Databases on single authors
- Petrarcae codices LatiniThe "Petrarcae codices Latini" is a database of Latin manuscripts by Francesco Petrarca and other medieval and early renaissance authors with about 1,700 bibliographic descriptions. The database covers all of Europe with the exception of manuscripts held in Florence and Spain.
- Luthers WerkeLuthers Werke on the World Wide Web reproduces the Weimar Edition in electronic form. The Weimar Edition, which is regarded as a monumental work in the field of theology and the German language, was first published in 1883 and includes 112 volumes in 117 sections.
Databases on single arguments
- Bibliography of English Women Writers (1500-1640)The Bibliography contain a list of scholarship about writers and located texts, canonical and non-canonical. It identifies many unknown writers, including already familiar figures, but also women refugees, women in the colonies, Marrano women (Anusot), women translators, and English women writers in French, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh.
- Defining Gender Online: Five Centuries of Advice Literature for Men and Women (1450-1910)Five Centuries of Advice Literature for Men and Women Online is published by Adam Matthew. When complete, this resource will comprise five modules, each with introductory essays, and will contain about ten thousand images of original documents. Currently, two modules are available. Section I: Conduct and Politeness, focuses on advice literature for women, while Section II: Domesticity and the Family, "frames gendered behaviour within the context of family." Separate lists of names, topics, and documents can be used to access materials. Defining Gender also permits keyword searches of its indexes: the "Boolean functionality" section explains this in detail. Short biographies of individuals are provided. Coverage: 1450-1910
- Perdita manuscripts: Women writers, 1500-1700The quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form.The manuscripts in the site were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and they have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA. This first part includes c270 manuscripts from c18 libraries and archives in the UK and North America. ..The manuscripts are remarkably varied in their content including works of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts."--Vendor website. Coverage: 16th-17th centuries.
- MCES - Fondazione Mantova Capitale Europea dello SpettacoloDatabase with bibliography and archival documentary on drama and theatre.
Shakespeare - Databases
- World Shakespeare Bibliography Online (1968-)The WSB Online includes "annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1965 and early 2004." Coverage: 1968-2003, with expanding coverage.
- Shakespeare Complete WorksThe original electronic source for this edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare. Also offered is full-text searching, a glossary, and a discussion area.
- Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (Lion) (1591-1911)Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare contains 11 major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, 28 separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. In addition, it contains more than 100 adaptations, sequels. In the great majority of cases, texts have been captured entire, with all introductions, prefaces, appendices, indices, notes editorial and authorial, essays, tables, figures, illustrations, etc. reproduced in full. Half title pages, publisher's advertisements, and decorations have not been captured. Hypertext links have been created to connect editorial matter to the texts whenever possible. Where omissions have been made they are noted in the relevant bibliographic entry. No attempt has been made to standardise the different conventions adopted by the various editors of Shakespeare's texts. The user should refer to the editors' own introductions for explanations (more or less full) of their particular practices. Act and scene numbering follows the source texts throughout; the user will inevitably encounter irregularities, particularly in early editions, where attributions to Shakespeare may be found to be at variance with modern consensus. Coverage: 1591-1911
Dante - Databases
- Dartmouth Dante ProjectThe Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.
- Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)This exhibition presents Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with selected treasures from The Newberry Library.
- World of DanteThe gallery has more than 600 images and some materials which are not available on any other site which might interest art historians, and illustrations from Yates Thompson 36, one of the most famous illuminated manuscripts of the Comedy. Illustrations by Botticelli, Dore', Flaxman, and other artists are also included.
- DanteLab"Dante Lab is an online application that allows students and scholars of the Divine Comedy to read and compare up to four text editions from the site’s database simultaneously. The objective of Dante Lab is to create a virtual workspace that accounts for the needs of both students and novices to the poem, as well as serious scholars engaged in contemporary Dante Studies."
- Intertextual Dante"Intertextual Dante is a digital edition of Dante’s Commedia that highlights its intertextual passages. The project offers a new way to read and research intertextual passages in the Commedia: it transforms the print concordance, a static list of corresponding passages, into an interactive digital tool that allows users to read the intertextual passages side by side and in context."
- Illuminated Dante Project (Manus Online)"Illuminated Dante Project (IDP) nasce in seno al gruppo di ricerca di Filologia Italiana dell'Università di Napoli "Federico II" e si propone di allestire, in prospettiva del VII centenario della morte di Dante Alighieri (2021), un archivio online e un database codicologico e iconografico di tutti gli antichi manoscritti della Commedia di Dante provvisti di immagini che intrattengano relazioni col testo del poema. Il progetto ha costituito un corpus di circa 280 manoscritti datati e databili tra il XIV e il XV secolo e conservati in biblioteche, musei, archivi pubblici e privati nazionali e internazionali."
- Frammenti della Commedia (Manus online)"FraC - Frammenti della commedia punta a catalogare tutti i testimoni frammentari di tradizione diretta della Commedia di Dante Alighieri databili tra XIV e XV secolo, e di pubblicarne online via IIIF le riproduzioni digitali in alta risoluzione. Se la tradizione non frammentaria del Poema conta, secondo i più aggiornati repertori, circa 600 codici, altrettanto rilevante risulta essere la tradizione frammentaria: si registrano, tra frammenti di codici originariamente integri e excerpta, circa 200 testimoni. Di questo conto FraC ha selezionato i soli frammenti di tradizione diretta (119 item), ai quali per la prima volta riserverà uno spazio dedicato di analisi codicologica, testuale e iconografica, allo scopo di verificare da un lato la consistenza e la qualità dei più importanti raggruppamenti codicologici e ecdotici finora rilevati dalla critica dantesca, e di accennare dall’altro possibili nuovi sbocchi della tradizione."