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Online Primary Sources (Bibles)
Online Primary Source Collections (Medieval)
Online Primary Source Collections (Early Modern)
Individual Online Primary Sources
Online Primary Sources (Bibles):
- Biblegateway.com (Multiple versions, Searchable)
- Gutenberg Bible at the British Library
- Gutenberg Bible at Göttingen
- Hypertext Book of Hours
- King James Bible (Full Text, Searchable)
- Luther Bible (Full Text, Searchable)
- Luther Bible (1545)
- Multilingual Bibles (ARTFL Project, Searchable)
- Vulgate Bible
Online Primary Sources (Medieval):
- Analytic Bibliography of Online Neo-Latin Texts (Links to numerous online sources)
- Bibliotheca Augustana
- Braunschweig documents (Various docs relating to succession 1235-1840)
- British History Online (Sources for Medieval and Early Modern British History)
- Cartulaires numérisés de l'Ile-de-France (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des chartes)
- Central Archives of the History of the Jewish people (CAHJP)
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC)
- Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) (Digital Abbey Library of St. Gallen, 8th-15th C. facsimilies)
- Datenbank Infosystem, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg (Links to a huge number of online resources)
- Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters
- Digitales Mittelhochdeutsches Textarchiv
- DRW-Quellen im Textarchiv des Deutschen Rechtswörterbuchs
- Empire and Papacy (Sources at Fordham's Medieval Sourcebook)
- Eurodocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
- German History in Documents and Images
- Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse) (1305-1340)
- Handschriften-Digitalisierung der UB Heidelberg
- Historische Hilfswissenschaften Kodikologie (Numerous links to online sources)
- History of Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Primary Documents
- Internet Medieval History Sourcebook
- Manipulus florum (Collection of Latin quotations by Thomas de Hibernia, c.1306, used by preachers in composing sermons)
- MATEO (= MAnnheimer TExte Online)
- Middle High German Interlink
- Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank/Middle-High German Conceptual Database
- Monastic Matrix (Includes documents, images, and more on women monastics, 400-1600)
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Huge collection of Medieval German documents)
- ORB Text Libary: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
- Preußische Rechtsquellen Digital
- Transcription of the Schaffhauser Stadtrechnungen (Switzerland, 1396-1415)
- Turning the Pages at the British Library
- Verteilte Digitale Inkunabelbibliothek (1460-1510)
- Das virtuelle Hamburgische Urkundenbuch
- Wolfenbütteler Digitale Bibliothek (WDB)
Online Primary Sources (Early Modern):
- Analytic Bibliography of Online Neo-Latin Texts (Links to numerous online sources)
- Bibliotheca Augustana
- Braunschweig documents (Various docs relating to succession 1235-1840)
- Briefe adeliger Frauen. Beziehungen und Bezugssysteme (16-18th C)
- British History Online (Sources for Medieval and Early Modern British History)
- CAMENA : Corpus Automatum Multiplex Electorum Neolatinitatis Auctorum (Early Modern Latin Texts at U. Mannheim)
- Central Archives of the History of the Jewish people (CAHJP)
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Corpus Iuris Militaris des Heil. Roem. Reichs
- Datenbank Infosystem, Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg (Links to a huge number of online resources)
- The Decline of the Holy Roman Empire and the Rise of Prussia, 1700-1786 (Sources at Fordham's Modern History Sourcebook)
- Druckschriften des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts (Bibliothek Uni Augsburg)
- Eurodocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents
- Europäische Friedensverträge der Vormoderne (1450 and 1789, from the Institute for European History at U. Mainz)
- Frühe Neuzeit Digital: Digitale Quellen und Editionen
- German History in Documents and Images
- Handschriften-Digitalisierung der UB Heidelberg
- Historische Flugschriften (1577-1739)
- Historische Hilfswissenschaften Kodikologie (Numerous links to online sources)
- History of Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Primary Documents
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook
- Katalog der Wolfenbütteler Luther-Drucke 1513 bis 1546
- MATEO (= MAnnheimer TExte Online)
- Monastic Matrix (Includes documents, images, and more on women monastics, 400-1600)
- Preußische Rechtsquellen Digital
- Project Wittenberg
- Protestant Reformation--Internet Archive of Sources
- Renaissance and Early Modern Festival Books
- Sammlung Albert Hardenberg (16th C)
- 17th Century German Imprints of Baroque Festival Culture
- Turning the Pages at the British Library
- Das Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (VD 17)
- Verteilte Digitale Inkunabelbibliothek (1460-1510)
- The Westphalian Treaties from October 24th, 1648. Texts and Translations
- Wolfenbütteler Digitale Bibliothek (WDB)
Individual Online Primary Sources:
- St. Augustine, Confessions
- Hildegard von Bingen, Liber Scivias
- Das Buch des Heiligen Römischen Reichs Unnderhaltung (1501)
- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Charlemagne, Capitulary Issued in the Year 802
- Charles IV, Golden Bull (1356)
- René Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences
- Froissart's Chronicles (English excerpts)
- Thomas de Hibernia, Manipulus florum (Collection of Latin quotations, c. 1306, used by preachers in composing sermons)
- John of Hildesheim, The Mirror of the Source of Life
- Thomas Hobbes Of Man: Being the First Part of Leviathan
- Louis "the Pius", Ordinance Dividing the Empire (817)
- Johann Christian Lünig, ed.Corpus Iuris Militaris des Heil. Roem. Reichs (1723)
- Samuel Pepys, Diary
- Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg, Chronicle (Chronicon Thietmari Merseburgensis, c. 1000 A.D.)
- Johann Jacob Moser Von der reichs-staettischen Regiments-Verfassung (1772-1773)
- Polydorus Vergilius, De inventoribus rerum (1499)
- Treaty at Aix Between Louis II and Charles the Bald Concerning the Division of the Kingdom of Lothar II
- The Westphalian Treaties from October 24th, 1648. Texts and Translations (1648)