AUSTRALIA

National Library of Australia Digital Collections : most items in this ongoing effort are related to Australian history, but there are images from two Books of Hours (MSS 1097/9 and 1097/6).

AUSTRIA

ALO: Austrian Literature Online: Die digitale Bibliothek : complete digitizations of Austrian documents from the 11th C to the present. The easiest way to find the medieval and Renaissance manuscripts is via the Year Index. In German and English.

Vienna

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

The Digital Reading Room is a portal to various digitised holdings, including Manuscripts . The landing page is in English or German, but the search and catalogue pages are in German only. Currently holds almost 1500 manuscripts. Images in full digitizations are large, so navigation can be a bit slow.

BELGIUM

Brussels

Belgica : the digital library of the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique/ Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België. Includes complete digitizations of 38 medieval manuscripts (access through the Collections tab). Site is in French or Flemish, but catalogue material is in English. There are also 41 manuscripts available through the Europeana Regia project.

Liège

Université de Liège

The ULg Library has digitized 49 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, accessed through Gallery page. From there, you can choose access via DONum, which provides catalogue detail and low-resolution images, or you can choose to flip through manuscripts (a rather slow process, including animated page turns and the sound of a page turning). Whole manuscripts can be downloaded.

CANADA

The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages : includes images from many manuscripts. Very old now.

Calgary

University of Calgary

The Cotton Nero A.x. Project : includes images of every folio of Cotton Nero A x (the Gawain-manuscript). Note that this is not a flippable facsimile - each image must be accessed individually. Be sure to click the "full browser" icon after clicking on an image, in order to be able to display the whole folio in a zoomable format.

Toronto

University of Toronto Fisher Library

Collection of Manuscript Fragments : 190 pieces of vellum in Greek and Latin, to show development of handwriting from the 4th century to the end of Middle Ages. Fisher Digitized Manuscripts : 22 manuscripts in full digital versions. DEEDS: Documents of Early England Data Set : a growing corpus of over 30,000 medieval Latin charters, some with digital images; can be browsed in various ways, including by map; includes other features, such as a dater

Vancouver

University of British Columbia

Western Manuscripts is the access point to digitizations of both fragments and a few complete manuscript (including a 13th-century theological miscellany; a 13th-century Bible; a 15th-century Book of Hours; and a Spanish chant manuscript); organization is confusing, and access to the images themselves is frustratingly slow

Victoria

University of Victoria

CZECH REPUBLIC

Manuscriptorium : an aggregator site for digital projects coordinated by the National Library of the Czech Republic. Organization/ searching is a bit mysterious, but there is a list of Medieval Manuscripts of the National Library of the Czech Republic that offers access to digital facsimiles. This is version 3.0 of the site, and currently (November 2015), there are some access issues and lags.

Olomouc

There is a list of digitized manuscripts from the Research Library in Olomouc, in Czech; this generally points to small, selected images.

DENMARK

The Copenhagen Maimonides : complete digitization of 14th-century copy of Moshe ben Maimon’s Guide for the Perplexed. In Danish or English. E-manuscripts : portal to digitizations of manuscripts from the Kongelige Bibliotek/ Royal Library of Copenhagen. Many complete manuscripts. In Danish or English. Treasures in the Royal Library : archived version of treasures exhibition from Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, includes many images from medieval manuscripts. In Danish or English.

FINLAND

Turku

Antiphonarium Tammelense : musical/ liturgical manuscripts from Åbo Akademi University Library; in Finnish

FRANCE

Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux : database of images from medieval manuscripts in libraries across France. Most manuscripts are represented by only a few images. Advanced search not particularly helpful (no author/ title searches). In French. Europeana Regia : a project to reconstruct three important royal collections: Carolingian manuscripts, the Louvre collection at the time of Charles V and Charles VI, and the library of the Aragonese Kings of Naples. There is a complete list of repositories under the Manuscripts tab. Enluminures : older database of images from medieval manuscripts in French municipal libraries. Casual users can access images via thematic strands; expert search is also available. Images are generally small, and of a few folia per manuscript only. In French. Note that many French municipal libraries also have complete digital facsimiles on their websites. Liber Floridus : a growing collection of images from manuscripts in French university libraries. Can be searched by iconographic classification, or accessed by library. Images are generally small, and of a few folia per manuscript only. In French.

Epinal

BMI

BMI Epinal includes full digitizations of several important manuscripts, including an Anglo-Saxon glossary that can be flipped through on its own, or read next to a transcription. Site text is in French or German.

