Collections containing material about Europe (continent)

America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets

Collection of 4,291 song sheets for popular music from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. Consisting of lyrics produced between the turn of the nineteenth ...

Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World

Project to digitize approximately 36 volumes from the Library's Ancient Near East and Classics collections. This digital project was part of a larger project that preserved almost 9,000 volumes in ...

Archival Sound Recordings

The aim of the Project is to increase access to the British Library Sound Archive's extensive collections of recordings and supporting materials. This innovative project will: - Make 4000 hours of ...

Asia in the Eyes of Europe

1000 copies of this catalog were published in conjunction with the exhibition Asia in the Eyes of Europe: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries held in the Department of Special Collections, the ...

The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands

Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine, 1782-1826

This database integrates into one comprehensive, searchable list all 2,074 known attributions of authorship of anonymous, pseudonymous, or incompletely attributed articles, letters, reviews, and poems ...

The Belfast Group

In 1963 Philip Hobsbaum, a recently-arrived lecturer in English at Queen's University, Belfast, organized a writing workshop made up of students, faculty, and a number of writers from the local ...

Beowulf

The British Library began the Electronic Beowulf project in 1993: selected images from the project were among the first pictures of medieval manuscripts to be mounted on the internet. A digital camera ...

Bibliotheca Schoenbergensis: An Exhibition from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg

Selection from Lawrence Schoenberg's collection of illustrated medieval and early modern manuscripts. The collection includes items from the eleventh to the eighteenth century, monastic, university, ...

Birket Foster, Victorian Illustrator: A Memorial Exhibit in Honor of Charles W. Mann, Jr. (1929-1998)

Birket Foster was part of one of the great periods of book illustration in England. A former apprentice of Thomas Bewick, he worked for the London News early in his career, and soon after he began to ...

Blake's Choice Selections from the Alexander Architecture Archive

Selections from the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas at Austin which includes papers, photographic material, models and ephemera, representing thousands of projects in Texas as ...

Bracton Online

A digital presentation of Bracton: De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England), the first comprehensive attempt to rationally articulate English law. The 13th ...

The Burney Collection of Newspapers

The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Revd Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media ...

Cartulaire du St. Aubin

Online version of the 12th century cartulary (769-1175), Cartulaire du St. Aubin, which was published in 1903 by A. Picard, Paris.

Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

This site provides access to descriptions and images of a selection of the decorated manuscripts in the British Library, which has arguably the most comprehensive, and certainly one of the richest ...

Catalonian Manuscripts

Features Catalonian manuscripts from the collection at the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley. Offers access to translations and documents dating from 1031 through 1555.

Caxton's Chaucer

This project has made available William Caxton's two editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, probably printed in 1476 and 1483. The originals are both in the British Library. The digitisation was ...

Central Eurasian Information Resource Interactive Atlas: At the University of Washington

The Central Eurasian Interactive Atlas provides access to geographic data with more than 700 attributes on demography, social infrastructure, economics and elections for 2,463 administrative units of ...

The Chymistry of Isaac Newton

In August 2003, the National Science Foundation awarded a grant to Prof. William Newman, department of history and philosophy of science, to digitize and publish online the alchemical manuscripts of ...

Collect Britain: Putting History in its Place

Collect Britain is the British Library's largest digitisation project to date. The site goes live on May 21st 2003. By summer 2004 you can view and hear a staggering 100,000 images and sounds from our ...

Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas

"Cultural Readings" attempts to use the internet to review this complex history. The web site originates from two exhibitions of rare printed and manuscript materials held in Philadelphia, ...

Database of Bookbindings

This database is a finding aid to the British Library's bookbinding collections. It includes information and images for selected items from the Library's rich collection of fine bindings of books ...

Degas at Harvard

A searchable web site, offered as an introduction to the holdings of works of art by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas in the collections of Harvard University. Although most of the Degas works at Harvard ...

Digital Scores Collection

The Loeb Music Library, using the systems and services for image digitization developed by the Harvard University Library's (HUL) Library Digital Initiative, is creating an expansible resource of ...

Digital Scriptorium

Describes Digital Scriptorium, a joint project of the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University to digitize and make ...

Early 19th-Century Russian Readership & Culture: A Hypertext Archive

A collection on early 19th-century Russian readership, culture and the press. It consists of: a) texts drawn from fiction, journals, memoirs and travel accounts; and b) supplementary materials -- ...

Early English Books Online

Collection of online text editions of works originally published 1473-1700, listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-title catalogue, Wing's Short title catalogue or the Thomason tracts. Titles in the ...

