NOTE: Many of these sites require subscription access. Most of them you can reach if you are onsite at UVic. If you are at home, for some sites you might have to go to the library website and click through from there.
Online Manuscripts
British Literary Manuscripts Online
Some Bodleian and Oxford MS facsimiles online
More Bodleian MSS (Luna)
Folger links to online manuscripts
Brotherton Collection
Digital Scriptorium (Manuscripts) (Columbia)
Cambridge Digital Scriptorium
Wellcome library: incl. 17th C receipt books, many by women
Harvard views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History
UPenn MSS
Bodleian ArtStor images from MSS
(see also BL online illuminated MSs and images online)
Digital Donne MSS
Perdita Project
Irish MSS
Digital Wordsworth
Emily Dickinson
Medieval MSS on the web (meta-resource)
Digitized Medieval Manuscripts - UCLA
Jane Austen, Blake, Lewis Caroll and others
Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts
Keats at Harvard
Byron at Nottingham
Pound at Yale
Rossetti Archive
Defining Gender 1450-1910: Five Centuries of Advice Literature Online (mostly print, some manuscript)
Online Manuscript Catalogues
Leeds (Brotherton)
British Library's Manuscript Catalogue
BL Catalogue of Illuminated MSs
Bodleian Library Info (see also http://ox.libguides.com/content.php?pid=125525&sid=1305126)
Bodleian Library Online Catalogue (incomplete)
Bodleian Forthcoming Electronic Catalogue
Beinecke at Yale
National Library of Scotland Manuscripts
Hamnet (Folger)
Folger Microfilm Catalogue
Huntington Library MS Catalogue
University of Aberdeen Catalogue
University of Michigan British Manuscripts Project (ACLS microfilms)
National Church Database of Manuscripts (Lambeth Palace, etc.)
Cambridge University Library Catalogues in Dropbox
Christ Church, Oxford, Online Music MSCatalogue
Cambridge MSS (Janus catalogue) - Fitzwilliam museum, etc
Harvard Houghton (at bottom of page)
De Ricci's Census (Uvic access; Hathi trust)
Background resources
First Line Indices
Nelson's Union Index (Folger)
17th C First Line Index (Mark McDayter, Western)
Seng's Houghton Harvard Index
Donne Variorum First Line Indexes
Adam Smyth's Print Miscellany Index
English Clandestine Satire (Harold Love, Meredith Sherlock, Felicity Henderson)
Textbase of Early Tudor English 1485-1550 (UOtago)
Index of Middle English Verse
For Researching Manuscripts
A Manuscript Miscellany (Steven May's 2005 Folger course)
Norbrook's Online Bibliography (also has provenance)
British Library info on Manuscript Resources
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts (Stephen R. Reimer, U of Alberta) (includes massive bibliography)
University of London Manuscript Portal
Provenance/History Info
For England: links and sources
Access to Archives
National Archives
State Papers Online (Part 1: 1509-1603)
ODNB
Victoria County History (British History Online)
Clergy of the Church of England Database
Private Libraries in Renaissance England Search (PLRE; Folger)
Private Libraries in Renaissance England homepage
Inner Temple Admissions Database
Paleography
National Archives Paleography
English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course (Cambridge U; different from below)
English Handwriting: An Online Course (Cambridge U Scriptorium)
Early Modern Paleography
French Paleography Course
Scottish Paleography (v. good; 16-18th C)
Paleography Terminology (Stanford)
Literary Manuscript Analysis (Heaton at Warwick)
Leeds Brotherton Paleography
Secretary Hand Alphabet (basic; Genlinks)
Secretary Hand Alphabet Page (about)
The Secretarie Alphabete
Early Hands (up to 16th C Secretary); Meg Twycross (incl. how to describe link)
Watermarks
The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive
Watermarks in Jonson's 1616 Works
Some Watermarks (not many)
Print Watermark Sources: Briquet, Churchill, Heawood
Other Resources
Early Stuart Libels
LiteratureOnline (LiOn) Q5ghjD33
LEME: Lexicons of Early Modern English (Lancashire)
English Manuscript Studies Tables of Contents
Oxford Text Archive
Late Medieval English Scribes (incl. descr. of many Harley catalogues)
Reading Experiences Database (1450-1945)
Latin
Learn Latin (National Archives)
Lingua Latina (UConn): drills on endings
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid (Kevin Cawley, Notre Dame)
Words: Latin Dictionary (William Whitaker)
Perseus Digital Dictionary (Gregory Crane, Tufts)
Latinum Latin Podcasts (Evan Miller)
Study Guide to Wheelock's Latin (Grote, UNC)
More practice: reading, vocab, exercises
Latin study guide (wikibooks)
Theatre History
Early Modern Plays in London (1573-1642) (Tom Dale Keever)
Early Modern London Theatres (REED, etc)
Map of Early Modern London
Records of Early English Drama - Patrons and Performances Website
Records of Early English Drama pdf of all books
Records of Early English Drama pdf Lancashire & Isle of Man addendum
Biographical Index of English Drama before 1660 (David Kathman)
The World of London Theatre: 1660-1800 (Patricia Craddock)
The London Stage (Online versions of 1700-1729) (Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume)
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Annals of Early English Drama
Restoration Comedy (list of authors and plays, some online)
Wikipedia: Literary Years in History
Shakespeare's World (Emory) incl. 19th C actors of Shakes. and 19th C illustrations of Shakes.
