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• Die Vadianische Briefsammlung der Stadtbibliothek St. Gallen (letters in Latin and German, notes in German; published in 7 parts in Mitteilungen zur Vaterländischen, 1890-1913), by Joachim Vadianus, ed. by Emil Arbenz
  • Part I (1508-1518), with other journal volume content: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II (1519-1522), with other journal volume content: page images at archive.org
  • Parts III and IV (1523-1530, and supplements for 1509-1530), with other journal volume content: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Parts IV and V (1526-1540, and supplements for 1516-1538), with other journal volume content: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Parts VI and VII (1541-1551, and supplements for 1513-1550): multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Daniel Chernilo (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• A Gay Humanist Manifesto (c2011), by Alan Keslian (PDF in the UK)
• The Philosophy of Humanism (eighth edition, 1997), by Corliss Lamont (PDF at corliss-lamont.org)
• Humanist Manifesto II (c1973), by Paul Kurtz and Edwin H. Wilson (HTML with commentary at americanhumanist.org)
• Humanism and Classical Crisis: Anxiety, Intertexts, and the Miltonic Memory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jacob Blevins (PDF at Ohio State)
• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)
• Religion Without Revelation (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1927), by Julian Huxley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Antike Humanität (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1897), by Max Schneidewin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Ethics: An Oration Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HTML at emersoncentral.com)

• China, Russia, USA: State-Capitalism and Marx's Humanism, or, Philosophy and Revolution (with an appendix on Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital; Detroit: News and Letters, 1967), by Raya Dunayevskaya (page images at HathiTrust)

• Humanism and New World Ideals (with the full text of A Humanist Manifesto, as originally published in The New Humanist; Yellow Springs, OH: Antioch Press, ca. 1933), by Oliver Leslie Reiser (page images at Harvard)
• The Genesis of a Humanist Manifesto, by Edwin H. Wilson (HTML at infidels.org)
• The Church's Mission and Post-Modern Humanism, by M. M. Thomas (HTML at religion-online.org)

• Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America (2007), by Sarah H. Beckjord (PDF at PSU)

• Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America (2007), by Sarah H. Beckjord (PDF at PSU)

• Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018), by Cristin Ellis (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Rereading the Renaissance: Petrarch, Augustine, and the Language of Humanism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Carol E. Quillen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Humanistica Lovaniensia (partial serial archives)
• The Humanist (partial serial archives)
• The Hobgoblin (1999-2012) (partial serial archives)

• Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign (originally published 1992; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger, illust. by Joan Krieger (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Michael Bright
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• The Pacifist Ethic and Humanism (Chicago: Student Peace Union, ca. 1961), by Philip G. Altbach (page images at Pitt)
• The Living Questions of the Age, by James B. Walker (page images at MOA)

• Prodigal Press: The Anti-Christian Bias of the American News Media, by Marvin N. Olasky (PDF at AWS)

• A Secular Humanist Declaration (1980), by Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism (Buffalo, N.Y.), contrib. by Paul Kurtz (HTML at secularhumanism.org)

• Die Stellvertretung im Rechte der Papyri (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1906), by Leopold Wenger
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013), by Anke Timmermann
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• L'Histoire Naturelle et Generalle des Indes, Isles, et Terre Ferme de la Grand Mer Oceane (in French; Paris: Imp. de M. de Vascosan, 1555), by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, trans. by Jean Poleur (page images at Gallica)

