- Medieval
Illuminated Manuscripts
-
http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/writing.htm
- Choix
de miniatures des manuscrits de l'Universiti
deLihge
- Cleveland
Museum of Art - Explore the Medieval & Armor
Court collections
- Creating
French Culture (Library of Congress
Exhibition)
- Art
& Food
- Free
Library of Philadelphia Lewis E201 - The Edward
IV Roll
- Gaston
Phoebus (BNF, FR 616)
- A
Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek, nr. 48
- Turning
the Pages
- The
Royal Library
- The
Gutenberg Project
- Circa:1265
braies information
While this is not directly about scribal work,
it does explain a lot about the drape and
constuction of men's underwear, which in turn
helps in painting it correctly.
- HMML:
Bean Manuscripts -- Introduction
- Maciejowski
Bible
- Cod.
Pal. germ. 848: Grosse Heidelberger
Liederhandschrift (Codex
Manesse)
- LACMA:
The Los Angeles County Museum of
Art
- The
Labyrinth Home Page
- WWW
Medieval Resources
- The
Louvre
Museum
- Scripta
- The
Age of King Charles V
This would be the definitive on-line collection
of manuscripts. It is maintained by La
Bibliothèque Nationale de France and
containes 1,000 images from a collection of
eleven 14th and 15th Century MSS.
- Aberdeen
University Bestiary
Model online publication of an English
manuscript of c. 1200, includes a complete color
facsimile, text transcription and translation,
and units on codicology and text and images
sources.
- Bodleian
Library: Towards an Image
Catalogue
A digitally large site, adaptable to a variety
of viewing modes, especially strong in
twelfth-through-fourteenth century northern
European manuscripts. Thumbnail GIFs open to
JPEGs, with shelfmarks.
- Creating
French Culture: Monarchs and Monasteries
Library of Congress-hosted translation of the
Bibliothèqu Nationale exhibition,
Les
souverains, les abbés et les clercs:
Savoir et pouvoir dans la France
médiévale.
Illustrations span seven centuries.
- Fifty
One Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts Western
Europe: 12-16th Centuries
Collection illustrating the development of
manuscript arts, includes bibles, psalters,
books of hours, and liturgical books, many of
the thirteenth century, most from northern
Europe, including England. Note ornamentation of
the late
thirteenth-century English
psalter.
- A
hundred highlights from the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek
Includes seventeen medieval manuscripts,
illustrated, with catalogue
descriptions.
- Psautier
de "Lambert le
Bègue"
A late thirteenth-century devotional manuscript
combining the psalter with a book of hours and
other prayers and offices, created for a
beguinage of Liège. With catalogue
description and four full-page GIF/JPG images.
During the thirteenth century, books of hours
came to rival the psalter as the lay person's
private prayerbook.
- Les
très riches heures de Duc de
Berry
An online exhibit of the1412-16 Chantilly
manuscript, with documentation. The Book of
Hours written for the notorious medieval
epicure, the Duc de Berry, is one of the premier
examples of its kind. Shown here are the
illuminated representations of the twelve months
of the year, January through
December.
- Dscriptorium
A variety of medieval and renaissance
manuscripts. Again this is an excellent
collection.
- The
Charrette Project
Chretien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la
Charrette manuscript.
- Vatican
Library Exhibit
Rome Reborn
- The
Book of Kells
One of the most famous and most beautiful
religious texts ever created, the book of
gospels written by Irish monks that came to be
known as the Book of Kells is still venerated as
being one of the finest examples of the
calligraphic art.
- Illuminations
of the Master of Mary of
Burgundy
Known only as the "Master of Mary of Burgundy,"
the man who illuminated the Book of Hours
belonging to Mary of Burgundy is famous for the
beauty and realism of his paintings. This is a
series of illuminations and commentary upon
each.
- The
Beowulf Manuscript
A compilation of pictures, manuscript pages,
text and notes on the Beowulf
Manuscript.
- Manuscripts
from the Bodleian library
A number of pictures and illuminationsof 14th
and 15th century manuscripts contained in the
famous Bodleian Library. Still more
Bodleian
Images can
be found here.
- The
Dead Sea Scrolls
Pictures and commentary of the Dead Sea
Scrolls.
- Piers
Plowman manuscripts
An impressive collection of all known versions
of the Piers Plowman tale, some annotated and
translated and some not, accompanied by many
pictures of the manuscripts.
- The
Age of King Charles V
(1338-1380):
1,000 Illuminations from the Department of
Manuscripts, The Bibliothèque Nationale
de France
- British
Library Treasures
- The
Cary Collection:
Medieval manuscript leaves in the Carey Graphics
Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of
Technology, Rochester, N.Y.
- Chepman
& Myllar prints
(earliest Scottish printed books), National
Library of Scotland
- Digital
Beowulf
Project
- Hill
Monastic Manuscript Library
Images
- A
Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek
(Netherlands)
- Obshtezhitie:
Projects and Publications in Medieval Slavonic
Manuscripts and Early Printed Books.
- The
Lawrence J. Schoenberg
Collection:
An Exhibition at the U. Pennsylvania
Library.
- The
Sala Family Archives:
Medieval and Early Modern Catalonian Charters
(by Joseph Gwara; hypermedia edition, Jessica
Vitz).
- The
Van Kampen Collection:
Biblical and Medieval Manuscript
Collection.
- "The collection
contains the largest holdings of
Wyclif
manuscripts
in private hands in the world."
- Vatican
Library: IBM Scriptorium Project
Indices,
Handlists, and Transmission Studies of
Manuscripts
Bibliographies
Reference
Resources
Online
Manuscript Catalogues
Research
Libraries With Manuscript
Collections
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