Manuscript Studies
Medieval and Early Modern

Links to Related Sites

Some Other Sites for Medieval and Early Modern Manuscript Studies

This collection of links is to enable us to explore some possibilities for any web-based "Manuscript Studies" course which we might design, as well as to begin to collect links to sites which could be useful to students who might take such a course. Suggestions for additions to this list will be most welcome.

Manuscript Studies
Book History
Web Courses and interactive sites: possible models
Libraries: general web sites
Libraries: exhibition sites
Libraries: catalogues
Medieval Literature more generally
General Sites for Medieval Studies
Institutions and Societies

Manuscript Studies

• "Medieval Manuscript Manual" (downloadable)
• A multilingual dictionary of codicological terminology, from the Comité international de paléographie latine
• Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts
• Manuscript Studies Portal, University of London Library
• Manuscriptorium: historical book resources
• "Medieval Studies on the Internet": Links for Manuscripts, Incunabula and Early Prints
• DScriptorium: devoted to the collecting, storing and distributing of Medieval Manuscripts
• The Digital Scriptorium: Catalogue and Images from manuscripts at Columbia University and Berkeley
• Links for "Manuscripts" on The Labyrinth
• Andrew Taylor's Index of Medieval Manuscripts site
• National Library of Wales, manuscript images
• Images from Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
• Siân Echard, Medieval Manuscripts on the Web
• Houghton Library, Harvard: Digital Medieval Manuscripts
• The Manuscript Collection: Illuminated Manuscript Pages from the World's Leading Museums
• Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
• Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford University: digital images of manuscript pages
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University: facsimiles of complete manuscripts, from the Bodleian Library and also the libraries of various colleges
• Bodleian Library, "Towards an Image Catalogue": manuscript images scanned from Bodleian Library microfilms
• Free Library of Philadelphia: medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
• Medieval Manuscripts in South Carolina libraries
• A Census of Medieval Manuscripts in South Carolina libraries
• Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
• e-Codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
• A guide to Martin Schøyen's collection of medieval manuscripts
• Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (catalogue)
• Liber Floridus: Illuminated medieval manuscripts from les bibliothèques Mazarine et Sainte-Geneviève
• Manus: A catalogue of manuscripts in Italian libraries
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
• Choix de miniatures des manuscrits de l'Université de Liège
• Royal Library, Copenhagen: "e-manuscripts"
• New York Public Library, Western Manuscripts: reproductions of pages from medieval and early modern illuminated manuscripts
• Vatican Library Manuscripts
• Medieval Manuscripts at Stanford
• Codices Electronici Sangallenses: images from the illuminated manuscripts of the abbey library of San Gallen, Switzerland
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Mandragore: search tool to find images from illuminated medieval manuscripts in the BNF
• Enluminures: images from manuscripts in municipal libraries in France
• The Morgan Library, Corsair: Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
• The Electric Scriptorium: Approaches to the Electronic Imaging, Transcription, Editing and Analysis of Medieval Manuscript Texts: A Physical & Virtual Conference
• English Handwriting, 1500-1700: An Online Course
• Palaeography: reading old handwriting, 1500-1800: A practical online tutorial
• Dianne Tillotson, Medieval Writing
• Website for an online paleography course
• Timothy W. Seid, Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts
• Oak Knoll Books and Oak Knoll Press; Oak Knoll is a bookseller specializing in all aspects of book history and bibliography (esp. modern, and esp. American, but also medieval and early modern), and their associated press produces books in these subject areas. Their web site offers a searchable catalogue of their "inventory" of some 12,000 books in bibliography.

Book History

• San Francisco Center for the Book
• Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
• History of Books and Printing, New York Public Library
• Dan Traister, Resources for the History of Books and Printing
• Book Arts links, Yale University Library
• The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Paper
• Scottish Centre for the Book
• The Williamsburg Imprints Program
• The University of Iowa Center for the Book
• University of Oxford Early Printed Books Project
• Book History Timetable

Web Courses and interactive sites: possible models for an online course in manuscript studies

• American History (award-winning on-line course)
• Murray McGillivray's Old English Course, on the Web
• Professor Baker's "Old English Aerobics" site
• Stephen Alsford's "Medieval English Towns"
• The Regia Anglorum website (a site on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Britain (amateur popular history, but well done), including a "visit" to the imaginary Village of Wichamstow, where you can visit various buildings and people)

Libraries: general web sites

• The National Archives of Britain, formerly known as the Public Record Office
• The British Library
• National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh: Scottish Online Resources
• Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
• The Morgan Library and Museum, New York
• The Newberry Library, Chicago
• The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
• Center for Research Libraries, Chicago
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Libraries and museums: exhibition sites