• The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays Illustrative of the History, Arts and Manners of the 9th Century (2 volumes; London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1858), by King of England Alfred, ed. by J. A. Giles
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• The Religion of the Pope, and Primitive Christianity: A Contrast (c1891), by J. Antisell Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Solemn Question! Can the Protestants Conscientiously Build Up the Churches of the Pope? (Halifax: Nova Scotia Printing Co., 1873), by Charles Hodge and Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Life in the Convent: or, The Marvellous Personal Experiences of Margaret L. Shepherd (Sister Magdalene Adelaide), Consecrated Penitent of the Arno's Court Convent, Bristol, England (11th edition, c1892), by Margaret L. Shepherd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mysteries of Popery Unveiled in the Unparalleled Sufferings of John Coustos at the Inquisition of Lisbon; To Which is Added The Origin of the Inquisition, and its Establishment in Various Countries, and The Master Key to Popery (Enfield, CT: P. Reynolds and E. Thompson, 1821), by John Coustos and Antonio Gavin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Final Report of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania (prepublication English text; 2004), by International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, contrib. by Elie Wiesel (PDF at ushmm.org)

• The Quest for Peace: Principal United States Public Statements and Related Documents on the Arab-Israeli Peace Process, 1967-1983 (Washington: U.S. Dept. of State, 1984), ed. by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• Armenian Atrocities: A Compilation of Views, by Turkey Foreign Ministry (HTML at loc.gov)

• Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (the McCarthy hearing transcripts, 1953-1954 (5 volumes plus an index); made public in 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, ed. by Donald A. Ritchie, Beth Bolling, and Diane B. Boyle, contrib. by Joseph McCarthy
  • Volume 1: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 2: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 3: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 4: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 5: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Index volume: PDF and HTML at govinfo.gov
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances (8 volumes; Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1908-1916), ed. by H. Oskar Sommer
  • Volume I (Lestoire del Saint Graal): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Lestoire de Merlin): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part III): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Les Aventures ou La Queste del Saint Graal; La Mort le Roi Arthur): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Supplement: Le Livre d'Artus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Index of Names and Places to Volumes I-VII): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Tristan Legend: A Study in Sources (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1969), by Sigmund Eisner (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• A Governor's Wife on the Mining Frontier: The Letters of Mary Edgerton From Montana, 1863-1865, by Mary Wright Edgerton, ed. by James L. Thane (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

• Arguments, Pro and Con, on The Call for a National Emigration Convention, To Be Held in Cleveland, Ohio, August, 1854, by Frederick Douglass, W.J. Watkins, and J.M. Whitfield; With a Short Appendix of the Statistics of Canada West, West Indies, Central and South America (Detroit: M. T. Newsom, 1854), contrib. by Frederick Douglass, William J. Watkins, and James Monroe Whitfield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rough in Brutal Print: The Legal Sources of Browning's Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Mark Siegchrist (PDF at Ohio State)

• Friends in Burlington (Philadelphia: Collins, 1884), by Amelia M. Gummere (page images at HathiTrust)

• Concilia Generalia, Romani Pontifices, Usque ad Annum 1745 (Codicis Iuris Canonici Fontes v1, in Latin; Rome: Typ. Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1923), ed. by Pietro Gasparri (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chaucer's Italian Tradition (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Warren Ginsberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• On the Sources of the Nonne Prestes Tale (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1898), by Kate Oelzner Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Winthrop Wetherbee
  • PDF and HTML with commentary at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Records of Early English Drama: York (2 volumes; Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c1979), ed. by Alexandra F. Johnston and Margaret Rogerson
  • Volume 1 (records): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (appendixes and other editorial matter): multiple formats at archive.org

• Analecta Sacra Spicilegio Solesmensi Parata (7 volumes (1-6 and 8; v7 never published); in Latin, Greek, and French, with titles varying somewhat; 1876-1891), ed. by J. B. Pitra, contrib. by Saint Hildegard
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Book I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book II (Patres Antenicaeni): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book III (Patres Antenicaeni): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book IV (Patres Antenicaeni): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book V (Analecta Sacra et Classica): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book VI (Juris Ecclesiastici Graecorum, sometimes misidentified as Book VII): page images at Gallica
  • Book VIII (Sanctae Hildegardis): multiple formats at archive.org
• Select Documents Illustrating Mediaeval and Modern History (London: P.S. King and Son, 1905), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)

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