Online Resources for Incunabula Research

Compiled by Klaus Graf

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News-Services

http://www.listserv.dfn.de/archives/incunabula-l.html
Archives of INCUNABULA-L, the mailing list for incunabula research (main language: German)

http://log.netbib.de/index.php?s=inkunab
Entries in (German) in the library Weblog Netbib mentioning incunabula
See also: the category "Altes Buch" of the same Weblog


Important Databases

http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/
Database of the "GW" (Plugin required!)

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/istc/index.html
ISTC Database

http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/cocoon/bsbink/start.html
Munich Incunabula Catalog (BSB-Ink) online (with provenances!)

http://aleph.onb.ac.at/ALEPH/-/start/ink
Database "Inkunabelzensus Österreich" - Incunabula in Austria (no provenances)
NB: ISTC-Data of all incunabula are included.

http://www.inka.uni-tuebingen.de/
INKA "Inkunabelkataloge deutscher Bibliotheken"
Large database of incunabula in German libraries (partly with provenances)

http://www.cimec.ro/scripts/Carte/incunabule/default.asp
Incunabula in Romania (Census, no provenances)

http://watermark.kb.nl/
Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries


OPACs and lists with Provenance Data

Please note that an aim of this link collection is to support PROVENANCE RESEARCH

Please search the list archives of INCUNABULA-L (substring search: "proven" - thus you will find provenance and provenienz/en)

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/incunabula/
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library (ca. 450 voll.)
Database with provenances

Graz, Austria
http://www-classic.uni-graz.at/ubwww/sosa/inku/index.php

Rein, Austria
http://www.uni-graz.at/ubwww/ub-sosa/ub-sosa-inkunabeln/ub-sosa-inkunabeln-stift-rein.htm

http://www.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/sondersammlungen/oettingen_wallerstein/katalog/inkunabel.html
Database for U Library Augsburg (Oettingen-Wallerstein)

http://ubik-lbo.bibvb.ac.at/
Oberösterreichische Landesbibliothek Linz (Search in field: Inkunabel-Exemplar-Beschr.)

http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ft129002fh
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/rbc/incunabula.html
Incunabula Collection at Stanford University, 1467-1500 (178 voll.)
List with provenances

Bibliothèque Royale Bruxelles
http://www.kbr.be/informations/projets/incunables/incunables1_fr.html

Bridwell Library
http://poni.smu.edu/

University Gent
http://lib.ugent.be/info/nl/sc-oudedrukken.shtml

Basel/Bern
http://aleph.unibas.ch/F?func=file&file_name=find-b
You can find provenance notes of incunabula with searching for e.g. Goff GW
Try e.g. Oberherrlingen
Meta-Search with provenances Basel/Bern and ZB Zürich (NEBIS):
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk/kvk/easykvk.html

Mainzer Inkunabeldatenbank
http://www.gutenberg-bibliothek.de/datenbanken/staub/

Philadelphia, College of Physicians (400+)
http://www.collphyphil.org/

Dibner Library
http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/incunabula/
Database

Vassar College (small collection)
http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/Incunabula/stc.htm
List

Sweden
http://websok.libris.kb.se/
You can browse by year. Provenances but no way to search for!

Senate House Library, U of London (130 items)
See the links at http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5677648/

National and University Library Zagreb
http://www.nsk.hr/ruk/?yearid=5&language=eng


Important Digitized Catalogs

Bod-Inc (Bodleiana)
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/bod-inc.html
With provenances.

http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/vm/katindex-en.htm
Victor Madsen: Katalog over Det Kongelige Biblioteks inkunabler [Catalogue of incunabula in the Royal Library] (Images)
NB: With provenances (see index) vol. II, pp. 501 sqq.

http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/kataloge/HSK0024.htm
Vera Sack: Die Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek und anderer öffentlicher Sammlungen in Freiburg im Breisgau und Umgebung - Catalog of the Freiburg incunabula (Images)
NB: With provenances (see index)

http://mek.oszk.hu/06100/06119/pdf/index.html
Incunabula in Hungary.