EMIS: The European Mathematical Information Service

The Cornell University Library mirrors, with live updates, the European Mathematical Society's EMIS (European Mathematical Information Service) site. The EMIS mirror provides outside links to several ...

Emory Women Writers Resource Project

Working with faculty and graduate students for Emory's English Department, the Beck Center is creating both HTML and SGML versions of selected works by American and British women. Spanning the 17th - ...

The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert

This collaborative translation project built by scholars and translators around the world now has almost 200 articles. New enhancements will be released this fall including use of a bilingual ...

The English Emblem Book Project

A collaborative project with the University Libraries' Arts and Humanities Library's Digital Resources Center, Special Collections and Preservation Department, the Emblem Book Project undertakes to ...

Evanion Catalogue

This is a collection of some 5,000 items of Victorian ephemera and occasional printing, formed by Henry Evans (c.1832-1905), a conjuror and ventriloquist, who performed under the stage name Evanion. ...

French Revolution Pamphlet Collection

The result of an ongoing partnership between the Beck Center and Special Collections. Of the 3000 pamphlets held by Special Collections, we are in the process of publishing 89 literary and satirical ...

Gutenberg Bible

Johann Gutenberg's Bible was the first real book to be printed using the technique of printing, which Gutenberg invented in the 1450s. The British Library has two complete copies, one printed on paper ...

Historic Sheet Music, 1800-1922

Approximately 9,000 pieces of Sheet Music published from 1800 to 1922, although the majority is from 1850 to 1920. The bulk was published in many different cities in the United States, but some of the ...

Holocaust Denial on Trial

In 2000 British Holocaust denier David Irving sued Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher, Penguin Books, for libel. Their London trial made headlines around the world. ...

Horace Howard Furness Collection

Digital surrogates for objects selected from the Furness Memorial (Shakespeare) Library, University of Pennsylvania, which includes both texts and images, that illuminate the theater, literature, and ...

Icelandic and Faroese Photographs of Frederick W. W. Howell

The photographs of Iceland and the Faeroes by Frederick W.W. Howell, along with photographs of Iceland by Henry A. Perkins and Magnús Ólafsson, comprise an important visual record of Icelandic and ...

InscriptiFact

The InscriptiFact Project is a database designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds. The target ...

An Introduction to the Mercator Globes at Harvard Map Collection

A presentation of images of the Mercator Globes at the Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library with zooming and navigation. Mercator was a prolific publisher of maps and atlases, but he is ...

Investigating the Renaissance

An interactive demonstration by conservators and scientists in the Straus Center for Conservation, located in the Fogg Art Museum showing the ways in which computer technology can be harnessed to add ...

Irish Literary Collections Portal

Provides access to a fully searchable array of finding aids for the Irish literary manuscript collections held by Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library Special Collections and Boston College's ...

Italian Women Writers

The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. Its goal is to bring ...

The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research

The Kolb-Proust Archive for Research, a project of the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is devoted to the study of French novelist Marcel Proust and his time. Currently ...

Latviešu Tautas Dziesmas (Latvian Dainas)

Dainas are Baltic folk songs in verse form. This project is an electronic edition of the 12 volumes of Latviešu tautas dziesmas, edited by Arveds Švābe, Kārlis Straubergs, and Edīte ...

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection is a private library focusing on late medieval and early modern manuscripts. Mr. Schoenberg is a Penn alumnus and past chair of the Library's Board of Overseers. ...

Letopis Zhurnal'nykh Statei Online Index (1956-1975)

The Indiana University Digital Library Program presents Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei, a digitized serial publication that indexes Soviet-era periodicals from 1956 to 1975. The paper version, in ...

The Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection

The Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection has been enriched with the addition of images from prints, drawings, paintings, and text focusing on Horace Walpole and his house called Strawberry Hill. ...

Luther Funeral Sermon Project

This English translation of the first edition of Johann Bugenhagen's funeral sermon for Martin Luther was digitized in commemoration of the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's death. The funeral ...

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Garret MS. 158 was probably made in Bologna in 1471 or after 1473. Its principal text is the Collectio antiquitatum that was the work of Giovanni Marcanova, who was born in Venice ca. 1410/1418 and ...

Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature On-Line

Selected audio recordings and text files of oral literature made by Professor Milman Parry of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in 1933-35 in Yugoslavia and the epic texts collected ...

Mountjoy Prison Portraits of Irish Independence: Photograph Albums in the Thomas A. Larcom Collection

150 salt and albumen print photographs in two albums, of prisoners confined in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, in August 1857 and November 1866.

