Treasures

The Taylor Institution has a rich collection of texts from major but also minority European languages.

Course participants have selected a range of texts which stood out to them for different reasons, whether because they were distantly related to the author, or because the text had a specific significance to them, or a special cultural significance.

In most cases, only an excerpt from each text is included, often with an explanatory note explaining why the text was chosen. They are offered as a window into the richness of the library's collections.

Digital Editions

The following Treasures are available as Taylor Editions:

• Barrin, Jean, approximately 1640-1718; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Mede'e a Jason. Les epistres et toutes les elegies amoureuses d'Ovide: traduites en vers françois. A La Haye : Chez Abraham de Hontd, marchand libraire sur la grand' Sale du Palais, à la Renommée, M.DC.XCII. [1692]
• Brerewood, Edward, 1565?-1613; Brerewood, Robert, Sir, 1588-1654, editor Enquiries touching the diversity of languages, and religions, through the chiefe parts of the world. London : Printed by Iohn Norton, for Ioyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker, at the Kings Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard., 1635
• Camões, Luís de; Fanshawe, Richard (translator) The Lusiad, or, Portugals Historicall Poem. [Translated from Spanish versions of the Portuguese of Luís de Camões.] London: Printed [by Thomas Newcombe] for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's-Arms in St Pauls Church-Yard, 1655, pp. 1-2.
• Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670 Janua linguarum reserata autrea : sive seminarium linguarum et scientiarum omnium. [Hanovia] : [s.n.], [before 1662]
• Covarrubias Orozco, Sebastián de Tesoro De La Lengua Castellana, o Española. En Madrid, Por Luis Sanchez, Impressor Del Rey N.S., 1611
• Dubreuil, Jean; Pricke, Robert (translator) Perspective Practical : or, A Plain and Easie Method of True and Lively Representing All Things to the Eye at a Distance, by the Exact Rules of Art. [Translated from the French of Jean Dubreuil.] London, Printed by H. Lloyd, and Sold by R. Pricke, 1672, pp. [un-numbered page preceding p.19 (left)]-22 (right).
• Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de, 1533-1594; Bellère, Pierre, active 1575-1600; Bacx, Andreas, active 1578-1614 Primera, y segunda parte de la Araucana. En Anuers: En casa de Pedro Bellero, 1586 [SOLO]
• Latini, Brunetto, 1220-1295 Il Tesoro / precettore del Diuino Poeta Dante nel qual si tratta di tutte le cose che a mortali se apertengono. [Venice] : s.n. , MDXXVIII [1528] [SOLO]
• Osmont, J. B. L. (Jean Baptiste Louis), 1710-1773 Dictionnaire typographique : historique et critique des livres rares, singuliers, estimés et recherchés en tous genres ... Paris : Lacombe, 1768
• Ségur, Louis-Philippe de, 1753-1830 Cérémonial pour le baptême du roi de Rome. À Paris : de l'Imprimerie impériale, [Juin 1811]
• Thomsen, Christian Jürgensen Ellesmere, Francis Egerton (translator) Guide to Northern Archaeology. [Translated from the Danish of Christian Jürgensen Thomsen.] London: John Bain, 1848, pp. 25-27.
• Tozzi, Federigo, 1883-1920. Marito e Moglie Opere. Firenze: Vallecchi, 1961, pp. 901-906 (with an English translation by Valeria Taddei.) [SOLO]
• Voltaire. Dialogue entre un brahmane et un jésuite sur la nécessité et l'enchaînement des choses Collection complète des Œuvres de Mr. de Voltaire: Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire et de philosophie. Geneva: Cramer, 1756, vol.4, pp.389-396. [V1756] Collection complette des œuvres de M. de Voltaire. [Geneva: Cramer; Paris: Panckoucke, 1768-1777], 30 vols, vol.14 (Mélanges philosophiques, littéraires, historiques, etc.), pp. 277-282. [W68] [SOLO]
• Withals, John A shorte dictionarie for yonge beginners. : Gathered of good authours, specially of Columel, Grapald, and Plini. London : Henry Wykes , 1568 [SOLO]