Lyon

Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon

Numelyo is the digital library at Lyon: it includes full digitizations of 55 Merovingian and Carolingian manuscripts

Paris

Bibliothèque de la Mazarine

Images from the Mazarine can be found through Liber Floridus.

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Reims

Bibliothèque de Reims

There are over 200 medieval manuscripts and fragments currently in the Bibliothèque Numérique, some in colour and some scanned from black and white microfilm. Not easy to see what is included in the collection (try searching by limiting to medieval manuscripts before the 16th century). French.

Rouen

There are selections from over 100 MSS from the Rouen collection accessible through the BVMM, here. The BM site used to have complete digitizations of some 20 MSS, but now (November 2015) I can no longer find these.

Saint-Omer

The Bibliothèque numérique has pageable colour digital fascimiles of complete manuscripts: choose navigation by list to avoid a very distracting spinning thumbnail gallery. French.

Strasbourg

BNU

There are more than 20 complete manuscripts available through La Mystique rhénane . Navigation is awkward.

Troyes

Médiathèque Grand Troyes included thousands of complete digital facsimiles, scanned from black and white microfilm. Searching was not easy. Used Zoomify. French. For some years now (November 2015), a notice has stated that materials are unavailable, due to technical difficulties.

Valenciennes

The patrimoine section of the Bibliothèque Valenciennes site includes pageable colour facsimiles of 8 medieval manuscripts. There seem to be plans for a new digital library, but this particular placeholder has been in place for at least several years now (November 2015). French.

GERMANY

Manuscripta Mediaevalia : a portal site bringing together German-led manuscript digitization projects: links to full digitizations of manuscripts from a growing list of sites, including Bonn, St Gall, Munich, Greifswald, Heidelberg, as well as from outside Germany. Apparently in German or English, but the English tab has been unresponsive for some years.

Augsburg

Universität Augsburg

Digitale Sammlungen : full digitizations. Some of the main library text is in English, but the text around the manuscripts is in German only.

Cologne

Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis : complete digitizations of some 400 manuscripts from the Episcopal and Cathedral Library of Cologne. Some of the framing text in the site is translated into English (access from the “Optionen” button), but most of the navigation and all of the cataloguing material is in German. It can be perplexing to figure out how to find a manuscript, but once found, the facsimiles are easy to use.

Heidelberg

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität

Digitale Bibliothek : portal to digitizations of complete manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina (such as the famous Codex Manesse), the Codices Salemitani (monastic libraries of Salem and Petershausen), Heidelberg (western and oriental manuscripts), and the Bibliotheca Laureshamensis (monastic library of Lorsch; see entry below). Site framework in German or English, but some manuscript-level material is currently (November 2015) in German only. It can be difficult to find specific items, but once found, the facsimiles are easy to use. Manuscripts can be downloaded in PDF form.

Kassel

UniKassel Bibliothek

ORKA : is the portal to digital materials, including medieval manuscripts. It is not particularly easy to zero in on the medieval material via the available browsing and searching tools: date-limited searches and year-limited browsing are most successful. Once found, facsimiles are complete and zoomable, though navigation is very slow. German, English, and Spanish.

Lorsch

Bibliotheca Laureshamensis is a project to reconstruct digitally the monastic library of Lorsch. Lorsch manuscripts from all over the world are made available here in complete, pageable facsimiles. It can be difficult to get at the facsimiles; begin with the Virtual Library menu item, and then persist. In German, English, Italian, or French.

Munich

Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

MDZ Digitale Bibliothek : portal to projects of the Munich Digital Centre; includes complete digitizations of medieval manuscripts as well as early printed books. Site framing material available in German or English, but catalogue-level material is in German only.

Tübingen

e-sequence Digital Edition of the Saint Gall Corpus of Sequences by Notker Balbulus : includes a digital facsimile with sound files reconstructing the music. While an English project description has been promised for some time, currently (November 2015) much of the text is in German only.

Wolfenbüttel

Wolfenbüttel Digital Library : full digitizations of over 500 manuscripts from the Herzog August Bibliothek. In German or English; parts of the site are also available in Latin.

Würzburg

Libri sancti Kyliani : full digitizations of manuscripts from the Dombibliothek. There is a visualization option for searching, but the list tab is more approachable. German or English.

