Palaeography & Manuscript Studies

Electronic resources for manuscript studies

Abbreviations/contractions . Digital editions of books (free) . Digital facsimiles online . Digital palaeography . Image databases . Manuscript catalogues . Manuscript Studies courses . Palaeography courses & tools . Projects & private collections . Provenance research . Union catalogues

Abbreviations/contractions

Information Digitized Capelli (1928 edition)

Digital editions of books (free)

Information EScholarship editions (Univ of California Press)

Digital facsimiles online

Catalogue of digitized medieval manuscripts

Information Aberdeen Bestiary
Information Auchinleck manuscript
InformationBibliotheca Laureshamensis – digital: Virtuelle Klosterbibliothek Lorsc
Information Book of Deer
Information British Library Digitised Manuscripts
Information Brut Chronicle (Michigan)
Information Burnett Psalter
Information Charrette project (Chrétiens de Troyes)
Information Codex Sinaiticus
Information Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis
Information Early manuscripts at Oxford
Information Edward the Confessor
Information Elektra (Royal Library, Copenhagen)
Information Goodspeed Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago Library)
Information Irish Script on Screen
Information Leeds University Library Medieval Manuscripts - from LUDOS
 Information Lund University: St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library
 Information Munchener DigitalisierungsZentrum: Digitale Bibliothek
 Information Parker Library, Corpus Christi College Cambridge
 Information Penn in Hand – University of Pennsylvania Libraries
 Information St Albans Psalter
Information St Gall manuscripts and Reichenau manuscript
InformationTurning the pages (British Library)
InformationVirtual Manuscripts Library of Switzerland

Digital palaeography

Information Analysis of digital palaeographical data
Information Digital medievalist

Image databases

Information Digital catalogue of illuminated manuscripts (British Library)
Information Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (BL/Royal Holloway)
Information Digital Scriptorium (Berkeley & Columbia Universities)
Information Enluminures (French municipal libraries)
Information Index of Christian Art (subscription database available at BL, V&A, Courtauld)
Information Liber Floridus (French higher education libraries)
Information Mandragore (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
Information Medieval illuminated manuscripts (Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Museum Meermanno)
Information Vivarium (Hill Museum and Manuscript Library)

Manuscript catalogues

Information Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Catalogo Manoscritti
Information Bibliotheque nationale de France: archives et manuscrits
Information Bodleian Library online catalogue of Western manuscripts
Information British Library: manuscripts catalogue
Information Catalogues of Austrian medieval manuscripts
Information Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Colonensis
Information Codices Electronici Sangallenses
Information Digital manuscripts and special collections, Wolfenbuttel
Information Irish manuscripts in Oxford
Information James catalogue of medieval manuscripts
Information Manus database (Italy)
Information Manuscripta medievalia (Germany & Austria)
Information Medieval manuscripts in Dutch collection
Information Museum Meermanno
Information Pierpont Morgan Library catalogue
Information Salzburg University manuscripts catalogue
Information Telma: Traitement ELectronique des Manuscrits et des Archives
Information University of London Research Library Services Archives & Manuscripts catalogue

Manuscript Studies courses

Information Interpreting ancient manuscripts (Brown University)
Information Introduction to Anglo-Saxon manuscripts (British Library)
Information Manuscript studies, medieval and early modern (University of Alberta)
Information Medieval manuscript manual (Central European University)
Information Theleme (L'École des chartes)

Palaeography courses & tools

Information An introduction to palaeography (University of Leicester/West Sussex Record Office)
Information Byzantine palaeography (Fordham University)
Information École nationale des chartes
Information English handwriting 1500-1700 (English Department, University of Cambridge)
Information French palaeography, 15th-18th centuries (ARISITUM)
Information Irish palaeography, 18th and 19th centuries (Univeristy College, Cork)
Information Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies MANCASS C11 database
Information Manuscriptorium
Information Medieval writing
Information Middle English Compendium
InformationMiniatura Italiana
Information Palaeography: reading old handwriting 1500-1800 (The National Archives)
Information Pen & Parchment: drawing in the Middle Ages (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Information Scottish handwriting 1500-1750 (Scottish Archive Network)
Information Thesaurus of Old English online (TEO)

Projects & private collections

Information Anglo-Saxon Charters
Information The Deeds project
Information Digital German literature (Heidelberg University)
Information Enrich Project: European networking resources and information concerning cultural heritage
Information Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Information Martin Schøyen Collection
Information Medieval diplomatic and the ‘Ars Dictandi’
Information Scriptorium - Buchproduktion im Mittelalter
Information Transcribe Bentham

Provenance research

Information British Book Trade Index
Information Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (Sales catalogues)

Union catalogues

Information Access to Archives (England)
Information AIM25 (universities & learned institutions in M25)
Information Archives Grid (US)
Information Archives Hub (UK universities & colleges)

Information Archives Network Wales
Information CERL manuscripts portal (European)
Information NRA (British history)
Information PRONI (Northern Ireland)
Information SCAN (Scotland)

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