Sources for ecclesiastical names
14 April 2009
revised
David J. Shaw
Some useful online resources for names, dates, career details, etc, for persons in the provenance lists for Canterbury Cathedral Library and similar data.
- Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae
- Index of English cathedral clergy from 1006-1857
- Kent Archives Service
- The collections are divided between the three centres in Maidstone, Canterbury and Whitfield near Dover. You can either search through all the collections or choose one specific office.
- ACAD — A Cambridge Alumni Database
- A database of all alumni of the University of Cambridge, 1200–1900
- The Clergy of the Church of England Database
- CCEd (1540-1835)
- Access to Archives
- The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.
- New CERL Thesaurus interface
- http://thesaurus.cerl.org/ct/search.pl
- CERL Thesaurus
- The CERL Thesaurus file contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, personal names, corporate names and provenance names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century, including variant spellings, forms in Latin and other languages, and fictitious names.
- Library of Congress Authorities
- Authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations
- Contemporaries of Erasmus
- A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation (GoogleBooks)
- The British Book Trade Index
- An index of the names and brief biographical details and trade details of people who worked in the book trade in England and Wales and who were trading by 1851
- Bodleian Incunable Catalogue
- Index of Provenances, Owners, Donors, and other names.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- BNF Autorités