Link Pages
Textual Studies 1500-1800 (Kevin Curran; AWESOME links)
Warwick History List of Links to know before you go to archives
Folger links
A Manuscript Miscellany (Steven May's 2005 Folger course)
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Theatre History Links
Paleography, Codicology, Bibliography links (Robert D. Peckham)
Texts, Manuscripts, Palaeography (Jay Treat)
Justin's Theatre Links (Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline history links)
REED's All The World's a Stage
U of Reading Early Modern Studies Links
Restoration Theatre links
Textual Scholarship
Medieval MSS (and some Emod) MS facsimile & microfilm links (Charles Wright)
http://earlymodernweb.org/
Medieval Genealogy Links (incl. early modern)
Print-related info
EEBO
English Short Title Catalogue
Database of Early English Playbooks (UPenn: Alan B. Farmer and Zachary Lesser)
Shakespearean Promptbooks of the Seventeenth Century (G. Blakemore Evans)
ECCO
Jonson's first folio (digitized, searchable) Holloway
Renaissance and Restoration Printing (U South Carolina)
Index of Books and Pamphlets Censored in the British Isles and British North American between 1641 and 1700
English Renaissance in Context (ERIC; UPenn) incl. tutorials on book history and Shakespeare's plays
Digital Miscellanies Index (18th C: Leverhulme, Oxford, Bodleian)
OpenEmblem (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne; being revised) Emblem Books
John Foxe's Acts and Monuments online edition
Warburg Institute digitized books
Online Play Texts
Shakespeare's First Folio (not normalized spelling; searchable)
MIT Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive (mostly Hamlet)
Treasures in full (BL) - images of Shakespeare Quartos
Internet Shakespeare Editions (UVic)
Rare Book Room (Shakespeare)
Furness Library (Shakespeare and others) (UPenn)
Renascence Editions
French Plays: 1610-1790
Early Modern Literary Studies List
Richard Brome online
Queen's Men Editions
Lost Plays Database (Knutson et al)
Music Resources
Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) (includes MS search)
Early English, Scottish, and Irish Song (Bruce Olson: includes links to facsimiles)
Acadia Early Music Archive (Gordon J. Callon)
Manuscript Sources of English Secular Song 1630-1665 (Callon)
Broadside Ballads UCSB
Allegro Catalogue of Broadside Ballads (Bodleian)
Restoration Theatre Song Archive (Monash)
Manuscript Sources of English Secular Song, 1630-1665 (Gordon J. Callon)
Groen's Seventeenth-Century Secular Music
Rosseter and Jones (not v. scholarly, but with some MS facs)
English Lute MSS and Scribes (dissertation)
http://imslp.org
Misc resources
Folger Digital Images
The Casebooks Project: A Digital Edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's Medical Records 1596-1634
Women-Centered Resources
Early Modern Women Database (U Maryland)
Emory Women Writers Resource Project (Emory) (early modern to much later)
Perdita Project
Women Writers Project (Brown)
The Margot Project (UWaterloo)
Geography-related info
The Map of Earl Modern London (Janelle Jenstad, UVic)
Historical Maps (Arts and Humanities Data Service)
Old Maps
Gazetteer of British Place Names
Institute for Name Studies (UNottingham; website currently down)
General English Resources
Voice of the Shuttle
Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)
Questions? email me (Laura) at lestill (at) uvic . ca
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