These sources cover a wide range of years, places, and topics, all before 1500!
- Ancient History Sourcebook from Fordham University
- Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy, Yale University Law School
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- Bibliotecas UNAM include digitized archival books (in Spanish)
- British Library contains material that spans the globe and the centuries.
- Chinese Text Project: pre-modern Chinese texts, many (but not all) translated into English.
- De Re Militari: Military-related primary sources, focuses largely on the Roman era through the 16th century.
- Digital Bodleian, from Oxford University's Bodleian Libraries, includes pre-1500 material from across the world.
- Digital Newberry (the Newberry Library's digital collections) includes pre-1500 material.
- Duke Papyrus Archive: an extensive digital archive of Egyptian papayri, including photos. Most (but not all) have been categorized and translated.
- Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters, Columbia University: Includes letters from women from the Medieval era (and somewhat earlier), both in their original Latin and translated into English.
- First Blacks in the Americas (aquí en español): This digital archive from the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute explores the lives and histories of people of African descent in La Española and includes archival material, fully transcribed and translated as well as in original scans.
- HathiTrust: Contains scanned books, pamphlets, and other documents from a variety of eras and regions and in a variety of languages.
- Internet Archive: Contains scanned books, pamphlets, audiovisual materials, and other documents from a variety of eras and regions and in a variety of languages. Houses the Wayback Machine as well.
- Icelandic Saga Database
- Islamic Heritage Project, Harvard University Library: Materials from across the Islamic world, ranging from the 10th to 20th centuries.
- The Labyrinth, Georgetown University: A resource list for Medieval studies
- Library of Congress
- Manuscripts of the Muslim World: This multi-institution effort, housed at the University of Pennsylvania's online collections, includes extensive manuscripts and images from the Muslim world, c. 1000-1900.
- The Medieval Bestiary: texts, images, and more, all pertaining to Medieval bestiaries.
- Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas Austen: Includes digitized images of some (but not all) manuscripts in the collection. Additional manuscripts are added as they are digitized.
- Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University
- Neo-Sumerian Texts: large numbers of neo-Sumerian tablets, some of which have been translated.
- Project Gutenberg: Contains scanned books, short stories, and other printed material, from a variety of eras and regions and in a variety of languages. Includes some audio books as well as texts of all new books entering the public domain.
- Silk Road Seattle, University of Washington: Includes translations of historical texts from the countries and cultures along the Silk Road, as well as virtual museum exhibits, maps, and more.