |
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- | Most but not all records have Library of Congress subject headings | + | |
+ | Information on provenance is included in many records. Entries are added for the names of former owners. | ||
+ | Forms of name for personal and corporate authors, and subject headings, follow Library of Congress authority files as far as possible. Where a personal name does not appear in the LC authority files, and no dates have been located for the person concerned, titles and epithets have been used as qualifiers. Most but not all records have Library of Congress subject headings (in American English). |
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