Resources for Early Modern Literary Studies
Based on recommendations from participants at the symposium, this basic guide lists some of the most valuable websites for providing orientation in researching literature of a particular language or region. Notice something we missed? Get in touch so we can update the list.
General
Universal Short Title Catalogue www.ustc.ac.uk
Early European Books: http://eeb.chadwyck.com/marketing.do (subscription)
Europeana Collections: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
Latin
Research Tools (and other resources) from Society of Neo-Latin Studies: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/research_tools/
Brepolis Databases of Latin dictionaries: http://clt.brepolis.net/dld/pages/QuickSearch.aspx
Whitaker’s Latin Dictionary http://www.archives.nd.edu/words.html
The Philological Museum (most complete index of Neolatin texts online): http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/index.htm
Greek
Thesaurus linguae graecae (California Irvine): http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu
Word Study Tool from Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?la=greek&l=
English
English Short Title Catalogue (Catalogue of everything printed in England between 1473 and 1800, with holdings details): http://estc.bl.uk
Early English Books Online: http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home, also through Historical Texts: https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/home (both subscription)
Renaissance Cultural Crossroads (‘a searchable, analytical and annotated list of all translations out of and into all languages printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland before 1641’): http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/rcc/
LEME: Lexicons of Early Modern English ('word-entries from monolingual English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1755'): http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/public/expiredinst.cfm
French
France: National Centre of Lexical and Textual Resources: http://www.cnrtl.fr/dictionnaires/anciens/
Epistemon (Renaissance texts): http://www.bvh.univ-tours.fr/Epistemon/index.asp
Searchable textual database: http://www.frantext.fr
Catalogue Collectif de France: http://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/jsp/index.jsp
Classiques Garnier (Dictionnaires, grammaires, remarques sur la langue): https://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-en/
Randle Cotgrave's Dictionaries of the French and English Tongues (1611)
French Renaissance Paleography: https://paleography.library.utoronto.ca
Spanish
Spanish digital repositories:
http://www.bne.es/en/Catalogos/BibliotecaDigitalHispanica/Inicio/
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
http://biblioteca.ucm.es/atencion/24063.php
http://fondosdigitales.us.es/fondos/busqueda_avanzada/
Italian
Biblioteca della Letteratura Italiana
Biblita Home
http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/
Italian Women Writers
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/IWW/
BIVIO: Biblioteca Virtuale On-Line
German
manuscripta mediaevalia (on describing manuscripts)
Handschriftencensus (Census of Manuscripts with German Elements)
Einbanddatenbank (Bindings Database)
Wasserzeichensammlung Piccard (Watermark Database)
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=sammlungen_kategorien&l=en
http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/index.php?id=72&type=0&L=3
Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (historical German and West Germanic legal terms)
Alte Schriften
www.mediaevum.de