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InScribe ~ Learn the fundamentals of paleography in this open access course from the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Hug a Medievalist Day ~ Mawill be the eighth international celebration of this event. View texts sacred to Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. Walters Art Museum ~ The Walters provides high-resolution images of many of its more than 900 illuminated manuscripts.īritish Library Glossary ~ Illustrated explanations of the specialized work-hoard employed by manuscript scholars, from acanthus to marginalia to zoomorphic initial.īritish Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog ~ British Library staff and guest bloggers share their expertise.īritish Library Online Gallery: Sacred Texts ~ An excellent introduction to manuscripts beyond the Christian tradition. Vatican Library ~ An extensive digitization project is putting manuscript treasures of the Vatican online. Morgan Library & Museum ~ Browse the Morgan's collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, search by keyword, and see collection highlights. Mandragore ~ A portal to the illuminated manuscript collections of the Bibliotheque nationale de France. Paul Getty Museum ~ Explore the Getty collection by clicking on "Manuscripts" then entering a keyword or doing an advanced search. Differences Between Primary and Secondary Sourcesīritish Library ~ you can browse, search by keyword, limit by date, as well as access the British Library Catalogue of Illustrated Manuscripts.Ĭatalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts ~ A direct way of searching fo medieval illuminations in the British Library.įree Library of Philadelphia ~ A helpful introduction to medieval manuscripts together with a highlights tour and search engine.

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Purchased with the Bridgewater library from John Francis Granville Scroop Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, through the agency of George D. There are also 12 French Bibles from the 13th century and some 75 illuminated Books of Hours, including a prayer book illuminated by Simon Marmion and another from the Workshop of the Bedford Master.ĭigital Scriptorium, includes Huntington medieval and Renaissance manuscriptsīanner image credit: Geoffrey Chaucer (-1400), Canterbury tales, between 14. The Huntington has a fine collection of medieval English liturgical manuscripts: Bibles, missals, psalters, and breviaries, of which the most important is the 11th-century Gundulf Bible. The Library also holds thousands of individual medieval deeds, indentures, charters, and court rolls. Most noteworthy among the holdings is a statute book that includes the only 13th-century copy outside the British Isles of the penultimate draft of the 1215 Magna Carta. The Huntington is one of the few libraries in the United States that actively collects English medieval legal texts. There are 55 Middle English volumes (1250–1500) of prose and verse, the most celebrated among these being the Ellesmere Chaucer, the Towneley Plays and Chester Plays, two autograph volumes of Thomas Hoccleve’s poetry, and the Stafford Gower.Įnglish law is a strength that carries into the early modern and modern British collections.

They include nearly 500 bound volumes of literary, historical, and religious materials, which contain about 2,000 separate texts. The majority of the Library’s medieval holdings were produced in England or in Europe for the English market. The Huntington possesses one of the largest collections of British medieval manuscripts in the Western Hemisphere.