Digital Libraries of Rare Books in Spain

Updated version of the EXLIBRIS message by Dr. Klaus Graf
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/2004/03/msg00065.html

The following link collection (without comments) is dedicated from the creator Dr. Klaus Graf to the Public Domain

Please note that most of the Digital Libraries contain a lot of early modern latin works (partly listed in Dana Sutton's Neolatin Bibliography
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/ )

Directory of Resources
http://roai.mcu.es/es/comunidades/registros.cmd
http://www.mcu.es/roai/en/comunidades/registros.cmd

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Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
Many latin works, including incunabula (Gutenberg bible!)
Collection Biblioteca de Catalunya:
http://www.bnc.es/digital/cercacat.php?categoria=FDIG


Biskaia's Provincial Library
http://bibliotecaforal.bizkaia.net/screens/bibdigital.html
Large (4000+ books)! E.g. 30+ incunabula
See also http://extern.historicum.net/liwi/2006/liwi2006-32.htm (in German)


Biblioteca Complutense Madrid
http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search*spi~S4/e?SEARCH=biblioteca+digital
http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/foa/dioscorides.htm (list of works)
2750 titles, mainly history of medicine, including 100+ incunabula

  
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
http://www.bne.es/BDH/coleccionesdigi.htm
Including rare books.
See the German comment
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4624770/


Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico
http://bvpb.mcu.es/
1500+ Mss. and printed books
See http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4271775/ (German)

Biblioteca virtual de Andalucia
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/bibliotecavirtualandalucia/
Including 100+ incunabula from Andalusian libraries
See http://www.sfn.historicum.net/links/2005/liwi2005-21.htm (German)

University Library Sevilla
http://fondotesis.us.es/fondos/
280+ incunabula, 400+ 180 XVIth century books and more
German comment: http://log.netbib.de/archives/2006/03/14/sevilla/

Sevilla Law Library: Pixelegis
http://bib.us.es/derecho/recursos/pixelegis/index-ides-idweb.html
84 (March 2004: 30+, March 2005: 130+, March 2006: 360+, June 2007: 730+) works, a few latin works, the other mostly in Spanish. No incunabula.

Sevilla: Biblioteca Digital de la Biblioteca de las Facultades de Filología etc.
http://bib.us.es/guiaspormaterias/ayuda_invest/humanidades/2007FGH_DIGITAL/index.asp
70+, nearly all Spanish

University Library Valencia: Somni
http://biblioteca.uv.es/valenciano/recursos_electronicos/somni.php
2000 books [1]


Biblioteca Valenciana BIVALDI
http://bv2.gva.es/default.php
Mostly books of local interest - free registration required! A few incunabula.


University Library Granada
http://adrastea.ugr.es/search*spi~S2
4300+ books
[2]


Spanish National Library
http://www.bne.es/cgi-bin/wsirtex?FOR=WBNCONS4
320 (June 2007; Mar 2006: 302; 11 Mar 2004: 234) books before 1830, many in Latin.
On the newspaper digitization see the German blog entry
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2007/03/21/elektronisches-zeitschriftenarchiv/


University Library Zaragoza
http://roble.unizar.es/search*spi~S6/ftlist
405 incunabula
http://biblioteca.unizar.es/fondoantiguo.php
"Tesoros"


University Murcia: Biblioteca Digital Floridablanca
http://digitum.um.es/xmlui/handle/10201/8
Some latin saec. XVI

Biblioteca Digital Séneca
http://interclassica.um.es/biblioteca_digital_seneca/
17 rare books saec. XV-XVII

"Fundación San Millán de la Cogolla"
http://www.fsanmillan.es/biblioteca/biblioteca.jsp
206 books, a few incunabula
See the German comment
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2004/08/04/fundacin-san-milln-de-la-cogolla/


Fundación Sancho el Sabio
http://www.euskadi.net/LiburutegiDigitala/
38 early modern titles in latin, no incunabula, but mss.
See the German comment
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2004/08/04/baskisches/

Galiciana
http://galiciana.bngalicia.org/

Digital Library of Galicia
http://www.csbg.org/bibliotecadixital/asp/index.asp
Including some latin works
Note that you need a specific TIFF-viewer

BIVIDA: Laws of Aragon
http://www.bivida.es/
Large (1800+ works)! Including latin works since saec. 16

University Library Barcelona - Fons Grewe
http://www.bib.ub.edu/fileadmin/imatges/llibres/grewe.htm
40+ Cookbooks (saec. 16-18) in European languages

Memoria Digital de Catalunya
http://mdc.cbuc.cat/

University Library Santiago
http://iacobus.usc.es/search*gag~S7
140+ incunabula (PDFs)
http://iacobus.usc.es/search*gag/sBUSC+dixital.+Incunables/sbusc+dixital+incunables/-3,-1,0,B/browse

Literatura Emblemática Hispánica
http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/cicyt/index.html
See the German comment
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2005/08/23/spanische-emblembucher/

Royal Botanical Garden Madrid
http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/index.php
500+, some latin stuff

Yuste Digital
http://www.yustedigital.com/principal/indexframe.asp
http://www.papelesdeyustedigital.com/biblioteca/fondoAntiguo/fondoAntiguo.htm
20+ books (saec. XVI/XVIII), some latin

Urbanism
http://www.cehopu.cedex.es/es/biblioteca_dl.php?ID_col=1
Spanish books incl. incunabula

http://bibliotecavirtualmadrid.org/
Biblioteca Digital de la Comunidad de Madrid

Castilla La Mancha
http://www.uclm.es/Ceclm/b_virtual/libros.htm
3 Spanish books before 1800

BV Castilla La Mancha
http://bidicam.jccm.es/i18n/estaticos/contenido.cmd?pagina=estaticos/presentacion

Biblioteca Virtual del Principado de Asturias
http://www.bibliotecavirtual.asturias.es/
Some rare books.