ICELAND

National and University Library of Iceland

Handrit.is : database almost 1000 historical manuscripts. A “quick group” link opens a list of 219 pre-1500 manuscripts; not all are digitized, however, and the search function is currently (November 2015) a bit fussy. In Icelandic, English, or Danish.

IRELAND

Dublin

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Irish Script on Screen : database of digitized Irish manuscripts from many institutions, with catalogue descriptions. The Google search used on the site is not particularly helpful, but there is a useful index page that groups manuscripts by institution. Low-resolution images accessible to all; (free) registration allows scholarly users access to higher-resolution images. In Irish or English.

Royal Irish Academy

Saint Patrick's Confessio is a site that includes pageable colour facsimiles of 8 medieval manuscripts of the text.

Trinity College Dublin

Digital Collections is a portal to the Library’s growing number of digitizations. It is not easy to see what the collection includes, given a very poorly designed search function, but there is, for example, a complete digitization of the Book of Kells (note that this can be a bit slow to load - be patient).

ISRAEL

Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts Catalogue : the National Library of Israel online catalogue now includes links to thousands of digitized Hebrew manuscripts from around the world. The announcement page I have linked here describes the scope of the project, and various ways of accessing the manuscripts.

ITALY

Manus online is a database of catalogue descriptions and digital images of manuscripts (and other archival materials) in Italian libraries. The advanced search option is the best way to find material, though this still requires a fair bit of drilling down. Most useful if you already know what you are looking for. In Italian and English.

Florence

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Teca Digitale : includes complete reproductions of the manuscripts in the Fonds Plutei, along with the 18th-century catalogue records; while the Laurenziana has an English option on the home page, the search page linked here is in Italian only. Display of images requires Java.

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze

Biblioteca Digitale : many complete digitizations of manuscripts. The site is entirely in Italian. The home page features direct links to several manuscripts, and also has a tab that opens a list of all digitized manuscripts by shelfmark (click on Inventario).

Naples

Biblioteca Nazionale Di Napoli

The Biblioteca Digitale includes complete digitizations of medieval manuscripts. Searching and navigation can be difficult (the site is in Italian only), but there is a complete list of all digital material, and manuscript highlights at I Manoscritti della BNN.

Perugia

Biblioteca Augusta

The Biblioteca Digitale includes complete digitizations of medieval manuscripts; click on a subcategory, and then on the Documents Index, to get a full list. Uses the DjVU plug-in viewer, which is a bit clunky, though one can download bundled versions of entire manuscripts for offline viewing. In Italian and English.

Rome

National Central Library of Rome

Virtual Library Nanontolana seems to be an orphan project; there are a few images from three manuscripts, and the site was last modified in 2010.

Turin

Vercelli Book Digitale is a project to digitize the whole of the Vercelli Book. A beta version is now (November 2015) online, with at present only two sections of the text. The facsimile includes an edition. Italian and English.

Vatican City

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Manoscritti digitalizzati offers direct links by shelfmark to over 3000 colour manuscript facsimiles. Some navigation text available in German or English. See also the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project , a collaboration between the BAV and the Bodleian Library to digitize ancient texts (focussing on Hebrew Manuscripts, Greek manuscripts, and incunabula).

Bibliotheca Palatina

Bibliotheca Palatina digital is a project to reconstruct virtually the Heidelberg Bibliotheca Palatina, much of which went to the Vatican as the spoils of war in 1623. Complete facsimiles. In German and English

NETHERLANDS

Literatuurgeschiedenis.nl : this portal for Dutch literature includes an extensive medieval section, with many images of medieval MSS. A site aimed at Dutch students, written entirely in Dutch.

Amsterdam

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Beeldbank : the image bank of the university library includes complete digitizations of 18 medieval manuscripts, with plans to add more. In Dutch.

The Hague

Koninklijke Bibliotheek

Utrecht

Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht

The homepage of Special Collections points to many digitizations of manuscripts and printed books in the collection. It is not easy to get a sense of just how many items there are in any one convenient place: users must read through the various themed topics and news items, and often click on a List button to reveal what is available. There is an alphabetical list of Digitized Objects , but it is overwhelming. Many famous manuscripts available, such as the Utrecht Psalter ; documents can be downloaded as colour PDFs.

NEW ZEALAND

Auckland

Auckland City Libraries

Rossdhu Book of Hours : searchable version, including complete online digitization, of Med.Ms G146, from the Sir George Grey Collection.

