Book History

An interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century

Manuscripts Online enables you to search a diverse body of online primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the period 1000 to 1500. The resources include literary manuscripts, historical documents and early printed books which are located on websites owned by libraries, archives, universities and publishers.

Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.

Digitized medieval and early modern manuscripts from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library)