Find images and texts from collections from various museums, libraries and research institutes. These include images of manuscripts, emblems, printer's marks, drawings, paintings, prints from newspapers and magazines, photographs and much more. An important resource for art and book historians.

Online database with the original texts of more than 15 million Dutch newspaper pages, 11 million magazine pages and over 900,000 books from the 15th to the 21st century. Search 120 million digitized pages with one search action. For anyone interested in the Dutch past.

English language website with 27 digitized Dutch books with love emblems from the 17th century. Completely re-translated and indexed. Has extensive search options and referrals to secondary sources. Includes a downloadable guide to using the site. For those who research emblemata or (literary) history.

Website with more than 50,000 digitized artworks, books, artefacts, videos and music from the collections of 3,500 European museums, libraries, galleries and archives. New content is added regularly. Interesting for researchers and lovers of music, art and literature.

Image bank with 800,000 images from more than 100 Dutch museums, archives and libraries. View paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, ceramics, postage stamps, posters and newspaper clippings. Search by subject, creator, or heritage collection, or view different themes, such as ‘War’ and ‘Pop Music’. For those interested in culture or looking for specific images.

American index with descriptions of works of art from the early Middle Ages up to the 16th century. Contains images of thousands of religious and secular works from Western Europe and countries such as Syria, Ethiopia and Lebanon. Search by theme, location, maker and style, among other things. For students of medieval culture.

Looking for a nice image from the KB collection? You can download high-quality images free of charge via Wikimedia Commons. From alba amicorum to atlases, from manuscripts to special books.

Database of descriptions of Western medieval manuscripts. Focuses on texts up to approximately 1550, written in Latin or in a Western European vernacular, preserved in public and partially-public collections in the Netherlands. Search literary, scientific and liturgical texts, as well as egodocuments. With images where possible. For literary researchers.

Oxford University Press database with over 200,000 articles on art and architecture worldwide, from classical antiquity to the present day. Search by period or region, by art form or movement. Illustrated with more than 19,000 images. For students and anyone interested in architecture or art.

Find images and descriptions of watermarks in 15th century incunables from the Low Countries. Search all facets of a watermark: image subject, source, date, size, location in the document, and more. Source for book scholars and historians.