NORWAY

Bergen

University of Bergen and Bergen Research Foundation

Virtual Manuscripts : a project to reassemble, in the virtual realm, fragments from about a thousand medieval manuscripts from Norway. The reassembled fragments can be leafed through by means of an flip reader.

POLAND

Warsaw

Polona is the digital portal of the National Library of Poland; the site is in Polish, but if you go to the Search page and select Rekopisy from the tabs on the search page, you will see a selection of manuscripts, some of which are medieval.

Wroclaw

The Digital Library of the University of Wroclaw has many medieval manuscripts available in digital form. For a complete list, go to the Publications List: Manuscripts. In Polish, Czech, English, German, and French. Defaults to the DjVu browser plugin, which can be fiddly.

PORTUGAL

Lisbon

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

Biblioteca nacional digital : portal to digitizations of books and manuscripts from the collection of the National Library of Portugal. To find medieval manuscripts, begin with the Index page that lists digitized items by date. Some English, but most of the site is in Portuguese.

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian

Art of the Book : a few images from 8 manuscripts. In English or Portuguese.

RUSSIA

Moscow

Russian State Library

Some full digitizations through Manuscripta Mediaevalia (much of this site is in German); click Bibliotheksorte, then scroll down to Moskau.

Saint Petersburg

National Library of Russia

The Exhibitions link includes some images of manuscripts. There is a Digital Library , but it is entirely in Russian, and I have not been able to determine if the "manuscripts" referred to in the brief English description are medieval.

SPAIN

Barcelona

Biblioteca de Catalunya

Manuscrits de la Biblioteca de Catalunya : many fully-digitized manuscripts, but the medieval manuscripts are mixed in with later works, and the search function and filters are very limited. In Spanish.

Biblioteca de l'Orfeó Català

Treasures of the Library of Orfeó Català : a few musical manuscripts. In English, Spanish, and Catalan.

Madrid

Biblioteca Nacional de España

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica includes thousands of completely digitized manuscripts. The Discover page points to material by themes. The advanced search function can be used to limit by date. In Spanish and English.

Real Biblioteca

The Real Biblioteca Digital homepage currently (November 2015) has only a few digital facsimiles; I have noted that these seem to change with the passage of time.

Valencia

Universitat de València, Biblioteca Històrica

This collection is included in the Europeana Regia project; there are 92 fully-digitized manuscripts. There is a list of manuscripts by author in RODERIC with over 200 items.

SWEDEN

Lund

Lund University

St Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library : complete digitization of 70 manuscripts in the Library collection. Navigation a bit awkward. In English.

Stockholm

Kungliga Biblioteket - Sveriges Nationalbibliothek

Codex Gigas (the Devil's Bible) : complete digitization. Images can be made very large, but viewer is quite slow. In Swedish, Czech, or English.

Uppsala University Library

Codex Argenteus Online : complete digitization of both the manuscript and of important early printed editions. In English.

SWITZERLAND

e-codices: Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland : portal site for a very large collection of complete digitizations of medieval manuscripts in Swiss libraries. In German, English, French, or Italian. A notable collection accessible through this site is Codices Electronici Sangallenses : complete digitization of 436 manuscripts from the Library of the Abbey of St Gall. In German, English, French, or Italian. Grand-St-Bernard : fragments and complete digitizations. In French.

UNITED KINGDOM

DIAMM: Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music : massive database of European sources of medieval polyphonic music. Thousands of records, most with high-resolution images. Aimed at the expert. Free registration required. The Online Froissart: A Digital Edition of the Chronicles of Jean Froissart : a scholarly editing project offering access to the manuscript tradition of the first three books of Froissart’s Chroniques, with digital images of many manuscripts. The Schøyen Collection : a privately-maintained collection of manuscripts and fragments. Many images, with extensive annotation.

Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen

The Aberdeen Bestiary : complete digitization, with transcription, commentary, and translation of the Latin text. To access the images, go to the section Bestiary, and from there, to the section Commentary. From this point it is possible to page through the manuscript. The Burnet Psalter : complete digitization. Images can be accessed through the Index to the Manuscript. The St. Albans Psalter : complete digitization. Includes commentary, transcription, and translation. Images can be accessed from the Commentary or Transcription pages.

Aberystwyth

National Library of Wales

Ayr

The Stair Society displays a complete digitization of The Ayr Manuscript, a fourtheenth-century legal manuscript.

