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Medieval History

Manuscripts

Meta-sites:

 

Individual collections:

Digital Bodleian
British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
Oxford University - Early Manuscripts
The Index of Christian Art
Leeds University Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Digital Resource
Free Library of Philadelphia Digital Collections
J. Paul Getty Museum
The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
Vatican Libraries

 

Illuminated Lab shows how manuscripts are analyzed, as well as giving an overview of artists' materials and techniques.

Beginners' Latin: official documents written in England between the years 1086 and 1733 were usually written in a specialized form of Latin. This site leads learners through the basics: no previous knowledge of the language is required.

Medieval and Renaissance Facsimiles and Incunables: A Resource Guide: From "acanthus" to "zoomorphic", this dictionary of terms is a useful tool in the study of manuscripts.

Palaeography-  Palaeography is the study of old handwriting. This web tutorial will help you learn to read the handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800.

 

For those of us whose Latin is a little shaky, here are some sites that provide medieval documents in English:

Here are a few manuscript scholars to follow on #MedievalTwitter: