Annually published books and sheets based on the calendar with the observations on the passage of time, the seasons, astronomical data and the interpretation of these data.

In Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries, avviso (spelled with double v in Italian) denoted a specific type of handwritten or printed newsletters as well as the content of these newsletters (news).

A ballad was a popular song that had many subgenres such as the love ballad, the satirical ballad and the execution ballad. Ballads were common across Europe.

Broadsheets (or broadsides) is a portmanteau term referring to a form of prints consisting of only a single sheet, printed on one side only in the case of broadsides.

The Dutch courant (in modern Dutch often shortened to krant) derived its name from the French words courrier (meaning a running messenger) and courant (referring to a current, for example in a river). The term was taken up in English as coranto or courant.

Criminal narratives are stories about criminals, be it fictional or non-fictional. This genre comprises many forms such as criminal biographies, dying speeches, murder and execution ballads, and penny prints.

While the term initially referred to handwritten news sheets (e.g. in Italy, France, and the Low Countries), gazette became one of the most widely used terms across Europe for printed periodicals.

In the context of news, the term was used for different kinds of periodicals. In addition, journal (and its translations) could also be used to refer to an itinerary, a day-by-day account for example of a journey, or a diary.

Libels and pasquils were types of pamphlets, (often short) polemical writings with a satirical or outright biting tone.

Amidst the religious controversies of the 16th and 17th centuries, especially in Germany, the Low Countries, England, and France, the lives and especially the deaths of contemporary martyrs were the subject of different kinds of publications.

The Mercurius (Latin) refers to a printed, periodical series of books of contemporary history.

Various types of print related to Christmas and the new year circulated in the early modern period. 

News pamphlets are small printed items containing just a single news fact or event. Across Europe, they were an important means of distributing printed news in the era before periodicals

The term newsbook was used in 17th-century England and is used by historians of the 17th- and 18th-century Low Countries (nieuwsboek), but both traditions concern quite different genres. No equivalent term seems to have existed in other European languages. 

A periodical publication covering a broad range of current events and usually including advertisements, issued frequently, especially daily or weekly.

Term used in French, English, Dutch (nouvelle) and Italian (nuova) to denote a single piece of news, similar in use to tiding and report. Predating, and subsequently running parallel with, the early modern use of nouvelle in a news context, the term was used to indicate a literary genre of short narrative prose.

Almost exclusively written in the vernacular, pamphlets were typically short writings of a polemic or propagandistic nature on topical (social, political, religious) issues.

The plague, probably the most-feared disease in early modern Europe, generated an ongoing stream of printed materials, booklets as well as printed images, especially at times of outbreaks.

The term playbill is used for a bill, placard or poster that advertised plays and was intended for public display. They usually also gave the names of the actors. Playbooks contained the theatre texts themselves.

Proclamations or ordinances, usually from the state government, notified the population of official decrees and laws.

Booklet in almanac form or part of an almanac containing (almost) exclusively predictions for the coming year, describing seasons, months, expected harvests, foreseeable diseases, wars, etc.

The term Relatione originated in Italy in the 16th century, where it referred to occasional publications that specifically related military and political events.

In Venice, the term reporto was largely synonymous with avvisi, similarly being used to denote both a newsletter and its content (news). From Northern Italy the term spread across Europe, where in most contexts it referred solely to a single piece of news.

Sermons were printed and published either in the form of pamphlets (containing a single sermon) or as collections containing the most popular sermons of one or more preachers.

The English word tiding, as well as the German Zeitung and the Dutch tijding are derived from the middle Low German Tidung, meaning a message or event. In the 15th and 16th centuries all these terms referred primarily to a single piece of news.

Topical or occasional poetry was written in response to an event in the family (birth, marriage, death) or public sphere (battle, commemoration), or on the occasion of a poetry contest (e.g. of rhetoricians, or the Spanish justas poéticas).

Descriptive accounts or literary writings by travellers.