The Angus Library
(Collection description created in 2002. Links checked 2009)
Location
The Angus Library, Regent's Park College, University of Oxford
Publication date range
Project pamphlets 1800-1900; whole collection 16th-21st Centuries
Number of items
3,400 pamphlets catalogued as part of this project; entire collection ca. 25,000 books, 10,000 pamphlets (estimate)
Description of the collection
The Angus Library, a research library and archive of Baptist history and Baptist studies, containing at least 30,000 titles, over 200 periodical titles, most from the 19th Century, and 560 shelves of manuscript archives, incorporates the former libraries of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and the Baptist Historical Society and contains the Archives of the Baptist Missionary Society on deposit. Its holdings are entirely related to Christian theology and church history, with an emphasis on Nonconformity in general and Baptist history in particular. The pamphlets consist chiefly of sermons and tracts by or in response to Baptists or controversies in which Baptists were involved.
Provenance
The working library of the Reverend Dr Joseph Angus, Principal of the College (when it was in London) 1849-1893, with subsequent additions from various sources.
Language(s) of the material
Most of the pamphlets are in English, with a small number in other European languages. The whole printed collection includes works in many Oriental and African languages as well.
Access
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