Manuscript Images
Manuscript Images
Manuscript Images Links
- Electronic Beowulf samples A selection of reduced resolution (approx 100k) images from the Electronic Beowulf Project. Note: the site is FTP.
- Medieval Paleography Part of an MA course, this introduction gives hands-on experience for reading, interpreting and understanding medieval texts.
- The Hours of Jeanne dEvreux Illuminated Manuscript Explore the five primary divisions of The Hours of Jeanne dEvreux illuminated manuscript, a medieval prayer book created by Jean Pucelle.
- DScriptorium Devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.
- Psalter Map, c.1250 A copy of the earliest surviving map to symbolise Christ's power as overseer of the world; and one of the earliest maps to depict Biblical events.
- Rome Reborn: the Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture An online museum that presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps.
- Piers Plowman Electronic Archive A collaborative effort to create a multi-level, hypertextually linked, electronic archive of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream-vision Piers Plowman, by William Langland.
- Paging Through Medieval Lives Illumination and calligraphy from selected collections at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
- Medieval Writing An introduction to the history of writing in Western Europe, including basic paleography and the social history of literacy.
- Medieval Manuscript Leaves Images selected to illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest development and influence, taken from books written in European monastic scriptoria.
- Digital Scriptorium A joint project of the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University to digitize and make available on the World Wide Web the two universities' medieval and early Renaissance manuscript holdings.
- Aberdeen Bestiary An on-line database of text, digitised images, commentary and translation from this 12th century encyclopedia of the natural world. Maintained by the University of Aberdeen.
- The Planctus for William Longsword A 'mourning poem' for a Norman ancestor of William the Conqueror. The site provides images, translations and commentary and aims to illustrate the difficulties in interpreting medieval sources.
- Images of Catalan Manuscripts Catalan manuscripts in UC Berkeleys collections.
- Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry 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.
- Encyclopedia Scriptoria Illustrated glossary explaining the monastic scriptorium from Joe Chiffriller, part of the New York Carver.
- Electronic Beowulf Guide The online guide to the Electronic Beowulf Project, a comprehensive collection of images of the Old English Poem. The full facsimile is available on CD-ROM.
- Medieval Manuscript Leaves 51 leaves from Western European manuscripts of the 12th - 16th centuries. Selected to illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest development and influence
- Early Medieval Maps A series of images of maps dating from 400-1300 AD.
- The Morosini Codex This is the longest unpublished mediaeval Venetian chronicle. Publication of the manuscript (more than 500,000 words) has begun, with one volume completed and the second expected at the end of 2000.
- Choix de miniatures des manuscrits de l'Université de Liège Illuminated manuscripts from the collection of the University of Liege - Belgium (text is in French, but the site is easy to navigate).
- Manuscript Facsimiles An online exhibit of the history and use of medieval manuscript facsimiles, containing hundreds of images from dozens of manuscript facsimiles, with closeup images of illuminations and palaeographical descriptions of their scripts.
- A hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek A selection of manuscripts, printed works, book bindings, and specimens from the paper history collection at the National Library of the Netherlands.
- The Burnet Psalter. University of Aberdeen Full-page images (text and illustration) and details from from this 15th-century manuscript. Includes an introduction, commentaries, notes on editorial and technical practice, and a bibliography. The text itself is accompanied by a full transcription of the Latin and summaries in English of the prayers and hymns.
- The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) 1000 manuscript illuminations from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
- Bodleian Library Image Catalogue A variety of page images from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK.
- Edward the Confessor Illuminated manuscript Cambridge University Library MS. Ee.3.59 contains the only copy of an illustrated Anglo-Norman verse Life of St Edward the Confessor, written in England probably in the later 1230s or early 1240s, and preserved in this manuscript, executed c. 1250-60.
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