BIBLIOGRAPHIC STANDARDS COMMITTEE DIRECTORY OF WEB RESOURCES FOR THE RARE MATERIALS CATALOGER

• General Cataloging Sites
• Rare Book Cataloging Sites and Resources
• Library of Congress Lists
• Reference Sites--General -- Language Resources -- Biography Sites -- Place Names -- Calendars and Computus
• Special Collections Sites
• History of Books and Printing
• Special Topics for Rare Books
• Images of Rare Books
• Catalogs which are particularly useful for Special Collections
• Early Cartographic Materials
• Medieval Manuscripts

General Cataloging Sites

• UCSD TPOT
• Cataloger's Reference Shelf--Includes texts of Marc Formats and Code Lists, LC Subject cataloging Manuals and ancillary manuals such as the Conser Editing Manual and DCRB
• Internet Library for Librarians Cataloging page--A number of the following sites can also be accessed from this site.
• MIT Cataloging Oasis
• Cataloging Tools and Resources--Yale University
• Princeton Library Cataloging Division Documentation
• Cataloguer's Toolbox--Memorial University Newfoundland
• Cornell Tech Services Procedures and Documentation
• Cornell Voyager Information
• Cornell Voyager Tables
• Cooperative Cataloging Rules--Originally by James Weinheimer as an alternative to RDA

Rare Book Cataloging Sites and Resources

• DCRM(B)--Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books)
• Descriptive Cataloging of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Manuscripts (AMREMM)
• DCRM(S)--Descriptive Cataloging of Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Serials)
• DCRM(M)--Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Music)
• DCRM(G)--Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)
• DCRM(MSS)--Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Manuscripts)
• DCRM(C)--Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Cartographic)
• RBMS Controlled Vocabulary (Formerly RBMS Thesauri) Online Version
• Bibliographic Standards Committee List of Relator Terms
• CILIP UK Bibliographic Standards CommitteeIncludes the following sites:
  • Rare Books and Special Collections Group's Guidelines for the Cataloguing of Rare Books
  • From DCRB to DCRM(B)
• International Standard Bibliographic Description for Older Monographic Publications (ISBD(A))--IFLA merged all the ISBDs into one. For current ISBD practices for older monographic resources see-- Hereand -- and the Replaced by the Consolidated ISBD http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/international-standard-bibliographic-description which is not freely available
• Guidelines for Using UNIMARC for Older Monographic Publications (ANTIQUARIAN)--IFLA
• UCSD TPOT Special Collections--Note the link to new policies for the Mandeville Special Collections Library
• Yale University Library Rare Book Team--Note in particular:
• Notes for describing imperfect copies

• Special Topics

  • ARLIS/NA Cataloging Section
  • Thesaurus for Graphic Materials--A combination of TGM I & II. Allows search, browse, or download of combined thesaurus
  • Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I : Subject Terms--From LC
  • Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II : Genre & Physical Characteristic Terms--From LC
  • OLAC's Authority Tools for Audiovisual and Music Catalogers
  • Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online--From Getty
  • Cataloging Biblical Materials--From Princeton
  • Form/Genre Terms for Legal Materials--From AALL
  • Bibliographical Fingerprints
  • STCN Fingerprint

Library of Congress Lists

• Library of Congress Authorities
• MARC Home Page
• Individual USMARC Codes and Formats
  • Country Codes
  • Geographic Area Codes list
  • Language Codes
  • Code List for Relators
  • Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes
  • MARC 21 Format for Authority Data
  • MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data
  • MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data
  • Initial Definite and Indefinite Articles
  • LCSH Weekly Lists
  • SACO homepage--Links to the latest LCSH Tentative and Approved lists and LCC tentative and approved lists, plus archives.
  • Frequently Asked Questions about Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT)
  • LC Cutter Tables from MIT
  • LC P-Class Table 40 from MIT
  • LC Individual Biography Cutter Table from MIT
  • LC Translation Cutter Table from MIT
  • Regions and Countries Table
  • Canadian Provinces and U.S. States Table
  • Cataloging Calculator (for Cutters) by Kyle Banerjee
  ALA-LC Romanization Tables
• LC's Information and Resources to prepare for RDA

