DCRM<\/acronym>: Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books)<\/a><\/p>\n DCRM<\/acronym>: Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Serials)<\/a><\/p>\n DCRM<\/acronym>: Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)<\/a><\/p>\n ALA-LC Romanization Tables<\/a> Yale Fraktur Chart<\/a><\/p>\n Rare Book Toolkit: Directory of Web Resources for the Rare Book Cataloger<\/a><\/p>\n RBMS Controlled Vocabularies<\/a> Standard Citations Forms for Rare Materials Cataloging<\/a><\/p>\n LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies<\/a> Getty Institute Vocabularies<\/a> Bookbinding: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology<\/a> Oxford Companion to the Book<\/a> (2010) (access to U of I users only) Dictionary of Literary Biography<\/a> (access to U of I users only)<\/p>\n Graphic Atlas<\/a> Latin\u2014English Dictionary <\/a> Glossary of Common Latin Terms Found in Imprints<\/a><\/p>\n Lexicon Abbreviaturarum<\/a> (Adriano Cappelli) Abbreviations Online<\/a> Orbis Latinus Online<\/a> RBMS-BSC Latin Place Names File<\/a><\/p>\n Enigma<\/a> Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC)<\/a> English Short Title Catalogue ESTC)<\/a> Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC)<\/a> COPAC<\/a> EDIT 16 (ICCU)<\/a> Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (Italy)<\/a> Biblioteca Nacional (Spain)<\/a> Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)<\/a> Short Title Catalog Netherlands (STCN)<\/a> VD 16 (Germany)<\/a> VD 17 (Germany)<\/a> Bibliography of American Literature<\/a> (access to U of I user only) Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)<\/a> CERL Thesaurus<\/a> (Consortium of European Research Libraries) British Book Trade Index<\/a> Penn Provenance Project<\/a> (Flickr photostream) Pratt Institute Ex Libris Collection (Flickr photostream)<\/a> Clergy of the Church of England Database<\/a> Catholic Church Hierarchy<\/a><\/p>\n
\nTransliteration schemes for non-Roman scripts from the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n
\nVocabulary for binding, provenance, printing, genre, and relator terms.<\/p>\nDictionaries, Thesauri, and Glossaries<\/h3>\n
\nThe Linked Data Service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the Library of Congress. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them.<\/p>\n
\nThe Getty Institute\u2019s online vocabularies, including the Art & Architecture Theasaurus (AAT<\/a>) and the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN).<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDon Etherington\u2019s dictionary of descriptive book terms.<\/p>\n
\nCovers the book throughout the world from ancient to modern times. It includes traditional subjects such as bibliography, paleography, the history of printing, editorial theory and practice, textual criticism, book collecting, and libraries.<\/p>\n
\nA sophisticated resource that presents a unique, object-based approach for the identification and characterization of prints and photographs.<\/p>\nLatin Resources<\/h3>\n
\n\u201cWords\u201d by William Whitaker, Latin-to-English and English-to-Latin translation.<\/p>\n
\nAn alphabetical guide to help identify paleographic abbreviations.<\/p>\n
\nSearch common Latin abbreviations.<\/p>\n
\nLatin place names.<\/p>\n
\nUnpuzzling difficult Latin readings in medieval manuscripts.<\/p>\nOnline Catalogs & Bibliographies<\/h3>\n
\nA collective database of all books published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth century.<\/p>\n
\nEnglish titles published between 1473 and 1800.<\/p>\n
\nAn international database of 15th-century European printing created by the British Library with contributions from institutions worldwide.<\/p>\n
\nSearches over 70 UK and Irish academic, national, and specialist library catalogs.<\/p>\n
\nCatalog of Italian titles published in the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\nSearches the Italian Union Catalog.<\/p>\n
\nSearches Spain\u2019s national library, including manuscripts and artworks.<\/p>\n
\nMeta search interface for more than 500 million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide.<\/p>\n
\nA Dutch retrospective bibliography for the period 1540-1800; also included are concise descriptions of Dutch (post-)incunabula.<\/p>\n
\nGerman titles from the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\nBibliography of books printed in the German-speaking countries from 1601 to 1700.<\/p>\n
\nDescribes in exhaustive detail the works of America\u2019s most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930<\/p>\nProvenance Tools and Authority Files<\/h3>\n
\nVIAF, implemented and hosted by OCLC<\/a>, is a joint project of several national libraries plus selected regional and trans-national library agencies.<\/p>\n
\nSearches places, printers, authors, corporate bodies, and printer\u2019s devices from the hand-press (1450-c. 1830) period across Europe.<\/p>\n
\nAn index of the names and brief biographical details and trade details of people who worked in the book trade in England and Wales and who were trading by 1851.<\/p>\n
\nThis collection of images is useful for identifying bookplates and other records of ownership.<\/p>\n
\nThe Ex Libris Collection consists of nineteenth- and twentieth-century bookplates from private and institutional libraries.<\/p>\n
\nMakes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century.<\/p>\n