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Tag: Books & Printing
History of the Book
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
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.
Early European Books
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Printed sources from pre-1700 digitized from the major libraries of Europe for scholarly research.
Dutch Love Emblems
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.
Éditions Lyonnaises de Romans du XVIe siècle (1501-1600)
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.
Routes du livre italien ancien en Normandie (RDLI)
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.
Digital Codex Mendoza
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.
15cBookTrade Project
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Books printed between 1450 (the year of Gutenberg’s invention of modern printing) and 1500 (conventional cut-off date in scholarship) are known as incunabula. Some 30,000 editions are known today, in some 450,000 surviving copies, located in about 4,000 different public libraries, mostly in Europe and North America. Each surviving copy has a different history, which can be reconstructed with the help of physical evidence (ownership inscriptions, decoration, binding, coats of arms, manuscript annotations, stamps, prices, etc.) and bibliographical evidence (historic library catalogues, bookseller and auction catalogues, acquisition registers, etc.): all this is known as copy-specific information, or provenance, or material evidence, or post-production evidence. The idea that underpins the 15cBOOKTRADE Project is to use material and documentary evidence to address several fundamental questions relating to the introduction of printing in the West which have so far eluded scholarship, partly because of lack of evidence, partly because of the lack of effective tools to deal with existing evidence.
Gallica
Gallica is a full text searchable database of the Biliothèque numérique of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The search interface is available in French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese.