Iter Press: Databases

A bibliography of more than 1.53 million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400–1700.

Indexed Journals     Indexed Essay Collections

The most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts in libraries and collections all over the world.

A listing of manuscripts and editions of Milton's works, studies and critical statements of Milton's life and works, and allusions, quotations, and significant imitations.

A list of scholarship about more than 700 recovered women writers and located texts, including among them familiar figures, and identifying many hitherto unknown writers.

Paleography is the history and study of handwriting. Old scripts can be very beautiful, but sometimes difficult to read. This site presents over 100 carefully selected French manuscripts written between 1300 and 1700, with tools for deciphering them and learning about their social, cultural, and institutional settings.

Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons is an open-access, group-sourced, comprehensive, fully searchable, online bibliographic database of early modern sermon manuscripts from the British Isles and North America.

This site includes two fully-searchable databases containing information from approximately 170 prompt-books for productions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. These productions range from the seventeenth century to the 1980s. Data was assembled by Jill Levenson during the preparation of her Oxford Shakespeare edition of the play.

Provides access to the full text of letters from and to Wolfgang Faber Capito (c. 1478-1541).