Finding & consulting medieval manuscripts

UPDATE: Please use the updated version at
http://webpages.charter.net/tbob/medmss.html

Robert D. Peckham writes:

The

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu

shows that there are now connections with nearly 2300 mss entirely digitized which can be consulted on line. This is a wonderful team effort, clearly illustrating the virtue of work which aims to advance the scholarly community.

I am proceeding with my project, which will be an extension and renovation of what is now a page in the Andy Holt Virtual Library: “Web Access for Manuscript-based Textual Scholarship”. I will also extend units on Paleography and Codicology as well as other aspects. There is much to do facilitating the location and consultation of medieval manuscripts, even where it is a question of fragments, pages or single illustrations. Here is my unsorted collection so far:

Accès aux catalogues numérisés (BNF manuscript descriptions)
http://www.bnf.fr/PAGES/zNavigat/frame/catalogues_num.htm

Catalogo aperto dei manoscritti Malatestiani
http://www.malatestiana.it/manoscritti/manoscritti.htm

Manuscrits produits par le scriptorium de la cathédrale Sainte-Cécile
http://www.manuscrits.mediatheque-albi.fr

Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden: Manuscripts collection
http://www.slub-dresden.de/en/collections/manuscripts-and-rare-prints/manuscripts-collection/#c5233

Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) – Bibliothèque virtuelle (250+ mss)
http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/fr

http://www.wulfila.be

Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) – Bibliothèque virtuelle
http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/fr/index.htm

Digital Scriptorium
http://scriptorium.columbia.edu

wulfila project (Gothic)
http://www.wulfila.be

MANUS – Censimento dei manoscritti delle biblioteche italiane
http://manus.iccu.sbn.it

Sagñanet – Íslenskar fornbókmenntir
http://sagnanet.is

Manuscripta Mediaevalia
http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de

Manuscriptorium
http://www.manuscriptorium.com

http://Codices.ch (medieval mss in Switzerland)
http://www.codices.ch

Manuscrits médiévaux des monastères et chapitres vosgiens. Catalogues et inventaires
http://www.univ-nancy2.fr/MOYENAGE/ArtemTravauxenLigne/TheseMJGG/index.htm

Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
http://www.mmdc.nl/static/site

Leaves of Gold – Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections
http://www.leavesofgold.org

Medieval Manuscripts Digital Collection (Iowa Digital Library)
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/index_mmc.php?CISOROOT=/mmc

St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library
http://laurentius.ub.lu.se

Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century (Case Western Reserve)
http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/CollectionDetail.aspx?PID=ksl:ege

Die Handschriften des Mittelalters der Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg: Handschriftenkatalog online
http://www.ubs.sbg.ac.at/sosa/webseite/hsskat.htm

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
http://www.diamm.ac.uk/index.html

Distributed Digital Library of Chant Manuscript Images
http://www.scribeserver.com/NEUMES/distributed_image_library/index.html

NUCMC : the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
http://signets.bnf.fr/html/categories/c_091manuscrits_cat.html#4077

PONTIFICALIA: Repertory of Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals
http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4406/1/PONTIFICALIA.pdf

Erlebnisraum Altes Buch ist eine Initiative der UB-Graz, Abteilung für Sondersammlungen.
http://alo.uibk.ac.at/webinterface/library/COLLECTION_V01?objid=1081

Large Digital Libraries of western manuscripts
http://wiki.netbib.de/coma/DigitaleHandschriften

The Aberdeen Bestiary
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary

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

The Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition
http://www.sd-editions.com/bayeux/index.html

York Doomsday Project
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/yorkdoom/intro.htm

William Blake Archive
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (Penn)
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljscollection/index.cfm

Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from Western Europe (NYPL)
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=173

telma. traitement électronique des manuscrits et des archives
http://www.cn-telma.fr

The Schøyen Collection – 720 Manuscripts Spanning 5000 years
http://www.schoyencollection.com

Le Glossarium de Du Cange en ligne
http://www.cn-telma.fr/veille/nouveau-corpus-ducange

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
http://image.ox.ac.uk/list?collection=magdalen

