UK RED is an open-access database housed at The Open University containing over 30,000 easily searchable records documenting the history of reading in Britain from 1450 to 1945. Evidence of reading presented in UK RED is drawn from published and unpublished sources as diverse as diaries, commonplace books, memoirs, sociological surveys, and criminal court and prison records.
http://www.internetculturale.it/
Catalogues and digital collections of Italian libraries.
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/index.html
Includes access to the digital collections, Getty Research Portal, tools, and databases.
A resource for book history and literary technologies that includes exhibits, course materials, and a bibliography. Exhibits include medieval manuscripts, an exhibit on medieval scribes and their tools, and Renaissance toxicology manuscripts.
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Mapping the Republic of Letters explores scholarly networks from Erasmus to Benjamin Franklin using vizualization, timelines, and network analysis. The project’s datasets includes information on scholarly correspondence, correspondence networks, publications, maps, and travelogs. To date it includes case studies on Voltaire, Galileo, and Athanasius Kircher.
https://proquest.libguides.com/eebpqp
Printed sources from pre-1700 digitized from the major libraries of Europe for scholarly research.
A website of love emblems, a very popular genre based on word and image combinations for the youth in the Low Countries ca. 1600. It currently includes 27 Dutch love emblem books, religious as well as profane. For all of these we have full transcriptions, page facsimiles and indexes, as well as extended search options. Links to sources and parallels, translations and annotation are being added.
The Éditions lyonnaises de novels du XVIe siècle (1501-1600) database aims to highlight the contribution of Lyonnais presses to the development of the fiction genre in the XVIth century. Each notice lists and describes the editions printed in Lyon in the 16th century, while listing all the editions that have appeared elsewhere in France or in Europe.
The Routes of the Ancient Italian Book in Normandy database (RDLI) offers an inventory and description of the copies of editions of texts published in Italy from the beginnings of printing to 1600 kept in public and private funds in the west of France.
The Codex Mendoza was created under the orders of Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza to evoke an economic, political, and social panorama of the recently conquered lands. It was made in 1542 and since 1659 it has been in the collection of the Bodleian Library. This digital edition of the Codex Mendoza represents the first attempt to create a digital resource that permits in-depth study of a Mexican codex.
