Themes within curated catalogues

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A–C

Academics

Edward Bernard
Matthias Bernegger
Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld
Isaac Casaubon
Johannes Coccejus
Franciscus Duarenus
Pieter de Frans
Jan Gruter
Charles Hutton
Giovanni Antonio Magini
Hernán Núñez de Toledo y Guzmán [el Pinciano]
Amandus Polanus of Polansdorf
Adriaan Reland
Henricus Reneri
Johannes Saeckma
Joseph Justus Scaliger
Thomas Smith
Guilielmus Surenhusius [Willem Surenhuis]
Richard Thomson
Gerardus Joannes Vossius
John Wallis

Alchemy

Robert Boyle
Jan Baptist Van Helmont
John Winthrop the younger

Anglo-Saxon studies

Elizabeth Elstob
Humfrey Wanley

Arabist

Edward Bernard
Nicolaus Petri [Niqūlāwus ibn Buṭrus al-Ḥalabī]

Astrology

Elias Ashmole
Tommaso Campanella

Astronomy

Edward Bernard
Matthias Bernegger
Tycho Brahe
Nicolaus Copernicus
Albert Curtz
John Flamsteed
Edmond Halley
Thomas Harriot
Christiaan Huygens
Johannes Kepler
Giovanni Antonio Magini
Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop
Wilhelm Schickard

Booktrade, printing, and publishing

Benito Arias Montano
Antoinette Bourignon
Bartolomeo Gamba
Abraham Ortelius
Christophe Plantin
Jacob Tonson the elder and Jacob Tonson the younger

Cartography

Caspar van Baarle [Barlaeus]
Giovanni Antonio Magini
Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop
Abraham Ortelius
Wilhelm Schickard

Church history

Antonio Agustín
Ernst Salomon Cyprian

Cipher letters

Aphra Behn
The cipher books of John Wallis

Collecting and antiquarianism

Elias Ashmole
John Aubrey
Bartolomeo Gamba
Constantijn Huygens
Athanasius Kircher
Fulvio Orsini
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
Peter Paul Rubens

Collections

Bodleian card catalogue
Brienne Collection
Dutch Church in London archive
Bartolomeo Gamba
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Tixall Letters

Counter Reformation

Guglielmo Sirleto

D–H

Devotional Literature

Johann Valentin Andreae
Richard Baxter
Jakob Böhme
Antoinette Bourignon
Richard Thomson

Diplomacy

Robert Beale
Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld
Johann Christian von Boineburg
Pieter Cornelisz Brederode
Ioannes Dantiscus
John Dodington
Janus Dousa
Hugo de Groot
Constantijn Huygens
Henry Oldenburg
Peter Paul Rubens
Philip Sidney
Amalia von Solms-Braunfels
Francis Vernon
Johan de Witt

Fellows of the Royal Society

Elias Ashmole
John Aubrey
Robert Boyle
Alexander Bruce
John Collins
Early Letters Catalogue, The Royal Society
John Flamsteed
Edmond Halley
Abraham Hill
Charles Hutton
Christiaan Huygens
François Jacquier
James Jurin
Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek
Edward Lhwyd
Martin Lister
John Locke
Marcello Malpighi
Robert Moray
Isaac Newton
Henry Oldenburg
Thomas Pennant
William Petty
Robert Plot
Robert Southwell
Francis Vernon
John Wallis
Exploring Royal Society ‘Genealogies’

Hebraists

Benito Arias Montano
Adriaan Reland
Wilhelm Schickard
Guilielmus Surenhusius [Willem Surenhuis]

Historiography

Janus Dousa

Huguenots

Pierre Bayle
Jean Claude

Humanists

Alardus Amstelredamus
Cornelius Crocus
Desiderius Erasmus
Michael Hummelberg
Thomas More
Nicolaus Olahus
Beatus Rhenanus

I–P

Intelligencers

Samuel Hartlib
Athanasius Kircher
Marin Mersenne
Henry Oldenburg
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc

Lawyers

Franciscus Duarenus
Pierre Fermat
David Hilchen
Johannes Saeckma
John Selden

Librarians

Ernst Salomon Cyprian
Janus Dousa
Jan Gruter
Samuel Gyldenstolpe
Fulvio Orsini
Guglielmo Sirleto
Humfrey Wanley

Mathematics

Edward Bernard
Matthias Bernegger
John Collins
Albert Curtz
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert
René Descartes
Leonhard Euler
Pierre Fermat
Thomas Harriot
Charles Hutton
Christiaan Huygens
François Jacquier
Joachim Jungius
Johannes Kepler
Giovanni Antonio Magini
Pietro Mengoli
Marin Mersenne
Isaac Newton
Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop
Blaise Pascal
John Pell
Caspar Schott 
John Wallis

Medicine

Dublin Medico-Philosophical Society
Bartolomeo Gamba
Peter Goldman
Hadrianus Junius
James Jurin
Martin Lister
John Locke
Philipp Jakob Sachs von Löwenheim
Marcello Malpighi

