Online Resources for Incunabula Research

Compiled by Klaus Graf

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News-Services

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

http://log.netbib.de/index.php?s=inkunabext. link
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/ext. link
Database of the "GW" (Plugin required!)

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

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

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

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

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

http://watermark.kb.nl/ext. link
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/ext. link
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library (ca. 450 voll.)
Database with provenances

http://dzd.uni-graz.at/html/neu/inku.htmext. link
Databases for U Library Graz and Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek

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

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

http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ft129002fhext. link
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/rbc/incunabula.htmlext. link
Incunabula Collection at Stanford University, 1467-1500 (178 voll.)
List with provenances

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

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

Basel/Bern
http://aleph.unibas.ch/F?func=file&file_name=find-bext. link
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.htmlext. link

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

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

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

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

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


Important Digitized Catalogs

http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/vm/katindex-en.htmext. link
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.htmext. link
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)


Important Digitized Books on Incunabula

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

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

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft409nb31cext. link
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/ext. link

Some other works are in the Toronto collection of the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/texts/collection.php?collection=torontoext. link
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jenjonliz/jon/tia/toronto.htmlext. link
Contains a classical work with provenances Collijn (Uppsala)
http://www.archive.org/details/katalogderinkunabeln00colluoftext. link

Large Digital Libraries of Complete Incunabula

http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/incunabula.htmext. link
http://inkunabeln.ub.uni-koeln.deext. link
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/ext. link
Gallica - a large amount of incunabula: mostly badly scanned and without sufficient bibliographic descriptions

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

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

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

http://snipurl.com/4m02ext. link
"Biblioteca digital Dioscórides. Incunables" - 110 books

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

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

http://www.bm-troyes.fr/bmtroyes/accueil.phpext. link
BM Troyes 90 incunabula (mostly French)


Special Topics

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

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

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

Recommended Link Collections

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

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/113113/ext. link
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)
UPDATED here at DigiSpain

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

http://www.ndl.go.jp/incunabula/e/index.htmlext. link
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


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 )