Essentials
- Book of Hours
- Enigma
- Grotefend
- Medieval Digital Resources, Medieval Academy of America
- Orbus Latinus
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
- Usuarium
- vHMML
- Vulgate Bible
- Whitaker’s Words
Bibliographies
- Brepolis Databases: Amazing portal for resources, including the International Medieval Bibliography and Library of Latin Texts.
- Provisionalia – index of scholastic texts and their editions/translations
Digitized Catalogues & Manuscripts
- Sian Echard’s Masterlist of Digitized Manuscripts
- Beinecke Library
- Bibliographical Society of America, BibSite
- Bibliothèque national de France
- Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux
- Biblioteca Apostolica Vataicana
- British Library medieval and earlier digitized manuscripts masterlist
- British Library, Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts
- Chetham’s School of Music
- Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700
- Digital Bodleian
- Digital Scriptorium
- Digitale Sammlung Inkunabeln und Blockbücher
- DMMmaps
- eCodices (Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland).
- Fragmentarium
- Frauenklöster – Incunabula and Manuscripts from Southern German
- Lambeth Palace
- Legal Documents from Medieval and Early Modern England
- Manuscripts Online
- Manuscriptorium
- Medieval Libraries of Great Britain
- Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries
- Newberry Library
- Parker on the web
- Penn in Hand
- Répertoire des textes et des manuscrits médiévaux d’oc et d’oïl
- Rosenbach
- St Galen
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- UCLA Catalogue of digitized medieval manuscripts
Images
- Bildarchiv Austria
- Christian Iconography
- Corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture
- Dezoomify:
- Copy digitized MS’s URL, replacing the bit at the end (after the letter ‘f’) with the folio number in three digits. So, 038r or 202v
- Right click “copy image”
- open up Photoshop and “create new” making sure to set the resolution to 300 pixels per inch
- paste the image
- save as jpg or tiff
- Materials in Paintings
- The Medieval Bestiary
Individual Digitized Manuscripts
- Auchinleck
- London, British Library, Harley MS 4431
- University of Pennsylvania, MS Roll 1066
- The Electronic Beowulf (BL, Cotton Vitellius A. xv)
- The Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
- The Book of Margery Kempe (BL Additional 61823)
Languages
French
- Anglo-Norman Dictionary
- Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge
- Dictionnaire de Moyen Français (1330-1500)
- Dictionnaire Étymologique de l’Ancien Français
- Leixque de l’ancien français
- Medieval Francophone literary culture outside France
Latin
- Daniel Hadas, Post-Classical Latin: Sources and Tools
- Abbreviationes
- Cappelli
- Corpus Corporum
- Logeion
- Monumenta Informatik
- Open Latin
- The Latin Library
Middle English
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
Material
- Watermarks (Piccard)
- Watermarks (Briquet)
Musicology
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
- Dominique Stutzmann, ‘Les écritures gothiques livresques: classification de Lieftinck-Gumbert-Derolez‘
- Dominique Stutzmann, ‘Concordance terminologique: littera textualis et semitextualis > textura, textualis, notula, rotunda‘
- Dominque Stutzmann, ‘Concordance terminologique: littera cursiva et littera cursiva antiquior > bastard, anglicana, secretary, mercantesca‘
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