Biblioteca Virtual de Aragón
http://www.digibis.com/biviar/i18n/estaticos/contenido.cmd?pagina=estaticos/presentacion

Biblioteca Digital de Castelló
http://repositori.uji.es/jspui/handle/123456789/13

Bibliotheca de Barcarotta
http://www.bibliotecadeextremadura.com/bib_barca.htm
Some rare books incl. latin (zipped PDFs, resolution too small)

Catálogo y Biblioteca Digital de Relaciones de Sucesos (siglos XVI-XVIII)
http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/RelacionesSucesosBusqueda/MainPage.jsp
Some digitized copies (too small!) from the Biblioteca Xeral de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spanish

UA Biblioteca de derecho
http://biblioteca.uam.es/derecho/fondo_digital.html
7 books, 2 German

Poliantea
http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/poliantea/GetAllPolianteas.do
Few rare books incl. latin.

University of Rioja
http://biblioteca.unirioja.es/digibur/digibur.html

Biblioteca Virtual de La Rioja
http://bibliotecavirtual.larioja.org/i18n/estaticos/contenido.cmd?pagina=estaticos/presentacion
Incl. incunabula.

Biblioteca Navarra Digital
http://www.cfnavarra.es/BINADI/Ventanas/Presentacion.aspx

Biblioteca Municipal de Cordoba
http://biblioteca.cordoba.es/31_Nuestra_Biblioteca_Digital.html

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
http://digitool-uam.greendata.es/R

Universidad de Huelva
http://rabida.uhu.es/dspace/handle/10272/4
http://rabida.uhu.es/dspace/browse-date?order=oldestfirst

Biblioteca Virtual Lanstanosa
http://bv.lastanosa.com/
XVIIth century books

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Portugal

List of projects (German)
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4586823/
See also: http://minerva.bn.pt/frontend.ProjectoBrowse.do

Biblioteca Nacional Digital
http://bnd.bn.pt/
http://purl.pt/index/monog/PT/index.html
A few works in foreign languages

Gulbenkian Foundation
http://www1.gulbenkian.pt/Coleccoes/ColecDigitalizadas.asp
See the German comment
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2004/09/14/portugal/

University of Lisboa, Faculty of Letters
http://www.fl.ul.pt/biblioteca/biblioteca_digital/index.htm
Some incunabula

Digital Library of Alentejo
http://www.bdalentejo.net/
Some pre-1800 rare books.

University Coimbra
http://bdigital.bg.uc.pt/
http://web.bg.uc.pt/Bibliotecadigital/index.html
Incl. latin rare books and manuscripts

University Coimbra, Law Faculty
http://bibdigital.fd.uc.pt/index.htm
Rare books incl. latin

Biblioteca Digital de Botânica (U Coimbra)
http://bibdigital.bot.uc.pt/

Ius Lusitaniae
http://www.iuslusitaniae.fcsh.unl.pt/
Laws (port.)

University of Minho
www.sdum.uminho.pt/site/bibdig/edicoes/edicoes.asp
One old work saec. XVIII (port.)
2008, Jan.: PDFs not found

Porto, Faculty of Science
http://www.fc.up.pt/fa/index.php?p=nav&f=html.fbib-Monografia-an
A lot of latin works

University Aberta
http://www.univ-ab.pt/bad/
Some works (port.)

http://www.fd.unl.pt/ConteudosAreas.asp?Area=BibliotecaDigital
Legal works mostly saec. XIX


Appendix: Outdated notes

[1]
http://digitheka.uv.es/
Very Large! 170+ incunabula
Warning: The server is down since several weeks (Sept. 2004)
Update (Oct. 2004): Works can be viewed again but it seems difficult to locate them in the catalog (filtering with "Biblioteca Digital" doesn't work).
March 2006: not available
See now: http://lubna.uv.es:83/
July 2006: available again at http://bibliothek.uv.es/

[2]
http://web.archive.org/web/20050228055747/http://www.ugr.es/~biblio/libros_electronicos/adrasteatitulos.html
(list not complete)
Large!
March 2005: The items are not available since months.
January 2006: Thanks to Nikolaus Jaspert the books can be seen again
Please note that the list above is not complete, you have to use also the OPAC of the Fondo Antiguo at
http://adrastea.ugr.es/search*spi~S2
Now with 100+ (?) incunabula, see e.g. the following search
http://adrastea.ugr.es/search*spi/gIBE+4164/gibe+4164/-26,-1,0,B/browse
According to
http://www.mcu.es/roai/en/comunidades/registro.cmd?id=63
4300 books in 2005
See also http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005394/ (in Spanish)