| Call Number | Subject |
|---|---|
| PT 83-109 | General |
| - PT 83-89 | - Treatises in German |
| - PT 91 | - Treatises in English |
| PT 109.5-127 | Special topics |
| - PT 111 | - Relations to history, civilization, culture, etc. |
| - PT 115-127 | - Relations to foreign literature |
| - - PT 123.A-Z | - - By country or language, A-Z |
| - - - PT 123.F7 | - - - France |
| - - - PT 123.G7 | - - - Great Britain |
| - - - PT 123.U6 | - - - United States |
| PT 134-148 | Special subjects not limited to one period or form |
| - PT 135 | - Legends. Mythology See also PT204+ |
| PT 149 | Special countries & races |
| PT 151.A3-Z | Treatment of special classes, A-Z |
| - PT 151.W7 | - Women |
| PT 153.A-Z | Individual characters, A-Z |
| - PT 153.B56 | - Bluebeard (Legendary character) |
| PT 155 | Biography (Collective) Individual see PT1501+ |
| PT 167 | Women authors. Literary relations of women |
| PT 169 | Jewish authors |
| Call Number | Subject |
|---|---|
| PT 175-179 | General |
| PT 183 | Old High German (to ca. 1050) |
| PT 187-201 | Middle High German (ca.1050-1500/1520) |
| PT 202-230 | Special forms |
| - PT 202-214 | - Epic poetry |
| - - PT 204-212 | - - Hero legends |
| - - - Beowulf legend see PR1580+ | |
| - - - Nibelungen legend see PT1589+ | |
| - - - PT 207-209 | - - - Dietrich von Bern |
| - PT 215-219 | - Lyric poetry |
| Call Number | Subject |
|---|---|
| PT 236 | General |
| Special topics see PT111 | |
| PT 238 | Early modern to 1700 |
| PT 241-261 | Renaissance & Reformation (ca.1440 to 1648) |
| PT 271-281 | 17th-18th centuries (to 1740) |
| PT 285-321 | 18th (-19th) century (1700-1800/1870) |
| - PT 293-307 | - 1700-1750/1770 |
| - PT 311-321 | - 1750/1770-1800/1830. The classic age |
| - - PT 317 | - - Period of Herder. "Sturm und drang" |
| - - PT 321 | - - Goethe & Schiller |
| PT 341-395 | 19th century See also PT285+ 18th & early 19th centuries See also PT311+ Late 18th & early 19th centuries |
| - PT 341 | - General works |
| - PT 351-386 | - 1789/1800-1830/1850 |
| - - PT 361-365 | - - Romanticism |
| - - - PT 361 | - - - General works |
| - - - PT 363.A-Z | - - - Special topics, A-Z |
| - - - - PT 363.A4 | - - - - Aesthetics |
| - - - - PT 363.C57 | - - - - Closure (Rhetoric) |
| - - - - PT 363.F3 | - - - - Fairy tales. "Märchen" |
| - - - - PT 363.I5 | - - - - India |
| - - - - PT 363.N27 | - - - - Nationalism |
| - - - - PT 363.N3 | - - - - Nature |
| - - - - PT 363.P5 | - - - - Philosophy |
| - - - - PT 363.P6 | - - - - Poetics |
| - - - - PT 363.W37 | - - - - War |
| - - PT 381-384 | - - Young Germany |
| - PT 391 | - 1830/1850-1870/1880 |
| - PT 395 | - 1870/1880-1900 |
| PT 401-405 | 20th century |
| - PT 403 | - History & Criticism |
| - PT 405 | - Special topics |
| PT 411-415 | 21st century |