A London Provisioner’s Chronicle, 1550-1563, by Henry Machan
An electronic scholarly edition created by Richard W. Bailey, Marilyn Miller, and Colette Moore. The edition gives a complete inventory of material required by scholars and readers: images of the manuscript, a faithful transcript of those images, and a rendering in modern English of this fascinating document.
Cooking in the Archives: Updating Early Modern Recipes (1600-1800) in a Modern Kitchen
This public food history project aims to find, cook, and discuss recipes from cookbooks produced between 1600 and 1800. Each month a new recipe is added along with historical contextualization, a photograph of the original recipe, a transcription, a modernization, and a discussion of the cooking process and results. The project also includes resources for teaching with early modern recipes.
History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590-1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma
A project of the Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the searchable database includes a complete transcription of every extant notarial record of the period from the Archivio di Stato di Roma identified by the project team, as well as a digital images of the original documents. The site also features artist bibliographies and a database of images associated with the early history of the Accademia di San Luca and its members during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Manuscripts Online
A digital archive of manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books from ca. 1450–1720, including research and teaching resources for late medieval and early modern manuscript studies.
The Rulers of Venice, 1332–1524: Interpretations, Methods, Database, compiled and edited by Benjamin G. Kohl, Andrea Mozzato, and Monique O’Connell.
Leonardo da Vinci and his Treatise on Painting
A digital research tool for scholarship on Leonardo da Vinci’s Treatise on Painting. The database includes over forty manuscript copies of the Treatise on Painting, dating from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, as well as early printed editions of Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting in Italian (1651), French (1651), and English (1721). The digital archive makes it possible to analyze the text and images of these materials systematically, comprehensively, and comparatively.
An online archive of digitized broadside ballads from American and European libraries. Includes ballad sheet facsimiles, facsimile transcriptions, and recordings, and an extensive catalog with basic and advanced search functions. Recently added features include a visualization tool for topic modeling, a woodcut search using image recognition, and ballad illustration costume book.
A fully searchable digital repository of depositions or witness testimonies from the 1641 Irish rebellion housed at Trinity College Dublin Library. The resource comprises transcripts and images of all 8,000 depositions, examinations, and associated materials which provide insight into the cultural, religious, and political history of seventeenth-century Ireland.
The site includes historical background, bibliographic resources, a detailed user guide, browsing, and search functions.
A search engine and database which contains every playbook published in England, Ireland, and Scotland through 1660. Includes information on author, theater company, printer, and paratextual material.
Data can also be exported in HTML, CSV, and XML formats.
A searchable database of 65,000+ links to freely accessible electronic texts and digitized photographic reproductions of Neo-Latin works, organized by author/commentator and title.
These scientific, religious, diplomatic, legal, and medical texts etc. are arranged by author, title, link, and subject. Included are notes on publication dates and edition.
