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The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
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The Labyrinth Resources for Medieval Studies
Extensive collection of texts from Georgetown University
Medieval & Renaissance Europe--Primary Historical Documents
From the EuroDocs page at Brigham Young University
Texts and Documents: Europe
History Department, Hanover College
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
By Jacob Burkhardt, translated by S.G.C. Middlemore, 1878
Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Rhetoric
An extensive alphabetical listing of resources
Comitatus- A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Digital Scriptorium
A Prototype Image Database & Visual Union Catalog of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
"...was conceived as an image database of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It has evolved into a general union catalog designed for the use of paleographers, codicologists, art historians, textual scholars and other researchers."
Part of UC Berkeley - Sunsite
Early Modern Literary Studies
"...a refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."
Erasmus Text Project
"The purpose of this web site is to make available over the web various texts of Desiderius Erasmus. Presently I am putting on-line all of the public-domain texts and translations that I can get my hands on. I will tend to give priority to those works less available in print."
Maintained by Chris Cudabac
FICINO
"...an international electronic seminar and bulletin board for the circulation and exchange of information about the Renaissance and Reformation and the decades which precede and follow."
Francesco Petrarca
Selections from his Correspondences
From the Hanover Historical Texts Project
[Gutenberg Bible] The Gutenberg Bible : Digitised Images
"The British Library has two complete copies of the Gutenberg Bible and a small but important fragment of a third copy. One copy, printed on paper, was transferred in 1829 to the British Library with the library of King George III (1738-1820). The other copy, printed on vellum, was bequeathed by Thomas Grenville (1755-1846)."
- The British Library
[Gutenberg Bible] Gutenberg Digital
The collection of Digitised Documents, includes all 1282 pages of both volumes, illuminated pages, the "Helmasperger Notarial Instrument", "Model Book" and more. There is also an impressive collection of resources recording Gutenberg and his Impact. In German or English with some biblical passages in French as well.
[Gutenberg Bible] The Keio Gutenberg Bible
Includes a select bibliography of the Gutenberg 42-line Bible.
- Treasures of Keio University
[Gutenberg Bible] University of Texas - Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
- The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center
"The Gutenberg Bible, the first book printed with movable type, is one of the greatest treasures in the Ransom Center's collections. It was printed at Johann Gutenberg's shop in Mainz, Germany and completed in 1454 or 1455. The Center's Bible was acquired in 1978 and is one of only five complete examples in the United States...For the first time, it is possible for the general public to view all of the pages from the University of Texas copy, including all of the large illuminated letters in volume I and the copious handwritten annotations, as well as other indications of the book's use in religious services."
Sections include: The Book before Gutenberg ; Johann Gutenberg ; The Printing of the Bible ; The Spread of Printing ; The Appearance of the Bible ; Anatomy of a Page ; The Ransom Center Copy ; Selected Pages ; Digital Gutenberg Project ; Additional Resources.
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - (dead link) (1499) (etext)
"...is one of the most puzzling, enigmatic and fascinating books ever conceived. Since its publication (1499), it has surprised its readers with its vast knowledge of architecture and landscape and garden design, but also engineering, painting and sculpture...The book is also a political manifesto defending the right of women to express their own sexuality and the superiority of Eros, beauty and knowledge over aggression and war."
"The editing of the electronic book is based on research published in Liane Lefaivreís Leon Battista Albertiís Hypnerotomachia Poliphili published by The MIT Press and coincides with its release."
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
"The Sourcebook is in two parts. The first is made up of fairly short classroom sized extracts, derived from public domain sources or copy-permitted translations, the second is composed of the full documents, or WWW links to the full documents...At the moment, the texts available still address elite governmental, legal, religious and economic concerns."
Edited by Paul Halsall, Fordham University
Map History / History of Cartography
"Early maps, and the resources and activities associated with them, form the subject of over 100 'pages' on this site. All the worthwhile information about old maps can be found here, directly or indirectly. You will find comment and guidance, and links to hundreds of other sites - selected for relevance and quality."
Edited by Tony Campbell, Map Librarian, British Library
IRIS
Consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence
"...represents a unique resource for scholarly research in the humanities. The focus is on art history (including references on art conservation and restoration) and the Renaissance in all its aspects (history, literature, philosophy, political theory, and music), with particular attention to scholarship on the Italian Renaissance."
King James Bible
"This text was originally created at the University of Pennsylvania by Robert A. Kraft, was made available to us by the Oxford Text Archive, and is presented here in a searchable SGML form by the University of Virginia."
- Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
[Michelangelo] The Digital Michelangelo Project
"Our goal is to produce a set of 3D computer models - one for each statue, architectural setting, and map fragment we scanned - and to make these models available to scholars worldwide."
Online Catasto of 1427
Florentine Renaissance Resources
"...is a World Wide Web searchable database of tax information for the city of Florence in 1427-29. It is based on David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Principal Investigators, Census and Property Survey of Florentine Dominions in the Province of Tuscany, 1427-1480."
ORB: The Online Resource Book for Medieval Studies
"ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies."
Project Wittenberg
"Home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans. Here you will find all manner of texts from short quotations to commentaries, hymns to statements of faith, theological treatises to biographies, and links to other places where words and images from the history of Lutheranism live. Project Wittenberg is the first step towards an international electronic library of Lutheranism. As such, we are always adding and changing our sites. This site contains Project Wittenberg texts in final form."
Maintained by Reverend Bob Smith, Walther Library, Concordia Theological Seminary
Renaissance Electronic Texts (RET)
"A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works."
University of Toronto
Renaissance Forum
An Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies
Renaissance Liturgical Imprints : A Census
A database of information on nearly 9000 worship books printed before 1601
(University of Michigan)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- Mosaic of Science Galaxy
- AstronomiÊ instauratÊ mechanica by Tycho Brahe (1602)
Tycho Brahe. AstronomiÊ instauratÊ mechanica [Instruments for the restoration of astronomy]. Noribergae [N¸rnberg]: apud L. Hvlsivm [by Levinus Hulsius], 1602. 107 unnumbered pages, woodcut and engraved illustrations, map, plans.
"Tycho Brahe1 (1546-1601) was a Danish astronomer who built the best observatory in Europe and set a new standard for accurate celestial observations in the era before the invention of the telescope."
TmiWeb
Online Version of Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum (TMI)
"...is an electronic corpus of Italian music treatises from the Renaissance and early Baroque in multimedial transcription and in digital facsimile."
Free registration required.
- Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands
University of Calgary - Applied History Research Group - Multimedia History Tutorials
- The End of Europe's Middle Ages: Fourteenth & Fifteenth Centuries
"...is designed to assist those students engaged in Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern studies who lack a background in medieval European history. Intended to provide a brief overview of the conditions at the end of Europe's Middle Ages, the tutorial is presented in a series of chapters that summarize the economic, political, religious and intellectual environment of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries."
- European Voyages of Exploration: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
"This tutorial introduces the student to these two pioneering nations, their motivations, their actions, and the inevitable consequences of their colonisation. This tutorial also examines the geographical, technological, economic, political, and cultural patterns of that era.
Vatican Museums
"I hope that this new site may be a useful instrument of knowledge and give access to the complex reality of our five hundred-year- old art collections which are visited by more than three million people a year."
- Vatican Museums Online
Sections include: Gregorian Egyptian Museum ; Gregorian Etruscan Museum ; Sistine Chapel ; Raphael's Room ; Pinacoteca ; Ethnological Missionary Museum.
Online highlights include works by Botticelli ; Michelangelo ; Raphael ; Leonardo Da Vinci.
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