• University of Glasgow Library, exhibition: The World of Chaucer: Medieval Books and Manuscripts
• Medieval Manuscript Collection of Richard and Mary Rouse, UCLA
• Online facsimile of "The Auchinleck Manuscript" (a collection of medieval romances and other texts)
• Glenn Gunhouse, A Hypertext Book of Hours
• A facsimile of a fifteenth-century Book of Hours (from D & D Galleries)
• Several medieval manuscripts from the Bibliothèques-Médiathèques de Metz
• Fitzwilliam Museum, exhibition: Cambridge Illuminations
• Fitzwilliam Museum, exhibition: Macclesfield Psalter
• Fitzwilliam Museum: Making Art--Medieval Manuscripts (a site intended to help one to imagine how manuscripts were made)
• Cambridge University Library, MS Ed.3.59 (an illuminated Anglo-Norman Life of King Edward the Confessor)
• The Louvre
• The WebMuseum: Exhibits
• At the WebMuseum: Les très riches heures of Jean, Duc de Berry
• The Book of Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Jean, Duc de Berry, the "Petites Heures"
• British Library: Online Gallery; the Gallery includes reproductions from a number of the Library's most famous manuscripts
• British Library: Online Gallery: Illuminated Manuscripts (medieval European)
• British Library: Online Gallery: Remarkable Manuscripts (various manuscripts, ancient and modern, from around the world)
• British Library: Online Gallery: manuscripts of important works of English literature
• British Library: Online Gallery: The Lindisfarne Gospels
• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• BNF on-line exhibition: The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380): 1000 Illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts
• The Library of Congress
• The Library of Congress: Exhibits
• Dresdan: Treasures from the Saxon State Library; An exhibition of medieval manuscripts, incunabula, etc.
• The Library of Congress Exhibits: Rome Reborn (the Vatican Library Exhibit)
• Digital manuscripts, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
• The Codex Manesse: a manuscript of medieval German love poems, with wonderful portraits of the poets (Codex Palatinus Germanicus 848 der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg)
• 100 Highlights of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (national library of the Netherlands)
• Treasures from Europe's National Libraries

Libraries: catalogues

• National Library of Canada
• University of Toronto, Robarts Library
• COPAC: union catalogue of British libraries (national, academic, and specialist)
• British Library: Catalogue of printed books
• British Library: Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts
• Oxford University Libraries
• Bodleian Library, Electronic Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
• Cambridge University Library
• National Library of Scotland
• National Library of Wales
• National Library of Australia
• Library of Congress
• Center for Research Libraries
• University of California Libraries

Medieval Literature more generally

• A collection of Middle English texts, on-line at the University of Virginia
• An Anthology of Medieval English Literature, by Anniina Jokinen
• Online Literary Resources: Medieval: Jack Lynch's medieval links page
• Voice of the Shuttle: Medieval English Literature: Resources for the study of Old and Middle English literature
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: A collection of medieval texts

General Sites for Medieval Studies

• The Labyrinth
• Grover Furr's Medieval Literature and History Page
• NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources, including subpages on Medieval Art & Architecture; Medieval History & Archaeology; Medieval Literature; Medieval Law, Music, & Religion
• Medieval Resources: Dan Mosser's medieval links page
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe: on the Black Death in 14th-century Italy
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index: A bibliographical database of studies of the issues of women and gender in the Middle Ages
• Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
• Perseus Project search tools: a collection of tools for searching the digital collections of the Perseus Project, including Latin and Greek texts and dictionaries
• Orbis latinus: an electronic version of Graesse's guide to the Latin forms of European place names
• RBMS/BSC Latin Place Names File: another guide to place names in Latin, especially as encountered in the study of early printed books

Institutions and Societies

• Early Book Society
• SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
• Bibliographical Society (London)
• Bibliographical Society of America
• Bibliographical Society of Canada
• Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
• Rare Books and Manuscripts section of the American Library Association
• Printing Historical Society
• Library History Round Table, American Library Association
• Rare Book School,University of Virginia
• Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, University of London
• Library and Information History Group, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
• Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
• UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
• University of York, Centre for Medieval Studies
• University of Leeds, Institute for Medieval Studies. Includes the program for their annual International Medieval Congress
• Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo; Medieval Institute. Includes the program for their annual International Congress on Medieval Studies
• The Canadian Society of Medievalists
• The Medieval Academy of America

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© 1999 Stephen R. Reimer
English; University of Alberta; Edmonton, Canada
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Created: 28 Oct. 1998; Last revised: 7 July 2009

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