Links of Interest
Websites for Manuscripts & Rare Books
Links in necklace form, courtesy of “Milly Budny Designs”
[First published on our first website on 28 August 2006, with updates
We continue openly to cite the URLs, because they may be subject to change, so that, if we have not yet caught the changes, you might have a cue to search the new form.]
- 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
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
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 Håndskriftstudier i Danmark / The Institute for the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts in Denmark
(specializing in Books of Hours)
www.chd.dk - 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 - Consortium of European Research Libraries
www.cerl.org/, for example its Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database - Cornell University, Carl A. Kroch Library, Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections
rmc.library.cornell.edu/ - Database of Alchemical Manuscripts
The Alchemy Web Site - Digital Public Library of America: A Wealth of Knowledge from Libraries, Archives, and Museums
dp.la - Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM), University of Oxford
www.diamm.ac.uk/index.html - Digital Scriptorium
www.digital-scriptorium.org - Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts - 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
image.ox.ac.uk/ - Electronic Beowulf
www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm - Enluminures: Institute de recherche 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/ - Ethiopic Manuscript Production
Online Exhibit - The European Library (European National Libraries)
search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/ - Fiske Icelandic Collection, Cornell University
rmc.library.cornell.edu/Fiske/ - Free Library of Philadelphia
libwww.freelibrary.org/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/ - Houghton Library, Harvard University
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library - The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
www.huntington.org/ - The Index of Medieval Art (formerly The Index of Christian Art) at Princeton University
ima.princeton.edu
(principally by subscription) - 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 - Leiden University Library, Special Collections, Medieval Manuscripts
Medieval Manuscripts at Leiden University Library - 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 - Manuscripts Online: Written Culture 1000 to 1500
manuscriptsonline.org - Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Koninklige Bibliotheek and Museum Meermanno, The Hague
manuscripts.kb.nl/ - 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/ - Mirabile: Mirabile Archivio digitale della cultura medievale / Digital Archives for Medieval Culture
www.mirabileweb.it/ - 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/ and https://nyclib.com - Pages from the Past: A Legacy of Medieval Books in South Carolina Collections
www.scmanuscripts.org/ - Parker Library on the Web, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
(formerly principally by subscription)
parker.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/ - The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies/ - 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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