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Reference Sources

General Reference Sites
• Refdesk.com

Language Resources

• Your Dictionary.comlist of online grammars
• Language Dictionaries and Translators--From Word2Word
• Your Dictionary.com online dictionaries
• Indo-European languages, ancient and modern
• Larousse.com
• Treccani dictionaries--Some resources are free, some not; includes "antico" and Italian dialect dictionaries
• Pollux: Archimedes Project Dictionary Access--Includes Liddell and Scott and Lewis and Short
• Search form for online Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary (Perseus Project)
• Niermeyer, Medieval Latin Lexicon, 1976
• Ducange, et al. Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis--When other lexical resources for medieval and modern Latin fail
• Glossa, Latin Dictionary
• Glossary of Common Latin Terms Found in Imprints of Early Printed Books by Robert L. Maxwell
• Guide to Latin Prepositions
• Princeton's list of vernacular designators
• Allen And Greenough's New Latin Grammar
• Grimm's Deutsches Woerterbuch

Biography and Name Authority Sites

• VIAF = Virtual International Authority File
• 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--Go to Gallica advanced search http://gallica.bnf.fr/advancedsearch?lang=EN and input Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne under title.
• Dizionario biografico degli italiani--From Treccani
• ADB/NDB Deutsche Biographie
• Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
• Dizionario biografico degli italiani
• Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
• Archives de litterature du Moyen Age--Useful for authority work
• Complete list of popes
• Salvador Miranda's Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
• On-line Calendar of Saints Days--Medieval and renaissance 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
• Digitized copy of Surius, Vitae Sanctorum, 1618
• Union List of Artist Names Online--From the Getty
• Search form for over 350,000 artists, dealers. From the Netherlands Institute for Art History
• IFLA Names of Persons: National Usages for Entry in Catalogues, 4th ed.
• Cultural Objects Name Authority Online--From the Getty Research Institute

Place Names

• NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
• USGS Board on Geographic Names--Search for domestic place names or foreign place names
• RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee Latin Place Names--This contains AACR2 forms when these have been established.
• Cathedral Library Catalogue Names of Printing Towns
• Orbis Latinus, 4th ed., 1972--PDF so you cannot search, but easy navigation.
• Graesse's Orbis Latinus (1909 ed.)
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
• Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionaries of England, Scotland, and Wales, 1846-1849
• Geographical Name Search Service (Canada)
• Geographical Names of Canada
• Helpful links to other sources

Calendars and Computus

• O. Lieberknecht's Calendar Tools--Converts dates to and from Gregorian and Roman Calendars with indictions and different dates for the New Year.
• Perpetual Calendar for Postal Historians--Detailed information on the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in different parts of Europe
• Khayam A Persian Calendar Program
• English Calendar by Ian MacInnes, Albion College--Gives Old and New Style dates, regnal years, days of the week
• The French Republican Calendar--Includes Conversion Tables from the Republican calendar to Gregorian dates
• Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar--Years, days of the week; by Marcos Montes
• If you know the day of the week and the day of the month and want the year ...
• Grotefend's Zeitrechnung des deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit--Includes local calendars and lists saints and their feast days in different places
• Calendoscope-Repertory of Medieval (and early modern) Liturgical Calendars to localize and date materials--Says it is designed for Internet Explorer
• Roman Numeral Date Conversion Table For the Years A.D. 1400-2000 (years only); by Christopher Handy
• Roman Numeral Year Dates : a Conversion Guide--Also by Christopher Handy
• Roman Gregorian equivalents for every day of the year--From Paul Lewis

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Special Collections Sites

• Universitaet Frankfurt Internetquellen zu Handschriften (inkl. Inkunabeln, Nachlaesse, Alte Drucke)--by no means limited to manuscripts.
• Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the American Library Association home page
• Online archive of RBM and RBML
• Information Resources for Early Books and Manuscripts--From the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel
• John Carter's ABC for Book Collectors, 2004 edition--Many useful items at: ILAB Library, e.g., Early Printing--urls for lots of items from STCN VD-16, EDIT 16, VD-17, etc.--
• British Library Rare Book Links

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History of the Book and Printing

