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The STUDIES section has always included 250 digitised texts, selected by the authors of the handbook. In recent months, action has been undertaken to include links to texts available elsewhere on the web.An overview of all online texts (almost 1,400!) can be found under the "Digitised studies" button). You can also do a specific search and tick the "Digitised studies" box at the bottom of the search screen.
STUDIES now holds studies to and including 2011; od the 129 2011 studies that have been described so far, 24 have links to online versions.
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Images
Videos/animations on the history of the book:NEW
'How a Book is Made: AD 400 vs. 1947 vs. 1961 vs. 2011'
A brief history of the bound book throughout the years, in four short illustrative films (despite some historical inaccuracies).
Click here to see all four videos
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Images
Other image databases on the history of the book:
Arkyves
Searchable image database containing a large amount of emblems, as well as images of illuminated manuscripts, paintings and drawings, satirical and political prints, printer's devices and a growing number of other historical sources. The 147,000 records in Arkyves (98,000 of which are pictures) come from various European collections. Free of charge for KB-members and within licensed institutions.
Click here for detailed information.
Go to Arkyves
Early Dutch Books Online
Early Dutch Books Online gives full-text access to more than 2 million pages in 10,000 books from the Dutch-speaking region from the period 1781-1800. The project is a collaboration between the Royal Library of the Netherlands and the university libraries of Amsterdam and Leiden.
Go to Early Dutch Books Online
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Persons
Other biographical databases:
Drukwerk in de Marge - Printers
Current and comprehensive review of printers associated with Drukwerk in de Marge, the Dutch foundation for marginal printers. All printers listed have their own page on the foundation's website. In Dutch only.
Go to Drukwerk in de Marge - Printers
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Studies
Other subject bibliographies:
Fachdatenbank Buchwissenschaft
The Fachdatenbank Buchwissenschaft combines three bibliographic search tools: the Bibliographie zur Geschichte des Wolfenbütteler the Buchwesens (WBB), the Bibliographie der Buch-und Bibliotheksgeschichte (BBB) and the electronic catalogue of the St. Galler Zentrum für das Buch (SGZFB).
Containing more than 400,000 monographs, journals and articles, the Fachdatenbank Buchwissenschaft is the most comprehensive bibliographic database for book and library science for the German-speaking regions.
Go to Fachdatenbank Buchwissenschaft
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Books
Searching by genre:
Erfgoedcentrum Nederlands Kloosterleven
Searchable online survey of collections and databases. The Erfgoedcentrum Nederlands Kloosterleven [Heritage Centre for Dutch monastic life] works on the accessibility of several collections. More than 90 monastic communities participate and approximately 50 archival inventories are now available online; other inventories will follow.
Go to Erfgoedcentrum Nederlands Kloosterleven
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Books
General search instruments & Searching by genre:
SUB ROSA
Searchable online database for Dutch popular prose from the period 1550-1850.
The database contains Over 28.000 titles, with information on book locations (both national and international), collation formulas, fingerprint pages and all necessary information on translations. All of this is supported by 48.000 photo's of title page, frontispiece and fingerprint pages.
Go to Sub Rosa
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Books:
International search systems
b2i portal | Bibliothekskataloge
Summary of, and direct access to, several catalogues of German libraries in the field of book, library and information science:
° BSB-Katalog
° Fach-OPAC SUB Göttingen
° Katalog St. Galler Zentrum für das Buch
° BSB-Ink (Inkunabelkatalog der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek)
° BSB-Katalog der Einblattdrucke der Frühen Neuzeit
° BSB-Katalog der Autographen und Nachlässe
° BSB-Codices iconographici
° Katalog der Fachbibliothek der Landesfachstelle für das Öffentliche Bibliothekswesen in Bayern
Go to b2i
Early European Books
Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources; from the collections of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Nederland), the Wellcome Library (London) and Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Copenhagen).
Go to Early European Books
Bodleian Incunable Catalogue
A Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Digital version of the printed catalogue (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Go to Bodleian Incunable Catalogue
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