Links of Interest
Websites for Manuscripts & Rare Books
- The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley
bancroft.berkeley.edu/ - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven
www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/ - Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
www.ambrosiana.eu/ita/index.jsp - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City
bav.vatican.va/ - Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence
www.bml.firenze.sbn.it - Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
www.bnf.fr/
and its online database of illuminated manuscripts
http://mandragore.bnf.fr/html/accueil.html - Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Online digital library exhibition of its Treasures of the Carolingian Era
www.expositions.bnf.fr/carolingiens/index.htm - Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ - The British Library, London
http://www.bl.uk/
and its British Library Images Online (by subject titles)
www.imagesonline.bl.uk/ - Cambridge University Library
www.lib.cam.ac.uk/digital_image_collections/ - CEEC: Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis, Cologne
www.ceec.uni-koeln.de - CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, University College Cork
www.ucc.ie/celt/publishd.html - Charrette Project, Princeton University
www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/ - CHD Center for Handskriftstudier i Danmark / The Institute for the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts in Denmark
(specializing in Books of Hours)
www.chd.dk/gui/index.html - The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=7 - Columbia University Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections
www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/speccol.html - Cornell University, Carl A. Kroch Library, Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections
rmc.library.cornell.edu/ - Cursus: An Online Resource of Medieval Liturgical Texts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
(currently under "redevelopement" and unavailable)
www.cursus.uea.ac.uk/ - Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM), University of Oxford
www.diamm.ac.uk/index.html - Digital Scriptorium
www.digital-scriptorium.org - DScriptorium
A pioneering website for digital images of manuscript materials, designed and maintained by our WebMaster
toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/ - Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts in Oxford College libraries, scanned directly from the originals
http://image.ox.ac.uk/ - Electronic Beowulf
www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm - Enluminures: Institute de recherché de l’histoire des textes (IRHT) et Bibliothèques municipales
Digital facsimiles of selected images from manuscripts in provincial libraries in France
www.enluminures.culture.fr/ - The European Library (European National Libraries)
http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/ - Fiske Icelandic Collection, Cornell University
rmc.library.cornell.edu/Fiske/ - Free Library of Philadelphia
libwww.library.phila.gov/medievalman/ - The Getty, Los Angeles
www.getty.edu/art/ - Gutenburg Digital, Göttingen
www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm - Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota
www.hmml.org/ - The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
www.huntington.org/ - The Index of Christian Art, Princeton University
(by subscription)
ica.princeton.edu - L'Institut des Sources Chrètiennes, Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques (HiSoMA), Lyon
www.sources-chretiennes.mom.fr/index.php?pageid=auteurs_anciens - International Center of Medieval Art, New York
www.medievalart.org/htm/resources.html
and its ICMA Image Database (with photographs donated by members)
www.flickr.com/photos/medievalart/ - Irish Script on Screen, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
www.isos.dias.ie/ - JNUL Digitized Book Repository, The Jewish National and University Library and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/digibook.html - Det Koneglige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
www.kb.dk/elib/mss/ - Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag
www.kb.nl/index-en.html - The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ljscollection/index.cfm - The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/ - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
www.llgc.org.uk/ - Manuscripta Mediaevalia (Medieval Western manuscripts in libraries in Germany)
www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/ - Manuscripta Mediaevalia: Handschriftenkatalogue
(Manuscript catalogues for libraries in Germany listed by place name)
www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/katalogue-online.htm - Manuscriptorium: European Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage
www.manuscriptorium.com - Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Koninklige Bibliotheek and Museum Meermanno, The Hague
www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/ - Medieval Institute Library, University of Notre Dame, South Bend
www.library.nd.edu/medieval_library/ - Medieval Music Database (MMDB), La Trobe University, Melbourne
www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/MMDB/ - The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
www.themorgan.org/
and its Corsair database for the collections, including the medieval and renaissance manuscripts
corsair.themorgan.org - Musei Vaticani, Vatican City
www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/0-Musei.html - National Library of Ireland, Dublin
www.nli.ie/ - National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
www.nls.uk/collections/manuscripts/index.html - The Newberry Library, Chicago
www.newberry.org/ - New York Public Library
www.nypl.org/ - Parker Library on the Web (Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, by subscription)
parkerweb.stanford.edu/parker/ - PECIA: Resources en médiévistique
perso.orange.fr/pecia/ - PECIA: Le manuscrit médiéval ~ The Medieval Manuscript
(News of publications and events)
blog.pecia.fr - Peregrinations: International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art
peregrinations.kenyon.edu/welcome.html - Princeton University Library
Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University
library.princeton.edu/projects/islamic/index.html - St. John's College, Cambridge
www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/manuscripts/ - SCETI: Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, University of Pennsylvania
dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ - The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_0.html - The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, collection of manuscript specimens selected by the collector Otto Ege
special.lib.umn.edu/rare/egelist.phtml and
digital.lib.umn.edu/pachyderm/scrb-medievalmss/
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