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