{"id":8,"date":"2009-02-11T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/digital-collections\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T10:44:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:44:42","slug":"digital-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/digital-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medieval and Early Manuscripts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Houghton Library. Digital Medieval Manuscripts<\/a><\/p>\n

Walters Art Museum. The Digital Walters<\/a><\/p>\n

Columbia University Libraries. Digital Scriptorum<\/a><\/p>\n

UCLA. Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts<\/a><\/p>\n

Oxford University. Early Manuscripts<\/a><\/p>\n

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Parker Library<\/a> \"\"
\n538 Medieval Manuscripts, including one of the largest collections of Old English.<\/em><\/p>\n

Adam Matthew Digital, Ltd.\u00a0Medieval Family Life<\/a>.\u00a0 \"\" (From libraries in Britain)<\/p>\n

Printed Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bavarian State Library, Munich. 15th century Bavarian Blockbooks<\/a><\/p>\n

National Gallery of Art. Announcing the Text: Development of the Title Page, 1470-1900<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Proquest. Early European Printed Books<\/a>. \"\"<\/p>\n

Bookbindings<\/strong><\/p>\n

British Library. Database of Bookbindings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Morgan Library. Incunable Bookbindings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Princeton Special Collections. Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious<\/a><\/p>\n

Folger Shakespeare Library. Binding Image Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Book Illustration
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Image Permanence Institute. Graphics Atlas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tanselle, G. Thomas. Introduction to Bibliography, Seminar Syllabus.<\/a> Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 2002. (PDF)<\/p>\n

Tanselle, G. Thomas. Introduction to Scholarly Editing, Seminar Syllabus.<\/a> Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 2002. (PDF)<\/p>\n

Comprehensive guides to the literature of these two fields, including suggestions for basic reading and chronological lists of the writings on specific topics. See The Tanselle Syllabi<\/a> on the Rare Book School website.<\/p>\n

Printers Devices<\/a> at the University of Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Database of Bookbindings<\/a> at the British Library.<\/p>\n

Princeton Special Collections. Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious<\/a><\/p>\n

Image Permanence Institute. Graphics Atlas<\/a>. Print identification tutorial and reference.<\/p>\n

Book Trade<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rosenthal, B.M. Dictionary of Abbreviations Commonly used by German and Italian Antiquarian Booksellers and Auctioneers<\/a>. Hilversum, Netherlands: ILAB\/LILA, 1993. (PDF)<\/p>\n

Franco, Edgar. Dictionary of Terms and Expressions commonly used in the Antiquarian Booktrade in French, English, German and Italian.<\/a> ILAB\/LILA, 1994. (PDF)<\/p>\n

Carter, John and Nicolas Barker. ABC for Book Collectors<\/a>. 8th ed. Oak Knoll Press, 2004. (PDF)<\/p>\n

Music<\/strong><\/p>\n

Library of Congress. Music Treasures Consortium<\/a> (also includes BL, Harvard, Juilliard, The Morgan, and NYPL)<\/p>\n

Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Washington.\u00a0J. Willis Sayre Photographs<\/a>.\u00a0 24,000 photographs of theatrical and vaudeville performers, musicians, and entertainers who played in Seattle between about 1900 and 1955.<\/p>\n

Paleography – Online Courses and Tutorials<\/strong><\/p>\n

Universit\u00e9s Lyon, France. Interactive Album of Medieval Palaeography. <\/a><\/p>\n

Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service, Cambridge University, UK. English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course<\/a>.<\/p>\n

National Archives, UK. Latin Paleaography, online tutorial.<\/a><\/p>\n

National Archives, UK. Paleaography: Reading Old Handwriting 1500-1800, A Practical Online Tutorial.<\/a><\/p>\n

Paleography – Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johnston, Edward. Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering.<\/a> New York: Macmillan, 1915. (6th ed.) [Google Books]<\/p>\n

Wright, Andrew. Court-hand restored; or, The student’s assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc.<\/a> London: Henry G. Bohn, 1864. [Internet Archive]<\/p>\n

Cappelli, Adriano. Lexicon Abbreviaturarum<\/a>. 2. verb. Aufl. Leipzig, 1928. (In German)<\/p>\n

Cappelli, Adriano. The Elements of Abbreviation in Medieval Latin Paleography<\/a>. University of Kansas Libraries, 1984.<\/p>\n

Paper<\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Iowa. Paper Through Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

University of Iowa. Center for the History of the Book. Chancery Papermaking<\/a>. (Video)<\/p>\n

AngliaTV. Papermaking by hand at Hayle Mill, England 1976<\/a> (Video)<\/p>\n

Preservation\/Conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Folger Shakespeare Library. Handling Rare Materials<\/a> (video).
\nHarvard College Library. Handling Harvard’s Special Collections<\/a> (video).<\/p>\n

General Collections of Primary Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n

World Digital Library<\/a>
\nGoogleBooks<\/a>
\nInternet Archive<\/a>
\nGallica<\/a>
\nHathi Trust<\/a>
\nEuropeana<\/a>
\nHarvard Hollis Catalogue<\/a>
\nILAB<\/a>
\nEROMM<\/a> – European Register of Microform and Digital Masters
\nEDIT 16<\/a> – The census of Italian 16th century editions
\nMDZ<\/a> – Munich Digitization Center
\nUSTC<\/a> – European printed books through the 16th century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Medieval and Early Manuscripts Houghton Library. Digital Medieval Manuscripts Walters Art Museum. The Digital Walters Columbia University Libraries. Digital Scriptorum UCLA. Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Oxford University. Early Manuscripts Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Parker Library 538 Medieval Manuscripts, including one of the largest collections of Old English. Adam Matthew Digital, Ltd.\u00a0Medieval Family Life.\u00a0 (From […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2032,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}