Link: https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/
Project Status: Ongoing
The SDBM continuously aggregates and updates observations of pre-modern manuscripts drawn from over 13,000 auction and sales catalogs, inventories, catalogs from institutional and private collections, and other sources that document sales and locations of these books from around the world. It may be searched or browsed by author, title, seller, provenance, date, and others, and the datasets may also be downloaded in .xlsx or .csv format. Members of our user community are invited to log in and help us to build, maintain, and improve this resource.
Resource details:
Resource Type: Catalog, Crowd-sourced database, Downloadable data, Linked Open Data, Relational Database, Searchable Database
License: Must provide credit, No Fee
Modern Language: English
Medieval content details:
Dates: 500 - 1600
Subject: Manuscript Studies, Material Culture
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Manuscripts, Textual Evidence
All types of pre-1600 manuscripts
Geopolitical Region: Asia, East and South, Europe, Middle East
All of medieval Europe
Original Language: Arabic (Middle), Aramaic, Armenian, Celtic, Chinese, Coptic, Czech, Dutch, English, Ethiopian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Norse, Persian (Middle), Portuguese, Slavic, Spanish, Syriac, Turkish
All medieval European languages
All medieval authors