Medieval and Early Manuscripts
Houghton Library. Digital Medieval Manuscripts
Walters Art Museum. The Digital Walters
Columbia University Libraries. Digital Scriptorum
UCLA. Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
Oxford University. Early Manuscripts
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Parker Library
538 Medieval Manuscripts, including one of the largest collections of Old English.
Adam Matthew Digital, Ltd. Medieval Family Life. (From libraries in Britain)
Printed Books
Bavarian State Library, Munich. 15th century Bavarian Blockbooks
National Gallery of Art. Announcing the Text: Development of the Title Page, 1470-1900.
Proquest. Early European Printed Books.
Bookbindings
British Library. Database of Bookbindings.
Morgan Library. Incunable Bookbindings.
Princeton Special Collections. Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious
Folger Shakespeare Library. Binding Image Collection.
Book Illustration
Image Permanence Institute. Graphics Atlas.
Bibliography
Tanselle, G. Thomas. Introduction to Bibliography, Seminar Syllabus. Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 2002. (PDF)
Tanselle, G. Thomas. Introduction to Scholarly Editing, Seminar Syllabus. Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 2002. (PDF)
Comprehensive guides to the literature of these two fields, including suggestions for basic reading and chronological lists of the writings on specific topics. See The Tanselle Syllabi on the Rare Book School website.
Printers Devices at the University of Barcelona.
Database of Bookbindings at the British Library.
Princeton Special Collections. Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious
Image Permanence Institute. Graphics Atlas. Print identification tutorial and reference.
Book Trade
Rosenthal, B.M. Dictionary of Abbreviations Commonly used by German and Italian Antiquarian Booksellers and Auctioneers. Hilversum, Netherlands: ILAB/LILA, 1993. (PDF)
Franco, Edgar. Dictionary of Terms and Expressions commonly used in the Antiquarian Booktrade in French, English, German and Italian. ILAB/LILA, 1994. (PDF)
Carter, John and Nicolas Barker. ABC for Book Collectors. 8th ed. Oak Knoll Press, 2004. (PDF)
Music
Library of Congress. Music Treasures Consortium (also includes BL, Harvard, Juilliard, The Morgan, and NYPL)
Theatre
University of Washington. J. Willis Sayre Photographs. 24,000 photographs of theatrical and vaudeville performers, musicians, and entertainers who played in Seattle between about 1900 and 1955.
Paleography – Online Courses and Tutorials
Universités Lyon, France. Interactive Album of Medieval Palaeography.
Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service, Cambridge University, UK. English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course.
National Archives, UK. Latin Paleaography, online tutorial.
National Archives, UK. Paleaography: Reading Old Handwriting 1500-1800, A Practical Online Tutorial.
Paleography – Books
Johnston, Edward. Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering. New York: Macmillan, 1915. (6th ed.) [Google Books]
Wright, Andrew. Court-hand restored; or, The student’s assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1864. [Internet Archive]
Cappelli, Adriano. Lexicon Abbreviaturarum. 2. verb. Aufl. Leipzig, 1928. (In German)
Cappelli, Adriano. The Elements of Abbreviation in Medieval Latin Paleography. University of Kansas Libraries, 1984.
Paper
University of Iowa. Paper Through Time.
University of Iowa. Center for the History of the Book. Chancery Papermaking. (Video)
AngliaTV. Papermaking by hand at Hayle Mill, England 1976 (Video)
Preservation/Conservation
Folger Shakespeare Library. Handling Rare Materials (video).
Harvard College Library. Handling Harvard’s Special Collections (video).
General Collections of Primary Resources
World Digital Library
GoogleBooks
Internet Archive
Gallica
Hathi Trust
Europeana
Harvard Hollis Catalogue
ILAB
EROMM – European Register of Microform and Digital Masters
EDIT 16 – The census of Italian 16th century editions
MDZ – Munich Digitization Center
USTC – European printed books through the 16th century