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (with full descriptions, Yale)
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/manuscript/prelist.htm

Catalonian Manuscripts
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/catalan

Digitization Projects in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
http://employees.csbsju.edu/mheintzelman/German_Digitization_Projects.htm

DScriptorium
http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium

Laures Rare-Book Database & Virtual Library (Kirishitan Bunko, Sophia Univarsity, Tokyo, Japan)
http://133.12.23.145:8080/html/index.html

Browse Lists of Digitized Manuscripts (CORSAIR – 28,049 images, Pierpoint Morgan Library)
http://utu.morganlibrary.org/medren/BrowseBooleanCombined.cfm

Manuscript Collections – The Houghton Library (Harvard)
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/about.html#collection

Digital Medievl Manuscripts at Houghton Library
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/index.html

Handschriften – digital (Universität Heidelberg)
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/handschriften.html

The Goodspeed Manuscript Collection
http://goodspeed.lib.uchicago.edu/digitalproject.php

Medieval Manuscripts on the Web
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/512digms.htm

Digitalisierung der 848 deutschsprachigen Palatina-Handschriften in der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/palatina.html

Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (many manuscripts)
http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de

Manuscrits enluminés des bibliothèques de France
http://www.manuscritsenlumines.fr

Irish Script on Screen
http://www.isos.dias.ie

P E C I A : Le manuscrit médiéval ~ The medieval manuscript
http://blog.pecia.fr

Spätmittelalterliche Bilderhandschriften aus der Bibliotheca Palatina – digital
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digi/welcome.html

Medieval Manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medieval/medievalhome.html

Mass Digitization of UK Manuscripts
http://www.canterburytalesproject.org/massdigit/links.html

Open Directory Books of Hours: Individual Manuscripts
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Middle_Ages/Religion/Christianity/Books_of_Hours/Individual_Manuscripts

Facsimiles of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles (Staint Louis Univ.)
http://www.slu.edu/libraries/pius/archives/digcoll/mssexhibit07

Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum By British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts, Harry Leigh Douglas Ward, John Alexander Herbert Published by Printed by order of the Trustees, 1893
http://books.google.com/books?id=p-gtAAAAIAAJ

Inventaire de la “librairie” de Philippe Le Bon (1420)
By Georges Doutrepont
Published by Kiessling et cie, 1906
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized May 31, 2007 191 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=asE1AAAAMAAJ

A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford
By Bodleian Library, Richard William Hunt, Falconer Madan, P. D. Record, Herbert Henry Edmund Craster
Published by Clarendon Press, 1922
http://books.google.com/books?id=rOQtAAAAIAAJ

Catalogue of Manuscripts Preserved in the Chapter Library of Worcester Cathedral
By Worcester Cathedral. Library, John Kestell Floyer, Sidney Graves Hamilton, Worcestershire Historical Society, Worcester Cathedral
Compiled by John Kestell Floyer
Edition: revised
Published by Printed for the Worcestershire historical Society, by James Parker and Co., 1906
http://books.google.com/books?id=3lQ8AAAAMAAJ

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College
By Gonville and Caius College, Gonville and Caius College Library, Montague Rhodes James, Library
Published by University Press, 1908
http://books.google.com/books?id=0estAAAAIAAJ

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Library of Clare College, Cambridge: Cambridge
By Clare College (University of Cambridge). Library, Montague Rhodes James
Published by University Press, 1905
51 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=lvYtAAAAIAAJ

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity Hall: [Cambridge].
By Trinity Hall (University of Cambridge). Library, Montague Rhodes James
Published by University press, 1907
46 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=j_QtAAAAIAAJ

Catalogue of a Portion of the Valuable Collection of Manuscripts, Early Printed Books, &c: Of the Late William Morris, of Kelmscott House, Hammersmith
By William Morris
Published by Dryden press, J. Davy and sons, 1898
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Oct 9, 2006
118 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=20YaAAAAMAAJ

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke College, Cambridge: with a hand list of the printed books to the year 1500
By Pembroke College (University of Cambridge). Library, Montague Rhodes James, Pembroke College (Cambridge, Ellis Hovell Minns
Published by University press, 1905
314 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=GvQtAAAAIAAJ

Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the British Museum: By Cecil Bendall
By British Museum Dept. of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts, Cecil Bendall
Published by Gilbert and Rivington, 1902
Original from the New York Public Library
Digitized Apr 2, 2008
261 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=IyEYAAAAYAAJ

Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Saint-Geneviève
By Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Charles Kohler, Charles Alfred Kohler, France Ministère de l’instruction publique
Published by E. Plon, Nourrit et cie., 1893
Item notes: v.1
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Jun 8, 2007
http://books.google.com/books?id=OkEDAAAAYAAJ

Inventaire des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale: Fonds de Cluni
By Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des manuscrits, Léopold Delisle
Published by H. Champion, 1884
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Aug 29, 2007
413 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=WHwNAAAAQAAJ

Search OCLC WorldCat (Manuscript materials in the National Union Catalog
http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

National Union Catalog of Manuscripts
http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc

Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online (Cambridge U)
http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk

British Museum Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm

Electronic Access to Medieval Manuscripts
http://www.hmml.org/eamms

The James Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts (Trinity College Cambridge)
http://rabbit.trin.cam.ac.uk/James

Listing of Medieval Manuscript Microforms (Special Collections and Rare Books, University of Missouri MA Libraries)
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/specialcollections/medievalmf.php

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford – Electronic Catalogue of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/medieval

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford – Western manuscripts to c. 1500
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Online catalogues of Western Manuscripts – Search
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/search.html

Color images from manuscripts in the University of Kentucky Special Collections Library
http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/ukentucky/uky.html

RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY. Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/rare/images

PORTAL FOR FACSIMILE EDITIONS OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
http://www.umilta.net/facsimiles.html

Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts in Special Collections (U. of Arizona)
http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/illuman/9-10_08.html

Digital Collections – University of South Carolina Libraries
http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/EMC&CISOBOX1=no

Princeton – Getty funds medieval manuscript catalog
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/99/1011/getty.shtml

Database of Alchemical Manuscripts
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/alch_mss.html

Medieval Manuscripts Sorted Alphanumerically by Manuscript Number
http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/microforms/medieval.html

Case Western Reserve Brooks Library – Illustrated Manuscripts
http://digital.lib.cwu.edu/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=illumina&l=en&w=utf-8

University of Libraries: Digital Collections
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/mss

A Catalog of Illuminated Manuscript Facsimiles in the Western Michigan University Libraries
http://www.wmich.edu/library/special/collections/facsimilies.php

English Medieval Manuscripts on Microform (Michigan State Univ. Libraries)
http://guides.lib.msu.edu/page.phtml?page_id=1534

Mystere dou jour dou jugement: Besançon, Bibliothèque Municipale ms. [M] 579
http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/jugement/jugement.html

French Studies > Manuscripts – intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201036

German Studies > Manuscripts – intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201037

Italian Studies > Manuscripts – intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201039

Celtic Studies > Manuscripts – intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=200756

Spanish Studies > Manuscripts – intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201038

Portuguese Studies > Manuscripts – intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201043

Russian Studies > Manuscripts – intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201352

Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus: Contents and Contexts
http://gramoty.ru

Scandinavian Studies > Manuscripts – intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201044

Other European Studies > Manuscripts – intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201046

A Census of Medieval Manuscripts in South Carolina Collections
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/medievalmss/medievalmss.html

Liber Floridus – enluminures des manuscrits médiévaux conservés dans les bibliothèques de l’enseignement supérieur
http://liberfloridus.cines.fr

Die digitale Handschriftenbibliothek Köln – Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC)
http://www.dombibliothek-koeln.de/ceec/ceec_start.html

List of illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_illuminated_Anglo-Saxon_manuscripts

List of illuminated manuscripts (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_illuminated_manuscripts

Choix de miniatures des manuscrits del’Université de Liège
http://www.libnet.ulg.ac.be/enlumin/enl01.htm

Medieval Manuscript Manual
http://web.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/index.html

Images from Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
http://campus.belmont.edu/honors/ASImages/ASMss.htm

