GENERAL INFORMATION
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
ONLINE CATALOGUES
Portals
National Catalogues
Libraries Catalogues
Specialized Catalogues
DIGITALIZED COLLECTIONS
Portals
Websites
MICROFILMS
TOOLS
Bibliographies on manuscripts
Paleography
Codicology
Softwares for editions
NB: the symbol [P] after a link means "Paying access".
GENERAL INFORMATION
APICES - Association Paléographique Internationale
Comité International de Paléographie Latine
Digital Librarian: Archives & Manuscripts : "a librarian's choice of the best of the Web".
Electronic Palaeography: bibliography on all aspects of paleography: a complement to Leonard Boyle’s Medieval Latin Palaeography, maintained by F. Troncarelli.
Gazette du Livre Médiéval
Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes, Paris
Menestrel - Paléographie et manuscrits en ligne
Pecia: un blog consacré au manuscrit médiéval
Scriptorium: "Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits médiévaux"
TELMA (Traitement Electronique des Manuscrits et des Archives), Paris (Ecole Nationales des Chartes/IRHT)
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL)
Online Manuscripts Projects
Colophones librorum Manu scriptorum Occidentalium (CMO): project of a colophons database, by L. Reynhout
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ONLINE MANUSCRIPTS CATALOGUES
PORTALS
Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) Portal (to some online catalogs)
Ecole des Chartes, Paris - Essentiel: répertoire raisonné des catalogues de manuscrits en France et ailleurs
The European Library: Collective Catalogue of all European National Libraries, powerful search function and result organization
Internetquellen, Handschriftenkataloge, on the Goethe Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, website.
Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
LibWeb: a repertory of Library Servers accessible via WWW.
Mediaevum.de - Handschriftendatenbanken, -kataloge und -indices.
National Library Catalogues Worldwide
Virtuelle Bibliothek – Mittelalterliche Geschichte Handschriften
Virtuelle Bibliothek - Historische Hilfswissenschaften. Handschriftenbibliotheken (Geschichte, Bestände, Kataloge, Faksimiles)
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CATALOGUES
National
(Belgium) Manuscrits médiévaux conservés en Communauté française de Belgique
(Germany) Manuscripta Mediaevalia, Marburg : manuscripts in German collections; searchable database plus digitized images of some 180 printed catalogues.
(Great Britain) National Library of Scotland
Hill Monastic Manuscripts Library (HMML), Collegeville, Minn. - this site enables searching for some ninety thousand manuscripts in Austrian and Spanish libraries
(France) Manuscrits datés: Index (and index only) of the Catalogue des manuscrits en écriture latine portant des indications de date, de lieu ou de copiste (C. Samaran et R. Marichal, 1961-1985)
(Italy) MANUS - medieval manuscripts in Italian libraries
(Italy) Codex - Inventario dei manoscritti medievali della Toscana - a database with now some 2000 manuscripts in Tuscany
(Netherlands) Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
PhiloBiblon, Berkeley - a searchable database for manuscripts with texts from Galicia, Catalonia, Portugal and Spain
Porbase - medieval manuscripts in Portuguese libraries
(Switzerland) Handschriften in Schweizer Bibliotheken, Archiven und Museen / Fonds de manuscrits conservés dans les bibliothèques, archives et musées suisses
US National Union Catalogue of Manuscripts Collections (NUCMC)
Libraries
(Cambridge) St. John's College
(Edinburgh) National Library of Scotland - both an online catalogue for searching manuscripts and an overview with downloadable catalogues in PDF-format
Glasgow University Library - searching both for manuscripts and the special collections
Graz: Universität Manuscripts catalogue
(Kopenhagen) Det Kongelige Bibliotek - online versions of several manuscript catalogues
Leiden University Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta
(London) British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
Munich and Augsburg Manuscripts - this commercial website enables access to some electronic manuscript catalogues, among them the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Clm and Cgm series)
(New York) Pierpont Morgan Library (CORSAIR)
(Oxford) Bodleian University
(Oxford) Queen’s College
(Paris) Bibliothèque Nationale de France: simple numérisation des anciens catalogues imprimés; consultation peu commode
(Tübingen)
(Vatican) Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: catalogo manoscritti
(Vienna) Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: TABULAE-Datenbank - a database for the Codices 1-15500
Yale University: Beinecke Library
Specialized Catalogues
Alchemical manuscripts: a database provided by Adam McLean.
(Dante Alighieri) Dante online: manscripts of the Commedia
Dated Manuscripts catalogues: répertoire de catalogues de manuscrits datés, par le Comité International de Paléographie Latine.
Franciscan Authors, 13th- 18th century : alphabetical list of Franciscan authors, with biographical remarks and information on manuscripts, editions and studies. Created by Maarten van der Heijden and Bert Roest
Handschriftencensus (Marburg) - manuscripts with Middle German texts
Hermes Latinus
Illuminated Manuscripts from the British Library
In Principio [P]: over 1,000,000 incipits covering Latin literature from the Pre-classical Age to the Renaissance
Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine (USA)
Iter Italicum [P]: online edition of Paul Oskar Kristeller's list of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts
Jordanus, An International Catalog of Medieval Scientific Manuscripts, by the Institute for the History of Science in Munich, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Provides "information about mediaeval manuscripts written in Western Europe between 500 and 1500 A.D. which treat the mathematical sciences in the wider sense, i.e. arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and mechanics."
