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EarlyModernDigitalResources

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Note: for Manuscript-Centric sources (including manuscript editions, etc, see ManuscriptResearch)

 

Note: if the resource is behind a paywall, you will have to go to your library in order to login, unless you happen to have login credentials for Texas A&M.  If you're taken to the login page for a library, then the resource is behind a paywall.

 

Online Early Books Catalogues

General Catalogues

English Short Title Catalogue ESTC

Universal Short Title Catalogue USTC (til 1700)

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue ISTC

Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands STCN (1540-1800)

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads RCC (translations out of and into all languages printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland before 1641)

 

Specific Libraries 

Hamnet (Folger)

Solo (Oxford) Bodleian - choose 'print'

BL Catalogue

Hollis (Harvard) Houghton

Hollis Classic (Harvard) (can easily sort by date)

UToronto (Fisher Rare Book Library)

Library of Congress

 

Meta-searching books (libraries, stores)

ViaLibri

Karlsruhe

WorldCat

 

EEBO-TCP exploration

Early Print (WUSTL)

Quintessence

Prisms.digital (TEI exploration)

 

Print Facsimile Clearinghouses

EEBO (requires login through library)

Early Print (based on EEBO)

ECCO (requires login through library)

Early European Books (ProQuest; through library)

Internet Archive

Bodleian Solo (requires login)

GoogleBooks

HathiTrust  (requires login through library)

Luna: Folger online images incl. bookbinding and theatre history artifacts 

(Note: sometimes easier to search Folger's Luna through Hamnet)

Hollis (Harvard) Houghton

 

Notable Specialized Editions

Jonson's first folio (digitized, searchable) Holloway

Digital Beaumont and Fletcher

John Foxe's Acts and Monuments online edition

Warburg Institute digitized books

More's Utopia online edition

Wroth's poems online edition

OpenEmblem (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne; being revised) Emblem Books

Holinshed Project

Thomas Gray Archive

The Casebooks Project: A Digital Edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's Medical Records 1596-1634

 

Online Early Modern Non-Dramatic Texts 

Renaissance Electronic Texts

Early Stuart Libels

LiteratureOnline (LiOn) Q5ghjD33

LEME: Lexicons of Early Modern English (Lancashire, UToronto access)

English Manuscript Studies Tables of Contents

Oxford Text Archive

Monasterium (digital archive of monastic archives)

Anglo-American Legal Tradition (AALT)

Renaissance Herbals (mostly non-English)

 

Online Play Texts

Shakespeare's First Folio (not normalized spelling; searchable)

Shakespeare's First Folio at the Bodleian

Meisei Shakespeare's F1 with marginalia

Shakespeare's First Folio Folger copy 68 at Luna

Shakespeare's First Folio Folger copy 5 (Octavo publishing)

MIT Shakespeare

The Shakespeare Quartos Archive (Hamlet, to start)

Treasures in full (BL) - images of Shakespeare Quartos

Internet Shakespeare Editions (UVic)

Rare Book Room (Shakespeare)

Furness Library (Shakespeare and others) (UPenn)

Renascence Editions

French Plays: 1610-1790

Early Modern Literary Studies List

EMLS list of just plays

Richard Brome online

Queen's Men Editions (LEMDO)

Mayoral Shows (LEMDO)

LEMDO Classroom

Lost Plays Database (Knutson et al)

Digital Renaissance Editions (Hirsch et al)

Medieval and Renaissance Drama 

Folger Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama

 

Theatre History

Early Modern London Theatres (REED, etc)

Map of Early Modern London

Records of Early English Drama - Patrons and Performances Website

Records of Early English Drama pdf of all books

Records of Early English Drama pdf Lancashire & Isle of Man addendum

Biographical Index of English Drama before 1660 (David Kathman)

The London Stage (Online versions of 1700-1729) (Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume)

Wikipedia: Literary Years in History

Shakespeare's World (Emory) incl. 19th C actors of Shakes. and 19th C illustrations of Shakes.

Plays by Women of the Ancien Regime

Global Shakespeare (incl. videos of Shakespeare plays)

Mr William Shakespeare and the Internet 

World Shakespeare Bibliography

Stage Directions Dictionary

Compendium of Renaissance Drama (CORD) - including play summaries

 

First Line Indices (Poetry)

Nelson's Union Index (Folger)

17th C First Line Index (Mark McDayter, Western)

Seng's Houghton Harvard Index

Donne Variorum First Line Indexes

Adam Smyth's Print Miscellany Index

English Clandestine Satire (Harold Love, Meredith Sherlock, Felicity Henderson)

Textbase of Early Tudor English 1485-1550 (UOtago) (being repaired)

Index of Middle English Verse

 

Print and Book History

Database of Early English Playbooks (UPenn: Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser)

Shakespearean Promptbooks of the Seventeenth Century (G. Blakemore Evans)

English Short Title Catalogue

Renaissance and Restoration Printing (U South Carolina)

