Maps

 
   
Cartographic Images (extensive collection with many useful commentaries)  
   
Images of Early Maps on The Web (Tony Campbell's gateway site)  
   
Online map collections from Library of Congress  
   
Koninklijke Bibiothek (extensive collection of the National Library of The Netherlands)  
   
Maps from the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana  
   
Museo della Specola (globes, astolabes, etc.from U.of Bologna)  
   
Ciel et Terre (exhibition from Biblotheque Nationale, Paris)  
   
The Starry Messenger (an electronic history of astronomy from Trinity College, Cambridge) great section on armillary spheres  
     
  Out of This World: The Golden Age of The Celestial Atlas  
     
  The Art of Cartography (15th and 16th Centuries)  
     
  Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica  
     
  Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
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Libraries

 
       
    The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine  
       
    The Warburg Institute - an important collection of texts and photographs related to the Renaissance  
       
    COPAC - online catlogues of 22 university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Includes the public catalogue of THE BRITISH LIBRARY  
       
    Ambrosiana Archive, University of Notre Dame  
       
    American Academy in Rome Important collection of classical materials.  
       
    Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana -[telnet://librs6k.vatlib.it]  
       
    Biblioteca Nacional de España
 
     
   

Biblioteca Nacional du Portugal -Has English language version.

 
       
    Bibliotheque Nationale de France  
       
    The British Library  
       
    Computer-based Latin American and Iberian Resources -Great list of gateways. Some links restricted to Stanford users.  
       
    Institute and Museum of History of Science - Florence -A virtual tour of the Museum includes the rooms displaying Galileo's instruments. The site also has comprehensive bibliographies of scholarly work on Galileo and other subjects in the History of Science.  
       
    The Newberry Library -Houses important collections of Renaissance materials and indigenous americana.  
       
    Oriental Institute of Chicago -A good index of resources on the Ancient Near East.  
       
    Associazione IRIS -Five research libraries located in Florence, Italy. Includes Biblioteca Berenson (I Tatti)  
       
    DScriptorium Home Page -A collaboration between Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley to create digital images of manuscripts from their respective rare book collections.  
     
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Ancient Era

       
    Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy, O'Donnell Edition & Commentary - Good brief of the life of Boethius. Latin text, english translation.  
       
    ABZU -Index to Ancient Near Eastern Sources on the Internet)  
       
    Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet -A judicious collection of sites.  
       
    The Ancient World Web Main Index  
       
    AVESTA -- Zoroastrian Archives  
       
    Bible Browser -Jerome's Latin Vulgate, King James Version, Revised Standard Version all on line; can be searched separately or together.  
     
    CERCAM: Centre d'Étude et de Recherches Sur Les Civilisations de L'antiquité Méditerranéene -In French!  
       
    Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World  
       
    Duke Papyrus Archive  
       
    Historical Collections - Antiqua Medicina: From Homer to Vesalius  
       
    The Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature  
       
    Perseus Project Home Page -n.b. this provides access to only part of the site; full access requires subscription.  
       
    Rassegna degli strumenti informatici per lo studio dell'antichità classica -Also good site for things medieval. In Italian.  
     
    VRoma: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics -Includes fabulous virtual tour of the Forum and other sites in ancient Rome.  
       
    The Vergil Project  
       
    Writings of The Ante-Nicene Fathers  
       
    The Latin Library  
       
    Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome  
     
    Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome
 
     
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Medieval Era

 
       
    MATRIX: Resources for the Study of Women's Religious Communities  
       
    Byzantine and Medieval Links Index  
       
    Bibliothèque Nationale de France: The Age of King Charles V(1338-1380)  
       
    The Catalan Atlas (Spain, Majorca. 14TH C.)  
       
    The Ecole Initiative -Focuses on early church history but useful for many medieval projects.  
     
    Labyrinth -One of the first and still one of the most valuable medieval gateway sites.  
       
    Manuscripts, Paleography, Codicology -A pmw favorite. Great links to many important collections of texts and images.  
       
    Monumenta Germaniae Historia -The site for the famous series of editions of medieval sources. In German (but they may have an English translation option).  
       
    NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources -Another basic site.  
       
    ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies -Extensive collection of translation of medieval, Renaissance, Reformation texts on-line. Links to other similar sites.  
     
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Renaissance and Reformation Era

 
       
    EEBO  
       
    Project Gutenberg  
       
    The Columbus Letter (Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education) -Reproduction, transciption, translation of the Basel 1494 edition of Columbus's letter describing the first voyage.  
       
    Iter: The Bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe 400-1700 -Limited access without subscription.  
       
    Online Catasto of 1427 -Famous fifteenth century Florentine census first programmed by two eminent medievalists, David Herlihy  and Christinae Klapsisch-Zuber. Pathbreaking merger of Renaisance record-keeping and modern computer technology that has revealed much of the hidden histories of ordinary people.  
     
    Vatican Exhibit Rome Reborn
 
       
    A Guide to Renaissance Books and Universities
 
       
    CRRS Gateway Site for Renaissance and Reformation Studies
 
       
    Hypnerotomachia Poliphili  
       
    Latitude: Techniques of Navigation in the Renaissance  
     
    1492: An Ongoing Voyage. Library of Congress virtual exhibit  
       
    Luther website
 
       
    The Reformation Guide
 
     
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Mesoamerica

 
       
    Teotihuacan: City of The Gods  
       
    Templo Mayor Museum
 
     
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