Rare Books-digital project links and sources

Rare Books & Special Collections - Samples of Digital Projects
projects		publications

PROJECTS
Making of America (U Michigan & Cornell)		http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
NYPL Digital Library		http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgabout.cfm
National Archives (UK)		http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
LOC – American Memory Project		memory.loc.gov
Digital Scriptorium		Sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium
UW Madison - Publishers’ Bindings through the Decades (Exhibit and Related Materials) - essays about the bindings		http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/gallery/decades.html
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
Perseus Digital Library Tufts University		www.perseus.tufts.edu/
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
U Kansas – 1605 The Year Don Quixote Conquered Europe		http://spencer.lib.ku.edu
Finding aids to Kansas Collection, Special Collections and University Archives (in ead)		http://ead.diglib.ku.edu
National Library of Netherlands - Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts		http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/
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
Wellcome Library (UK) – Manuscript Collections		library.wellcome.ac.uk/node254.html
Turning the Pages (British Library)		www.bl.uk
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals		image.ox.ac.uk
Duke Papyrus Archive		odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus
Paging Through Medieval Lives - Illumination and Calligraphy from Selected Collections (The Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the J. Willard Marriott Library)		www2.art.utah.edu/Paging_Through/
The Rossdhu Book of Hours, Med.Ms G146 (Aukland City Libraries New Zealand		www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/general.aspx?ct+673&id=3867&fs=-1
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library – St. Johns University		www.hmml.org

Incunabula – Bancroft Library – UC Berkeley		http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/incunabula/
Burnet Psalter (University of Aberdeen)		www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/historic/collects/bps

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

David Rumsey – historical map collections and other types of images (using Luna Imaging and Insight Browser)		http://www.davidrumsey.com



Places to find more information
Fine Books & Collections Magazine www.finebooksmagazine.com
Rare Book Review http://www.rarebookreview.com/index.php
Spiegel, Frances “Best of the Web” Letters Arts Review 20:1 (2005) pg 36ff
Earlier projects – English Short Title Catalogs – microfilm – UMI Wing, Short, ESTC, NSTC, Early books


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