(Lull) Handschriften der Lateinischen Werke des Raimundus Lullus: by the Raimundus-Lullus Institut, Freiburg
(Lull) Ramon Lull Database – Centre de Documentacio Ramon Lull, Barcelona
Online bibliography of secondary literature on manuscripts, modern papers and rare printed books
(Pierre d'Auvergne) Index codicum manuscriptorum qui Petri opera — certa, dubia sive spuria — tradunt.
Peraldus : Bibliographical references for individual manuscripts. Site created and maintained by Alain Nadeau
New Shelfmarks: International index of manuscripts & incunables recently acquired by public libraries, by the Association Paléographique Internationale
Printed CataLogues and Unpublished Inventories of Extant Collections (LATIN manuscript BOOKS BEFORE 1600) by Paul Oskar Kristeller
Quodlibase : database of manuscripts containing quodlibetal questions. . Site created and maintained by S. Piron
Repertory of medieval Latin texts on logic in medieval manuscripts : project of L.M. de Rijk and E.P. Bos, Leiden
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DIGITALIZED MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTIONS
PORTALS
Internetquellen, Alten drücken, Inkunabeln, on the Goethe Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, website.
Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Patrimoine Numérique: catalogue en ligne du patrimoine culturel numérisé en France
WEBSITES
(Dante Alighieri) Dante online: manscripts of the Commedia
Digital Scriptorium
(Germany) Manuscripta Mediaevalia
(Heidelberg) Handschriften der Bibliotheca Palatina (UB Heidelberg)
Hill Monastic Manuscript Library (Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota). Since its founding in 1965, the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library (HMML) has sent teams of researchers and technicians to film more than 25 million pages from nearly 90,000 volumes in libraries and archives throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Today, HMML represents one of the largest and most comprehensive archives of medieval and Renaissance sources.
(Italy) Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
Köln: Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis - new catalogue and digitalization of hundreds of manuscripts at the Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek of Cologne
(Lull) Handschriften der Lateinischen Werke des Raimundus Lullus: by the Raimundus-Lullus Institut, Freiburg
(Lull) Ramon Lull Database – Centre de Documentacio Ramon Lull, Barcelona
Lund: Saint Laurentius Library - the Universitetsbibliotek Lund presents both a new catalogue in progress and fully digitized medieval manuscripts
Münchner Digitalisierungszentrum (Bayerisches Staatbibliothek)
Progetto Irnerio - a website of the CIRSFID, the centre for legal philosophy and computer law at Bologna, with digitized juridical manuscripts of the Collegio di Spagna, Bologna
(Oxford) Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
(Oxford) Bodleian Library (mainly for miniatures)
Queen’s College, Oxford, Medieval Manuscripts
St Gall: Codices Electronici Sangallenses - the wonderful manuscript collection of the Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen
(Switzerland) E-codices : Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits en Suisse
Valenciennes: Bibliothèque Municipale - Reproduction numérique d'après les microfilms de l'IRHT de plus de 200 volumes, des mss carolingiens jusqu'au XVIe siècle. Le fonds provient entre autres de la riche abbaye de Saint-Amand
Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek
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MICROFILMS
Grabmann Institut, Munich
Hill Monastic Manuscripts Library (HMML): one can order online copies of their microfilms
Microworld : British company which markets reproductions of microfilms.
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes, Paris: one can order online copies of their microfilms from all French libraries, except the Bibliothèque Nationale. For the latter, see this page or this one.
The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jewish National & University Library.
TOOLS
BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON MANUSCRIPTS
Medieval & Modern Manuscript Catalogues: a remarkable bibliography of printed and electronic sources, by Ch. D. Wright, Urbana-Champaign..
Manuscript Research: Identifying Texts and Locating Secondary Literature: a remarkable bibliography ofprinted & electronic instruments, compiled by Ch. D. Wright, Urbana-Champaign.
Online bibliography of secondary literature on manuscripts, modern papers and rare printed books
Peraldus : Bibliographical references for individual manuscripts. Site created and maintained by Alain Nadeau.
PALEOGRAPHY
Cappelli’s Dizionario Di Abbreviature Latini Ed Italiani online
Abbreviationes™ Online – Medieval Abbreviations on the Web [P]: Pr O. Pluta's software
Medieval Writing. History, Heritage and Data Source: an initiation to paleography on a very well designed amateur site.
Cours de paléographie de la Société des amis des Archives de France : seulement les documents originaux utilisés pour les cours, avec quelques remarques.
Paläographisches Lesetraining für lateinische Schriften des 5.-20. Jahrhunderts, by Thomas Frenz (Univ. of Passau). Tutorial presenting 7 exercices on books writings from the Vth to theXVth centuries (section "Etwas von allem").
Ecole des Chartes, Paris: bibliography for paleography studies
Electronic palaeography, by Fabio Troncarelli (Societas internationalis Pro Vivario) ; a supplement to Leonard Boyle's Mediaeval Latin Palaeography, for years 1982 to1998.
CODICOLOGY
Ecole des Chartes, Paris: bibliography for codicology studies
Vocabulaire codicologique, par Denis Muzerelle (IRHT)
Livret du stage d'initiation au manuscrit médiéval (latin et roman): une publication pédagogique de l'IRHT.
Livret du stage d'initiation au manuscrit médiéval en langue arabe: une publication pédagogique de l'IRHT.
Medieval Manuscript Manual: for beginners, an initiation to the manuscripts.
EDITION SOFTWARES
Classical Text Editor: by S. Hagel; a word-processor for critical editions, commentaries and electronic publishing, with any number of apparatus - bidirectional text - sigla.
MikTeX: implementation of TeX and related programs for Windows; adds to TeX compiler many other components.
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