Sources
Zanish-Belcher, Tanya: Perspectives on women’s archives, Chicago 2013.
Südwestdeutsche Archivalienkunde - LEO-BW. The site presents types of archival records and sources from the early Middle Ages to the immediate present from southwest Germany.
Buchner, Rudolf: Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe, 1955-2009. Source editions published by the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) with German translations.
Migne, Jacques-Paul: Patrologiae cursus completus, seu, Bibliotheca universalis ... omnium SS. Patrum, doctorum scriptorumque ecclesiasticorum, sive latinorum, sive graecorum, 1856-. Unannotated publications of medieval documents, especially theological texts and manuscripts – Series Graeca (= «Migne, Patrologia Graeca» oder «Migne, PG») – Series Latina (= «Migne, Patrologia Latina» or «Migne, PL»).
Corpus Christianorum. Series latina, Turnhout 1954-. Compiled by the Benedictine monks of the abbey S. Petri in Steenbrugge. Currently runs to about 180 volumes.
Quellen zur Schweizer Geschichte. Neue Folge. Hrsg. von der Allgemeinen Geschichtsforschenden Gesellschaft der Schweiz, 1908-. Part I: Chronicles; Part II: Records; Part III: Letters; Part IV: Handbooks.
Diplomatische Dokumente der Schweiz (dodis). Online database for the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland project, containing comprehensive information on documents, persons, organisations, geographical terms and bibliographic data relating to Switzerland’s foreign relations.
Editionen-Datenbank von infoclio.ch. The database contains the current historical edition projects in Switzerland, based on a survey of 2014.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH). Enormous collection of sources relating to the history of the German Empire, with a confusing system of series (“in folio”, “in quart”, “Neue Folge”, etc.). The most important sections are: – Abteilung Scriptores (MGH SS) – Abteilung Leges (MGH LL) – Abteilung Diplomata (MGH DD).
Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica.
Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke (zvdd). Digitised printed works from the fifteenth century until the present day.
Diplomatische Dokumente der Schweiz (dodis). Online database for the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland project, containing comprehensive information on documents, persons, organisations, geographical terms and bibliographic data relating to Switzerland’s foreign relations.
Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum. Digital collections of the Bavarian State Library.
Europeana Collections. Meta-search tool covering the digital collections of numerous European cultural institutions.
Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm. German dictionary compiled by the Brothers Grimm.
LEO.org. Online dictionaries in various languages. See also the website’s forums for translation tips.
Schweizerisches Idiotikon. The Schweizerisches Idiotikon online dictionary documents the German language as used in Switzerland from the Late Middle Ages until the present.
English Dictionary, Thesaurus, & grammar help | Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford Dictionaries | English.
dict.cc | Wörterbuch Englisch-Deutsch (und andere Sprachen).
Bentz, Edna M: If I can, you can decipher Germanic records, San Diego, Calif. 2011.
Bischoff, Bernhard: Latin palaeography : antiquity and the Middle Ages, Cambridge [etc.] 1990.
Demandt, Karl Ernst: Laterculus notarum. Lateinisch-deutsche Interpretationshilfen für spätmittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Archivalien, Marburg 2006 (Veröffentlichungen der Archivschule Marburg). Useful for abbreviations.
Sperry, Kip: Reading early American handwriting, 2008.
Stryker-Rodda, Harriet: Understanding colonial handwriting, Baltimore, MD 2007.
Trubek, Anne: The history and uncertain future of handwriting, New York 2016.
transcriptiones. Create, share and access transcriptions of historical manuscripts.
Ad fontes. A course at the University of Zürich for (aspiring) archival researchers, with a focus on palaeography.
Demandt, Karl Ernst: Laterculus notarum. Lateinisch-deutsche Interpretationshilfen für spätmittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Archivalien, Marburg 2006 (Veröffentlichungen der Archivschule Marburg). Useful for abbreviations.
Du Cange, Charles Du Fresne: Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, Graz 1883-1887.
Habel, Edwin; Gröbel, Friedrich: Mittellateinisches Glossar, Paderborn [etc.] 1989 (UTB).
auxilium-online.net - Wörterbuch und Community für Latein. Latin dictionary and online community.
Navigium. Latein-Lernsoftware und Latein-Vokabeltrainer. Latin language learning software and vocabulary trainer.