Early Printed Books (Europe 1450 to 1800)

lists website of each National Library; the starting page of each National Library will have a list to their unique Digital Collections.

works with with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research.

a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

authors and works as plain text by era.

ADL is a website for classical Danish literature and gives the opportunity to study the texts, which are integrated into an integrated literary-historical and documentary aspect. (The titles are often accessible as facsimile or text file.) All texts about the authors are written by experts. All periods are represented, from the 12th century (saxo) to 1938 (Georg Brandes, Thøger Larsen and Gustaf Munch-Petersen as some of the more recent authors).

French authors from the 16th to the beginning of the 20th century, is continuously updated.

Literature and culture starting with 1750

Icelandic National Library Digital collections.

The book inventory of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB, Bavarian State Library) relating to Bavaria is unique in terms of scale and completeness. The BSB collects all publications issued in Bavaria as well as all publications worldwide with a Bavarian connection. The supply makes it possible to search 78,000 full texts from holdings relevant to Bavaria from the early modern period and the 19th century.

a project launched by the Asociación de Bibliotecas Nacionales de Iberoamérica (ABINIA). Its objective is the creation of a portal which provides access, from a single search point, to the digital resources of all the participating libraries.

access free of charge to thousands of digitised documents, including books printed from the 15th to the 20th century, manuscripts, drawings, engravings, pamphlets, posters, photographs, maps, atlases, music scores, historic newspapers and magazines and audio recordings.

access to works from the Middle Ages to the present.

documents Spanish literature and culture; includes works across centuries.

early modern Latin texts.

works in Italian and English.

archive of literature and culture of the Netherlands

texts across the history of the Netherlands.

sources representing German scientific language to 1700

focused on the Middle Ages and Humanistic period.

Swedish drama from 1700 to present.

books from the Netherlands 1781-1800.

"Early Modern Thought Online" (EMTO) is a database offering access to about 13.500 digitized source texts from early modern philosophy and related disciplines like history of science and history of theology provided by libraries in Europe and overseas. In the present stage of its development, EMTO presents mainly links to external resources.

digitized collections from a network of European Libraries.

gives access to Finnish archives with digital collections.

a comprehensive digital library hosted at the French National Library. 6 015 636 documents online.

digital collections for Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm research on fairy tales.

allows a cross search of digital object in Spanish libraries.

a foundational listing of all books published in Spain, Portugal and the New World or printed elsewhere in Spanish or Portuguese during the Golden Age, 1472-1700, as well as to create a suite of digital search tools to permit its investigation. Includes 43,000 links to digitised copies.

includes authors from the 13th century up to authors born in 1945. The following types of works are included: anthologies, articles and essays, autobiographies, biographies, children's literature, devotional works, dialogues, diaries, dramas, epics, hagiographies, histories and chronicles, interviews and conversations, letters, memoirs, novels, operas, poems, reviews, short stories, and travel literature.

342 works by Italian authors from 1300 to the present.

80 texts from the English Renaissance.

German political sermons from the 16th and 17th century.

2280 stories that represent the different regions of Greenland

106 000 records from333 Bibliotheken, about 68 000 digitized books from German sneaking countries for 1501–1600.

German language records from 1601 bis 1700; digitization of titles is in progress.

18th century printed books; there is no central database for VD 18, but the Karlsruher Virtuellen Katalog (KVK) offers a simultaneous search for the time period in participating institutional catalogs.