Reference Sources
General Reference Sites
Language Resources
Biography Sites
- CERL Thesaurus Search Form--Names with variants
of persons, printers, places, corporate bodies from the hand press era; contributions by a large number of
European libraries
- Biography.com
- S9.com Biographical Dictionary--This says it has become a Wikipedia
type system, caveat bibliothecarius
- Ancestry's
Social Security Death Index--Less freely accessible information than formerly.
- Michaud's Biographie Universelle--Click on Decouverte, then Dictionnaires, then
Dictionnaires biographiques, then Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne Change to Click on Advanced Search, the author
Michaud, title Biographie Universelle. Each volume has a separate record and access.
- ADB/NDB
Deutsche Biographie
- Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
- Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
- Complete list of
popes
- On-line Calendar of Saints Days--Pre-1500 saints
- Catholic Online Saints Pages--Includes later saints
- Dominican
martyrology (from a 1955 edition)
- Paul Halsall's Saints'
Lives section from the Internet Medieval Source Book
- Union List of Artist Names Online
- Search form for over 350,000 artists, dealers, etc. From the
Netherlands Institute for Art History
- IFLA Names of Persons: National Usages for
Entry in Catalogues, 4th ed.
Place Names
Calendars and Computus
- Incunabula: Dawn of Western Printing--A
rich site, the chapter on typefaces and pages GfT types (with some images), the glossary and the page
of links are particularly worth examining.
exploring.
- Incunabula-General Links--From the Andy Holt Virtual Library
by Bob Peckham
- Das fruehe deutsche Buchtitelblatt
database.
- The incunable
title page by Ursula Rautenberg--Follow the links to the project publications.
- Yale Rare
Book Team Signature Pagination Table
- Quire
Calculator--By Christopher Handy, for Macintosh
- Piccard Collection
of Watermarks in the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart
- Watermark database of incunables printed in
the Low Countries--aka WILC
- Watermarks from the Biblioteca da
Ajuda
- Thomas L. Gravell Watermark
Archive
- Archive of Papers and
Watermarks in Greek Manuscripts
- American Bookbinders Museum--Note Bookbinders and Endpapers
tabs
- British Library Database of
Bookbindings--Images and Descriptions
- German Database of 15th and 16th
Bindings
- Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books--From the University
of Alabama. Note the Research Links
- Some Interesting Bindings--A Bookseller's
catalog with some excellent illustrations
- SHARP Listing of Publishers' Records sites
- Gallery of Book Trade Labels--From Greg Kindal. Continued here.
- Major American
Publishers--From the Hyde Park Bookstore
- Index of Modern Paperback
Publishers--From the Hyde Park Bookstore
- Publishers' Trade List Annual
Index of Contributors and Advertisers 1873-1947--Under construction but has summary indices 1873-1910
- 19th Century
American Children's Book Trade Directory--American Antiquarian Society
- Exeter Working
Papers in British Book Trade History--Digitized list of book trade personnel
1775-1800 and other documents
- British Fiction 1800-1829 : a Database of Production,
Circulation & Reception
- British Book Trade Index
- Scottish
Book Trade Index
- Historical Directories--19th century British
commercial, trade and municipal directories
- R.I.E.C.H, Repertoire des imprimeurs et editeurs suisses actifs
avant 1800
- Passe-Partout,
International Bank of Printers' Ornaments
- BCU Lausanne Banques de données d'ornements
d'imprimerie de la Réserve précieuse--This site includes the following sites among others
- Fleuron-Contains digitized version of many
ornaments used by 18th century Swiss printers, arranged by size
- Printers's Marks from
the University of Barcelona Library
- The
printer/publisher database at the Herzog August Bibliothek
- Printers'
Marks from the Biblioteca da Ajuda
- List of Printers from the
Utrecht University Library
- Bibliopolis--Persons, Biographical Information
on the Dutch Book Trade
- Paul Dijstelberger's Collection on
Type and Typography--A larger number of initials and illustrations from 16th century and earlier printers. Includes
Haebler's European Specimen Collection.
