History: Paleography & Epigraphy

A bibliography of materials relating to the history of handwriting in Latin characters from Antiquity to modern times.

This resource has been designed for students and scholars of early modern English letters, history, theology, and philosophy--for anyone whose research will embrace original English manuscript sources in this period.

This site presents over 100 carefully selected French manuscripts written between 1300 and 1700, with tools for deciphering them and learning about their social, cultural, and institutional settings.

A collection of transcription exercises.

A tool for deciphering handwritten documents.

Offers guidance in the deciphering of documents written in handwriting styles or alphabets no longer in general use.

As a database for Jewish gravestone epigraphy, epidat is used to inventory, document, edit and present epigraphic holdings. Currently inscriptions of Jewish cemeteries from nine centuries and four countries are made available via chronological, spatial and thematic approaches.

Database with inscriptions from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It includes two searches for literature and images on inscriptions.