Internet sites and electronic files

BHO – Book History Online

Book History Online (BHO) is an international English-language database on the history of libraries and the printed book.

BHO contains approx. 25,000 descriptions of monographs and journal articles from over 30 countries, published after 1989. BHO is based on the ABHB, Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries, which is published annually. The Special Collections Department of the National Library has been the editor of ABHB since 1989. A database is also being maintained, accessible under the name Book History Online. The database can be searched using any word in the description, for example by author, staff, title words, journal titles, subject, geographical terminology, periods, personal names (for example publishers or printers), names of libraries and companies, etc.

 

Bibliopolis - website about printed books in the Netherlands

 

Bifolium - Bericht over activiteiten rond handschriften en oude drukken: tentoonstellingen, catalogi, conferenties, workshops, bijeenkomsten van codicologen en bibliografen.

 

Syllabus - Syllabus Librorum Academicorum

A website dedicated to the first handwritten library catalogue of the Groningen University Library from 1619 and the library in its early days.

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Manuscripta Mediaevalia

German project that aims to make as much data as possible available for free via the Internet concerning the cataloguing of mediaeval manuscripts.

The results so far:

- database with 40,000 descriptions of mediaeval manuscripts in libraries in Germany and its neighbours.

- 203 digitalized manuscript catalogues online and jointly searchable. Not only German catalogues but also foreign catalogues have been digitalized.

- 89 mediaeval manuscripts from German libraries have been completely digitalized and can be browsed.

 

Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections

This database contains descriptions of all medieval western manuscripts up to c. 1550 written in Latin script and preserved in public and semi-public collections in the Netherlands. These include the collections of libraries, museums, archives, collections of monastic orders and some private institutions open to researchers.

  

 

Bodleian Incunable Catalogue

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

 

ECCO -Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Everything printed in Great Britain in the 18th Century

 

EEBO -Early English Books Online 

All books published in English from 1475-1700 in facsimile

 

Evans: Early American Imprints Series I

Based on Evans’ American Bibliography (1639-1800). Can be searched by title, author, printer, place of printing, language, genre and subject. The database will eventually contain more than 36,000 titles (and 2,400,000 illustrated pages). The individual titles will also be accessible via the library catalogue.

  

ISTC - Incunabula Short Title Catalogue

International catalogue of incunabula (1455-1500)

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STCN - Short Title Catalogue of the Netherlands

The STCN is the retrospective national bibliography of the Netherlands up to 1800

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STCV - Short title Catalogus Vlaanderen

The Short-Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV) is an online bibliography of books printed in 17th-century Flanders. The initial phase of the project, which was realised with support from the Max-Wildiers Fund (FWO-Flanders) and the Dutch Language Union, focused primarily on Dutch-language materials printed between 1601 and 1700 within the present-day boundaries of Flanders (including Brussels). In the current, second phase, works printed in other languages than Dutch (Latin, Spanish, French, ...) are being added to the database.

 

ESTC - English Short Title Catalogue

covers monograph and serial letterpress items:

• Printed before 1801.
• Printed in the British Isles, Colonial America, United States of America (1776-1800), Canada, or territories governed by Britain, in all languages.
• Printed in any other part of the world, wholly or partly in English or other British vernaculars.
• With false imprints claiming publication in London, in any language

Tempo 

The Knuttel Collection of Dutch Pamphlets 1486-1853, plus other collections

VD 16  - Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16)

Go to the catalogue: http://gateway-bayern.bib-bvb.de/aleph-cgi/bvb_suche?sid=VD16

 

VD 17  - Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 17 Jahrhunderts (VD17) 

List of all printed en published German rare books from 1601-1700, except for sheet music and maps.

Go to the catalogue:  http://gso.gbv.de/DB=1.28/LNG=DU/SRT=YOP/IMPLAND=Y/]

  

VD 18 -   Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 18 Jahrhunderts (VD18) 

List of all printed en published German rare books from 1701-1800, also digitized

 

CEN – Catalogus Epistularum Neerlandicarum

Catalogue of letters

The CEN is a catalogue of the letters currently listed in the collections of some large libraries, including the National Library. The CEN currently contains c. 180,000 summary descriptions (c. 800,000 letters).

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The Bernstein Consortium

The Bernstein Consortium produces a digital infrastructure for the expertise and history of paper based on images visualizing the paper's structure. The individual ressources are databases of watermarks and other anotated features, image measurement software, contextual resources for cartography and bibliography, and an integrated workspace. Additionnaly the Consortium organizes tutorials and an exhibition on paper studies.

NIKI's International Database of Watermarks and Paper used for Prints and Drawings (c. 1450-1800)
Piccard-Online (mainly archive documents 14th-16th c.)
WIES - Watermarks in Incunabula printed in España
WILC - Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries
WZMA - Watermarks of the Middle-Ages (Austrian, 14th-15th c.)

 

 

See also RUG-Bookmarks (info) for Internet sources about:

- manuscripts, book and library history and science

- cartography