History of Text Technologies

Strozier Library has several collections of manuscripts and early print books on microform. Locating specific titles within these sets, however, is different from locating other items in the library collection, as individual titles do not always appear in our online catalog. In other words, if you search our catalog with the title of a manuscript and do not find it listed, that does not necessarily mean that the library does not have a copy of it.

To locate specific items within these collections, you will need to consult each set's guide, which the library either has online, in print, or on the microform itself. The list on this page contains the titles of several collections housed in the University Libraries, along with the call number of the microform and its accompanying guide.

All of Strozier Library's microforms and their guides are located in the Scholars Commons, on the building's Ground Floor. To learn more about using micromaterials, visit this guide.

American Literary Manuscripts from the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Part 1, The Birth of American Literature, 1650-1850
Set= Film 9453
Guide= Micr PS530.H46
Size= 6 Reels

British Literary Manuscripts from Princeton University: Part 1, The William Cowper Papers and Other Eighteenth Century Literary Manuscripts
Set= Film 9539
Size= 10 Reels

British Literary Manuscripts from the British Library. Series Two, The Eighteenth Century, c. 1700-c. 1800
Set= Film 9543
Guide= on film
Size= 51 Reels

British Manuscripts Project; Microfilms Prepared in England and Wales for the American Council of Learned Societies, 1941-1945
Set= Film 4398
Guide= Micr Z6620.G7 U5
Size= 2400+ Reels

The Forster and Dyce Collections from the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum : [ca. 1500-ca. 1876]
Set=Film 9218
Guide= Micr Z6611.L7 N37 1987
Size= 76 Reels

Library of the Inner Temple: Manuscripts and Early Printed Works
Set= Film 5844
Guide= Micr Z6621.I456 1977 and online
Size= 256 Reels