• Bibliopolis: the History of the Printed Book in the Netherlands--Contains articles and databases of persons, images, books, and a glossary
• Il libro antico--Note the section on "Il libro antico" in "Biblioteca"
• Rare Books in Astronomy: Free Online Resources--From the Library of the Observatory of the University of Palermo
• Antiquarisch Woordenboek in vier talen = Antiquarian Dictionary in four languages (Dutch, English, French, German)--compiled by Jelle Samshuijzen for antiquarian booksellers
• Edgar Franco, Dictionary of Terms and Expressions Commonly Used in the Antiquarian Book Trade
• ILAB Glossary in English--Available in other languages as well.
• ArchBook Architecture of the Book
• Dan Traister's Resources for the history of books and printing

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Special Topics for Rare Books

Incunabula (see also sites devoted to bookbinding, images and catalogs of incunabula in those sections)

• Incunabula: Dawn of Western Printing--A rich site; the chapter on typefaces and types (with some images), the glossary, and the page of links are particularly worth exploring.
• Incunabula-General Links--From the Andy Holt Virtual Library by Bob Peckham
• Das fruehe deutsche Buchtitelblatt database
• Material evidence in Incunabula--From CERL

Signature Calculations

• Yale Rare Book Team Signature Pagination Table
• Quire Calculator--By Christopher Handy, for Macintosh

Watermarks and Paper

• Bernstein Memory of Paper project--Various tools, including a union catalog of the Stuttgart Picard, WILC, WZMA, and the Dutch Institute for Art History
• Watermark terms--A multilingual glossary
• Briquet Online--In progress
• Printed Picard Online--In progress
• Piccard Collection of Watermarks in the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart
• Watermark database of incunables printed in the Low Countries--aka WILC
• Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive--Includes unpublished Watermarks and Records from the C-M Briquet Archive (Ms Briquet) at the Bibliothue de Geneve
• Watermarks in Incunables Printed in Spain
• Watermark Database from the Dutch Institute for Art History, Florence--Watermarks of prints and drawings
• Watermarks from block books in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek--Click on the entries with Wasserzeichen in the description
• International standard for the registration of papers with or without watermarks from the International Association Of Paper Historians>--Lists of categories
• International Association of Paper Historians

Bindings

• American Bookbinders Museum--Note Bookbinders and Endpapers tabs
• Bookbindings on incunables in American Library Collections by Scott Husby
• British Library Database of Bookbindings--Images and Descriptions
• British Armorial Bindings Database
• German Database of 15th and 16th Bindings
• Folger Bindings Image Collection
• Six Centuries of Bookbinding from Bridwell Library
• Hand Bookbindings from Princeton--Over 200 bindings from an exhibition
• Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books--From the University of Alabama. Note the Research Links
• Some Interesting Bindings--A catalog from the Rulon-Miller Books with some excellent illustrations
• Mark Godburn's Nineteenth Century Dust Jackets

Printing and Publishing Information

• 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--Completed with summary indices 1873-1947
• 19th Century American Children's Book Trade Directory--American Antiquarian Society
• Atlas of the Rhode Island Book Trade in the Eighteenth Century
• Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History--Digitized list of book trade personnel 1775-1800 and other documents
• London Book Trades Database--Index here
• British Fiction 1800-1829 : a Database of Production, Circulation & Reception
• British Book Trade Index
• A dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 / Henry R. Plomer
• A dictionary of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725 / Henry R. Plomer
• Scottish Book Trade Index
• Scottish Book Trade Archive Inventory search form
• Historical Directories--19th century British commercial, trade and municipal directories
• French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794
• Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
• 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 donnees d'ornements d'imprimerie de la Reserve precieuse--This site includes the following site 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
• List of Printers from the Utrecht University Library
• Bibliopolis--Persons, Biographical Information on the Dutch Book Trade
• The Ideal Book : Private Presses in the Netherlands, 1910-2010
• Number Line in Modern Trade Publications--Another useful tool from the Beinecke Team

Auxiliary Sites

• American Antiquarian Society's Guide to Dating American Tract Society Publications
• CERL Provenance page--Note the list of online sources, arranged by geographical area
• CERL Thesaurus Search Form
• Paul Needham's Index Possessorum Incunabulorum
• William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection-University of Delaware--Search and browse capabilities.
• English Book Owners in the Seventeenth Century: A Work in Progress Listing /David Pearson
• Heraldic Bookplates
• Bookplates from Bavarian monasteries--From the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
• Former owners database--University of Barcelona
• 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
• Graphics Atlas from the Image Permanence Institute--Wonderful tools for learning about and distinguishing between different types of graphic processes, such as mezzotints, aquatints, photogravure, rotogravure, etc.
• Uncorrected Proofs/Advance Copies Glossary
• The POP-UP World of Ann Montanaro--Exhibit with some useful information and wonderful images
• Heraldica--An introductory site
• Vatican Heraldry--Rather garish design, but a lot of information for provenance goes back to 13th century individuals
• Ceramelli Papiani--Heraldry of Tuscan families from the State Archives of Florence
• Clementine Vulgate--Text of the version of the Latin Bible used from the late 16th century until the middle of the 20th

Paleography, Scribal Contractions and Abbreviations

• 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
• Introductions, Courses, Teaching materialsLinks to a number of instructional paleography sites, not current
• 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.
• Interactive Album of Mediaeval Palaeography
• Scribal abbreviations--Explanation of the system by Stephen Reimer
• A. Cappelli's Dizionario Di Abbreviature Latini Ed Italiani. Milano, 1912--THE sourcebook for manuscript abbreviations
• Other manuscript abbreviations sites--From Klaus Graf
• Paleography: punctuation--By Reimer as well
• Hypertext Lexikon of Tironian Notes
• Old German Handwritten Scripts
• Read Suetterlin/Read Blackletter--German cursive alphabets and lessons on reading them
• Fraktur Alphabet
• Greek ligatures
• Greek abbreviations

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Images of Rare Books

• Large Digital Libraries of Pre-1800 Books in Western Languages -- by Klaus Graf
• Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke-Sponsored by Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen and others, including the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Universal Short Title CatalogueIndicates whether a digital copy is available
• DigiMisc, Digitalisierung und Digitalisierte - Miscellanea und Register--List of sites, NOW REQUIRES A PASSWORD. See
• Large Digital Libraries of Western Manuscripts--from the Internet Archive
• Consultation of Incunabula Online--From the Andy Holt Virtual Library by Bob Peckham
• Muenchener Digitalisierungszentrum Digitale Bibliothek--Incunables
• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Digital collections--Overview of other collections in the MDZ
• Verteilte Digitale Inkunabelbibliothek Universitaets- und Stadtbibliothek Koeln and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel
• Digitized images of close to 600 incunables held by the Technische Universitatet Darmstad Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek
• List of Digitized Block Books with links
• Digitized Block Books at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
• Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive--From the Medical Heritage Library, a consortium
• Turning the Pages Online from the National Library of Medicine
• University of Pennsylvania Library's Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image--Digital facsimiles of books, manuscripts and visual materials
• Emblem Related Websites--From the University of Glasgow
• Emblematica Online--A project to digitize emblem books at the University of Illinois and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel
• German Emblem Books : a digital imaging project--University of Illinois Library. Contains links to other emblem projects, will eventually include a database
• Online Emblem books from Pennsylvania State University
• Emblem Project Utrecht
• AlteDruckeDigital, List of pre-1800 books digitized by German Libraries and Institutions--Now requires a password.
• University of Bielefeld Library's Digital reproductions of early and rare books
• 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
• Russian State Library digitized books before 1830--After 1830
• Portal to digitized materials held by Swiss 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
• Princeton Seminary Digital Library17th-20th century works
• French Political Pamphlets 1547-1626 at Brigham Young University
• Ursicula: 16-18th century Dutch books, poems, pamphlets
• Ohio Imprints Digital Library, 1797-1850
• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls--From Stanford, mostly covers
• Street and Smith Dime Novel Covers--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
• Annotated Books OnlineRequires guest registration very much in progress
• English Folk Song and Dance Society Gallery of Historic Dance and Tune Books
• Bibles from Sources Chretiennes--Includes facsimiles of mss., various translations, concordances, etc.
• Gutenberg Bible--British Library copies
• The GW provides links to over 20 digitized copies of the Gutenberg Bible
• Gutenberg Bible Goettingen Copy
• Gutenberg Bible--University of Texas Ransom Center copy

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Catalogs which can be useful for Special Collections Cataloging