Index of Books and Pamphlets Censored in the British Isles and British North American between 1641 and 1700

English Renaissance in Context (ERIC; UPenn) incl. tutorials on book history and Shakespeare's plays

Digital Miscellanies Index (18th C: Leverhulme, Oxford, Bodleian)

Bibliopolis: Dutch History of the book site

British Book Trade Index

London Book Trade Wiki

Renaissance Electronic Texts

Spread of Printing (UIowa; GIS; Greg Prickman)

Private Libraries in Renaissance England Search (PLRE; Folger)

Private Libraries in Renaissance England homepage

ArchBook: Architectures of the Book

Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker (Pauley)

French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe Database (FBTEE website)

History of the Printed Book Database (c. 1455-1830)

British Book Trade Index (up to c. 1850)

Books Owners Online (David Pearson, focus 17th C England)

 

 

Archives Searching

Provenance Info

Access to Archives

National Archives

State Papers Online (library access)

 

Watermarks, Paper, & Bindings

Print Watermark Sources:  Briquet, Churchill, Heawood

Meta-Bibliography of Watermarks Sources at Warwick

Bernstein Watermarks Database (The Memory of Paper)

The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive

Watermarks in Jonson's 1616 Works

Some Watermarks (not many)

Watermark Initiative (try emailing for access)

Paper Through Time (UIowa)

British Armorial Bindings Database

Folger Bindings Image Collection

Princeton's Hand Bookbindings

 

Printer's Ornaments

Fleuron: Printer's Ornaments

More on Printer's Ornaments

Printer's Ornaments (mostly NL)

 

Music

Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) (includes MS search)

Early English, Scottish, and Irish Song (Bruce Olson: includes links to facsimiles)

Acadia Early Music Archive (Gordon J. Callon)

Manuscript Sources of English Secular Song 1630-1665 (Callon)

Broadside Ballads UCSB

Allegro Catalogue of Broadside Ballads (Bodleian)

Women Warriors Ballads (Wayne State)

Restoration Theatre Song Archive (Monash)

Manuscript Sources of English Secular Song, 1630-1665 (Gordon J. Callon)

Groen's Seventeenth-Century Secular Music

Rosseter and Jones (not v. scholarly, but with some MS facsimiles)

English Lute MSS and Scribes (dissertation)

Petrucci Music Library

English Lute mid 17th C (Denhard thesis)

Christ Church Music Catalogue

The Wighton Database - mostly Scottish music, including some EModern items

SCA Dance Database - has pdfs of some old arrangements

English Folk Dance and Song Society

Note: early ballad collections available from GoogleBooks

 

Women-Centered Resources

Early Modern Women Database (U Maryland)

Early Modern Women's Complaint Poetry Index (Ros Smith)

Emory Women Writers Resource Project (Emory) (early modern to much later)

Perdita Manuscripts (requires log-in through library site)

The Margot Project (UWaterloo)

Women of the Ancien Régime (SIEFAR)

Foremother Poets (Ellen Moody, George Mason)

Esther Inglis (Georgianna Ziegler)

Women-owned Wing Books at the Folger (on Luna, Georgianna Ziegler)

Digital Cavendish 

Women's Print History Project (long 18th C)

Women in Book History Bibliography 

Orlando Project (requires subscription)

Women Writers Project, Brown University (requires subscription)

 

People

Genet's Dictionnaire des auteurs actifs dans les champs de l'histoire et de la politique en Angleterre de 1300 à 1600 

Records of London Livery Companies

Medieval Genealogy Links (incl. early modern)

Late Medieval English Scribes (incl. descr. of many Harley catalogues)

Reading Experiences Database (1450-1945)

ODNB

Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)

Clergy of the Church of England Database

Inner Temple Admissions Database

Old Bailey Online

Calendar of the Inner Temples

 

Places

The Map of Earl Modern London (Janelle Jenstad, UVic)

Locating London's Past

Old Maps Online

Historical Maps (Arts and Humanities Data Service)

Old Maps

Gazetteer of British Place Names

Institute for Name Studies (UNottingham)

Gough Map (medieval)

Selden's Map of China

Street by Street -- printers

A list of DH GIS projects (John Levin)

 

General English Lit Resources

Voice of the Shuttle

Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)

 

Latin

Learn Latin (National Archives) 

Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid (Kevin Cawley, Notre Dame)

Words: Latin Dictionary (William Whitaker)

Perseus Digital Dictionary (Gregory Crane, Tufts)

Latinum Latin Podcasts (Evan Miller)

Study Guide to Wheelock's Latin (Grote, UNC)

More practice: reading, vocab, exercises

Latin study guide (wikibooks)

 

Beyond Texts: Innovative Early Modern DH projects

Virtual Paul's Cross project

SET: Simulated Environment for the Theatre 

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

Lost Plays Database (Knutson et al)

dream.voyant-tools.org (Distant Reading EArly Modernity)

 

Videos

Bibliographical Society of America YouTube Channel 

 

 

 

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