Medieval Studies: Paleography and Codicology

Portal to 14 Italian state archives that are rich in medieval manuscripts including the Diplomatico of the Archivio di Stato fiorentino

Provides detailed records and sample images from one of the richest manuscript collections in the world.

Use this website to view digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections, with descriptions of their contents.

Guide to manuscripts held throughout the library’s collections.

Nearly one million images of rare books, manuscripts, and other treasures from the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college libraries.

More than 130 digitized manuscripts containing the 13th-century poem Roman de la Rose, and more than 50 digitized manuscripts containing the works of the 14th to 15th century writer Christine de Pizan.

Consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts. Unites scattered resources from many institutions into a national digital platform for teaching and scholarly research.

Provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials.

The goal of e-codices is to provide free access to all medieval and a selection of modern manuscripts of Switzerland by means of a virtual library, which contains 2500 manuscripts from 97 different collections.

Offers over 120,000 images, including illuminations and elements of decoration, from more than 5,000 medieval manuscripts preserved in some one hundred French municipal libraries.

Digitized medieval manuscripts along with later content from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Searchable collection, with images, of 200 complete books and individual leaves that span the ninth to sixteenth centuries.

Database of medieval and later Icelandic manuscripts maintained by the National and University Library of Iceland.

Portal offering information relevant to the field of medieval manuscripts as well as links to French manuscript collections on the Medium platform.

Database of manuscripts, with images, from these two Dutch institutions.

Provides access to six major manuscript collections in German libraries which contain more than 90,000 documents.

Single database providing unified access to over 330,000 records for medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, rare and reference books, literary and historical manuscripts, music scores, ancient seals and tablets, drawings, prints, and other art objects. Serves as the gateway to one of the largest repositories of medieval images on the Internet, providing access to more than 57,000 digitized images from the Morgan's collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. Users may page through every illustrated leaf within a manuscript, or search for individual images by place or date of creation, artist's name, illustration type, and subject.

Manuscripts from Corpus Christi's Parker Library. Strong in Old English texts. Includes works in theology, music, medieval travelogues and maps, apocalypses, bestiaries, royal ceremonies, historical chronicles and Bibles as well as a collection of English illuminated manuscripts.

Bio-bibliographical database of texts written in the various Romance vernaculars of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.

Database of European medieval manuscripts from institutions across the continent and beyond.

Offers resources and tools for the study of manuscripts and currently features manuscript cultures from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. The site houses high-resolution images of manuscripts, many of them digitized as part of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library’s global mission to preserve and share important, endangered, and inaccessible manuscript collections through digital photography, archiving, and cataloging. It also contains descriptions of manuscripts from HMML's legacy microfilm collection, with scans of some of these films.