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Rare Books & Special Collections - Samples of
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publications |
Images & Samples |
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RBMS http://www.rbms.info
RBMS Bibliographic Standards
http://rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/index.shtml
Latin Dictionary and Grammar aid - from University of
Notre Dame
http://archives.nd.edu/latgramm.htm |
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PROJECTS |
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British Library - Glossary of Terms for
Illuminated Manuscripts |
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/glossary.asp |
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Dead Sea Scrolls at Royal
Ontario Museum |
http://www.rom.on.ca/scrolls/scrollsdisplay.php |
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Dead Sea Scrolls on-line
exhibition at Library of Congress |
Scrolls from the
Dead Sea
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/dead.html |
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Making of America (U
Michigan & Cornell) |
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ |
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NYPL Digital Library
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http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgabout.cfm |
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National Archives
(UK) |
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ |
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New Zealand Book Council |
http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/
http://www.wimp.com/booklife/ |
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LOC – American Memory
Project |
memory.loc.gov |
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Digital Scriptorium |
http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/ |
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Aberdeen Bestiary |
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/index.hti |
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Book of Beasts |
digicoll.library.wisc.edu/HistSciTech/subcollections/BestiaryAbout.html |
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BYU History and Art of the Book |
http://guides.lib.byu.edu/content.php?pid=70183&sid=519798
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UW Madison -
Publishers’ Bindings through the Decades (Exhibit and Related Materials) -
essays about
the bindings |
http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/gallery/decades.html |
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Anatomy of a Page - Harry
Ransom Center at UT Austin |
www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/html/7.html |
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Spread of Printing -
Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin |
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/html/5.html
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University of Chicago
Special Collections Research Center – Legacy of Sebastianus Virdung: Rare
Books in the Collection of Frederick R Selch Important in the Study of the
History of Musical Instruments |
www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl |
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Perseus Digital
Library Tufts University |
www.perseus.tufts.edu/ |
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University of Iowa –
John Martin Rare Book Room (Hardin Library for Health Sciences) digital
pictures of early colored (mezzotints) medical illustrations (1698-1773 by
Jan Ladmiral – full color copperplates |
www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/rbr/Imaging/albums/ladmiral |
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U Kansas – 1605 The
Year Don Quixote Conquered Europe |
http://spencer.lib.ku.edu |
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Finding aids to
Kansas Collection, Special Collections and University Archives (in ead) |
http://ead.diglib.ku.edu |
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National Library of Netherlands - Special
Collections |
http://www.kb.nl/menu/collecties-en.html |
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OUR BIBLE & THE ANCIENT
MANUSCRIPTS: by SIR FREDERIC KENYON (former Director of the British
Museum) |
www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Contents.htm |
| Cloverdale's Bible (1535) |
http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Coverdale.htm |
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Wellcome Library (UK)
– Manuscript Collections |
library.wellcome.ac.uk/node254.html |
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Turning the Pages
(British Library) |
www.bl.uk |
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Early Manuscripts at
Oxford University - Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned
directly from the originals |
image.ox.ac.uk |
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Duke Papyrus Archive
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http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/
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Manuscripts Collection
Aukland City Libraries New Zealand
(search for: The
Rossdhu Book of Hours, Med.Ms G146 |
www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/aboutthelibraries/collections/Special-Collections/Manuscripts-and-archives-at-Special-Collections.aspx
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Hill Museum and
Manuscript Library – St. Johns University |
www.hmml.org |
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Edinburgh City of Print - exhibition of
printing history |
www.edinburghcityofprint.org |
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Incunabula – Bancroft
Library – UC Berkeley |
http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/incunabula/ |
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Burnet Psalter
(University of Aberdeen) |
www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/collects/bps |
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Medievalists.net - News, and History, and
current awareness site of Medieval Period and Middle Ages |
www.medievalists.net |
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The Early English
Books Online project - the ODL is a partner in this project to encode
25,000 early printed books in XML. The project web page can be found at |
http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/eebo/news.html |
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Miniature Books |
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/miniature-miniaturization-tiny-prayer-bindings/small-books.shtml
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David Rumsey –
historical map collections and other types of images (using Luna Imaging
and Insight Browser) |
http://www.davidrumsey.com |
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British Museum - Exhibit, video & podcasts
about liberties, including images of Magna Carta |
http://www.bl.uk/takingliberties |
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Rotary International Fellowship "Old and Rare Antiques
Books and Prints |
rotaryoldbooks.org
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Image Permanence Institute - Graphic Atlas |
http://www.graphicsatlas.org/ |
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Manifold Greatness - King James Bible |
http://www.manifoldgreatness.org/ |
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Places to find more information |
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Fine Books & Collections Magazine
www.finebooksmagazine.com
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Rare Book Review
http://www.rarebookreview.com/index.php |
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Spiegel, Frances
“Best of the Web” Letter Arts Review 20:1 (2005) pg 36ff (available in
print at KSU Libraries) |
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The
Rare Books School - University of Virginia, Charlotte, VA - Syllabi and
reading lists
http://www.rarebookschool.org/
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Earlier projects –
English Short Title Catalogs – microfilm – UMI Wing, Short,
ESTC, NSTC,
Early books |
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Making Type by Hand http://www.aimeedozois.com/type/
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Paper & Watermark Museum
http://www.museodellacarta.com/default.asp
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Dawn of Western Printing
http://www.ndl.go.jp/incunabula/e/index.html
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The Atlas of Early
Printing University of Iowa -
http://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/
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American Antiquarian Society Podcasts
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/podcasts.htm |
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Images & Samples
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Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary (has images
of printing processes) -
http://visual.merriam-webster.com |
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articles on printmaking
http://www.artelino.com/articles |
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YouTube videos about printing: Relief
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0skLwaFpn0
Intaglio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNKn4PORGBI
Lithography:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc
Woodblock printing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dliF74ojOho |
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