- American
Antiquarian Society's Guide to Dating American Tract Society Publications
- CERL Provenance page--Note the list
of online sources, arranged by geographical area
- Home Page for
the Lucille Project by Sid Huttner
- Robert's and
Etherington's Bookbinding and the Conservation of books : A Dictionary of
Descriptive Terminology
- Melbourne
Museum of Printing Glossary of Printing and Typography
- Uncorrected Proofs/Advance
Copies Glossary
- The
POP-UP World of Ann Montanaro--Exhibit with some useful information
and wonderful images
- Heraldica--An introductory site
- Web Access for
Manuscript-based Textual Scholarship--Note the sections on Paleography &
diplomatics, Codicology, Single authors & works, and Manuscript collections
- 17th and 18th century
paleographic (and other) resources online--Another gift from the Yale Rare Book Cataloging Team that
contains some wonderful sites
- Palaeography, reading old handwriting,
1500-1800--An online tutorial
- Medieval and Early Modern
Palaeography Courses--By David Postles, University of Leicester
-
Cours de Paleographie: Archive de course d'Arisitum--The 13 units and three exams of a course in
early modern French ms. hands.
- Scribal
abbreviations--Explanation of the system by Stephen Reimer
- Paleography:
punctuation--By Reimer as well
- Old German Handwritten
Scripts
- Read Suetterlin/Read Blackletter--German cursive
alphabets and lessons on reading them
- Fraktur Alphabet
- Greek ligatures
- Greek abbreviations
- Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter
Drucke-Sponsored by Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen and others, including the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft
- DigiMisc, Digitalisierung und Digitalisierte Bestände - Miscellanea und
Register--List of sites
- Consulation of Incunabula Online--From the Andy Holt Virtual
Library by Bob Peckham
- Muenchener
Digitalisierungszentrum Digitale Bibliothek
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Digital
collections
- Emblem Related
Websites--From the University of Glasgow's Centre for Emblem Studies
- German Emblem Books : a digital imaging
project--University of Illinois Library. Contains
links to other emblem projects, will eventually include a database
- University of
Pennsylvania Library's Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image--Digital
facsimiles of books, manuscripts and visual materials
- Online Emblem books from
Pennsylvania State University
- Emblem Project Utrecht
- AlteDruckeDigital, List of pre-1800 books digitized by German
Libraries and Institutions
- University of
Bielefeld Library's Digital reproductions of early and rare books
- Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek's digitization of prints from incunables
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek's CodIcon Online--Early modern
illustrated codices. Look at the descriptions to get the ms number and then click on Blaettern to see the images
- Fondo Digitales of the University of Seville's
Digitized Collections
- Links to Portuguese Digital Libraries
- Bibliotheque Interuniversitaire de
Medecine--Numerous early books in this collection of digitized books
- Botanicus: Digitization of early
botanical books--From the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
- List of early western books digitized by Japanese
Libraries
- European
Illustrated Book and Manuscripts, ca. 1400-1700--From Takami Matsuda, Keio
University
- The
Super-Enlightenment-Texts--From Stanford University
- Ohio Imprints
Digital Library, 1797-1850
- Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls--From
Stanford, mostly covers
- Street and
Smith Project--Syracuse University
- Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature,
University of Florida--Over 2500 digitized children's books
- 19th Century American
Schoolbooks--The Nietz Collection at the University of Pittsburgh
- American
Sunday School Books--American Memory
- Early modern newssheets at the Biblioteca Universitaria de
Sevilla--Facsimiles and catalog
- American broadsides and printed ephemera--American Memory
- Crime Broadsides Collection of the Harvard Law
Library
- Historic American Sheet
Music--Duke University
- America Singing: 19th Century
American Song Sheets--American Memory
- The Spectator Project, a Hypermedia archive of 18th
century periodicals
- Princeton Seminary Digital Library, 17th-20th century
works
- Bibles from Sources
Chretiennes--Includes facsimiles of mss., various translations, concordances, etc.
- Gutenberg Bible--British
Library copies
- Gutenberg Bible
Goettingen Copy
- Gutenberg
Bible--University of Texas Ransom Center copy
This page was prepared for a workshop on Electronic Resources for
the Rare Book Cataloger held at the 1997 RBMS Preconference in Claremont,
California which was presented by Eric Holzenberg, Director and Librarian
of the Grolier Club, and Larry
Creider, Special Collections Librarian at the New Mexico State
University Library , and previously Head of the Original Cataloging
Department in the Information Processing Center in the Van
Pelt-Dietrich Library Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Libraries. The program was originally sponsored by the
Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and
Manuscript Section of the
Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association, which has continued to sponsor this page. Thanks are also due
to Carol Boyse, Systems Librarian at New Mexico State University Library.
