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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Presents the collection of the Dutch Royal Library and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague. Highlights and database with images and backgrounds.
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
An online exhibit of the history and use of facsimiles, containing images, with closeup images of illuminations and palaeographical descriptions of their scripts.
The creation of a multi-level, hypertextually linked, electronic archive of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream-vision Piers Plowman, by William Langland.