• Incunabula Catalogs--From the Andy Holt Virtual Library by Bob Peckham
• Incunabula Short Title Catalog--Search OR Browse
• Glasgow Incunabula Project--Includes various indexes.
• Catalog of the Vatican's Incunables
• http://cerl.epc.ub.uu.se/sportal/
• COPAC--Union Catalogue of 24 British research libraries plus the British Library and the National Library of Scotland
• Bibliopedia--Biblioth?ues num?iques, catalogues en ligne, communaut? virtuelles de lecteurs
• Il libro antico--Catalogazione e cataloghi di libri antichi--A large and growing list
• LIBDEX Library Index by Countries
• LIBDEX list of Libraries and Web catalogs by State
• English Short-Title Catalog 1473-1800
• Folger Library online catalog (Hamnet)
• American Antiquarian Society Catalogs
• Morgan Library of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850
• Corsair, the Online Catalog of the Pierpont Morgan Library--Includes descriptions and images of medieval and renaissance mss.
• A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
• Glasgow University Library Special Collections Search for Specific Items
• The Library of Anthony Wood--Click on Research, then on N.K. Kiessling: The library of Anthony Wood (PDF, catalogue only) http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/oxbibsoc/wood_library.pdf
• Catalogue collectif de France, CCFR--Click on Base patrimoine
• Inkunabel-Katalog deutscher Bibliotheken (INKA)
• Inkunabelkatalog der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
• Inkunabelkatalog der UB Graz / Hans Zotter
• Inkuknablzensus Oesterreich
• Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke
• VD-16 -- Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
• VD-17 -- Das Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts
• Catalogues and Databases of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel
• Virtueller Katalog Theologie und Kirche
• Catalogo colectivo del patrimonio bibliografico espanol
• Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico --You can limit the search to "Libro antico"
• The Census of Italian 16th Century Editions: EDIT 16--Also from the ICCU
• Cataleg del fons antic of the University of Barcelona Library--Go to cerca anvancada and select "Fons antic" in dropdown menu for "Subcatelegs"
• Database of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature --Not limited to books printed in Scandinavia
• Biblioteca digital Dioscorides--Includes catalog and browse list by title and images of illustrations
• Il Seicento : Le Edizioni del Seicento possedute dall'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti--Over 600 17th century titles
• Edizioni del Cinquecento--from the same Institute
• Empoli Public Library "Renato Fucini" Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Editions--Search by author, bookseller/printer, owner. Descriptions plus digitized title pages and printer's marks
• Renaissance Liturgical Imprints : a Census--Includes search interface and bibliographies
• Flemish Short Title Catalogue 1601-1700
• Biblia Sacra, bibles printed in the Netherlands and Belgium, 1477-1600--With detailed descriptions and some reproductions
• Bibliotheca Erasmiana Hispanica--Copy-specific information on early imprints of Erasmus currently and formerly in Spanish libraries
• John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera at the Bodleian Library--Click on "Catalogue."
• University of Glasgow Emblem Site--Includes a short-title catalogue

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Early Cartographic Materials

General Sites and Useful Articles

• Web articles and commentaries on specific topics in the History of Cartography by Tony Campbell--Includes the following:
• No. 2, Libraries
• No. 4, Themes
• No. 5, Atlas Collations
• Special Topics with Relevance to Early Maps
• MapHist Forum--Discussion list for the history of cartography with archives. Discussion papers are located here:
• Rare Map Cataloging: A Case of Special Considerations, 2006--by Joel Kovarsky and Maryke Barber with a useful bibliography
• Searching for Early Maps--by Joel Kovarsky, 2010
• Map Librarians' Toolbox
• Cataloging & Processing section from the above
• Map Curator's Toolbox from the British Cartographic Society
• A Carto-Bibliography Of The Maps In Eighteenth-Century British And American Geography Books / Barbara Backus McCorkle--or download directlyhere
• Mathematical Data for Bibliographic Descriptions of Cartographic Materials and Spatial Data--Includes equivalents of obsolete units of measurements (e.g. leagues of various sorts).
• Problems That Arise When Providing Geographic Coordinate Information for Cataloged Maps--by Jorge Gonzalez
• Cartographic Projections
• DCRMC Wiki page

Biography

• Biographical information on those involved with mapmaking
• Famous Mapmakers--same as Famous Dutch Mapmakers
• Repertorium van Nederlandse Kaartmakers 1500-1900
• "Mapmakers" of the Ryhiner-Collection--brief notes on some 2,200 people
• Biografier over Kartografer, Graver, Konstner M.FL. --some articles in English