Important Digitized Books on Incunabula

http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Voullieme/voullieme_index.html
Ernst Voulliéme, Die deutschen Drucker des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts, Berlin 1922

http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Ludwig Hain, Repertorium bibliographicum - the volume C-G is lacking!

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft409nb31c
Mary Kay Duggan: Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type, 1992

See also below the Cologne books!

Bibliographical works and catalogs (H. P. Kraus etc.) can be found digitized in the Posner Collection at the CMU:
http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/

Some other works are in the Toronto collection of the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/texts/collection.php?collection=toronto
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jenjonliz/jon/tia/toronto.html
Contains a classical work with provenances Collijn (Uppsala)
http://www.archive.org/details/katalogderinkunabeln00colluoft

Large Digital Libraries of Complete Incunabula

The best way to find digitized incunabula is a search in the GW database. A search helpi in German can be found at:
http://www.listserv.dfn.de/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0711&L=incunabula-l&P=837

http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/incunabula.htm
http://inkunabeln.ub.uni-koeln.de
Verteilte Digitale Inkunabelbibliothek - Collection of digitized books from Cologne and Wolfenbüttel
NB: Including the following research literature on the Cologne incunabula (images):
Ennen, Leonard: Katalog der Inkunabeln in der Stadtbibliothek zu Köln. Köln 1869. Voulliéme, Ernst: Der Buchdruck Kölns bis zum Ende des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts: ein Beitrag zur Inkunabelbibliographie, Bonn 1903 (and other)

http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Gallica - a large amount of incunabula: mostly badly scanned and without sufficient bibliographic descriptions

Biblioteca Digital Histpanica
http://www.bne.es/BDH/index.htm
1100+ incunabula, bad quality

http://roble.unizar.es/search*spi~S6/ftlist
University Library Zaragoza - 400+ incunabula

http://fondotesis.us.es/books/search/list_books_by_group?oid=5
University Library Sevilla - 280+ incunabula

http://digitheka.uv.es/
University Library Valencia - 165 incunabula

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

http://snipurl.com/4m02
"Biblioteca digital Dioscórides. Incunables" - 110 books

http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/bibliotecavirtualandalucia/catalogo/busqueda_asistida.cmd
Biblioteca virtual de Andalucia - 100+ incunabula in Andalusian libraries and Andalusian incunabula

http://adrastea.ugr.es/search*spi/
University Library Granada - 100+ (?) incunabula

http://www.mediatheque-agglo-troyes.fr
BM Troyes 90 incunabula (mostly French)

http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/ausgaben/uni_ausgabe.html?projekt=1157526886
BSB Munich, quick growing project

Special Topics

Linklist of digitized copies of the Gutenberg bible B42
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg-Bibel
See also http://www.listserv.dfn.de/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0404&L=INCUNABULA-L&P=R237&I=-3

Linklist Colonna (Hypnerotomachia Poliphili) and Schedel chronicle
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/type=rezbuecher&id=5362&re=577
Additions here under DigiMisc

http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/ub/sosa/skriptumdruckgeschichte/inkunabeln.html
Die Entwicklung des Buchdruckes nach Gutenberg. Script

Recommended Link Collections

http://www.uniud.it/libroantico/libro.html
Il libro antico in biblioteca - A good guide for rare book research in the internet

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/113113/
Deutsche Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts im WWW - German printed books of the XVIth. century digitized in the internet (weblog entry in ARCHIVALIA by Klaus Graf)

palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/2004/03/msg00065.html
Digital Libraries of Rare Books in Spain (mailing list message by Klaus Graf, 2004)
UPDATED here at DigiSpain

http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu
EuroDocs?: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations

http://www.ndl.go.jp/incunabula/e/index.html
Dawn of Western Printing - Incunabla
Gives in 4 chapters (What are Incunabula, Various Typefaces, Printing and Book Designs, Bookbinding an Decoration) with rich illustration comprehensive information

http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/15ercatalogs.shtml
Incunabula Catalogs - link list by Bob Peckham


See also in this Wiki

DigitaleHandschriften
Large Digital Libraries of Western manuscripts (in English )

DigiSpain
Digital Libraries of Rare Books in Spain ()

DigiOsten
East European Digital Libraries (in German)

RareUS
Digitized rare books in the USA (incunabula marked )