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To quickly locate a particular type of primary source in most online catalogs use the following terms as SUBJECT rather than KEYWORD terms:
Diaries
Correspondence
Archives
Sources
Entries for countries and regions are usually subdivided by century. If you are looking for what is available to document general social or intellectual trends in a period search for the country's formal name (Great Britain, not "England") followed by the century designation: Great Britain 15th century. Major events in any century will often have a subheading of their own: Great Britain World War 1914 - 1918.
You can use the subheading Sources with these time period designations as well: Hundred Years War 1339 1453 Sources
When searching in WorldCat (a catalog for libraries across the U.S. and the world) your result list will have a set of tabs at the top, two may be of interest for primary sources:
Brings together the manuscripts and printed editions of the papers and letters of five families from 15th century England in a searchable, digital format. Full color images of the manuscripts may be viewed side-by-side with the text of the printed editions. Collectively these materials provide insight into late medieval family life, business, social and community connections, and politics. Good supporting materials include a glossary, interactive map, family trees, chronologies, visual resources gallery, a scholarly introductory essay on family letter collections, and links out to other relevant scholarly web resources. The printed editions may be searched by keyword, both the manuscript and the transcript can be viewed in a split pane, the glossary is accessible from the viewing pane, and the words in the glossary are hyperlinked to all occurrences of the word in all other manuscripts (great for linguistic analysis). Both manuscript images and printed text images may be downloaded and saved as PDF documents, citations to the manuscripts and printed texts may be easily exported to EndNote or to RefWorks. Primary Source. Adam Matthew Digital.
The Baylor Libraries own a number of collections of medieval literary manuscripts captured in microfilm and in online sources. Take some time to browse these resources to see what a book/codex would have looked like for Dante, Augustine, and others.
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