Here are the links from the Second Edition of the Handbook, checked and updated in November 2019. See also the posts in the Understanding Objects category.
New!
- Brother Aelfric’s Leaf Identification Tutorial, by Lisa Fagin Davis. A fun guide which will help you identify medieval manuscript leaves. Lots of links to other useful resources!
- Zine Librarians Interest Group
Examples and case studies cited in the Handbook
- Artists Book Collection at the University of Wisconsin, http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/ArtistsBks.
- Artists Books Online a repository of facsimiles, metadata and criticism, www.artistsbooksonline.org.
- Auchinleck Manuscript, http://auchinleck.nls.uk.
- British Library Database of Bookbindings, www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings.
- British Library Diamond Sutra, www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html.
- British Library Kelmscott Chaucer, www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/landprint/kelmscott/index.html.
- British Library Digitised Manuscripts, www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- British Library Save our Sounds Project, www.bl.uk/projects/save-our-sounds.
- Cambridge University Library Incunabula Project, blog https://inc-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/.
- Cambridge University Library Tower Project, blog https://towerproject-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/
- Codex Sinaiticus, www.codexsinaiticus.com/en.
- Isaac Newton book in the Cardiff Rare Books Collection, https://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/discovery-of-a-long-lost-book-from-the-library-of-sir-isaac-newton-in-the-cardiff-rare-books-collection/
- John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/johnson.
- Macclesfield Psalter, www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/macclesfield/about.
- National Library of Medicine copy of Hooke’s Micrographia, https://ceb.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/hooke/hooke.html.
- Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious, https://lib-dbserver.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/index.html
- Private lives of books, digital.nls.uk/privatelivesofbooks/index.html.
- Provenance exhibition at Glasgow, www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/virtualexhibitions/provenance.
- Unregulated Printing (private presses), https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/CUL/exhibitions/unregulatedprinting/rinting/index.html.
- Victoria and Albert Museum artists books, www.vam.ac.uk/page/a/artists-books.
Useful websites
- ARLIS (visual arts and design librarians (helpful for artists’ books in particular), www.arlis.org.uk.
- Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections, www.amarc.org.uk.
- Association for Recorded Sound Collections, www.arsc-audio.org.
- Association of Moving Image Archivists, www.amianet.org.
- Bibliographic Society, www.bibsoc.org.uk, other societies listed here: www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/other-bibliographical-societies.
- Book-arts L listserv, www.philobiblon.com/book_arts-l.shtml.
- Bookplate Society, www.bookplatesociety.org.
- British and Irish Sound Archives, www.bisa-web.org.
- British Armorial Bindings database, http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca.
- British Library Illuminated Manuscripts Glossary (revised text of Brown, 1994), www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/glossary.asp.
- Centre for Ephemera Studies, www.reading.ac.uk/typography/research/typ-researchcentres.aspx.
- Columbia Audio-Visual Survey, https://library.columbia.edu/bts/preservation/projects.html?
- Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) (European print and manuscript heritage), www.cerl.org. CERL groups include the Manuscript Expert Group and the Book Bindings Working Group.
- Digital Scriptorium, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/BANC/digitalscriptorium.
- Early Book Society, www.nyu.edu/projects/EBS.
- Ephemera Societies (UK), www.ephemera-society.org.uk and (US) www.ephemerasociety.org.
- IASA International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, www.iasa-web.org.
- Le Manuscrit medievale (blog about medieval manuscripts), http://blog.pecia.fr.
- LIBER Manuscript Librarians Group, https://www.cerl.org/collaboration/manuscriptexperts/main.
- Ligatus, bookbindings research centre, www.ligatus.org.uk.
- Medievalbooks: Eric Kwakkel blogging about medieval manuscripts, https://medievalbooks.nl.
- Plastics Historical Society, www.plastiquarian.com.
- Society for History of Authorship, Reading and Printing (including Sharp-L listserv), www.sharpweb.org.
- STCN-fingerprint, www.kb.nl/en/organisation/research-expertise/for-libraries/short-title-catalogue-netherlands-stcn/the-stcn-fingerprint.
