HISTORY OF BOOKS - SOME WEB SITES TO VISIT

GENERAL

http://www.library.upenn.edu/resources/humanities/history/books.html

Collections, Book Arts, Classics, Papyrology, Preservation, Typography, Booksellers

http://www.cybercity.hko.net/dallas/wagers/ousia/Palaeographer.html

links to texts and images from ancient times; projects; sample pages of mss. and printed books

http://www.english.upenn.edu/-traister/

Exhibitions, Events, Conferences, other Resources; New York Public Library's Bibliography on History of Books and Printing, plus images of mss. and printed books.

http://newton.uiowa.edu/~ctrbook/

University of Iowa Center for the Book

ANCIENT

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/awiesner/oralit.html

Iconography of Greek Readers and Writers: "[A} collection of images (with some explanatory text) that may be used in studying how the Greeks conceived of their invention and assimilation of their technologies of writing."

http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/

Papyrology, University of Michigan Collection

http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/

Duke University Papyrus Archives

MEDIEVAL

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/medieval.html

Great Links to Libraries in Europe, Hill Monastic Library; Bibliography. "This home page is based on the print document Books in the Green Library Reference Collection for Medieval Studies, by John Rawlings."

http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

"The Labyrinth is a global information network providing free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University."

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/parchment.html

Parchment--Description: "Parchment was made from the skins of animals such as sheep and cows..."

PRINTED BOOKS/RARE BOOKS

http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/services/exhibits/dysart/

The Dysart Memorial Collection of Rare Books and Manuscripts. "The Dysart Collection consists of nine manuscripts and sixty books, representative of the best book arts of scribes, printers, and illustrators over a span of six hundred years."

http://www.thomson.com/rpub/incunab.html

Incunabula: The Printing Revolution in Europe, 1455-1500

http://www.gse.rutgers.edu/imdg/colonna/ColonnaTop.htm

The Colonna Project

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/rarebook.html

Links to Projects, Conservation, Book Dealers

http://www.slip.net/~graphion/type.html

Typography, Brief Biographies of the Most Famous Printers and Typographers, Modern Typography

http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/wmorris/morris.html

William Morris Home Page

http://www.xs4all.nl/~cremers/

Private Presses, Typography (also Book History and Book Arts)

http://www.ferrini.com/compinf.htm

Bruce Ferrini (dealer specializing in medieval and renaissance illuminated manuscripts)

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/gants/

"A Digital Catalog of Watermarks and Type Ornaments Used by William Stansby in the Printing of the Works of Benjamin Jonson, 1616."