Iter Press Databases

Iter Bibliography

An Open URL- and Zotero-enabled bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400–1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts, and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias, and exhibition catalogues).

Iter Italicum

Brill and Iter are pleased to present the only online edition of Paul Oskar Kristeller’s Iter Italicum, the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. Originally published in six volumes between 1963 and 1992, it is an essential tool for any scholar working in the fields of classical, medieval, and Renaissance studies.

Milton: A Bibliography (1624-1799)

Compiled by John T. Shawcross, Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700 (Revised) and for the Years 1701-1799 is an extensive revision and continuation of his Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700 (1984). It is the only Milton bibliography that covers the eighteenth century.

The bibliography tries to bring together all manuscripts and editions of Milton’s works, all studies and critical statements concerning Milton’s life and works, all allusions and quotations, and all significant imitations, during the years 1624-1799.

Bibliography of English Women Writers (1500-1640)

Compiled by Betty S. Travitsky, A Bibliography of English Women Writers 1500-1640 has evolved from an effort to compile a “comprehensive” record of often quaint past scholarship on some 180 known women writers into an open-ended work of scholarship currently listing 738 recovered writers and their texts, canonical and non-canonical. Including already familiar figures as well as less-known and hitherto unknown English women writers–refugees such as women recusants, women in the colonies, Marrano women (Anusot), women translators and English women writers in French, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Gaelic and Welsh–the bibliography functions not only as a listing of mushrooming scholarship, but also as a roster of English women writers, 1500-1640.

A Database of Dramatic Extracts

Edited by Laura Estill (St Francis Xavier University, Canada) and Beatrice Montedoro (University of Zurich, Switzerland), A Database of Dramatic Extracts (DEx) is an online, searchable database of extracts from English plays found in seventeenth-century manuscripts. DEx aims to provide much-needed information to textual editors, literary scholars, and cultural historians interested in theater history, audience reception, early modern print and manuscript culture, and the history of reading.

Towards an Integrated Digital Environment for Early Modern Studies

This website is the revised report (2020) by the Renaissance Knowledge Network group, with substantial bibliographies, arising from extensive consultations funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 2014 to 2016.

The report brings together the results of the 2014-2016 deliberations of the Renaissance Knowledge Network (ReKN) research group, which engages and explores how best to augment digital scholarship in early modern studies through an integrative and amalgamative approach. The second section of the report is devoted to field directories and an annotated bibliography, with abstracts and project descriptions where possible.

French Renaissance Paleography

The handwriting of earlier times is often very beautiful, but sometimes difficult to read. This paleography website presents French manuscripts written between 1300 and 1700, with tools for deciphering them and learning about their social, cultural, and institutional settings. The site provides integrated access to an archive of historically significant, visually captivating manuscripts held by the Newberry Library and other North American repositories. It is intended for many types of users: scholars preparing to undertake research in French-language archives; students studying French history and culture; curators and archivists who work with manuscripts; calligraphers and graphic designers interested in historical scripts and decorative practices; and anyone who would like to experiment with transcribing early French documents.

Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons

The Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons is an open-access, group-sourced bibliographic database of manuscript sermons from the British Isles and North America between 1530 and 1715. GEMMS is intended to make sermon manuscripts more accessible to sermon scholars, non-specialists, and citizen scholars, such as genealogists and local historians. Manuscript sermons are valuable for studying a wide range of topics, from literature, religion, and book history, to politics, society, and women. GEMMS allows users to identify relevant sermon material in manuscripts held in over eighty repositories quickly and easily, a task that was virtually impossible before. GEMMS includes records for some 30,000 sermons and reports of sermons as well as 4,386 associated people and 3,784 associated places. It also enables searching by biblical passage.

Romeo and Juliet: Searchable Database for Prompt Books

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

The Electronic Capito Project

The Electronic Capito Project provides access to the text of letters from and to Wolfgang Faber Capito (c. 1478-1541) which are either unpublished or were published before 1850 and are therefore difficult to access.