I. The sources of the history of reading project in the form of lists

I.1 Book lists modelled on catalogues
I.2 Inventories (taken by official authorities)

• I.2.1 Inventories of estate
• I.2.2. Documents issued by the superintendence for minors concerning the property of orphans.
• I.2.3 Last wills and testaments
• I.2.4 Property confiscation records
• I.2.5 Documents of lawsuits (litigious matters, disputes brought before a court, and cases of pending debts)
• I..2.6 The files of the Canonica visitatio
• I.2.7 Inventories drawn up by official authorities for unkonwn reasons

I.3 Inventories (catalogues of private collections madefor institutional libraries)

• I.3.1 Donations (by private persons to instituitons)
• I.3.2 Records of book borrowing
• I.3.3 Lists of private collections purchased by institutions, recorded at the time of the purchase

I.4 Personal papers

• I.4.1 Notes and jottings in diaries referring to books purchased, to be read or to be bound
• I.4.2 Letters

I.5 Other sources

• I.5.1 Records of loans or borrowings kept by individual owners or borrowers
• I.5.2 Records of book purchase and sale
• I.5.3 Binding lists or registers
• I.5.4 Invoices containing sums paid for books
• I.5.5 Handwritten records listing titles on the blank pages of books
• I.5.6 Book lists coming down to us in unofficial inventories of estate, made for unknown reasons

II. Other (non-list) sources of the history of reading project

• II.1 Letters
• II.2 Literary sources
• II.3 Citations (lists of citations)
• II.4 Possessors' notes in books
  • II.4.1 Institutional possessors' notes
  • II.4.2 Marginalia, interlinear notes, underline
  • II.4.2 Old shelf numbers or location numbers
  • II.5 Incomplete data, fragmentary pieces of information