Databases

The Polish Provenance Database (PPD) collects, stores and shares information about material evidence (such as ownership marks, bindings, reading marks) of books printed after 1501 that are related to historical or modern Poland.

The database records the circulation of scientific knowledge in early modern Italy through the study of annotated copies of books on the three natural realms, of pharmacopoeia, recipe books and regimina sanitatis.

Names, trades and addresses of people involved in printing in Scotland up to 1850, curated by the National Library of Scotland.

The Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI) is curated by the National Library of Scotland and contains names, trades and addresses of people involved in printing in Scotland up to 1850.

The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) is the authoritative database of material printed in the English-speaking world before 1801.

Material from research into book collections of Mainz citizens with an academic background and members of the lower / middle clergy around 1600, prepared by Christina Schmitz.

Early Book Owners in Britain (EBOB) is a record of British provenances for the time period from 1450 to 1550 gathered by Margaret Lane Ford.

Satellite database of Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) in which biographical information on former and present owners, both personal and institutional, is brought together.

Family names and titles contained in the “General Index of Siebmacher’s Armorials 1605–1961”, with links to full text.