THE ANNOTATED COLUMBIA CLASSIFICATION.

800     Literature, general
801             Philosophy of literature. Theory. Literary esthetics
802             Compends, outlines
803             Dictionaries, encyclopedias
804             Essays
805             Periodicals
806             Societies and transactions
807             Study and teaching
808             Rhetoric. Collections
809             History of literature in general

800-809: General works of "literature" or literary criticism that could not
be placed under any one language, such as compilations of works from more
than one original language, or general literary theory.  Translations are
classed in the original language the work was written in.

808: Serves two purposes.  Without decimal expansion, 808 over Cutter number,
it designates books or sets of works collected from several literatures,
which could not be classed in 810-899 since they are not in one original
language.  With decimal expansion, 808.1 - 808.9 is for collections of essays
about literary forms, following language table 5: 808.1 on poetry, 808.2 on
drama.

808: Special three-line call numbers are used for two sets, "Everyman's
library" and "The world's classics".  The second line designates the set, and
the third combines a Cutter number for the author and a small letter initial
for the title.  Example: 808 over W89 over T42h (W89=World's Classics set,
T42=Thucydides, h=History).  The small letter is followed by a number if the
author has two titles beginning with the same letter.

809.22: Film is classed here in a makeshift decimal subdivision as a type of
literature.  There is a special letter expansion, 809.22B for biographies of
actors, directors and so on, with a second line Cutter number for the person
written about, not the writer.  809.221, film history, has a letter expansion
to designate the country (instead of using the standard decimal expansion),
like 809.221G for German films.

810     American and Canadian English
811             Colonial period to 1776
812             Since colonial period (1776)-
813     Philippines
814     --
815     --
816     --
817     --
818     --
819             Written in other languages

810-819: 811-812 for literary works; no "voluminous authors".  813 was
possibly planned for 20th Century?

813,819: Not in the Columbia Classification microfilm, but observed from the
shelflist.  Not many items.

820     English
821             Anglo-Saxon
822             Middle English to 1558
823             Early Modern 1558-1702
824             18th Century 1702-1800
825             19th, 20th Centuries 1800-
826     --
827     --
828     --
829             Language

820-829: 821-825 for literary works.  Voluminous author: 823S Shakespeare.
Exceptions: 824T38 has second lines like 87-88; 825Ye3 and 825Yo8 have
variant "Cutter" numbers of Y plus a small letter.  826 may have been planned
for 20th Century?

829 is English language (DDC 420-429) with decimal divisions from language
table 5.

830     German
831             1000-1500
832             1500-1750
833             1750-1830
834             1830-
835     --
836             Language
837     Germanic languages
838     Platt Deutsch literature
839     Other Germanic literature

830-836: 831-834 for literary works.  Voluminous author: 833S Schiller.  Also
G Goethe really goes here.  835 may have been planned for 20th Century?

837: with decimal subdivisions (DDC 430-439).

837-839: 837 and 839 have special decimal subdivisions for languages; except
838 is used instead of 839.4.  The call number in 838 or 839.1-839.9 is then
used for literary works.

        .1      Low German              .6      Old Norse
        .2      Frisian                 .7      Swedish
        .3      Dutch                   .8      Danish
        .4      Platt Deutsch           .9      Gothic
        .5      Scandinavian in general

838-839: Some of the "Cutter" numbers for authors omit the small letters in
the Cutter table.  This was not done consistently.  The worst result is for
Ibsen, who is not 839.8Ib7 but 839.8I7, which looks like 839.817 when
written.

840     French
841             Old French 840-1400
842             1400-1600
843             Classic Period 1600-1789
844             1789-
845     _
846             Language
847     --
848     Provencal language
849             Literature

840-844: 841-844 for literary works; no voluminous authors.  845 was planned
for 20th Century?

846: with decimal subdivisions (DDC 440-449).

