Here’s another useful link: the Goethezeitportal, a excellent umbrella site linking to all kinds of online resources for the study of German art, literature and music in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The “Weblinks” page is extensive, and they also provide a large number of articles for download as PDF files directly on [...]
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The Wooden Artifacts Group of the American Institute for Conservation provides some useful resources here. You can browse their archive of postprints; also, the Digital Bookshelf is an excellent set of links to online books on cabinetmaking and related topics, mostly 18th- and 19-century. There are also links to wood image databases and other miscellaneous [...]
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In the collection of German manuscripts at the Münchner Digitalisierungszentrum (a project of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) I found Wolfgang Seydel’s Kunstbuch oder von manigerlai Handwerchskünsten (loosely translated, Book of Arts, or Of Various Handcrafts) (1550-1560). I can’t read much of the handwriting, only a few words here and there (“glue,” “silver”), but for those who [...]
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The Library of the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Cologne has a web site that links to an enormous number of digital resources, in particular for German history. I find the site a little difficult to navigate, and it looks like the main page may not have been updated in [...]
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I just discovered the Waller Manuscripts Collection at the University of Uppsala Library. What a knockout! It is a beautifully catalogued digital archive of manuscripts from the Middle Ages through the 20th century, mainly related to the sciences, all donated to the Uppsala Library in 1955 by the famous collector Erik Waller.
You can view high-resolution [...]
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