Cambridge

Cambridge University Library

The Cambridge Digital Library is now the portal to a growing collection of digitized manuscripts, and incorporates some of the earlier, free-standing projects. Some of the contents include

Corpus Christi College

Parker Library on the Web : complete digitization of most manuscripts (well over 500) in the Parker Library, along with professional-level cataloguing. Many aspects of the site (specialized search functions, larger images) are available by institutional subscription only.

Faculty of English, University of Cambridge

Scriptorium : digital archive of medieval and early modern manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books; many pageable fascimiles, and many resources for teaching and learning, including materials for studying English handwriting

Fitzwilliam Museum

The Cambridge Illuminations : exhibition of images from illuminated medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam collection. Collections Explorer : the catalogue of images from the Fitzwilliam collection; includes many illuminated manuscripts. Entries include full catalogue-level data and multiple images. Illuminating the Law : older exhibition of images from legal manuscripts. The Macclesfield Psalter : older exhibition of selected images from the manuscript.

Trinity College

The James Catalogue : some years ago, Trinity digitized the M.R. James catalogue of the college manuscripts. A program is currently (November 2015) underway to digitize the manuscripts themselves, and the James catalogue is being used as the portal. It is not at present possible to see a list of the manuscripts that have been digitized, but searching the catalogue will produce entries that include direct access to images (complete, pageable digital facsimiles), where they are available. Famous manuscripts currently online include the Eadwine Psalter, theTrinity Apocalypse, the Romance of Alexander, and Piers Plowman.

Cardiff

Cardiff Central Library

The Llyfr Aneirin (Book of Aneirin) is now fully digitized on the National Library of Wales site.

Durham

Durham Priory Library Recreated is a project to digitize all of the books associated with Durham Priory Library. In the first phase, the material still held in Durham (341 manuscripts and 52 printed books) is being digitized. Very high-quality, zoomable, clickable facsimiles; note that these are currently somewhat slow to load.

Edinburgh

National Libary of Scotland

The Auchinleck MS (NLS Advocates 19.2.1) : complete transcription and digital facsimile of the manuscript. The transcription is the focus of the project: image viewing is awkward (click to individual folia from the transcription), and images are very small, though zoomable within a small window. This is an older project. The Murthly Hours : complete digitization of a 13th-century Book of Hours. Images are very small, though zoomable within a small window. This is an older project.

University of Edinburgh

Image Collections : thousands of images, displayed using LUNA software. There is also a Centre for Research Collections Flickr stream. It can be difficult to get a sense of the scope of the medieval offerings: Western Medieval Manuscripts is the main category. As with most LUNA interfaces, searching is difficult, and navigation is clumsy. Notable items include the whole of MS 56, the 11th-century Celtic Psalter. Most items are displayed as a gallery of images, but there are also a few pageable facsimiles, including MS 12, an 11th-century Gospel book, and MS 19, a Bible Historial.

Glasgow

Glasgow University Library

Hereford

Mappa Mundi is a new digitization of the Hereford mappa mundi, offering three clickable versions of the map: the original, a colour-enhanced version, and a 3D scan. Extensive annotation.

Lichfield

Manuscripts of Lichfield Cathedral : the St Chad (Llandeilo Fawr) Gospels and the Wycliffite New Testament. Cooperative project between the Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral and William F. Endres of the University of Kentucky. Galleries for each manuscript include images of every page, and offer the user the ability to overlay an image with a range of spectral bands.

London

British Library

The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Search the Collections function can, with some patience, be persuaded to turn up several hundred images from medieval manuscripts; most of these are leafs and cuttings. The collection also includes facsimiles of medieval manuscripts by such artists as Henry Shaw and Caleb Wing, as well as examples of the work of the Spanish Forger.

The Wellcome Library

Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts is a database of about 1000 Arabic manuscripts related to the history of medicine.

Manchester

The John Rylands Library

John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog : news related to manuscripts and other rare books; stories frequently include images. The University of Manchester Library Image Collections : includes many images from the Special Collections division of the John Rylands University Library. Uses LUNA. Rylands Genizah : images of items (10th - 19th C) from the Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo. Uses LUNA. Rylands Medieval Collection : images from the medieval MSS in the Rylands collection, emphasizing Middle English. Uses LUNA.

Nottingham

University of Nottingham Library

The department of Manuscripts and Special Collections has a variety of online Exhibitions , many of which include medieval items. There is also a pageable partial facsimile of the Wollaton Antiphonal (there are both plugin and images and text only versions).

