RENAISSANCE
RESOURCES

 NOTE: Items listed in bold face have restricted access.  They are available through MyLibrary.



PORTALS

Google Scholar (University of Toronto)          Google Scholar (Unrestricted access)
Iter
Scholars Portal


PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

Catalogues and Resources

Manuscripts
Iter Italicum (Kristeller)
Latin Manuscript Books Before 1600 (Kristeller)
MEDIUM (IHRT)

Printed Books
EDIT 16 - ICCU (Italian books)
English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
Illustrated Incunable Short Title Catalogue (ISTC)
VD 16 (Bibliography of German imprints in the 16th century)

Other Sources
Book History Online (KB)
Book History on the Web (IHL)
Repositories of Primary Sources

Libraries

Multiple Libraries
Archives Hub (UK)
Copac (UK research libraries catalogue)
European Library (formerly Gabriel)
Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (German libraries and others)
LARGO: Libraries and Archives Research Guide Online - London
LibDex  (Worldwide index of library catalogues)

Europe
Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Bibliothèque nationale de France
British Library Catalogue
British Library - Manuscripts Catalogue
Cambridge University Library
National Archives (UK)
Oxford University Libraries
Warburg Institute Library
Wellcome Library

North America
Folger Shakespeare Library
Houghton Library (Harvard)
Huntington Library
Library of Congress Online Catalogs
New York Public Library Catalogue
Newberry Library
University of Toronto Libraries

Text Collections

Manuscripts
Bibliotheca Corviniana Digitalis
CEEC - Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis
Digital Scriptorium
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
Koninklijke Bibliotheek-manuscripts

Printed Books-Facsimiles
Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes (Tours)
British Library Digital Collections
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Gallica (BN)
Renaissance festival books (British Library)
SCETI (U Penn)
Warburg Institute Digital Collections

Text Archives
Biblioteca italiana
Bibliotheca Augustana
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
EEBO-TCP
Electronic Text Center (UVirginia)
Library of Humanistic Texts
Literature Online
Oxford Text Archive
TEAMS Middle-English Texts
University of Toronto English Library

Other

Databases and Bibliographies
Analytic Bibliography of On-line Neo-Latin Titles
British Book Trade Index
British Library: Database of Bookbindings
Manuscript Studies: Bibliography
Names of printing towns

Exhibitions and T exts
Bodleian Library: Western manuscripts to c.1500
English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course
In aedibus Aldi
Printers' & Publishers' Devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640 (McKerrow)
Printing: Renaissance & Reformation
Studies in Bibliography
Vatican Exhibit Rome Reborn

Institutions
Institut d'histoire du livre (Lyons)
Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes
SHARP Web

LITERATURE

Resources

Article Finder
Literary Resources on the Net
MLA Bibliography (Scholars Portal)
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

Classical

Hubs and Text Collections
Electronic Resources for Classicists
Internet Classics Archive
Latin Library
Perseus Digital Library
Web Resources (Classics at Oxford)

Other Sources
Chicago Homer
Forum Antiquum
Greek and Latin Language Resources
Iconos (Ovid image and text base)
Traditio Classicorum (Charles Lohr)
Virgil.org

Medieval

Hubs and Text Collections
The Labyrinth
NetSERF-Literature
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Other Sources
Chaucer MetaPage
Homepage for Dante Studies (Otfried Lieberknecht)
Medieval Writing
Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
The World of Chaucer

Renaissance

Hubs and Text Collections
CERES
CRRS Web Resources
Luminarium
Renascence Editions

Other Sources
Alciato's Book of Emblems
The Cervantes Project
Decameron Web
Emblems Website (University of Glasgow)
Milton-L Home Page
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
William Shakespeare in quarto
The Edmund Spenser Home Page
Textbase of Early Tudor English

PHILOSOPHY

GGREN (Renaissance Intellectual History)
Philosophers: Alphabetical Index
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Window - Philosophy on the Web

RELIGION

BibleGateway.com
Bible in English
Book of Common Prayer
Catholic Encyclopedia
Early Church Fathers
Ecole Initiative
Encyclopedia Judaica
Encyclopedia of Islam
Internet Theology Resources
Patrologia Latina
Theology and Religion Resources (Blackwell)

LAW

Legal History and the Internet
Roman Law
Roman Law Resources
Roman Law Texts
Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law

HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

Copernicus-De revolutionibus
Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Galileo Project
History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine
Internet History of Science Sourcebook
MacTutor History of Mathematics
MedHist (Wellcome Library)
Medieval Science
Vesalius-De humani corporis fabrica (Northwestern)

RESOURCES

Calendars

Calendar of Saints Days
Calendar Utility (Otfried Lieberknecht)
English Calendar

Dictionaries

Multiple Languages
Dictionaries and Word-lists (Otfried Lieberknecht)
YourDictionary.com (multiple languages)

English
OED
Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)

Classical Languages
Greek English Lexicon (New Testament)
Hebrew English Lexicon (Old Testament)
Neo-Latin wordlist
Perseus Tools (Greek and Latin)
Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English)
Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae-Thomas Cooper (Archimedes Project)

Modern Languages
ARTFL Reference Collection (French)
Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (French-English)
Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (German-English)
Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Italian-English)
Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English)

Maps

Bodleian Library Map Room
Edwin C. Bolles Collection--Tufts (London maps and images)
Crace Collection of Maps of London
Dictionary of British Place-Names
Genmaps
Historic Cities: Maps & Documents
Mercator-Atlas sive Cosmographicæ (1595) (LC)
Perseus Atlas

People

National Portrait Gallery (UK)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Dictionary of Popes
Oxford Dictionary of Saints
Royal and Noble Genealogical Data
Who's Who in the Classical World

Other Historical Resources

ACLS History E-Book Project
British History Online
Early Modern England Source
Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles
Royal Historical Society Bibliography