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Major institutional repositories for digital images of music prints and manuscripts
- Gallica: Bibliotheque nationale de France
- Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library)
- Contains a large collection of both print and manuscripts
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Digital Collections
- Includes digital collections from many German libraries
- Especially strong for early music print and manuscript sources
- Gaspari Online
- Catalogue of the Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna
- Contains an array of sources for Renaissance music
- Early Music Online
- Provides access to more than 320 digitized volumes of 16th-century anthologies of printed music (Italy, Germany, France, and England), from holdings at the British Library
- Digitized volumes contain approximately 10,000 musical compositions, which have been individually indexed
- Volumes mainly consist of partbooks of vocal polyphony; also include early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments
- EEBO: Early English Books Online
- Contains images of books published in England and books in English printed in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British North America, 1475-1700
- Includes over 1600 sources containing musical notation
- IMSLP: International Music Score Library Project (Petrucci Music Library)
- Large collection of musical sources, both prints and manuscripts
