Resources

English Short Title Catalog (1473-1800)

Describes English or English language letterpress materials published before 1801. ESTC contains records for items of all types published in Great Britain or its colonies or in English from 1473 to 1800.

Gabriel

Gateway to Europe's National Libraries.

Hand Press Books File

Includes records for European printing of the hand press period (c. 1455-1830) from the Consortium of European Research Libraries, whose 37 members represent national and university libraries in 15 countries.

Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK)

Allows simultaneous search of the holdings of many major libraries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, and the UK. It functions then as a sort of European Union Catalog.

Lib-Web-Cats

Library Web pages, online catalogs, and profiles a directory of over 5,000 libraries worldwide.

LibDex

Worldwide Index of Library Catalogues, Web sites, and Friends of Libraries pages.

SCIPIO

Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs (Eureka on the Web) (Late 1500s-): Describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held. Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works.

WorldCat

Mainly US/Canadian.

ARTFL Project

American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, including the Trésor de la Langue Française, Dictionnaires d'autrefois, ARTFL-FRANTEXT Database, and the ARTFL French Women Writers Project.

Acta Sanctorum

An electronic version (not yet complete) of the complete texts of the sixty-eight printed volumes, from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940 by the Société des Bollandistes. Copies of the printed work are available at the Andover-Harvard and the Widener Libraries.

Deutsche Lyrik im WWW

Contains poems of about 100 authors written in the 17th to 20th centuries.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Contains digitized versions of titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's A Short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640 ("STC I"), and Donald Wing's A Short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700 ("STC II"). Altogether, EEBO contains over 125,000 titles, covering a broad range of subjects such as literature, history, music, art, linguistics, and religion.

Early English Prose Fiction (Lion) (1500-1700)

Contains 211 works in English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1500-1700. Excluded are non-fictional prose, translations (with the exception of Argenis from Barclayu's Latin) and medieval" survivals," that is, works written before the period but printed within it. Prefatory matter and annotation by the original author are included.

Eurodocs

Selected transcriptions, facsimiles, and translations of primary sources from Western Europe.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases. Includes a database of journals, the Iter Italicum, Scholars of Early Modern Studies, and Baptisteria Sacra.

Past Masters

Full-text electronic editions of works by major philosophical figures, in both original language and English translation. Areas covered include the history of political thought and theory, education, religious studies, economics, classics, history and German studies. Texts include published and unpublished works, articles and essays, and correspondence.

Patrologia Latina

An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina published between 1844 and 1855 and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The PLD includes the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.

Rinascimento: Research Guide for Renaissance Studies

The site, developed by Michael Hemment and Sebastian Hierl of the Harvard College Library, features links to essential reference works, web sites, electronic resources, manuscripts, and more. "Rinascimento" allows users to browse hand-picked HOLLIS subjects in areas such as Renaissance literature, history, art, and music, and to access selected Renaissance full texts freely available on the Web.

Visualizing Historical Networks: Angoulême in 1764

The project explores the lives and social networks of individuals in the town of Angoulême in the eighteenth century.

Renaissance Society of America

Scholarly Societies Project

Access to information by and about scholarly and professional associations worldwide.

Sixteenth Century Studies Conference

Will list when available.

Yale Center for British Art

"The most comprehensive collection of British paintings, prints, drawings, rare books, and sculpture outside Great Britain. ... There is a special emphasis on works from the period between the birth of Hogarth (1697) and the death of Turner (1851)."

Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (Rutgers University) (c.800-1815)

Contains five large data sets, three pertaining to currency exchanges and two pertaining to prices ... (see site for more details).

History of Science Society

The Making and Knowing Project

Gianluca Mori's Pierre Bayle Homepage

Includes a complete bibliography of Bayle studies 1990-present.

Montaigne à l’œuvre (beta version)

A digital corpus of works and letters by Montaigne, including related material by other authors (under development).

Past Masters

Full-text electronic editions of works by major philosophical figures, in both original language and English translation. Areas covered include the history of political thought and theory, education, religious studies, economics, classics, history and German studies. Texts include published and unpublished works, articles and essays, and correspondence.

BIVIO: Biblioteca Virtuale On-Line

Collection of neo-Latin texts, largely by Italian authors.

Johann Ramminger Neulateinische Wortliste

"A Dictionary of Latin from Petrarca to 1700."

Warwick Society for Neo-Latin Studies

Institut d'histoire du Livre (Lyons)

See also the École de l'Institut d'histoire du livre.

Librairie Droz (Geneva)

Rare Book School (University of Virginia)

Luthers Werke

Reproduces the Weimar Edition in electronic form.

Patrologia Latina

An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina published between 1844 and 1855 and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The PLD includes the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.

Early Modern French Women Writers

Contains texts by Madeleine de Scudéry, Marie de Gournay, Mlle de Montpensier.

Early Modern Women Online: An Annotated Bibliography (Georgianna Ziegler, Folger Shakespeare Library)

The ARTFL French Women Writers Project

A searchable database containing works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century.

The Brown University Women Writers Project

"A long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship."