A selection of manuscripts, printed works, book bindings, and specimens from the paper history collection at the National Library of the Netherlands.

An on-line database of text, digitised images, commentary and translation from this 12th century encyclopedia of the natural world. Maintained by the University of Aberdeen.

Bibliography for some 35 000 ancient and medieval mss housed in ancient or modern libraries. The database is constantly growing and including links to online resources.

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.

A joint project of the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University to digitize and make available on the World Wide Web the two universities' medieval and early Renaissance manuscript holdings.

Devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.

A series of images of maps dating from 400-1300 AD.

The online guide to the Electronic Beowulf Project, a comprehensive collection of images of the Old English Poem. The full facsimile is available on CD-ROM.

Illustrated glossary explaining the monastic scriptorium from Joe Chiffriller, part of the New York Carver.

Catalan manuscripts in UC Berkeley's collections.

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.

Examine the calendar section of this celebrated 15th century book of hours.

An online exhibit of the history and use of medieval manuscript facsimiles, containing hundreds of images from dozens of manuscript facsimiles, with closeup images of illuminations and palaeographical descriptions of their scripts.

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

Part of an MA course, this introduction gives hands-on experience for reading, interpreting and understanding medieval texts.

An introduction to the history of writing in Western Europe, including basic paleography and the social history of literacy.

Illumination and calligraphy from selected collections at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

A collaborative effort to create a multi-level, hypertextually linked, electronic archive of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream-vision Piers Plowman, by William Langland.

An online museum that presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps.

1000 manuscript illuminations from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

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.

Explore the five primary divisions of this illuminated manuscript - a medieval prayer book created by Jean Pucelle.

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.

This is the longest unpublished mediaeval Venetian chronicle. Publication of the manuscript (more than 500,000 words) has begun, with one volume completed and the second expected at the end of 2000.

A 'mourning poem' for a Norman ancestor of William the Conqueror. The site provides images, translations and commentary and aims to illustrate the difficulties in interpreting medieval sources.