Early European Books (EEB)
Providing access to almost 25,000 rare and often unique books, Early European Books (EEB) is a key resource for those with a strong research interest in the period from 1450 – 1700. It provides access to European collections of historic and bibliographic importance. The database offers full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources.
All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within its scope, together with all pre-1701 works in European languages printed further afield. EEB builds upon and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO) and is largely concerned with non-Anglophone materials; however, books in English are not omitted from EEB where they form an integral element of the predominantly non-Anglophone collections.
The university has access to collections 1-4.
Collection 1 offers access to over 2,600 largely pre-1601 works held in Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library, Copenhagen). Selection of works is based on L. Nielsen's Dansk Bibliografi 1482–1600 and its supplement (1919–1996). All of the Royal Library's Danish and Icelandic imprints produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries fall within its scope.
Collection 2 contains early printed volumes from the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF) (Florence, Italy), and covers specifically Nencini Aldine Collection, Marginalia, Incunabula and Sacred Representations (sacre rappresentazioni, popular verse plays depicting Biblical scenes).
Collection 3 and 4 contains works from 5 different libraries: BNCF, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Den Haag, Netherlands), The Wellcome Library (London, UK), Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Copenhagen, Denmark), Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, France).
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