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The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380)
1000 manuscript illuminations from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/aaccueil.htm
Paging Through Medieval Lives
Illumination and calligraphy from selected collections at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
http://www2.art.utah.edu/Paging_Through/index.html
The Life of King Edward the Confessor
Cambridge University Library MS. Ee.3.59 contains the only copy of an illustrated Anglo-Norman verse Life of St Edward, written in England probably in the later 1230s or early 1240s.
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/
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.
http://www.uky.edu/%7Ekiernan/eBeowulf/main.htm
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.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/piers/tcontents.html
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.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/scriptorium/
Images of Catalan Manuscripts
Catalan manuscripts in UC Berkeley's collections.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~catalan/Images/index.html
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.
http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/Main_Hall.html
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.
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/Planctus/
Medieval Writing
An introduction to the history of writing in Western Europe, including basic paleography and the social history of literacy.
http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/
The Burnet Psalter. University of Aberdeen
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.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/heritage/collects/bps/
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.
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/rh/
DScriptorium
Devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.
http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux
Explore the five primary divisions of this illuminated manuscript - a medieval prayer book created by Jean Pucelle.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/jde/jdesplash.htm
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.
http://www.nd.edu/~medvllib/facsimiles.html
Early Medieval Maps
A series of images of maps dating from 400-1300 AD.
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/EM1.html
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.
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/Classics/Morosini.html
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.
http://www.clues.abdn.ac.uk:8080/besttest/firstpag.html
Encyclopedia Scriptoria
Illustrated glossary explaining the monastic scriptorium from Joe Chiffriller, part of the New York Carver.
http://www.newyorkcarver.com/scriptoria.htm
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
Presents the collection of the Dutch Royal Library and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague. Highlights and database with images and backgrounds.
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Examine the calendar section of this celebrated 15th century book of hours.
http://users.castel.nl/~middm01/time/html/trh/
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
http://wally.rit.edu/cary/cc_db/manuscripts/
Medieval Paleography
Part of an MA course, this introduction gives hands-on experience for reading, interpreting and understanding medieval texts.
http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/
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.
http://www.kb.nl/kb/100hoogte/hh-en.html
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