The Heritage of the Printed Book Database now contains over six million records of books from the beginning of printing to the middle of the 19th century. Searches are across the files provided by the 22 institutions listed below. Every year further files are added, while others are updated. Most files consist of high-level bibliographical records, created by book-in-hand cataloguing. Some of the files are created in retroconversion projects, and gradually replaced by sections with improved records.
L'Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur (ABES)
Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München
c. 347,600 records of their holdings
c. 101,600 records from Das Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid
Biblioteca Histórica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
BOSCH microforms
British Library, London
c. 30,700 records, Incunable Short-Title Catalogue
c. 24,700 records, Books printed in the German-speaking countries and of German books printed in other countries (1601-1700) now in the BL / [comp. David Paisey]
Cathedral Libraries Catalogue
c. 25,700 records (volume 2, foreign imprints), Books printed on the Continent of Europe before 1701 in libraries of the Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales / [Ed. David Shaw]
Common European Heritage
ETH Library, (Library of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule), Zurich
Eton College Library
Glasgow University Library
Gennadius Library
Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU), Rome
c. 982,000 records contributed by c. 175 Italian libraries, SBN Antiquarian
c. 66,400 records, EDIT 16
Jagiellonian University Library
Kongelige Biblioteket, Copenhagen
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
c. 131,200 records, 1540-1800, Short-Title Catalogue, Netherlands
c 137,600 records, Early Printed Editions
Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België – Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels
Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm
c. 50,000 records, Swedish National Bibliography, 18th century (SB17)
c. 6,000 records, Swedish National Bibliography, 17th century (SB16)
Leighton Library, United Kingdom
Lambeth Palace Library, London
Mendham Collection
c. 4,000 records from Catalogue of the Law Society's Mendham Collection, lent to the University of Kent at Canterbury and housed in Canterbury Cathedral Library. Completed and edited by Sheila Hingley and David Shaw from the catalogue of Helen Carron and others, published by The Law Society, London, 1994.
Middle Temple Library, London
National Library of Austria, Vienna
National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague
National Library of Finland, Helsinki
c. 19,400 records of their holdings (c. 4,950 MARC21 records for pre-1700 material, and c. 14,450 records for publication years 1700-1827)
National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius
c. 2,000 records covering 18th-century Polish books issued in Lithuania, Hebrew books issued in Lithuania between 1799 and 1830, and Lithuanian books from the period 1547 to 1830
National Library of Norway, Oslo
National Library of Poland, Warsaw
National Library of Russia, St Petersburg
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
National Széchényi Library, Budapest
c. 11,000 records derived from the Catalogus librorum sedecimo saeculo impressorum, qui in Bibliotheca Nationali Hungariae Széchényiana asservantur. Editiones non Hungarice et extra Hungariam impressae, E. Soltész, C. Velenczei and A.W. Salgó (comp.) (Budapest – Szeged: Országos Széchényi Könyvtár / Scriptum Kft., 1990)
National and University Library, Ljubljana
National and University Library, Zagreb
The Newberry, Chicago
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen
c. 1,004,650 records from the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and a number of German Cluster libraries
Oxford University Libraries
c. 76,000 records from Oxford libraries, including the Bodleian, Taylorian, Ashmolean, as well as College and Departmental libraries
Regione Toscana
Slovak National Library, Martin
Szeged University Library, Hungary
Academic Library of Tallinn University
Tartu University Library
Senate House Library and Heythrop College Library, University of London
The Vatican Library, Vatican City
Utrecht University Library
Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken
Warsaw University Library
Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London
Wroclaw University Library
Wrocław Biblioteka Ossolineum
Yale University Library
Zentralbibliothek Zurich