85      Italian [works to 1375]
850     Italian
851             to 1600 [works 1375-1600]
852             1600-1800
853             1800-1871
854             Language
855             1871-
856     Albanian
857     Romansch
858     Romanian language
859             Literature

85, 86, 87, 88:  Special Note:
The two-digit call numbers always have letters on the first line.  They are
associated with 850, 860, 870, 880 which never have letters on the first
line.  The two-digit numbers contain only works and criticism of individual
authors while the associated three-digit numbers have the general literary
criticism.  The reason for use of two-digit numbers is unknown.

85-855: A bad arrangement, with 850 and 854 interrupting the chronological
sequence.  In addition, 852 is divided into two segments: 852, 1600-1750;
852.1, 1750-1800.  Voluminous author: 85D Dante, with special table for his
works in 85DL-85DZ.

86      Spanish [works]
860     Spanish
861     --
862     --
863             Language
864     --
865     --
866     Portuguese language
867     Catalan language
868             Literature
869     Portuguese literature

87      Latin [works]
870     Latin
871     --
872     --
873     --
874     Roman Republic. Roman Empire
875             Mythology. Religion
876             Antiquities. Archaeology
877     Latin language
878     Modern Latin
879     Medieval Latin

88      Greek [works]
880     Greek
881     Byzantine Greek 527-1453
882     Neoclassical Greek (imitation of classical)
883     --
884     Ancient Greece. Greco-Roman world
885             Mythology. Religion
886             Antiquities. Archaeology
887     Greek Language
888     Modern Greek language
889             Literature

87-889: The classification brings most material on the Classics together, not
just literature.  This is a "classic" example of how DDC was rejected to
create an arrangement grouped the way material was taught at Columbia.  The
870's and 880's are arranged similarly.  Voluminous authors are:

  87:  Cicero, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Plautus, Sallust, Tacitus
  88:  Demosthenes, Euripides, Homer, Plato, Sophocles, Xenophon

There are numerous special tables involved.  Books that cover both Greece and
Rome are in 884-886.

890     --
891     Celtic. Russian. Slavic. Lettic, Baltic
892     Oriental [Indo-Iranian]
893     Semitic. Hebrew. Arabic. Jewish history
894     Hamitic
895     Ural-Altaic. Japanese. History of Japan
896     Agglutinative
897     African
898     North and South American Indian
899     Monosyllabic. Chinese. History of China

890-899: "Other languages", in DDC too.  These call numbers exist only with
decimal expansion.  A partial list follows:

 890:   Not used at all

 891:   .1-.5   not used
        .6      Celtic                  .8      Slavic
        .7      Russian         .9      Lettic, Baltic

 892:   .1      Sanskrit                .6      Old Persian
        .2      Palix                   .7      Middle Persian
        .3      Aryan (India)           .8      Modern Persian
        .4      Dravidian (India)       .9      Armenian
        .5      Iranian

 893:   .1      Jewish religion and history, with .1B Bible, .1M Mishnah, 
                .1N Talmud, .1P Midrash as "voluminous authors"
        .15     Judaism (religion)
        .2      Hebrew
        .3-.6   Phoenician, Aramaic, Babylonian...
        .7      Arabic
        .791    Islam (religion)

 894:   .1      Egyptian        .2      Coptic, with:   .2B  Coptic Bible

 895:           .6  includes Japanese culture and history
 896,897,898:   Cutter number for language on first line
 899:           .6  includes Chinese culture and history

Since there is only one number per language, the expansions can be lengthy.
As an example 891.7 takes Cutter numbers on the first line for works and
criticism of individual authors, and the decimal subdivisions -01 to -019 for
language divisions, -1 to -19 for literary criticism, and -1 to -9 for
standard subdivisions!--examples as follows:

 891.7C417 over BA      891.7=Russian + C417=Cutter for Chekhov
                        B=Bibliography + A=initial of author, Avilova
 891.701        Russian language
 891.7015       Grammar
 891.71         General literary criticism
 891.712        Theater
 891.78         Collections

Then, 891.79 is Ukrainian-- subdivided again with the same expansions as
891.7!