Post-Reformation Digital Library

The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) is a database of digitized books from the early modern era. The collected titles are directly linked to full-text versions of the works in question. The bibliography was initially inclined toward Protestant writers from the Reformation and immediate era (the later sometimes characterized as the age of Protestant Scholasticism). In its current development the project is moving toward being a comprehensive database of early modern theology and philosophy and also includes late medieval and patristic works printed in the early modern period.

The database is a project of the at Calvin Theological Seminary, and was produced in cooperation with the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, a joint undertaking of Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary.

As bibliographical projects such as VD 16, VD 17, and English Short Title Catalogue, have a more narrow national or regional focus, meta-bibliographical tools such as PRDL and play a vital role in facilitating scholarship in the rapidly changing technological landscape.^[1]

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^ Ballor, J. J. (2012), "The dynamics of primary source and electronic resource: The digital renaissance and the post-reformation digital library." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 38: 16–19.

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Reformation Library Expands its Reach, Christian Reformed Church in North America, archived from the original on 2013-04-14CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link).
"Webbibliotheek met theologisch werk gelanceerd", Reformatorisch Dagblad (in Dutch).
"Online archive opens the Reformers' works at US seminary", The Presbyterian Outlook.
PRDL has a new home at Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research of Calvin Theological Seminary, Post-Reformation Digital Library.
Calvin Theological Seminary launches new digital research center for Reformation studies, Junius Institute.

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