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:

• 문교부 Ministry of Education 한글공부 Learning Hangeul 서울 재건국민운동본부 National Reconstruction Movement Headquarters 1961년 12월 18일 인쇄 (Printed on December 18, 1961) 1961년 12월 25일 발행 (Published on December 25, 1961)
• Πράσινος, Λύσανδρος (1888-1936) Keladimata.Ho logos Polē : [typ. Hestia], 1919
• (元) 王德信 撰 Dexin Wang, 1260-1336; author (元) 關漢卿 撰 Hanqing Guan, 1234-1300 author (明) 凌濛初 評，撰解證 Mengchu Ling, 1580-1644 annotator (唐) 元稹 撰會真記 Zhen Yuan, 779-831 author of Huizhenji 西廂記五卷解證五卷會真記一卷附錄一卷 [s.l.] [s.n.] Ming Dynasty
• Pisemskii Alexei Feofilaktovich Troubled Seas St. Petersburg Izdanie t-va A.F. Marks 1910
• 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]
• H.G.Fiedler World Literature Oxford : Holywell Press, 1908
• 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]