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Catalan Manuscripts - http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/catalonian.html
Catalan manuscripts in UC Berkeley's collections.

Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis - http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de
The medieval manuscript holdings of the Episcopal dioecesan and cathedral library Cologne digitized. 140,000 pages and descriptive metadata are available. NB Use the 'Optionen' tab to get to the english-language version.

Codices Electronici Sangallenses - http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en/
A virtual library of medieval manuscripts from the monastery of St. Gall, Switzerland.

Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts - http://prodigi.bl.uk/illcat/welcome.htm
Ability to search a large resource of manuscripts with images online

Digital Scriptorium - http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/
an image database of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

DScriptorium - http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/
Devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - http://image.ox.ac.uk/
Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals.

Early Medieval Maps - http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/EMwebpages/EM1.html
Time chart, index of early maps, monographs, and databases.

Electronic Beowulf - A Guide - http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/main.htm
The Electronic Beowulf Project, a comprehensive collection of images of the Old English Poem.

http://utu.morganlibrary.org/ - http://utu.morganlibrary.org/
Online research resource of the Pierpont Morgan Library, includes images from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.

Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry - http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/rh/
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.

Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - http://www.kb.nl/manuscripts/
Presents the collection of the Dutch Royal Library and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague. Highlights and database with images and backgrounds.

Medieval Manuscript Leaves - http://wally.rit.edu/cary/cc_db/manuscripts/
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

Medieval Paleography - http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/
Part of an MA course, this introduction gives hands-on experience for reading, interpreting and understanding medieval texts.

Medieval Writing - http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/
An introduction to the history of writing in Western Europe, including basic paleography and the social history of literacy.

Paging Through Medieval Lives - http://www2.art.utah.edu/Paging_Through/
Illumination and calligraphy from selected collections.

Peraldus.ch - http://www.peraldus.ch/
Bibliography for some 35,000 ancient and medieval manuscripts housed in ancient or modern libraries. Includes links to online resources.

Rome Reborn: the Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture - http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/Main_Hall.html
An online museum that presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps.

Scriptorium - http://www.newyorkcarver.com/scriptoria.htm
Illustrated glossary explaining the monastic scriptorium from Joe Chiffriller, part of the New York Carver.

The Aberdeen Bestiary - http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/
An on-line database of text, digitised images, commentary and translation from the 12th century encyclopedia of the natural world.

The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) - http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/aaccueil.htm
1000 manuscript illuminations from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

The Burnet Psalter. University of Aberdeen - http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/heritage/collects/bps/
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.

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux - http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/jde/jdesplash.htm
Explore the five primary divisions of this illuminated manuscript - a medieval prayer book created by Jean Pucelle.

The Illuminated Middle Ages - http://www.moyenageenlumiere.com/
A collection of illuminated miniatures reproduced from medieval manuscripts housed in French municipal libraries. Grouped according to ten themes, the images are accompanied by commentary from ten of today's preeminent medieval scholars.

The Life of King Edward the Confessor - http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/
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.

The Medieval Bestiary - http://bestiary.ca/
An online repository of information on the Medieval Book of Beasts - the Bestiary - its history, meaning and sources, and on animals in the Middle Ages in general.

The Morosini Codex: - A 15th Century Venetian Chronicle - http://www.classics.uwa.edu.au/about/research/past_projects/morosini_codex/
The largest surviving single private document from 15th century Venice.

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive - http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/piers/tcontents.html
The creation of a multi-level, hypertextually linked, electronic archive of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream-vision Piers Plowman, by William Langland.

The Stair Society - http://www.stairsociety.org/manuscripts.htm
Online versions of extremely important manuscripts for Scotland - the Berne MS and Ayr MS.

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