Curated datasets

The datasets here represent over a million of the best, directly accessible objects - newspapers, books, photos, art, artifacts, audio clips and more.

Title: A vadgalamb eredeti népszinmű 3 felvonásban - írta Gerő Károly - zenéjét szerzette Szentirmay Elemér
Date: 1887
Institution: The University and National Library of Debrecen
Country: Hungary
Public Domain
Data Updated: 19 February 2018
Playbills of the Debrecen Theatre 1862-1920
Collections Academic Research theatre hungary playbills Posters Hungarian Eastern Europe Hungary 19th Century 1900-1945
The playbill collection of The University and National Library of Debrecen is a valuable source of the intellectual life and theatre history of an Eastern Hungarian town in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
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Title: Christusmonogram in een stralenkrans
Date: 1500-1520
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public Domain
Data Updated: 19 February 2018
EDIT16 - Italian printers' devices
Collections Academic Research prints Prints Southern Europe Italy Early Modern
The Census of Italian 16th Century Editions contains the description of 2,500 printers’/publishers’ devices.
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Title: Opera (graece) ; [pt 1]
Creator: Aristotle
Date: 1449-1515
Institution: National Library of Malta
Country: Malta
Public Domain
Data Updated: 19 February 2018
Incunabula from the National Library of Malta
Collections Academic Research incunables medieval-history philosophy rare-books Religious Literature theology Books Latin Ancient History Cartography Geography Medieval History Theology Philosophy Southern Europe Malta Medieval Early Modern
The National Library of Malta possesses a small but interesting collection of sixty incunabula, among them Ptolemy’s Cosmographia (Rome, 1490) which contains an engraved map of the Mediterranean showing Malta in the centre.
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Title: Death of Godfrey of Bouillon from BL Royal 15 E I, f. 150v
Creator: William of Tyre
Date: 1479-1480
Institution: The British Library
Country: United Kingdom
Public Domain
Data Updated: 13 October 2020
The European Library Open Dataset
Collections Academic Research linked-open-data bibliographic-records Linked Open Data Multiple languages Multiple Areas Multiple Eras
The European Library aims to promote the wider use and exposure of the collections it aggregates from its member libraries. With this purpose in mind, The European Library Open Dataset is now available through Europeana Research.
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Title: Dappere liefde; amour vaillant
Creator: Pieter Serwouters
Date: 1606-1611
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public Domain
Data Updated: 19 February 2018
Sketches for engravings from the Rijksmuseum
Collections Academic Research art-history bookplates drawings Engravings illustrations Drawings Early Modern 18th Century 19th Century
This dataset contains designs for engravings from the 17th until the 20th century from the Rijksmuseum's collection.
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Title: Dalā'il al-h̬ayrāt wa-sawāriq al-anwār fī d̠̠ikr al-ṣalāt 'alā al-nabī al-muh̬tār
Date: 1700-1799
Institution: The Royal Library: The National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library
Country: Denmark
CC BY-NC-SA
Data Updated: 19 February 2018
Oriental Manuscripts from The Royal Library of Denmark
Collections Academic Research manuscripts oriental Manuscripts Literature Medieval History Religious Literature Philosophy Middle East Asia Multiple Eras
This dataset contains oriental manuscripts from 14th until the 20th centuries CE held at the The National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library.
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Title: 965, desembre 9. Venda. Organyà
Date: 965
Institution: Biblioteca de Catalunya
Country: Spain
Public Domain
Data Updated: 19 February 2018
Charters from the Biblioteca de Catalunya
Collections Academic Research manuscripts medieval-history Spain charters Documents Manuscripts Latin Medieval History Southern Europe Spain Medieval
This collection contains nearly 15,000 charters in the public domain held at the Biblioteca de Catalunya. The documents range from the 10th until the 16th centuries, and are mainly in Latin with a focus on Spanish locations and individuals.
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Title: U101 S. Sätra, Sollentuna
Creator: Faith-Ell, Harald
Institution: Riksantikvarieämbetet
Country: Sweden
Public Domain
Data Updated: 19 February 2018
Photographs and drawings of runestones in Sweden
Collections Academic Research ancient-history archaeology sweden runestone Ancient History Medieval History Northern Europe Sweden Ancient World Medieval
This dataset, provided by the Riksantikvarieämbetet, contains over 4500 drawings and old and modern photographs of runestones in Sweden.
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Data Updated: 2 November 2017 Annapaula Freire de Oliveira
Vintage stereoscope cards
Creative industries photography
Discover a collection of over 300 stereoscope cards (stereograms) from the late 19th century. Stereoscope cards describe a pair of two-dimensional …
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Data Updated: 15 September 2017 Annapaula Freire de Oliveira
Black-and-white pictures by Swedish photographer John Hertzberg
Creative industries photography
A collection of over 400 beautiful black-and-white images by Swedish photographer John Hertzberg (1871-1935). Provided by the Swedish National Museum …
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