Palaeography and Codicology
The following links have been provided to assist with the study of Palaeography and Codicology. Please also see the pages on the ASNC website of Online Facsimiles for Part I Paper 10 and Online Images of Manuscripts containing Old English.
General Resources
- Catalogue of Digitised Medieval Manuscripts http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/
- Intute 'Best of the Web' http://www.intute.ac.uk/ [Search for keywords such as 'palaeography' or 'Digital Humanities']
- Manuscript Studies Portal, Senate House Library (University of London) http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/subjects/palaeographyandmanuscriptstudies/gateways.shtml
- Digital Medievalist http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
- HoBo: History of the Book Online http://users.ox.ac.uk/~hobo/hobo/index2.html
Online Facsimiles
- Catalogue of Digitised Medieval Manuscripts http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/
- NetbibWiki:DigitaleHandschriften http://wiki.netbib.de/coma/DigitaleHandschriften/
Institutional Collections with Complete Manuscripts
- Anglo-American Legal Tradition http://aalt.law.uh.edu/ [Many documents from the National Archives, London]
- Arnemagnæn Institute (Iceland) http://www.am.hi.is/WebView/?fl=20
- The British Library 'Turning the Pages' http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
- Cambridge University Library Image Collections http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/digital_image_collections/
- Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de/
- Danish Royal Library:
- Codices Latini Haunienses http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/clh.html
- Fragmenta Latina Hauniensa http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/flh.html
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Online http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/mdr.html
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford University http://image.ox.ac.uk/
- German Libraries http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/hs-online.htm
- Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel http://www.hab.de/bibliothek/wdb/mssdigital.htm
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library http://www.hmml.org/vivarium/hmml_collections.htm
- Irish Script on Screen http://www.isos.dias.ie/
- Leeds University https://ludos.leeds.ac.uk/R?func=search-simple&local_base=gen01-medmss
- Medieval MSS in Dutch Collections http://www.mmdc.nl/static/site/
- National Library of Wales http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=digitalmirror-manuscripts
- Parker Library on the Web http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/ [Need to create an account]
- Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk/
- The Schøyen Collection http://www.schoyencollection.com/
- Swiss E-codices http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/
Thematic Collections and Image Databases
- Anglo-Saxon Charters on Single Sheets http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/kemble/singlesheets/ss-index.html
- Bodleian Library Western manuscripts to c. 1500 (selection) http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/browse.htm
- British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm
- British Library Images Online http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/
- Digital Scriptorium http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/
- Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, The Hague http://www.kb.nl/manuscripts/index.html
- Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections http://www.mmdc.nl/static/site/index.html
- Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Codices Iconographici http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/start.html
- Philadelphia Free Library Medieval Manuscripts http://libwww.library.phila.gov/medievalman/
- Yale University Beinecke Digital Library http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/
Bindings
- Bindings of the 15th and 16th Centuries (Berlin Staatsbibliothek) http://www.hist-einband.de/ [German only]
- British Bookbindings 16th-19th centuries http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/bindings/index.html
- British Library Catalogue of Bookbindings http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/
- Dutch Bookbindings http://www.kb.nl/bc/boekb/boekb_1-en.html
- Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/
This list is based on one originally compiled for the Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age course.