Early Printed Books on the Web
The list below is intended to offer quick access to various digitization projects related to early print on the web: clicking the project title will take you directly there. Where you see a button next to the entry (this feature still being built), you can click to a description page which will give a more complete account of what is to be found on that particular site. Listings are alphabetical by originating institution.
March 2013: I have temporarily broken the links from my hub page to this page, so that I can update the information below, which is now quite out of date. If you have stumbled across this page from some other direction, please check back later, or proceed with the awareness that many of the links below are now broken.
For
manuscripts, click here
to
visit Medieval Manuscripts on the Web.
Exhibition, Indexing and Catalogue Sites (selected images from many books and related material)
Illustrations from German incunables, Baayerische StaatsBibliothek
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, Bodleian Library, Oxford
The Legacy of Aldus Manutius and his Press, Brigham Young University
Database of Bookbindings, British Library
The Donald Jackson Collection of Original Leaves, Colorado College, Tutt Library
British Bookbindings, 16th to 19th Centuries, Glasgow University Library
Printing in England from William Caxton to Christopher Barker, Glasgow University Library
Typografia: Historia, by Paolo Heitlinger (Portuguese)
The Rylands Collection, John Rylands University Library, Manchester
Exhibitions Archive, Foyle Special Collections Library, King's College London
Danish Bookbindings in the Kongelige Bibliotek, Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (Danish only)
Treasures in the Royal Library, Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Dresden: Treasures from the Saxon State Library, Library of Congress
A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books, Library of Congress
Four Thousand Years of Miniature Books, Lilly Library, Indiana University
Dawn of Western Printing: Incunabula, National Diet Library, Japan
Historical Anatomies on the Web, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
Scottish Decorative Bookbinding, 1600-1810, National Library of Scotland
The Word on the Street (Scottish broadsides etc.), National Library of Scotland
Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious, Princeton University Library
Early Printed Books at St. John's, St. John's College Cambridge
Formatting the Word of God, Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University
The Printed Page and Early Modern Italy, University of Colorado, Boulder
The World of Gloriana: Books and Manuscripts from the Age of Elizabeth I, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ars Anatomica: Imaging the Renaissance Body, University of Edinburgh
Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629), University of Notre Dame
Individual Projects (often complete books)
The Diamond Sutra, British Library
The Gutenberg Bible, British Library
Mercator's Atlas of Europe, British Library
Shakespeare in Quarto, British Library
Vesalius's Anatomy, British Library
William Caxton's Canterbury Tales, British Library
Glasgow University Emblem website, Glasgow University (links to several emblem-related web projects)
Special Treasures of the Jewish Theological Seminary Library, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York (manuscripts and books)
Digital Facsimiles of Rare Books, Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
The Gutenberg Bible, Keio University copy
Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium, Ambroise Paré's Oeuvres, Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica, Johannes de Ketham's Fasciculo de medicina, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
First Scottish Books, National Library of Scotland
The Spread of Scottish Printing, National Library of Scotland
1588 Welsh Bible, National Library of Wales
Yny lhyvyr hwnn, National Library of Wales
The English Emblem Book Project, Pennsylvania State University
Digital Library, Smithsonian Institute and Library (includes some early printed books)
The Gutenberg Bible, University of Göttingen
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, University of Pennsylvania
The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
Sancti Epiphanii ad Physiologum, facsimile of Plantin's 1588 edition, University of Victoria
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