Palaeography Training: Medieval Manuscripts

Palaeography training resources

Bibliographies for the workshop are available by clicking on this link: Palaeography Training

The following pages are recommended for practice in advance of the training, especially the palaeography training online course provided by the National Archives:

The following links lead to some collections of digitally available medieval manuscripts which may be used for personal research as well as transcription practice:

Digital images/projects

The British Library Turning the Pages Project http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

The Electronic Beowulf Project http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/main.htm

The Digital Medievalist Project http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Main_Page

The Canterbury Tales Project

Irish Script on Screen – Trinity College Dublin http://www.isos.dias.ie/english/index.html

Bodleian Library http://image.ox.ac.uk/

National Library of Scotland http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/index.html

Cambridge University http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/digital_image_collections/

Digital Library of Wales http://www.llgc.org.uk/drych/index_s.htm

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

Digital Scriptorium http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/

Pierpoint Morgan University Library http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/

Medieval Writing (with Palaeography exercises) http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/writing.htm

Notre Dame University ttp://www.library.nd.edu/medieval_library/digital_projects.shtml

The Aberdeen Bestiary http://www.clues.abdn.ac.uk:8080/besttest/firstpag.html

The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380): 1,000 Illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts, The Bibliothèque Nationale de France http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/aaccueil.htm

Other relevant links

Online manuscript catalogues

Apart from catalogues for one or more libraries there are important repertoria for particular kinds of manuscripts:

Miniatures

One should mention in particular a number of French sites for searching illuminations in medieval manuscripts:

And of course one can find elsewhere in Europe and America web sites with illuminated manuscripts:

One should mention also individual manuscripts. Either the illumination or the texts can be the reason for digitalisation:

More links

With grateful thanks to Dr Otto Vervaart for allowing us to reproduce his links from his website http://home.hetnet.nl/~otto.vervaart/manuscripts_me_eng.htm