List of reference sources of use in cataloging

This article lists resources catalogers will find useful for bibliographical and biographical reference.

General reference

Cataloging

Externally-created macro dictionaries

Research databases


Library and union catalogs


Sources for librarianship


Material description / provenance

Art reference

General

Catalogues raisonnés


Provenance

Biographical information

General

Actors and other theater folk

  • Harvard Theatre Collection. Catalogue of dramatic portraits in the Theatre Collection of the Harvard College Library. (charged to Cat. Office)
  • Highfill, Philip H. A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800
    • RR Ref PN2597.H5 Copy 1; copy 2 on Deck B
  • London stage 1660-1800
  • Wearing, J.P. American and British theatrical biography
    • PN2285.W42 1979
  • Who's who in the theatre
    • PN2012.W5 (recent editions in RR)
    • 4th ed. (1922) in Art Dept. PN2012.W5
  • Who's who on the stage, 1908 (American)

Artists, printmakers, print publishers

Booksellers, printers, book publishers

Britain

Continent

  • Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600 in Cambridge libraries (2 v.)
    • Z921.C15 Cat. Off. Index of printers in v. 2.

France

Italy

  • Cosenza, M.E. Biographical and bibliographical dictionary of the Italian printers, and of foreign printers in Italy from the introduction of the art of printing into Italy to 1800.
    • Z155.C6

Netherlands

Musicians

  • Grove music online
    • via link to New Grove dictionary of music and musicians on Amherst databases; comprises the New Grove dictionary of music, New Grove dictionary of opera, and New Grove dictionary of jazz
  • The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 1980
    • ML100.N4 R.R.

Writers

Nationalities

American


British and Irish

  • Alumni
    • Cambridge Alumni Database (1200-1900) (experimental as of Feb. 2020)
    • Alumni cantabrigienses
      • Print version: LF124 .A2 1900a Part 1 (to 1751) in Cataloging Office; Part 1 & 2 (1751-1900) in Reading Room.
      • Only pt.1 v.1-3 (Abbas-Ryves) is full-text in Hathi Trust as of 2023-01-18
    • Athenae cantabrigienses. By Charles Henry Cooper, and Thompson Cooper.
      • Hathi Trust (full-text)
      • Print version: LF125 .C7 Cat.Off.
    • Biographical register of Christ's college, 1505-1905, and of the earlier foundation, God's house, 1448-1505
      • Hathi Trust (full-text)
      • Print version: LF144.A3 P4 Cat.
    • Alumni dublinenses, a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity college in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)
      • Hathi Trust (search-only as of Feb. 2020)
      • Print version: LF904.A2 A3 1593-1860 Cat.
    • Dulwich College register: 1619 to 1926
      • Hathi Trust (search-only as of Feb. 2020)
      • Print version: LF795.D84 A3 Cat. Dept.
    • Eton college register, 1441-1698
      • Hathi Trust (search-only as of Feb. 2020)
      • Print version: LF795.E83 A3 1943 Cat
    • Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714
  • Betham, William. The baronetage of England, or, The history of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families
    • CS424 .B56 Cage, v.1-5
  • Bibliography of British and Irish History (Brepolis)
  • Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, 1847
  • Clergy of the Church of England Database
  • Cokayne, George E. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom
    • CS421 .C71 R.R
  • Cokayne, George E. Complete baronetage, 1900-1909
    • CS424 .C6
  • Dictionary of Irish Biography
  • English Book Owners in the Seventeenth Century
  • History of Parliament
  • Oxford dictionary of national biography, 2004-
  • Victoria history of the counties of England
    • in New Reading Room, DA670.1, arranged alphabetically by county
  • Who was who
    • Deck A-Ref. DA28 .W65


Croatian


Czech


Danish


Dutch


French

  • Dictionnaire de biographie française, 1933-; up to v. 19 (La Valĺe) only.
    • CT143.D5 RR-Ref


German

  • Allgemeine deutsche Biographie & Neue deutsche Biographie
    • RR Desk: CD-Rom 42; index to the print ADB and NDB
  • Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, 1875-1912
    • CT1053 .A5 Deck A Ref.
  • Neue deutsche Biographie, 1956-,
    • CT1053 .N5 Deck A Ref.


Hungarian


Polish


Welsh

British and Irish book trade

  • Surreptitious printing in England, 1550-1640
    • Electronic version
    • Folger call number (hard copy version): Z1065 .W6
    • Cite as Woodfield, D.B. Surreptitious printing in England, 1550-1640

Broadsides

  • English broadsides, 1505-1897
    • Z2027.B8 L6
    • Cite as: Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides
  • Tudor and Stuart proclamations
    • DA310.C725 Cat office
    • Cite as: Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority, 1485-1714, ǂc I,

Continental books

General European


Croatia


Flanders


France


Germany

  • Deutsche Drucke des Barock 1600-1720 in der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    • Reproduced title pages with minimal bibliographic information
    • Z929.W6 (folio)
  • VD 16
  • VD 17
  • Yale Collection of German Literature. German Baroque literature
    • Z2232.Y3


Iberia


Italy


Netherlands


Slavic countries

Controlled vocabularies

Cookery

  • Notaker, H. Printed cookbooks in Europe, 1470-1700
    • Z5776.G2 N69 2010


Emblem books

  • French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems 1534-1827
    • PN6349.Z9 L31
    • Cite as: Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems 1534-1827

Geographic place names

Herbals

  • British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800
    • Z5352 .H3 Deck A Ref.
    • Cite as: Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800


Legal documents

  • Tudor and Stuart proclamations, 1485-1714
    • DA310 .C725 copy 2 (folio) Cat. Dept.
    • Cite as: Crawford, J.L.L. Royal proclamations, 1485-1714

Maps

Modern materials cataloging

Material-specific cataloging resources

Promptbooks

  • Drama on the world stage: prompt books [non-Shakespeare] and performance records. Series 1, The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. : an inventory to the Research Publications microform collection.
  • Harvard Theatre Collection. "Shakespeare promptbooks in the Harvard Theatre Collection." In Harvard Library Bulletin, v. 35, no. 1 (Winter 1987).
  • Langhans, Edward A. Eighteenth century British and Irish promptbooks. .
  • Shakespearean prompt-books of the seventeenth century. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans.

Shakespeare bibliographies

English

  • Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Some account of the antiquities, coins, manuscripts, rare books, ancient documents, and other reliques illustrative of the life and works of Shakespeare
  • PR2933.H3H18 copy 2 Ms.Off.

German

  • Blinn, Hansjürgen & Wolf Gerhard Schmidt. Shakespeare-deutsch: Bibliographie der Übersetzungen und Bearbeitungen. 2003
  • PR2971.G3 B57 2003
  • See also the Folgerpedia supplement to this work

Theater

  • Langhans, E.A. Eighteenth century British and Irish promptbooks, 1987
    • PN2593 L2 copy 2, charged to Cataloging Dept
  • Oxford companion to the theatre
    • PN2035 .H3 1983 RR
  • Shattuck, C.H. The Shakespeare promptbooks, 1965
    • PR3091 .S4 copy 6 Cat. Dept.

Verse

  • Bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750
    • Z2014.P7 C3 Copy 1 Cat. Dept.
    • Cite as: Case, A.E. Bibliography of English poetical miscellanies, 1521-1750
  • Catalogue of a collection of English ballads of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries
    • Z2014.B2 L7
    • Cite as: Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of a collection of English ballads
  • English verse, 1701-1750
    • Z2014.P7 F6 copy 2 Cat. Dept.
    • Cite as: Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750