Databases

Database of medieval Anatolian texts and manuscripts

The database of medieval Anatolian texts and manuscripts lists all literature produced in Anatolia (excluding archival and epigraphic materials) in Arabic, Persian and Turkish from the late 12th century up to c. 1450. It includes fields of textual production as varied as poetry, history and astronomy alongside Islamic law, Sufi treatises and theology.

 

 

 

Canterbury Court Records

Canterbury Court Records database includes a large portion of the 13th century court records from Canterbury (one of the two highest appeals courts in England). It will assist researchers working on canon law, administration, and manuscript studies.

The Intellectual History Archive

The Intellectual History Archive is a digital repository of papers from eminent intellectual historians. It holds unpublished essays, lecture transcripts, teaching material, research notes, correspondence, and other items of James H. Burns, István Hont, Patricia James, Helmut Pappe, and Donald Winch.

 

 

Monastic Matrix

Monastic Matrix is an ongoing collaborative effort by an international group of scholars of medieval history, religion, history of art, archaeology, religion, and other disciplines, as well as librarians and experts in computer technology.

The goal of the project is to document the participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval Europe. In particular, the project aims to collect and make available all existing data about Christian religious women in Europe between 400 and 1600 C.E.

Publishing the Philosophical Transactions

The Publishing the Philosophical Transactions database powers a ‘key facts’ service for those interested in the history of scientific and scholarly publishing. It currently offers production costs and circulation data for the world’s oldest scientific journal from 1665 to 2015.

Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707

The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 is a fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707. The culmination of over ten years’ work by researchers from the Scottish Parliament Project based at the University of St Andrews. It is now hosted by the National Records of Scotland.

Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC)

The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) brings together information on all books published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the 16th century. Its searchable interface is invaluable to scholars, librarians and book collectors.

 

Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database (SSNE)

The Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe database collates information relating to around 5000 individuals from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales who migrated to or worked in Denmark-Norway and Sweden-Finland between 1580 and 1707.