Pages from the Past: A Legacy of Medieval Books in South Carolina Collections
http://www.pagesfromthepast.org

Le Fonds ancien de la Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon
http://www.bm-lyon.fr/trouver/Fonds_ancien/Fonds_ancien.htm

Handschriftencensus
http://www.handschriftencensus.de

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS OF CANON LAW AND ROMAN LAW (locating)
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~jurarom/manuscr

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru The National Library of Wales – Manuscripts
http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=126

Bibliographie zu mittelalterlichen Handschriften in Österreich – Bibliography on Medieval Manuscripts in Austria
http://www.ksbm.oeaw.ac.at/lit/frame.htm

Manuscrits médiévaux messins numérisés
http://bm.metz.fr/clientbookline/Mediatheque/index.html

Miscellaneous Digital Facsimile Collections
http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/links/miscmsslinks.htm

Manuscritos medievales (Biblioteca Virtual de Miguel Cervantes)
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/FichaMateria.html?Ref=44201

Mandragore, base des manuscrits enluminés de la B.n.F.
http://mandragore.bnf.fr/html/accueil.html

La Cantilène de Sainte Eulalie (ms with java modern French translation)
http://www.valenciennes.fr/index.php?id=2316

Cours de paléographie – Archive du cours d’Arisitum
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/eric-camille.voirin/paleo

A Hypertext Book of Hours
http://medievalist.net/hourstxt/home.htm

Roman de la Rose Digital Library
http://romandelarose.org

Brut Chronicle
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=brut&page=index

Fifty-one Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts (Cary Collection)
http://library.rit.edu/cary/cc_db/manuscripts/index.html

Le Moyen Âge en Lumière – Les Trésors des Bibliothèques en France
http://www.moyenageenlumiere.com

John of Berry’s Petites Heures, 14th Century. (BNF, LAT 18014)
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/manuscrits/aman9.htm

Katalog der Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek in Heidelberg (Band 2): Die deutschen Pfälzer Handschriften des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts der Universitäts-Bibliothek in Heidelberg. Mit einem Anhange: Die Handschriften der Batt´schen Bibliothek
http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/Wille1903

Heidelberg, 1903

Bibliographische Information Alle zugehörigen BändeSammlung

Persistente URL: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/Wille1903
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-11436
(PDF, 55 MB)

(z. B.: IV, 145, xii)

Inhalt

* Deckblatt
* VII-XII Vorwort
* Titelblatt
* 2-148 I. Codices Palatini Germanici
* 150-162 II. Codices Heidelbergenses Battiani
* 163-190 Register
* 190 Nachträge und Verbesserungen

Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Digital Librarian)
http://www.digital-librarian.com/medieval.html

MS. GKS 1605 4° -CALENDARIUM * SPECULUM CONSCIENTIAE – PSALTERIUM LATINUM
http://www2.kb.dk/elib/mss/gks1605

Electronic Beowulf
http://bookline-03.valenciennes.fr/bib/fondsvirtuels/Cataloguemanuscrits/introd.asp

Codex Gigas (National Library in Stockholm)
http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng

Die Nibelungen-Handschrift C digital
http://www.blb-karlsruhe.de/blb/blbhtml/nib/uebersicht.html

The Worcester Cathedral Fragments
http://www.scribeserver.com/NEUMES/worcester_fragments.htm

NKS 66 8º: Harpestræng: Liber Herbarum
http://base.kb.dk/manus_pub/cv/manus/ManusPage.xsql?nnoc=manus_pub&p_ManusId=87&p_PageNo=140%20recto&p_Lang=main&p_Mode=img

Finding Medieval Manuscripts – Discovery and Citation in the Digital Era
http://arts.anu.edu.au/medievalheritage/pearce/pearce.htm

Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts
http://www.nla.gov.au/raam

TBob

Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D
Professor of French
Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy
Director, Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
Director, Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project
Director, Andy Holt Virtual Library
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee at Martin / Martin TN 38238
Email: bobp@utm.edu

From MEDTEXTL, re-posted with permission, thanks Bob!

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