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• La biblioteca dei codici manoscritti di Monte Cassino / (Napoli : Stamperia della Regia Università, 1874), by Luigi Tosti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutsche Klosterbibliotheken. (Köln : J.P. Bachem, 1918), by Karl Löffler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Monastic libraries / (June 1901), by Mary Harriett Kittredge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutsche klosterbibliotheken. (Bonn, Schroeder, 1922), by Klemens Löffler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Katalogos tōn en tais bibliothēkais tou agiou orthous Ellēnikōn kōdikōn / (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1895-1900), by Spyridōn Paulou Lampros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A livraria do mosteiro de Santa Crux de Coimbra : estudo dos seus catálogos, livros de música e coro, incunábulos, raridades bibliográficas, ex-libris e curiosidades históricas. (Coimbra : Imprensa da Universidade, 1921), by J. M. Teixeira de Carvalho (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English monastic libraries. I.A catalogue of the library of the priory of Bretton, in Yorkshire. II. Notices of the libraries belonging to other religious houses. (London, J.B. Nichols and Son, 1831), by Joseph Hunter and Bretton (Priory) Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz / (München : Beck, 1918-1979), by Königlich Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (page images at HathiTrust)
• A livraria do Mosteiro de Santa Cruz de Coimbra : estudo dos seus catálogos, livros de música e coro, incunábulos, raridades, bibliográficas, ex-libris e curiosidades históricas / (Coimbra : Imprensa da Universidade, 1921), by Mosteiro de Santa Cruz de Coimbra. Library, J. M. Teixeira de Carvalho, and Universidade de Coimbra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La biblioteca dei codici manoscritti di Monte Cassino / (Napoli : Stamperia della Regia Università, 1874), by Luigi Tosti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Monasterii Cremifanensis ord. S. Bened. : asservatorum in memoriam anni a fundato monasterio MC. jubilaei / (Lentii : Prostat in Libraria Ebenhoechiana (Henr. Korb), 1877-[1940?]), by Benediktinerstift Kremsmünster. Stiftsbibliothek and Hugo Schmid (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue de la bibliothèque d'Edchmiadzin / (St. Pétersbourg : Impr. de l'Académie impériale des sciences, 1840), by M. Brosset (page images at HathiTrust)
• Smärre bidrag till de svenska klosterbibliotekens historia, af Isak Collijn ... (Uppsala : Almqvist & Wicksells boktryokeri a.-b., 1917), by Isak Collijn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bücherliebe und Bücherpflege bei den Karthäusern. (Roma, G. Bardi, 1924), by Paul Joachim Georg Lehmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliothecas eremitarvm vetervm / (Helmstadi : Typis G.W. Hammi, [1701]), by Johann Andreas Schmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reisen in einige klöster Schwabens, durch den Schwarzwald und in die Schweiz. Im jahr 1781. (Erlangen, J. J, palm, 1786), by Geheimrath Zapf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marcas de fuego de las antiguas bibliotecas mexicanas. (Mexico [Impr. de la Secretaria de relaciones exteriores], 1925), by Rafael Sala (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les bibliophiles : les collectionneurs et les bibliothèques des monastères des Trois Évêchés 1552-1790. (Nancy : R. Wiener, 1884), by Arthur Benoit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Bibliotheken der klöster des Athos / (Bonn : Verlag von Dr. Eduard Nolte, 1881), by Spyridion Lambros and August Boltz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca monasterii cremifanensis ord. S. Bened. : asservatorum in memoriam anni a fundato monasterio MC jubilaei / (Lentii : Prostat in Libraria Ebenhoechiana, 1877-1881), by Benediktinerstift Kremsmünster. Stiftsbibliothek and Hugo Schmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opisʹ rukopisieĭ, perenesennykh iz biblioteki Iosifova monastyri︠a︡ v biblioteku Moskovskoĭ Dukhovnoĭ Akademii, (Moskva : Universitetskai︠a︡ Tipografii︠a︡, 1882), by bp. of Balta Iosif and Moskovskai︠a︡ dukhovnai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ (page images at HathiTrust)
• I codici della libreria raccolta da S. Giacomo della Marca nel Convento di S. Maria delle Grazie presso Monteprandone / (Livorno : Tip. di Raff. Giusti, 1889), by Italy) Santa Maria delle Grazie (Convent : Monteprandone and Amedeo Crivellucci (page images at HathiTrust)

• The history of the Church of Peterburgh wherein the most remarkable things concerning that place, from the first foundation thereof, with other passages of history not unworthy publick view, are represented / by Symon Gunton ... ; illustrated with sculptures ; and set forth by Symon Patrick ... (London : Printed for Richard Chiswell ..., 1686), by Simon Gunton and Simon Patrick (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Bibliomania in the Middle Ages, by F. Somner Merryweather (Gutenberg ebook)

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• A Medieval Mirror: Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1324-1500 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho Layamon (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by Elizabeth J. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Bibliomania in the Middle Ages, by F. Somner Merryweather (Gutenberg ebook)

• Catalogue of books, Trinity Church Sunday School Library [electronic resource]. ([Barrie, Ont.? : s.n., 188-?]), by Ont.). Sunday School Library Trinity Church (Barrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of books in St. George's Church Sunday school library [electronic resource]. ([Ottawa, Ont.? : s.n.], 1894), by Ont.). Sunday School Library St. George's Church (Ottawa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the directors of the American congregational association. Report of the Congregational library. (Boston.), by American Congregational Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• History and description of the theological seminary libraries of Chicago and vicinity / (1900), by Lucy Bertha Ely Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• V pami͡atʹ semidesi͡atipi͡atili͡etni͡ago i͡ubilei͡a S.-Peterburgskoĭ dukhovnoĭ akademīi : Biblīoteka Spb. dukhovnoĭ akademīi / (S.-Peterburg : Tip-īi͡a F. Eleonskago i Ko,., 1884-), by Aleksi͡eĭ Rodosskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Your library; how to organize an elementary school library, (Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 1956), by Richard James Hurley and Catholic University of America. Commission on American Citizenship (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Apostolat des bons livres et l'Association catholique de la jeunesse canadienne-française [ressource électronique] : conférence donnée par l'Hon. M. Thomas Chapais à l'inauguration de la salle Loyola, le 24 octobre 1905. ([Québec? : s.n.], 1905), by Thomas Chapais (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliothèque des bons livres, 37, rue d'Auteuil, Québec [ressource électronique] : jours et heures de bibliothèque ... prix de ce catalogue, 20 cts. ([Québec? : s.n.], 1899), by Québec) Bibliothèque des bons livres (Québec (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Premier supplément au catalogue de l'Apostolat des bons livres [ressource électronique] : juin 1896. ([Québec? : s.n.], 1896), by Apostolat des bons livres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books for Catholic colleges; a supplement to Shaw's list of books for college libraries. (Chicago, American Library Association, 1948), by Melania Grace, Gilbert Charles Peterson, Charles Bunsen Shaw, and Catholic Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bericht über die Begründung der Bibliothek und die drei ersten Jahre ihres Bestehens 3. Februar 1902 bis 31. März 1905. (Berlin, Druck von E. Wertheim, 1906), by Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin. Bibliothek-Kommission and Moritz Stern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ru ckblick auf das erste Jahrzehnt der Lesehalle 1895-1905. ([Berlin, 1905]), by Germany) Juedische Lesehalle und Bibliothek (Berlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Christ Church Sunday School, Deer Park, library catalogue, 1873 [electronic resource]. ([Toronto? : s.n., 1873?]), by Ont.) Christ Church (Toronto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library catalogue [electronic resource] / ([Peterborough, Ont.? : s.n.], 1918), by Ont.). Library All Saints' Sabbath School (Peterborough (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of books in the Sabbath School Library, December, 1912 [electronic resource] / ([Toronto? : s.n., 1912?]), by Ont.). Sabbath School Library Parkdale Presbyterian Church (Toronto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of books, Trinity Church Sunday School Library [electronic resource]. ([Barrie, Ont.? : s.n., 188-?]), by Ont.). Sunday School Library Trinity Church (Barrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of books in St. George's Church Sunday school library [electronic resource]. ([Ottawa, Ont.? : s.n.], 1894), by Ont.). Sunday School Library St. George's Church (Ottawa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive catalogue of books, and other publications, of the American Sunday School Union : designed for Sunday schools, juvenile, family, and parish libraries, and for general reading. (Philadelphia : [American Sundal School Union], 1835), by American Sunday School Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the Sunday school library of the Worthen Street, M.E. Church, Lowell, Mass. (Lowell : B.H. Penhallow, Printer, 1847), by Mass. Worthen Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Sunday School. Library Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books for the Sunday school and family, including the publications of the Sunday school union of the Methodist Episcopal church. (Cincinnati : Hitchcock & Walden, 1871), by firm Hitchcock & Walden and Methodist Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the Grace M. E. Sabbath School Library. (Taunton, Mass. : Davol Print,), by Mass.). Sabbath School Library Grace Methodist Episcopal Church (Taunton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sunday-school library. (New York : F. Leypoldt, 1884), by A. E. Dunning (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sunday-school library / (1902), by Esther Anna Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of the Emmanuel Baptist Church Sunday School Library, Albany, N.Y. / ([Albany? N.Y.] : Riggs Printing Co., 1896), by Martha Thorne Wheeler and N.Y.). Sunday School Library Emmanuel Baptist Church (Albany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of books in the Reformed Dutch Church Sabbath School, Schodack Landing, N.Y., June, 1872. (Albany, S.R. Gray, 1872), by N. Y. Reformed Dutch Church Schodack Landing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The librarian of the Sunday school; a manual / (New York, Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati, Curts & Jennings, 1897), by Elizabeth Louisa Foote and Martha Thorne Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the Sabbath-school publications of the Presbyterian Board of Publication : No. 1334 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. ([Philadelphia : s.n., 1879]), by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library handbook for church and Sunday school, (Holywood, Calif : The Gospel Light Press, [c1946]), by Ralph L. Elliott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sunday-school library catalogue. (Boston : Wilson, 1870), by Mass.). Sunday School. Library Church of the Redeemer (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• the Sunday-school pioneer, or, Suggestions as to the best method of opening and conducting new Sunday-schools. (Philadelphia : American Sunda-School Union, [18-?]), by American Sunday School Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the books in the Sunday school and parish libraries of Saint George's church, Schenectady, N.Y. ([Schenectady] : [publisher not identified], 1896), by N.Y. St. George's Church Schenectady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of books belonging to the library of the First Universalist Sabbath school, Chicago, March 4th, A.D. 1867. (Chicago : Jameson & Morse, 1867), by Chicago. First Universalist Sabbath School. Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of books belonging to the library of the Reformed Church Sunday School, Catskill, N.Y. ([Catskill, N.Y.] : [J.B. Hall's Steam Presses], 1873), by N.Y. Reformed Dutch Church. Sunday School Library Catskill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading for moral progress : 19th century institutions promoting social change / ([Champaign, Ill. : Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997]), by Donald G. Davis, John Mark Tucker, David M. Hovde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Conference on Faith and History (1994 : Messiah College) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church library manual (Nashville, Tenn., The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, [c1937]), by Leona Althoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methodism and literature; a series of articles from several writers on the literary enterprise and achievements of the Methodist Episcopal Church. (Cincinnati, Walden and Stowe; New York, Phillips & Hunt, 1883, c1882), ed. by F. A. Archibald (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of books recommended by the Church Library Association, for Sunday-school and parish libraries. (Cambridge, Mass. : [The Association), by Church Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strengthening the Sunday-School Library. Hints from a practical librarian. (Philadelphia, Sunday School Times Co., 1903), by Elizabeth L. Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• The village and family library : first-third series. (Philadelphia : American Sunday-school Union, [c1846- 1854?]), by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) and American Sunday School Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methodism and literature; a series of articles from several writers on the literary enterprise and achievements of the Methodist Episcopal church. (Cincinnati : Walden and Stowe; New York, Phillips & Hunt, 1883), by F. A. Archibald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methodism and literature : a series of articles from several writers on the literary enterprise and achievements of the Methodist Episcopal church / (Cincinnati : Walden and Stowe ; New York : Phillips & Hunt, 1883), ed. by Francis A. Archibald (page images at HathiTrust)

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