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Aldine digitized collection

Aldine Collection

The Wosk-McDonald Aldine Collection, held by SFU Special Collections & Rare Books since its donation in 1995, consists of more than 100 volumes from the press of Aldus Manutius (1452-1515), the foremost editor, printer, and publisher of the Italian Renaissance. Many of the volumes in...
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Canada's Early Women Writers

This static database presents biographical and publication information for more than 470 women who lived in Canada or wrote about Canada, and authored an English-language book or pamphlet of fiction or poetry that was published before 1940. It includes titles of publications and references...
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Canadian Book Trade Bibliography, 1935-1985

Canadian Book Trade Bibliography, 1935-1985

Drawing on more than 300 printed sources, this database provides bibliographical references to articles about Canadian publishing that were issued between 1935 and 1985. Topics include the production, distribution and selling of books and magazines in both English and French.

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Canadian Publishers' Records

Canadian Publishers' Records

Describes over 1400 archival collections beginning before 1995 which relate to the history of secular English-language book publishing in Canada. It includes records of publishing companies, authors, editors and organizations. Finding aids for these records are available for research use at...
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Chaucer Readings

Chaucer Readings

Readings of selected works of English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400), including Troilus and Cressida, General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, and Sir Gawayn and the Grene Knight, as well as the old English poem The Wanderer - The Battle of Maldon.

Contributed by Simon Fraser...
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Cleveland Arabic Collection

The late Dr. William L Cleveland (1941-2006) was Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, Simon Fraser University. A world-renowned scholar of the Middle East and North Africa, he was the founder of SFU's Middle East and Islamic program and the mentor of numerous undergraduate and...
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Codrington Papers, West Indies Correspondence

Codrington Papers, West Indies Correspondence

Copies of correspondence and other records of the Codrington family pertaining to the West Indies and numerous estates owned by the family throughout the Caribbean region. Records date from 1272 to 1899

Contributed by Alexis Ohman.


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Contemporary Literature Collection Manuscripts

Contemporary Literature Collection Manuscripts

This online manuscript catalogue includes over 4500 entries covering 25,000 items of unique materials in the Special Collections Division of the Library. Collections of material by Bill Bissett, Anne Cameron, Betty Lambert, Ezra Pound and others have been entered into this catalogue. The...
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Lake District Collection

The Lake District Collection (LDC) provides access to more than 250 items of bibliographic information, annotations, samples of covers, text, and illustrations from first and rare editions of 18th and 19th century English Lake District travel and landscape books. Of particular bibliographic...
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Lyon in Mourning

This collection represents digital images of the Lyon in Mourning manuscript compiled by the Episcopalian minister Robert Forbes between 1747 and 1775 to preserve the personal and collective memories of Scottish Jacobites after the defeat at the Battle of Culloden.

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