ENGL 413 / MARS 420 The History of Books: Research Databases and Resources

ABC for Book Collectors (glossary of terms describing various components of books, used by book dealers and rare book catalogers)

http://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation/29-abc_for_book_collectors.html

Dictionary of Literary Biography:

http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/servlet/GLD/form?l=4&locID=purdue

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans:

http://infoweb.newsbank.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/iw-search/we/Evans?

Early English Books Online (EEBO):

http://eebo.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/home

Eighteenth Century Collections Online:

http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/ecco/start.do?prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=purdue_main

Electronic Beowulf

http://ebeowulf.uky.edu/

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)

http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-estc

First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays (Bodleian Library)

http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

Internet Shakespeare Editions Facsimile Viewer

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/

Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

http://www.itergateway.org.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/resources

JSTOR

http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/

MESA (Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance)

http://www.mesa-medieval.org/

Middle English Compendium

http://quod.lib.umich.edu.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/m/mec/

MLA International Bibliography

http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/mlaib/index?accountid=13360

Sabin Americana

http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/servlet/Sabin?locID=purdue_main

UCLA Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/index.php

Image source: Thad McIlroy, The Future of Publishing

Brown, Michelle P. and Patricia Lovett. The Historical Source Book for Scribes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Brown, Michelle P. Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms. California: The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with The British Library, 1994.

Carter, John and Nicholas Barker. ABC for Book Collectors. Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. (Available online)

Clemens, Raymond and Timothy Graham. Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.

de Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2002.

de Hamel, Christopher. Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library. Bloomington: Indiana University, Lilly Library, 2010.

de Hamel, Christopher. The Book. A History of the Bible. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2001.

Derolez, Albert. The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books, from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.

Dictionary of Latin Abbreviations 

Gaskell, Phillip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000.

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Maidie Hilmo and Linda Olson, Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches. Itaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012.

Middle-English Dictionary, containing words used by English writers from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, Francis Henry Stratmann; Henry Bradley, 1891. (HSSE Library 423 St8m)

Middle English Dictionary. Hans Kurath; Sherman M Kuhn (Sherman McAllister), 1952-    (HSSE Library 423 K96m )

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  (HSSE: Reference 920.042 D56 2004)

Oxford Companion to the Book (HSSE: Reference Z4 .O946 2010). Vol. 2 contains entries on many topics in book history and printing.

Parkes, M. B. English Cursive Book Hands, 1250-1500 (1969; reprint Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004).

Roberts, Jane. Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (2005; re-issued London: British Library, 2011).

Twyman, Michael. The British Library Guide to Printing. University of Toronto Press, 1998.

The Bodleian Library: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley

The British Library: http://www.bl.uk/

The British Museum: http://www.britishmuseum.org/

University of Cambridge Digital Library: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/

The Folger Shakespeare Library: http://www.folger.edu/

The Morgan Library & Museums: http://www.themorgan.org/

The Walter Art Museum: http://thewalters.org/