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Reading edition
From the Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia, collection of autographs made by Ferdinand J. Dreer, unpublished and hitherto unused letters of Erasmus, James VI of Scotland (2), Leo X, Hedio, Farel to Calvin, Forster, Melanchthon, Charles V, Albrecht of Mansfeld, Henry VIII, Francis I (3), Catherine de' Medici, Grynaeus, Viglius van Zuichem, Alphonso d'Este, Philip Marnix, Camden, Tasso, Machiavelli, Pius IV, Vassari, Borromeo, Alesandro Ottavio de' Medici (afterwards Leo XI), Clement VIII, Sarpi, Emperor Ferdinand, William of Nassau (1559), Maximilian III, Paul Eber (2), Rudolph II, Henry III, Philip II, Emanuel Philibert, Henry IV, Scaliger, Mary Queen of Scots, Robert Dudley (Leicester), Filippo Strozzi, and others.
From Wellesley College a patent of Charles V., dated Worms, March 6, 1521, granting mining rights to the Count of Belalcazar. Unpublished.
Prom the American Hispanic Society of New York unpublished letter of Henry IV of France to Du Font, on his conversion, and letter of Henry VII of England to Ferdinand of Aragon.
2. GENERAL WORKS
Encyclopaedia Britannica.[11] 1910-1. (Many valuable articles of a thoroughly scientific character).
The New International Encyclopaedia, 1915f. (Equally valuable).
Realencyklopaedie fuer protestantische Theologie und Kirche.[3] 24 vols. Leipzig. 1896-1913. (Indispensable to the student of Church History; The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religions Knowledge, 12 vols., 1908 ff, though in part based on this, is far less valuable for the present subject).
Wetzer und Welte: Kirchenlexikon oder Encyclopaedie der katholischen Theologie und ihrer Huelfswissenschaften. Zweite Auflage von J. Card. Hergenroether und F. Kaulen. Freiburg im Breisgau. 1880-1901. 12 vols. (Valuable).
Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, hg. von H. Gunkel, O. Scheel, F. M. Schiele. 5 vols. 1909-13.
The Cambridge Modern History, planned by Lord Acton, edited by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes. London and New York. 1902 ff. Vol. 1. The Renaissance. 1902. Vol. 2. The Reformation. 1904. Vol. 3. The Wars of Religion. 1905. Vol. 13. Tables and Index. 1911. Vol. 14. Maps. 1912. (A standard co-operative work, with full bibliographies).
Weltgeschichte, hg.v.J. von Pflugk-Harttung: Das Religioese Zeitalter, 1500-1650. Berlin. 1907. (A co-operative work, written by masters of their subjects in popular style. Profusely illustrated).
E. Lavisse et A. Rambaud: Histoire generale du IVe siecle a nos jours. Tome IV Renaissance et reforme, les nouveaux mondes 1492-1559. 1894. Tome V. Les guerres de religion 1559-1648. 1895.
R. L. Poole: Historical Atlas of Modern Europe. 1902.
W. R. Shepherd: Historical Atlas. 1911.
Ramsay Muir: Hammond's New Historical Atlas for Students. 1914.
A list of general histories of the Reformation will be found in the bibliography to the last chapter.
An excellent introduction to the bibliography of the public documents of all countries will be found in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, s.v. "Record."