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General databases
- RISM: Répertoire international de sources musicales (International Inventory of Musical Sources)
- RISM Online Catalogue
- General information on RISM
- Open-access database, containing over 1.2 million records for musical sources, both prints and manuscripts
- Includes inventories and information on provenance
- Includes music manuscripts, printed music, libretti, and treatises
- Provides links to many digital images, especially those in the Bavarian State library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; see below)
- RISM print volumes (ML113 I6):
- A/I: Single-composer prints before 1800
- A/II: Music manuscripts after 1600
- B/I and B/II: Printed anthologies of the 16th-18th centuries
- The online catalogue contains all of series A/I, A/II, and years 1500-1550 and 1601-1610 of B/I.
- DRM: Digital Resources for Musicology
- Created by the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, at Stanford University.
- Links to open access repositories, including digitized music manuscripts, digital score reprints, genre based projects, and more
- Wikipedia page of digital music collections
- List of digital music collections containing music from any time period
- Digitale Sammlungen
- Part of the Munich Digitization Center (MDZ)
- Largest and fastest growing digital collection in Germany
- Dedicated to the digitization and publication of cultural heritage
