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At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901: This project aims to catalogue information about Victorian authors, publishers, and novels. Currently, the database contains 7332 titles by 2483 authors (Oct. 2010). Browse by author, title, publisher, or year.
Book History online: Internet access unrestricted.; Coverage: 1990-; The database contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book and libraries worldwide. It is based on ABHB, the Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries.
CERL Thesaurus: The CERL Thesaurus contains names of persons, corporate bodies, places and printers/publishers recorded in books or other material printed during the hand-press era (1450 - ca. 1830). Authority files contributed by CERL member libraries and other libraries/projects concentrating on the history of the book are brought together and made searchable in one single system. The CERL Thesaurus currently comprises 730,917 records (last update: May 8, 2010).
Decentral Digital Incunabula Collection (vdIB): The Herzog August Bibliothek has digitised 667 incunabula printed after 1484 and made their contents accessible. The project was carried out in co-operation with the University of Cologne and the Stadt- und Universit�tsbibliothek Cologne, where incunabula from the years 1450-1484 were digitised.
Early American Imprints (Series I): Covering American history and literature through the colonial period up to the eighteenth century, this database is a full-text digitization of the microform set Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was itself based on the American bibliography of Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American bibliography. The database offers fully-searchable text and a browse feature with topical indexes. Bibliographic records created by the AAS are integrated into the database, providing additional access points.
Early American Imprints (Series II): The database provides full-text and full-page-image access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America from 1801 through 1819. This comprehensive collection also features many state papers and government materials, including published reports; presidential letters and messages; and congressional, state and territorial resolutions. The database is based on the authoritative American Bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, which is now supplemented by thousands of new items.
Early Canadiana Online: Internet access available to MUN users only.; Coverage: 16th-20th centuries; The database consists of a searchable full-text collection of books, government documents and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. Includes literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada (for more Canadian full-text resources from the same time period see the "CIHM database").
Early English Books Online: Internet access available to MUN users only.; Coverage: 1473-1700; From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable full-text collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection.
Early Printing in Europe: examples and evidence in Bodleian collections: The Bodleian's collections of early printed books contain over 6000 incunables (books printed before 1500). The stories these collections tell cross many centuries and continents.
Electronic Enlightenment: Internet access available to MUN users only.; Coverage: 1610-1870 available online; With 58,555 letters and documents and 7,113 correspondents as of October 2010, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
English Short Title Catalogue: Internet access unrestricted; The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800, mainly, but not exclusively, in English, published in the British Isles and North America from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries.
Eighteenth Century Collections online: Internet access available to MUN users only.; Coverage: 1700-1799 A comprehensive digital edition of significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. The database consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference and women's studies.
Graphics Atlas: Offers a guided tour of individual prints in a virtual study collection that contains processes ranging from the woodcut to the modern digital print. Offers a comparison of traits across processes using views made with various lighting techniques and magnifications. Contains step by step instructions on how to identify print processes.
Iter Bibliography: Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1784-
The Iter bibliography covers literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). It provides citations to more than 740,000 journal articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, abstracts and discographies. Records for monographs, and material published in monographs, conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias, exhibition catalogues and collections of essays are included as well. Subject access to selected materials published since 1990 is available via Library of Congress Subject Headings, Dewey Decimal Classification notation, and added keywords.
International Medieval Bibliography: Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1967- The IMB covers all subjects relating to the Middle Ages, within the date range 300-1500 and, geographically, within Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. It indexes more than 300,000 scholarly articles, notes, and similar literature from journals, festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Articles are fully classified by date, subject and location. The supplementary "Bibliographie de Civilisation M�di�vale" treats books about the Medieval period.
JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets
Library and Archives Canada: History of the Book in Canada: Unique among national book history projects, the website contains comprehensive bibliographic, geographic, and biographic data about Canada's print culture from its beginnings in the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century. The databases will be of interest to scholars in many subject areas, as well as students, teachers, librarians, archivists, and anyone curious about Canadian history.
London Lives (1690-1800): A digital archive of over 200,000 pages of manuscript records from the archives of 18th-century London (poor relief, criminal justice, health care). It also contains the 18th-century Old Bailey Proceedings and Ordinary's Accounts, as well as a number of other relevant datasets.
The Atlas of Early Printing: Links to Incunabula and early printed works at the University of Iowa website.
The Parker Library: The Parker Library's holdings of Old English texts account for a substantial proportion of all extant manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon, including the earliest copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890), unique copies of Old English poems and other texts, and King Alfred's translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care. The Parker Library also contains key Anglo-Norman and Middle English texts ranging from the Ancrene Wisse and the Brut Chronicle to one of the finest copies of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Other subjects represented in the collection are theology, music, medieval travelogues and maps, apocalypses, bestiaries, royal ceremonies, historical chronicles and Bibles. The Parker Library holds a magnificent collection of English illuminated manuscripts, such as the Bury and Dover Bibles (c. 1135 and c. 1150) and the Chronica maiora by Matthew Paris (c. 1230-50). Scholars in a variety of disciplines - including historians of art, music, science, literature, politics and religion - find invaluable resources in the Library's collection.
Patrologia Latina: The Patrologia Latina Database contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865). The main chronological sequence of authors in the Patrologia Latina runs from about AD 200 to AD 1216. However, Migne did incorporate medieval texts written after 1216 where these were traditionally attached to an earlier work, often as a commentary or an introduction to it.
The Victorian Web
Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900): This is a digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention (1886) and beyond. The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded the initial phase focusing on key materials from Renaissance Italy (Venice, Rome), France, the German speaking countries, Britain and the United States.
The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts: The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts makes available data on medieval manuscript books of five or more folios produced before 1600 in order to facilitate research for scholars, collectors, and others interested in manuscript studies and the provenance of these unique books. Drawn from auction and sales catalogues, inventories, catalogues from institutional and private collections, and other sources that document sales and locations of manuscript books, the records assist in locating and identifying particular manuscripts, establishing provenance, and aggregating descriptive information about specific classes or types of manuscripts.
Victorian Database Online: Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 1945- Search over 110,000 records describing books, articles, and dissertations on the British Victorian period. The database covers fine arts & architecture, literature, education, history, philosophy, religion, exploration, science, technology & medicine, social work and women's studies during the period 1830 to 1914. Publications about "the Colonies" are included if they concern political or cultural relationships between Great Britain and its colonies during the period.
17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers: Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 17th-18th centuries. This database offers searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) -the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. More than 1200 titles and almost 1,000,000 pages are included.
19th century British Library Newspapers: Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 19th century, This database provides searchable full-text of full-runs of newspapers selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth-century Britain. This collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as newspapers from: established country or university towns; the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands; and Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism and Home Rule. Penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also included.
19th century UK Periodicals: Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 19th century. This database contains 1, 200,000 pages of periodicals published in Great Britain from 1800 to 1900. It includes publications on women, children, leisure and sport, and humour.
19th century US Newspapers: Internet access available to MUN users only.
Coverage: 19th century. A searchable database containing digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. This collection includes numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.; and it encompasses the entire 19th century.
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March 14, 2012