Manuscript Research

A comprehensive guide to manuscript research resources, tools, and databases.

Manuscript Culture

Lisa Fagin Davis, 'Research Resources'
Innovating Knowledge
Princeton Geniza Lab
The Book and the Silk Roads
The dynamics of the medieval manuscript
Marie Turner, 'Introducing the CUL Additional Fragments Project'
Lire en contexte à l'époque prémoderne: enquete sur les manuscrits de fabliaux
The production and use of English manuscripts, 1066-1220

US Manuscript Culture

Lisa Fagin Davis, Manuscript Road Trip
Seymour de Ricci Digitized Archive
The Peripheral Manuscripts Project

Manuscript Production

Binding

American Bookbinders Museum
British Armorial Bindings
Bookbindings on Incunables
Database of Bookbindings
Ligatus, Language of Bindings
Medieval Bookbinding
How to Put Together a Hand-sewn Book
Philobiblon, Glossary of Bookbinding Terms
Princeton University, Hand-sewn Books Exhibition
Vocabulary of Bookbindings

Collation

Viscodex
VisColl

Material

Watermarks (Piccard)
Watermarks (Briquet)

Musicology

An Archive of Medieval French song
Cantus
Global Chant Database

Paleography

Elaine Treharne, Text Technologies: Resources in Paleography and Manuscript Studies
Catalogues des manuscrits datés
eBNM+ Paleography of the Low Countries
Erik Kwakkel's Gothic Scripts
Handschriftcensus

German paleography resource

Penn Paleography Resources
Late Medieval English Scribes
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Newberry Bibliography and Resources
Daniel Sawyer's guide to Paleography

Digital Tools

Dictionary for Library and Information Science
DigiPal
Digital Medieval Webinar Repository
Digital Tools for Manuscript Study
Glossary of Rare Books
How Much is That?
IIIF
IIIF Hosting
IIIF Manifest Editor
Open Annotation Collaboration
Project Mirador
RDFs (Resource Description Frameworks)
ResearchSpace - a digital Wunderkammer
Retro Reveal
SharedCanvas
Stanford, Rare Book Bibliographies, Library Catalogues, and Sales Catalogues
A TEI-based tag set for manuscript transcription
Transkribus

Machine learning-based handwritten text recognition

Virtual International Authority File
British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts