Directory of Manuscript Images Resources

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This category lists sites especially for the digitized images of pages for manuscripts within the Middle Ages.

Resources in This Category

• Catalan Manuscripts

  http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/catalonian.html
  Catalan manuscripts in UC Berkeley's collections.

• Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis

  http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de/
  The medieval manuscript holdings of the Episcopal dioecesan and cathedral library Cologne digitized. 140,000 pages and descriptive metadata are available. NB Use the 'Optionen' tab to get to the english-language version.

• Codices Electronici Sangallenses

  http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en/
  A virtual library of medieval manuscripts from the monastery of St. Gall, Switzerland.

• Digital Scriptorium

  http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/digitalscriptorium/
  an image database of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

• DScriptorium

  http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/
  Devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.

• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University

  http://www.image.ox.ac.uk/
  Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals.

• Early Medieval Maps

  http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/EM1.html
  Time chart, index of early maps, monographs, and databases.

• Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

  http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/rh/
  The Paris Web Museum provides a guide and illustrations of the famous calendar section of this beautiful illuminated book of hours commissioned by the Duc de Berry c.1412.

• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

  http://manuscripts.kb.nl/
  Presents the collection of the Dutch Royal Library and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague. Highlights and database with images and backgrounds.

• Medieval Paleography

  http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/
  Part of an MA course, this introduction gives hands-on experience for reading, interpreting and understanding medieval texts.

• Medieval Writing

  http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/
  An introduction to the history of writing in Western Europe, including basic paleography and the social history of literacy.

• Peraldus.ch

  http://www.peraldus.ch/
  Bibliography for some 35,000 ancient and medieval manuscripts housed in ancient or modern libraries. Includes links to online resources.

• Rome Reborn: the Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture

  http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/Main_Hall.html
  An online museum that presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps.

• Scriptorium

  http://www.newyorkcarver.com/scriptoria.htm
  Illustrated glossary explaining the monastic scriptorium from Joe Chiffriller, part of the New York Carver.

• The Aberdeen Bestiary

  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/
  An on-line database of text, digitised images, commentary and translation from the 12th century encyclopedia of the natural world.

• The Burnet Psalter. University of Aberdeen

  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/heritage/collects/bps/
  Full-page images (text and illustration) and details from this 15th-century manuscript. Includes an introduction, commentaries, notes on editorial and technical practice, and a bibliography. The text is accompanied by a full transcription of the Latin and summaries in English.

• The Medieval Bestiary

  http://www.bestiary.ca/
  An online repository of information on the Medieval Book of Beasts - the Bestiary - its history, meaning and sources, and on animals in the Middle Ages in general.

• The Morosini Codex: - A 15th Century Venetian Chronicle

  http://www.humanities.uwa.edu.au/research/cah/morosoni-codex
  The largest surviving single private document from 15th century Venice.

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