Useful links

Contents

• General
• Medieval
• Events
• Texts Online texts
• Identifications (Tools for identifying texts, Uses, owners, etc.)
• Library catalogues (Online catalogues of printed and manuscript books)
• MSS. Collections
• Online facsimiles
• Auctions
• Dealers

General

• Wikipedia Collaborative online encyclopaedia
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• AMARC The Association of Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections
• Multimap.com (zoomable maps)
• Mapquest (maps, route-planners, etc.)
• INFOMINE ('Scholarly internet resource collections')

Medieval

• IRHT The Institut de recherche et d'histoire des texts
• medievalmanuscripts.net
• Menestral a French portal for medievalists
• CHD (Erik Drigsdahl's peerless site)
• Mediävistik im Internet
• History (Institute of Historical Research's portal)
• A short history of the quire

Events

• Italy etc.
• UK etc. History of the Book event and publications
• USA etc.

Texts

• Books of the Bible (List of incipits of Books & common prologues)
• Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis
• EDENDA-Main Page (authors & texts)

Identifications

• On-line Calendar of Saints Days, Months
• Graesse, Orbis Latinus
• World Biographical Index
• Robin Alston's provenance databases
• Marks of ownership of collectors and dealers
• Illustated Atlas of Heraldic Terms

Library catalogues

• COPAC (Consortium of UK research libraries)
• OPAC 97 Search Form (BL printed materials)
• Geoweb Home Page (Bodleian Library)
• Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (English Version)
• Library of Congress Catalogs
• National Art Library (at the Victoria & Albert Museum)
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague)

MSS. Collections

France

• INITIALE The IRHT's database of MSS images
• Mandragore The BNF's iconographic database
• Chantilly

Germany

• DBI-LINK (combined German catalogues)

Italy

• Bibliotheca Malatestiana

The Netherlands

• Amsterdam Ritman Library
• The Hague The Royal Library

UK

• Aberystwyth National Library of Wales
• Cambridge
  • St. John's College
  • Trinity College
• Durham Durham University
• London
  • British Library
    • MOLCat MSS Online Catalogue
    • DigCIM Digital Catalogue of Illuminated MSS
  • Lambeth Palace
• Manchester Rylands Library
• Oxford
  • Bodleian Library (Guides to the medieval MSS collections and their use)
  • Queen's College

USA

• Pierpont Morgan Library
• Dartmouth College Illustrated checklist
• Syracuse University 10 illuminated MSS
• Digital Scriptorium Descriptions and images of major US collections

Online facsimiles

• 13th-century Italian Antiphonal in the State Library of South Australia
• Valenciennes digitised microfilms
• CCEC Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis
• The Psalter of Christina of Markyate

Auction Houses

• Germany
  • Reiss & Sohn
  • Zisska & Kistner
• Italy Finarte Semenzato
• UK
  • Bonham's
  • Christie's
  • Sotheby's
• USA
  • Bonham's & Butterfield's
  • Swann Galleries

Dealers

• Les enluminures
• Textmanuscripts.com
• Jörn Günther
• Paulus Swaen