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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors) · 11532 articles
All fifteen volumes (Aachen to Zwirner, 1907 to 1912), 1,099, 965, 700, 791, 636, 729, 666, 665, 755, 673, 809, 644, 796, 740 and 864 articles. The printed cross-reference stubs ("Abana. See LEBANON."), the plates, maps and figure captions, twenty-three tables (Catholic Missions in the Congo, volume IV; the palaeontological table of the Equidae in Evolution, volume V; in volume VI, the seven statistical tables of French Catholics in the United States and the three of Greek Catholics in America; in volume VII, the third Huron table, Stations of Missionaries in Huronia, 1634-50; in volume VIII, the Japanese Government Budget of 1908-09 (receipts and expenses), the list of the archdioceses and dioceses of Italy, the table of the Italian pharmaceutical service, the revised chronology of the Kings of Juda and Israel on page 657 (the other Chronology tables are set), and the table of Irish-born persons by English county; in volume X, the two-page statistical table of the Catholic missions of the world, pp. 376-377; in volume XII, the table of Catholic charitable institutions in Canada in Care of the Poor by the Church, p. 241; in volume XIII, the table of religious institutes teaching in Ontario (1911) in Schools, p. 565, and the table of English-speaking seminaries throughout the world in Seminary, pp. 700-701), the specimen page of the text of the Summa (Latin facing the English Dominican Fathers' translation, pp. 674-675) and the full-page Chart of the Summa, both in volume XIV's St. Thomas Aquinas, the volumes' front and back matter, and the Errata at the end of volume XV (corrections to all fifteen volumes) are not included. Paragraph numbers are transcription-added locators, printed with a § to say so. This is a 1907-1910 reference work: its scholarship, statistics and ecclesiastical facts are those of its own date.