Images of Early Maps

• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
• Images of Early Maps on the Web
• Ryhiner Collection in Bern--more than 16,000 digitized maps from the Ryhiner Collection in Bern
• Old Maps Online
• Pocket Maps-Mostly of Pennsylvania
• British Historic Towns Atlas
• Ethnographic Maps of the 19th Century--From the University of Chicago Library
• European Transportation Maps of the 19th Century--From the University of Chicago Library

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Medieval Manuscripts

Cataloging of Medieval MSS

• Digital Scriptorium --Search Form
• Lou Burnard's Report on the Studley Priory Conference on Ms. Encoding
• TEI Manuscript Description
• Encoded Archival Description Home Page--At the Library of Congress
• Vatican Film Library, St. Louis University
• "Handschriftenkatalogisierung und Internet" by Alois Haidinger--A 1999 lecture with many links
• Handschriften, Inkunabeln, und fruehe Drucke--Mediaevum.de, Das altgermanistische Internetportal Medievalia--Formerly Handschriften-Forum of the Universitaet Marburg
• British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, Glossary--From Michelle P. Brown, Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms, 1994
• Vocabulaire codicologique--From IRHT
• WZMA, Wasserzeichen des Mittalters--Medieval watermarks
• Filigrane degli archivi genovesi
• Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania--Includes records of auction sales and provenance records for over 75,000 mss
• Greek Paleography Sites

Incipits

• Incipit databases--from Klaus Graf, including the following:
• Stegmueller, Repertorium biblicum
• A repertorium based on Thorndike and Kibre' A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin
• An International Catalogue of Mediaeval Scientific Manuscripts
• Initia Operum Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi
• Vatasso: Initia patrum--Or Here
• Little: Initia operum latinorum quae saeculis XIII. XIV. XV. Attribuuntur--Or Here
• Search form for Austrian MS incipits
• Union First Line Index of Manuscript Poetry 13th-19th Century (bulk 1500-1800)

Images of Medieval MSS

• Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online--Sites of Digitized medieval mss.--Also includes canned searches for Google and Bing
• Delicious Recent Manuscripts Tag
• Manuscripts, Paleography, Codicology from Georgetown's Labyrinth--Includes links to many images
• Manuscripta Medievalia--Click on the box labeled "Nur digitalisierte Handschriften" below the search box
• Manuscriptorium, European digital library of cultural heritage
• Large Digital Libraries of Western MSS--By Klaus Graf
• e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
• Codices Palatini Latini
• Irish Scripts on Screen--Facsimiles of mss in many places
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum--A large collection of images arranged by Iconclass
• Digitized Manuscripts in the Danish Royal Library
• Images from the Pierpont Morgan Library's Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from Western Europe
• Schoenberg database of manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania
• Bibliotheque municipal de Lyon. Manuscrits merovingiens et carolingiens
• Bibliotheque de Verdun Digitized Manuscripts
• Monasterium--Facsimiles of original documents
• Virtual Monastic Library of Lorsch
• Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC)
• Codices Electronici Sangallenses--Currently over 436 manuscripts from Saint Gall
• Digital MSS collection of the Research Library in Olomouc
• Univ. of Texas Ransom Center Manuscript waste survey
• Seymour de Ricci Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta Digitized Archive
• Online Images of Islamic MSS--From Klaus Graf

Catalogs of Medieval Manuscripts

• Latin Manuscript Books before 1600 by Paul Kristeller
• UCLA Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
• British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
• Beinecke Library Medieval and Renaissance Mss.
• Handschriftendatenbank for Manuscripta Mediaevalia--International selection, mostly German, of digitized mss. and catalog entries
• E-versions of Mss. catalogs for the Austrian National Library
• Catalog of online Bibliotheque Nationale Latin mss
• Mss. catalogs of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, incomplete
• Manuscripta Medievalia's online index to the Mss. catalogs sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• University of Glasgow Manuscripts Catalogue
• Danish Royal Library catalogs and databases of manuscripts
• Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
• On-Line Inventory-Catalogue of the Ambrosiana Drawings
• Adam McLean's Database of Alchemical Manuscripts
• Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine Catalogue
• Inventory of U. of Penn. Medieval MSS Microfilm Collection

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.