General Medieval & Renaissance Union Catalog of Pre-1600-Relevant Books Online (~ 12,500 books) Pre-1650 books from the Online Books Page (~ 1,856 books) Pre-1650 books from Project Gutenberg (~ 1,349 books) Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project (Bodleian Libraries and the Vatican Library) Digitized manuscripts and books at the Walters Art Museum Metropolitan Museum Publications (many medieval/renaissance-related) Archaeology of York Publications Archive (6 out of print books) Medieval Archaeology (50 volumes of the journal online, including the index) Hanover Historical Texts The Book of Common Prayer (various versions from 1544 to 1559) Austrian Literature Online (6 pre-1600 books so far) Warburg Institute Library (110 pre-1600 books, all Latin?, see "Advanced Search" to specify pre-1600) Fondo Antiguo: Bibloteca de la Universidad Sevilla (16th through 18th centuries) Medieval Sourcebook (snippets of sources) Online Medieval and Classical Library Online Reference Book (ORB) of Medieval Studies Renascence Editions: English Books 1477-1799 Perseus at Tufts, especially the Renaissance Collection Books in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (~ 140 English books) Books at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1,157 are pre-1600, mostly Spanish and Italian) English texts at the Luminarium, from the Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century. In Parenthesis A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books A Short History of English Printing (1476-1900) by Henry R.Plomer Suggest a new entry By Subject The Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (~80 texts, dictionary, concordance) Icelandic Sagas (with English translations) Herbals (Browse by: Year, look in the 1450-1699 group) "Harken to Me": Middle English Romances in Translation Online Cookbooks (13 pre-1600) (Orebro Universitet) Celtic Literature Collective Medieval and Renaissance Drama Renaissance and Early Modern Festival Books (253 books, 1475-1700) Other Women's Voices: Translations of women's writing before 1700 Sir Francis Drake Scottish Antiquaries Publications English Translations of Old Norse Sagas and Eddas Icelandic medieval literature Books about books Tudor History History of the Crusades Food/Medical books in the Biblioteca de la Universitat de Barcelona from the 16th and 17th centuries. Also All digital collections at the Universitat de Barcelona. The Online Culinary History Network Elizabethan E-texts 16th Century Costuming Books Shakespeare, especially the Renaissance Resources section. Early Modern Literature Studies: Electronic Texts (many stale links, alas) Irish Topics Renaissance Dance Combat (or here for free access) Games Humanistic Texts (mostly not English) Music Poetry Some parts of the Modern History Sourcebook have pre-1600 sources, namely: Sources about Studying History; The Reformation; The Early Modern World; Everyday Life; Absolutism; Constitutionalism; Colonial North America; Colonial Latin America; The Scientific Revolution. Vikings (7 books, only 2 free) Iberian Resources Online Suggest a new entry Manuscripts Penn in hand (950+ facsimiles of pre-1600 manuscripts) The Royal Library of Denmark U Penn (400 going on 800 pre-1601 manuscripts) Old Norse Manuscripts in Wikicommons Global catalog of online manuscripts (at UCLA) The Laborde and chansoniers (both circa 1470) Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (to 1550, just a catalog, 6000 manuscripts) Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland (144 manuscripts, 57,000 pages) Carolingian Treasures at the BnF e-manuskripter: Middelalder og renæssance (58 manuscripts) Index of Medieval Medical Images Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy (9th through 19th centuries) The Digital Scriptorium (8,500 pages) Free Library of Philadelphia Manuscript Collection (400 images so far, will eventually fold into the Digital Scriptorium) Manuscriptorium (Czech National Library; 11 free manuscripts, 50,000 images if you pay a fee) Codices Electronici Ecclasiae Coloniensis Alteste Chronik der Wernberger Linie (1531) (lots of color images of men and women in common clothes) Manuscripta Mediaevalia (manuscripts from German-speaking countries) Corsair Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (eventually 1,300 ms) Catalonian Manuscripts Late Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina (27 manuscripts) History of France: Primary Documents, 1066-1453 A grab-bag of manuscript links (search for the word "manuscrip") La Médiathèque de l'agglomération troyenne (5,000+ images) (I no longer know how to find the actual images) The Shoenberg Collection (at UPenn, 32 manuscripts) Manuscrits enluminés de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (a large collection of images, currently 77 manuscripts) 1,000 Illuminations from the age of Charles V (1338-1380) (overlaps with the previous item) St Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library (65 ms) A Mid-15th Century Book of Hours Columbia University Library Rare Book and Manuscript Library (sample images) Treasures of Saxon State Library: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (sample images) Bodleian Library: Western Manuscripts to c. 1500 (recent acquisitions; sample images only) Early Manuscripts at Oxford (80 complete manuscripts) English Handwriting (1500-1700) Martin Billingsley, The Pens Excellencie or the Secretaries Delighte (1618) Arrighi's La Operina, a 1524 writing manual Palaeography: Reading old handwriting 1500 - 1800 The Digital Mirror (limited # of ms online, click on "Treasures") Suggest a new entry General Libraries on the Web eScholarship books and papers. The Internet Public Library, especially the Book Collection Project Gutenberg The Online Books Page List of library catalogs on the web Suggest a new entry Return to the SCA Books Page.