Oxford

Balliol College

Balliol College Medieval Manuscripts is a gallery of images, usually covering whole manuscripts, of books in Balliol’s collection: there are currently over 100 manuscripts, and a note indicating that digitization is proceeding according to user demand (with a contact link). Images are displayed in Flickr albums. The catalogue of Balliol MSS by R.A.B. Mynors has also been photographed and mounted in full.

Bodleian Library

Digital Bodleian : the new portal for digital projects from the Bodleian. Full digitizations are gradually being pulled into the portal: as of now (July 2015) there are 48 western manuscripts in full, high resolution, pageable and zoomable facsimiles. Free registration allows the creation of collections and notes. Easy downloads. Bodleian LUNA Image Library : thousands of images from manuscripts in the Bodleian collection, scanned from film and slides, and searchable using LUNA software. Images of Medieval Manuscripts : older collection of selected images, scanned from film, from western manuscripts in the Bodleian collection. The Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project , a collaboration between the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and the Bodleian Library to digitize ancient texts (focussing on Hebrew Manuscripts, Greek manuscripts, and incunabula). The Romance of the Middle Ages : exhibition of objects and books related to medieval romance. Many images of manuscripts. Includes audio and video clips related to exhibition materials. The Vernon Manuscript : exhibition celebrating the publication of the digital facsimile. While the full facsimile must be purchased, the exhibition does include quite a few images.

Christ Church

Christ Church has recently (May 2014) begun a project to digitize many of its manuscripts and rare books. As of November 2015, there are 4 complete facsimiles, accessible via the Western Manuscripts landing page: click the hyperlinked titles to access the facsimiles.

University of Oxford

Digital Image Library : portal page to various University of Oxford digitization projects Early Manuscripts at Oxford University : an early digitization project. Complete digitizations of over 80 early manuscripts from the collections of Balliol College, the Bodleian Library, Corpus Christi College, Jesus College, Magdalen College, Merton College, St John’s College (complete list here). Images are very large, so navigation can be difficult. Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: currently (November 2015) in beta, this resource is based on the work of Neil Ker and his collaborators. The plan is to bring together Ker's Medieval Libraries of Great Britain and the Corpus of British Medieval Library catalogues. Some images are included, with the collecting and mounting of more underway.

Rochester

The Textus Roffensis : complete digitization of the Book of the Church of Rochester.

York

Late Medieval English Scribes : online catalogue of all scribal hands appearing in the manuscripts of the works of Chaucer, Gower, Trevisa, Langland, and Hoccleve. Most entries include sample pages. Uses Zoomify.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Digital Scriptorium : growing, searchable database of selected images from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts from over 30 American institutions. Currently contains over 27,000 images. Aimed at expert users, but includes a Highlights page for casual readers.

Ann Arbor

University of Michigan

Brut Chronicle is a complete digitization of a text of the Middle English Brut.

Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University

Roman de la Rose Digital Library : a joint project of Johns Hopkins and the BNFr. Large database of Rose manuscripts from many institutions, with many pageable digitizations of complete manuscripts (the Popup option gives the largest images).

Walters Art Museum

Walters Art Museum Online Collection : images from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Walters collection can be accessed through several thematic threads, or through simple or advanced search. The Walters also has a Flickr photostream: Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts' Photostream. You can browse and download complete sets of high-resolution images of the manuscripts that have been digitized through The Digital Walters.

Bethesda, MD

National Library of Medicine

Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine : many selected images. Older exhibition, with some updating. Framing material aimed at both the general visitor, and at a scholarly audience. Medieval Manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine : very old exhibition, with selected images.

Bloomington

University of Indiana, Lilly Library

Four Thousand Years of Miniature Books : older exhibition, with images from manuscripts and early printed books.

Boston

Brandeis University

Book of Hours : older project; complete digitization. Images are small.

Cambridge, MA

Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library : images of Harvard’s medieval and Renaissance manuscripts are available throught the Digital Scriptorium project, but the Houghton Library has set up this portal page to offer strategies for searching, as well as ongoing news about digitizing projects.

Chapel Hill, NC

The Mackinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations : hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, this is a browsable/ searchable collection of over 1000 images, digitized from slides created and collected by Loren C. McKinney, a medieval historian.

Chicago

Newberry Library

Illuminated Manuscripts and Printed Books: French Renaissance Gems of the Newberry Library : exhibition with many images from items in the Newberry collection.