Music

René Descartes
Constantijn Huygens
Marin Mersenne

Natural History

Daines Barrington
Edward Lhwyd
Martin Lister
Maria Sibylla Merian
Thomas Pennant
John Ray
Philipp Jakob Sachs von Löwenheim
Gilbert White

Natural history illustration

Albrecht Dürer
Maria Sibylla Merian

Natural Philosophy

John Aubrey
Laura Bassi
Robert Boyle
Tommaso Campanella
Dublin Medico-Philosophical Society
Early Letters, The Royal Society
Edmond Halley
Thomas Harriot
James Jurin
Edward Lhwyd
Martin Lister
Isaac Newton
Henry Oldenburg
Blaise Pascal
Robert Plot
Philipp Jakob Sachs von Löwenheim
Nicolaus Steno
Jan Swammerdam

Orientalists

Benito Arias Montano
Nicolaus Petri [Niqūlāwus ibn Buṭrus al-Ḥalabī]
Adriaan Reland
Guilielmus Surenhusius [Willem Surenhuis]

Painting and Sculpture

Artists in Rome, 1750–1850
Albrecht Dürer
Thomas Gainsborough
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Joshua Reynolds
Peter Paul Rubens

Palaeography

Humfrey Wanley

Pedagogy

Jan Amos Comenius
Samuel Hartlib
Juan Luis Vives

Philology

Matthias Bernegger
Hadriaan Beverland

Isaac Casaubon
Janus Dousa
Hugo de Groot
Jan Gruter [Janus Gruterus]
Joseph Justus Scaliger
John Selden
Gerardus Joannes Vossius
Isaac Vossius

Philosophy

Mary Astell
Pierre Bayle
Isaac Beeckman
George Berkeley
Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld
Tommaso Campanella
Anne Conway
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia
René Descartes
Thomas Hobbes
Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach
David Hume
Jean Le Clerc
John Locke
Blaise Pascal
Henricus Reneri
Baruch Spinoza
The Correspondences of Philosophers in EMLO

Poetry

Caspar van Baarle [Barlaeus]
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Ioannes Dantiscus
Janus Dousa
John Dryden
Abraham von Franckenberg
Peter Goldman
Thomas Gray
Jan Gruter [Janus Gruterus]
Elisabeth Hoofman-Koolaart
Constantijn Huygens
Andrew Marvell
John Milton
Martin Opitz
Pieter Rabus
Anna Maria van Schurman
Philip Sidney

Q–Z

Quakers

Margaret Fell

Reformation in England

Thomas Cromwell
Margaret Vernon

Religious dissidents

Jakob Böhme
Antoinette Bourignon
Jan Amos Comenius
Abraham von Franckenberg
Johann Permeier
Georg Lorenz Seidenbecher

Socinianism

Martin Ruar [Ruarus]

Theology

Richard Baxter
Pierre Bayle
Johannes Coccejus
Jean Le Clerc
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Ludwig Crocius
Ernst Salomon Cyprian
August Hermann Francke
Johann Maier von Eck
Joseph Mede
Amandus Polanus of Polansdorf
André Rivet
Samuel Rutherford
Richard Thomson
Juan Luis Vives
John Worthington

Translation and editing

Thomas Harriot
Pieter Rabus
John Worthington

Travel writing

Mary Wortley Montagu
Thomas Pennant

Women’s Correspondence

Henriette Amalia von Anhalt-Dessau
Mary Astell
Anne Bacon
Laura Bassi
Aphra Behn
Charlotte de Bourbon
Antoinette Bourignon
Sophia Hedwig von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
Elizabeth Cary
Catherine II of Russia
Sarah Chapone
Margaret Clifford
Louise de Coligny
Elizabeth Compton
Anne Conway
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia
Maria Cowper
Anne Dudley
Anna van Egmond
Elizabeth Elstob
Epistolary Power: the correspondences of the wives of William of Orange, 1552–1617, and of the wives of the Dutch and Frisian Stadtholders, 1605–1759
Margaret Fell
Madame de Graffigny
Argula von Grumbach
Anne of Hanover
Elisabeth Hoofman-Koolaart
Penelope Maitland
Maria Sibylla Merian
Mary Wortley Montagu
Albertine Agnes van Oranje-Nassau
Dorothy Osborne
Caritas Pirckheimer
Penelope Rich
Anna von Sachsen
Anna Maria van Schurman
Amalia von Solms-Braunfels
Arbella Stuart
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
Mary Stuart (Princess Royal and Princess of Orange)
Mary II Stuart (Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland)
Elizabeth Talbot [Bess of Hardwick]
Tixall Letters
Margaret Vernon
Elizabeth Wagstaffe
Women’s correspondence [all]

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Themes within curated catalogues was last modified: January 31st, 2026 by Elizabeth Williamson