Newspapers Digitisation Project: British Newspapers 1800-1900

The aim is to select and to digitise complete runs of UK newspaper titles that are published between 1800 and 1900. It is proposed to select a mixture of UK national, regional and local newspaper ...

Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection

The documents, which include trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers, have been studied by lawyers, scholars, and other researchers in the areas of history, ethics ...

OACIS for the Middle East

The project completed its original three-year term on September 30, 2005. Yale University Library and the institutions making up the OACIS Advisory Board have agreed to sustainability agreements on a ...

The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL)

A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

The Ovid Collection

The Electronic Text Center's holdings include a variety of Metamorphoses resources. A Latin text (apparently from Ehwald's edition, ca. 1903), eight other digitized versions of the Latin, some scanned ...

Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848

The Center for Research Libraries, the University of Chicago Library, and the ARTFLProject, (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) have cooperated on a project to ...

Photochrom Prints

Late 19th and early 20th century travel views primarily of Eastern and Central European destinations (including the former Austro-Hungarian Empire). Includes cities and towns in Austria, Belgium, ...

Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings

Developed by the Harvard Art Museum, this detailed web site uses archival photographs, stereomicroscopy, X-rays, ultraviolet and infrared light to examine seventeen of Mondrian's works. Known as the " ...

Project Euclid

The end result is a vibrant online information community for independent and society journals. This will assure that mathematics and statistics will continue to benefit from a healthy balance of ...

Relaciones Geográficas Collection

An exhibition based on documents with dates ranging from 1578 to 1586 and comprising original responses to a questionnaire initiated by the Spanish Crown in 1577, requesting information about Spanish ...

Renaissance Festival Books

Renaissance festival books describe and illustrate the magnificent festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700 - marriages and funerals of royalty and nobility, ...

The Renaissance in Print: Sixteenth-Century French Books in the Douglas Gordon Collection

Special Collections Digital Services and the University of Virginia French Department have launched an ambitious collaborative project that will make rare books from the French Renaissance era ...

Roman de la Rose: Digital Surrogates of Medieval Manuscripts

Includes scanned images of six manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose from the collections of the Walters Art Museum (W. 143), the Pierpont Morgan Library (M. 948), the Bodleian Library of Oxford ...

Sagnanet: Icelandic Medieval Literature

Digital images of manuscripts and books covering the entire range of Icelandic sagas. The manuscripts are nearly all in Old Norse or Icelandic. Books can be in any European language, as a number of ...

Shakespeare in Quarto

Contains the full text of the British Library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642. These pamphlet editions are thought to be working ...

Siberian Digital Photo Collection

The Center for Slavic and East European Studies received a gift of these photographs from Vera and Robert Eby. The photos were donated to the Center in the name of their son, James Peter Eby, who is ...

Studies in Scarlet

Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections. Included are a number of trials of the ...

The Swinburne Project: A Digital Archive of the Life and Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne is a major Victorian writer and cultural figure. The vast majority of his writings, however, are out of print. The Swinburne Project provides a searchable electronic edition ...

The Swiss Poster Collection

Established in 1985 by Ruedi Ruegg, Swiss graphic designer, and Carnegie Mellon School of Design Professor Daniel Boyarski, The Swiss Poster Collection is a critical selection of more than 300 works ...

The United States and its Territories, 1870-1925: the Age of Imperialism

Texts and photographs drawn from the University of Michigan Library's Southeast Asia collection, comprises the full text of monographs and government documents published in the United States, Spain, ...

Vanity Fair Portfolio

Over a span of nearly fifty years (1868-1914), the society magazine Vanity Fair established its reputation as one of the most popular and respected periodicals in English journalism. In its second ...

Victorian Women Writers Project

The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup ...

West Semitic Research Project

The West Semitic Research Project is an academic project affiliated with the University of Southern California School of Religion and directed by Dr. Bruce Zuckerman. For the past 20 years WSRP has ...

William Blake: Illustrated Books

Three original books in "relief etching" by William Blake, who composed the texts, designed the texts and decorations, and printed the pages: America: A Prophecy (1793 [1794?]), Europe: A Prophecy ( ...

The William C. Brumfield Photograph Collection

William C. Brumfield, Professor of Russian Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, has extensively photographed and written about the wooden architecture of the Russian North, the ...

William Morris and His Circle

This web exhibition of "William Morris and His Circle" incorporates selected images derived from the 1996 Ransom Center exhibition which contained over seventy-five items, including manuscripts of ...

World War I Posters

The World War I posters include posters made in America and in France between 1914 and 1920 to advertise war efforts and issues.

World War II Poster Collection

The Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department at Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the ...