University of Chicago

The Goodspeed Manuscript Collection : an ongoing project to digitize 68 Biblical manuscripts, dating from the 5th to the 19th centuries. Many full digitizations. Uses Zoomify. Rose and Chess (Roman de la Rose and Le jeu des échecs moralisés) : complete digitizations of MS 1380 and MS 392. Uses Zoomify.

Collegeville, MN

Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

Vivarium, the online image collection of Saint John’s University and the College of St Benedict: this includes material from the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library manuscript microfilm collections. Various methods for searching can be accessed at the HMML Research page.

Columbia, SC

University of South Carolina

Pages from the Past: A Legacy of Medieval Books in South Carolina Collections : digital record of all medieval manuscripts in South Carolina collections. Many images, of both full manuscripts and leaves and cuttings.

Dallas

Southern Methodist University

The Exhibitions of the Bridwell Library include many images from manuscripts and early print; emphasis on religious material.

Lexington, KY

The University of Kentucky

Electronic Beowulf 4.0 is the latest version of the pioneering digitization project, including access to images of the manuscript, as well as of many related materials.

Los Angeles

The Getty Museum

Illuminating the Renaissance : exhibition of Flemish manuscript painting. Older exhibition with zoomable images. Past Exhibitions : a long list, including many exhibitions based on manuscripts in the Getty collection; see also Explore Art: Manuscripts , for an overview of manuscripts in the Getty.

New Haven

Beinecke Library, Yale University

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: Digital Library : includes many images from papyrus, medieval and Renaissance MSS, and early printed books.

New York

Jewish Theological Seminary

Special Treasures of the Jewish Theological Seminary Library : includes images from The Prato Haggadah (JTS 9478), The Rothschild Mahzor (JTS 8892), the Esslingen Mahzor (JTS 9344), and the Maimonides and Cairo Genizah fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Collections database can be searched in various ways, and contains many images from medieval manuscripts. In addition, there are various exhibitions archived on the site, including:

The Morgan Library and Museum

New York Public Library

NYPL Digital Gallery: Renaissance and Medieval Manuscripts : index page with links to over 1500 images from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the NYPL. Online images are low resolution, but users can buy higher resolution versions.

Oberlin, OH

The Artz Hours : complete older digitization of Book of Hours belonging to Oberlin College.

Philadelphia

Free Library of Philadelphia

The Edward IV Roll : images can be accessed in various sizes, including large images using Zoomify. Gallican Psalter (Lewis E 185) : images can be accessed in various sizes, including large images using Zoomify. Medieval Manuscripts : hub page for complete and partial digitizations of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. Images from this collection are also part of Digital Scriptorium.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Leaves of Gold : older, collaborative exhibition of manuscripts in Philadelphia collections. Images are small.

University of Pennsylvania

Plano, TX

Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts : the project’s goals include digitization of extant Greek New Testament manuscripts from many institutions around the world. Index page lists manuscripts, but the View button does not necessarily indicate that images are available online, though there are many manuscripts for which images are freely available.

Princeton

The Charrette Project : older site containing texts and manuscript images witnessing Chrétien de Troyes’s Chevalier de la charrette. Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts : contains complete digitizations of some 1600 Islamic manuscripts, some of which are medieval; most digitizations are from black and white microflim. Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative : complete digitizations of Arabic manuscripts from the 10th century to the present.

Provo, UT

Brigham Young University

DScriptorium : older, small collection of digital images of medieval manuscripts.

Rochester

Rochester Institute of Technology

Cary Graphic Arts Collection Image Database : includes samples from medieval and early modern manuscripts.

St Benedict, OR

Mount Angel Abbey

The Abbey is digitizing its manuscripts: the List of Currently Digitized Manuscripts points to complete facsimiles, in PDF, of at present (November 2015) 12 manuscripts, mostly Books of Hours.

San Marino, CA

The Huntington Library

The Huntington Digital Library is a growing selection of fully digitized items from the collection (medieval and otherwise). Highlights include the Ellesmere Chaucer. The Browse All tab allows filtered searching.

South Bend, IN

University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts : images of manuscripts owned by Notre Dame and by Notre Dame in conjunction with the Newberry Library can be accessed through the Digital Scriptorium, but they can also be found via this page.

Syracuse

Syracuse University

Medieval Manuscripts of Syracuse University Library : selected images from 10 manuscripts.

Washington, DC

Library of Congress

PALAEOGRAPHY

Users of this page might also be interested in these online resources for palaeography: