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• Elogia virorum literis illustrium ([Basel] : Petri Pernae typographi Basil. opera ac studio, MDLXXVII [1577], 1577), by Paolo Giovio, Tobias Stimmer, Johannes Latomus, Heinrich Petri, and Pietro Perna (page images at HathiTrust)

• De vita Victorini Feltrensis dialogus Francisci Prendilaquæ Mantuani (Typis Seminarii apud Joannem Manfrè, 1774), by Francesco Prendilacqua, Giovanni Manfré, Jacopo Morelli, and ǂeformer owner Bibliothèque des Fontaines (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nuzhat al-alibbā fī ṭabaqāt al-udabā (s.n.], 1877), by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Anbārī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manāqib al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī (s.n.], 1862), by Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar Rāzī (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʻīyah al-kubrá (880-04 al-Qāhirah : al-Maṭbaʻah al-Ḥusaynīyah, 1324 [1906], 1906), by Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī Subkī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʻīyah al-kubrá (880-04 al-Qāhirah : al-Maṭbaʻah al-Ḥusaynīyah, 1324 [1906], 1906), by Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʻAlī Subkī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Complementum Libri assilah. (Maṭbaʻat Rūkhas, 1886), by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn al-Abbār, Khalaf ibn ʻAbd al-Malik Ibn Bashkuwāl, and Francisco Codera y Zaidín (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ṣilah fī tārīkh aʾimmat al-Andalus wa-ʻulamāʾihim wa-muḥaddithīhim wa-fuqahāʾihim wa-udabāʾihim. (Maṭbaʻat Rūkhas, 1882), by Khalaf ibn ʻAbd al-Malik Ibn Bashkuwāl and Francisco Codera y Zaidín (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historia vitae, fatorvm atqve meritorvm Georgii Gentii, Dhama-Saxonis (Apud Christoph. Hekelii b. filium, 1733), by August Beyer, Friedrich Heckel, Paris École Sainte Geneviève, and Bibliothèque des Fontaines (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. Svetonii Tranqvilli De grammaticis et rhetorbvs claris liber incipit (Impressum Florentiae : Apud Sanctum Iacobum de Ripoli, MCCCCLXXVIII [1478], 1478), by Suetonius, Incunabula Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), and Italy) San Jacopo di Ripoli (Convent : Florence (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quae supersunt omnia (Inaedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1904), by Suetonius, Karl Ludwig Roth, and Karl Ludwig Roth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Elogia virorum literis illustrium ([Basel] : Petri Pernae typographi Basil. opera ac studio, MDLXXVII [1577], 1577), by Paolo Giovio, Tobias Stimmer, Johannes Latomus, Heinrich Petri, and Pietro Perna (page images at HathiTrust)

• Illustrium philosophorum et poetarum veterum XII. effigies ([R. Boyvin], 1566), by René Boyvin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Praestantium aliquot theologorum. English (London : Printed by N. and Iohn Okes [are to be sold by Andrew Crooke at ye Bare in Paules church yard], 1637), by Jacob Verheiden, Donald Lupton, and Henry Holland (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Icones sive imagines virorvm literis illvstrivm : qvorvm fide et doctrina religionis et bonarvm literarum studia, nostra patrumque memoria, in Germania praesertim, in integrum sunt restituta : additis eorvndem elogiis diversorum auctorum (Curante Bernhardo Iobino, 1590), by Nikolaus Reusner, Tobias Stimmer, and Bernhard Jobin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Icones (Curante Bernhardo Iobino, 1590), by Nikolaus Reusner, Bernhard Jobin, and Tobias Stimmer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Versuch einer Geschichte der oesterreichischen Gelehrten (Bey Johann Friedrich Jahn, 1755), by Franz Constantin Florian von Khautz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Icones (Curante Bernhardo Iobino, 1590), by Nikolaus Reusner, Bernhard Jobin, and Tobias Stimmer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vie de Pierre Pithou : avec quelques memoires sur son pere, et ses freres. (Chez Guillaume Cavelier, libraire, rue S. Jacques, au Lys d'or, 1756), by Pierre Jean Grosley and Guillaume Cavelier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Elogio veris clarorum virorum imaginibus apposita (Apud Michaëlem Tramezinum, 1546), by Paolo Giovio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iscrittioni poste sotto le vere imagini de gli huomini famosi in lettere (Appresso Francesco Bindoni, 1558), by Paolo Giovio and Hippolito Orio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iscrittioni poste sotto le vere imagini de gli hvomini famosi (In Fiorenza : [publisher not identified], MDLII [1552], 1552), by Paolo Giovio, Lorenzo Torrentino, and Hippolito Orio (page images at HathiTrust)

• Teatro d'huomini letterati (Per li Guerigli, 1647), by Girolamo Ghilini (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The life of Jonathan Baldwin Turner. (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1961., 1961), by Mary Turner Carriel and Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, and John Taylor, 1835), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and James Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Singularia de viris eruditione claris : centuriæ tres : aliis fortè secuturis, speciminis loco, præmissæ (Impensis Thurnisiorum, fratrum, 1713), by Vincenzo Paravicino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiographieen Leipziger gelehrten ... (Leipzig, 1810), by Heinrich Gottlieb Kreussler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monvmenta litteraria : sive, Obitus et elogia doctorum virorum (Excudebat Io. Norton, sumptibus Ios. Kirton & Tho. Warren, 1640), by Jacques-Auguste de Thou and Clement Barksdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835), by Mary Wollstonecraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Professor Blackie, his sayings and doings a biographical sketch (J. Clarke, 1895), by Howard Angus Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)

• An account of the life and writings of John David Michaelis (T. Clark, 1835), by Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of the Rev. Samuel H. Turner, D.D., late professor of Biblical learning and the interpretation of Scripture in the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. (A.D.F. Randolph, 1863), by Samuel H. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of John Kitto (R. Carter, 1856), by John Kitto, John Eadie, and J. E. Ryland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tribute to Charles Marsh Mead, by his friends. ([Place of publication not identified], [publisher not identified], [1912?], 1912), by George Nye Boardman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Richard Bentley : eine biographie (Teubner, 1868), by Jacob Maehly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Éloges historiques ... (Didier et cie, 1864), by M. Mignet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johannes Janssen, ein Lebensbild (Herder, 1892), by Ludwig Pastor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Michelet (Librairie des Contemporains, 1869), by Eugène de Mirecourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kʻensagrutʻiwn Hor Alishani. (S. Ghazar, 1902), by Simeōn Eremean (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Johannes Janssen, 1829 [i. e. achtzehnhundertneunundzwanzig] - 1891 [i. e. achtzehnhunderteinundneunzig] : Ein Lebensbild, vornehmlich nach den ungedruckten Briefen und Tagebüchern desselben (Herder, 1894), by Ludwig Pastor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un historien canadien oublié : le docteur Jacques Labrie (1784-1831) (s.n., 1893), by Auguste Gosselin and Société royale du Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur böhmischen Geschichtsschreibung (F. Tempsky, 1870), by František Palacký (page images at HathiTrust)

• Erasmus. (The University Press, 1897), by R. C. Jebb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Zikhronotai : mi-yalduti ʻad melot li shemonim shanah (bi-defus Shuldberg, 1895), by Isaac Hirsch Weiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ze sefer toldot adam : ha-gadol ba-ʻanaḳim ... Maran Shemuʾel Eliʾezer Edels, zatsal (ha-nodaʻ ba-shem Maharsha) ... (Y. Yeger, 1912), by Reuben Margaliot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Igeret rishpe ḳeshet (880-04 Hannover : Gedrukt bei E.A. Telgenner, 592 = 1831., 1831), by Moses ben Eliezer Phoebus Koerner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toldot khakhme Israelʹ (Bi-defus ṿe-hotsaʼot ha-Almanah ṿeha-Aḥim Rom, 1878), by Kalman Schulman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sepher zykaron. (N. Sokolow, 1890), by Nahum Sokolow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rasi élete és működése (Izraelita Magyar Irodalmi Társulat, 1906), by Gyula Wellesz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Toldot khakhme Israelʹ (Bi-defus ṿe-hotsaʼot ha-Almanah ṿeha-Aḥim Rom, 1872), by Kalman Schulman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Toldot ḥakhme Yiśraʼel (880-04 Ṿilna : Bi-defus ṿe-hotsaʼot ha-Almanah ṿeha-Aḥim Rom, 644-673 [1879-1913], 1879), by Kalman Schulman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Igeret rishpe kẹshet. (Gedrukt bei E.A. Telgenner, 1831), by Moses ben Eliezer Phoebus Koerner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ḥuṭ ha-meshulash (bi-defus A. H. Zupniḳ, 1908), by Shelomoh Sofer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sefer Toldot ḥakhme Yiśraʼel : yekhalkel toldot ḥakhamenu, morenu, u-meʼorenu ha-gedolim ... ṿe-toldot ha-liṭeraṭur ha-ʻIvrit bi-khelal mi-yeme ha-teḳufah ha-rishonah ba-rabanut ʻad yeme ha-dor ha-aḥaron ha-zeh (Ṿilna : Bi-defus ṿe-hotsaʼot ha-Almanah ṿeha-aḥim Rom, 1879-1884., 1879), by Kalman Schulman (page images at HathiTrust)

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