13th Century

Provides access to the medieval codices in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen.

Images and detailed descriptions of the collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The descriptions, compiled by several generations of curators, often contain information not available elsewhere, such as complete lists of texts and illustrations within a manuscript and bibliographies.

An online exhibit dedicated to all forms of women in religion from the early Middle Ages until the Reformation in the sixteenth century.

This website is a portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts (the resource does not include plainchant). The music and the manuscripts date from approx 800 to 1500, and the original documents are kept in libraries and archives around the globe. This website includes detailed information for all the known sources of European polyphonic music (which is almost entirely vocal) and high-quality colour images for those which we have been given permission to deliver online by their owners. You will find a rich and varied collection of images here, and a vast database describing each medieval music manuscript in detail.

The Enluminures database allows for free consultation of more than 80,000 reproductions of illuminations and elements of decoration of more than 4,000 medieval manuscripts preserved in a hundred French public libraries.

Click on "Recherche" to search for books and manuscripts in the collection of the national library of France.

A website from a past exhibition which explored Italian manuscript painting from the 1200s through the 1500s, focusing on five centers of manuscript production in Italy -- Bologna, northeastern Italy, Lombardy, Tuscany & Umbria, and Rome -- each with its own artistic traditions.

A website from a past exhibition exploring the influence of Byzantine art on manuscript painting in Germany, Italy, and Armenia.

A webpage on an exhibition displaying a style of manuscript illumination that evolved around the 13th and 14th centuries, characterized by a naturalistic style of painting and a sense of liveliness in the format of the page. Gothic illumination, which flourished in northern Europe from about 1200 to 1350, graced the pages of some of the most stunning works of art to survive from the Middle Ages.

The Maciejowski Bible was commissioned by King Louis IX, and was created sometime between 1244 and 1254.

An iconographic database covering about 15,000 of the illuminations in the BNF's Department of Manuscripts.

Our manuscript collection includes most of the kinds of books used between 1000 and 1500 A.D.: prayer books and poetry, Bibles and political propaganda, philosophical works and fantastic histories. Some manuscripts are elaborate and beautiful works of art; others are humble "owner-produced" books, copied out from a borrowed copy by someone who needed a particular text. Each one tells us something about a long-vanished age. Books have been photographed to look like three-dimensional objects instead of flat images. Individual leaves and cuttings are shown front and back to give as much information as possible about the leaf's original context. All texts should be legible in close-up view.

These manuscript leaves were selected from the Rochester Institute of Technology 's Cary Collection to illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest developmen t and influence. They have been taken from books written in various European scriptoria by Benedictin e, Franciscan , Carthusian , Dominican, and other orders of monks.

This database contains descriptions of all medieval western manuscripts written in Latin script and produced up to c. 1550 now preserved in public and semi-public collections in the Netherlands. These include the collections of libraries, museums and archives, as well as the collections of monastic orders and some other private institutions that are open to researchers.

An online exhibit from the BNF of Persian illuminated manuscripts from the 12th-17th centuries, offering a complete panorama of the art of the Persian book.

This index aims to note all the images contained within the collection of medieval manuscripts held in St John's College Library, as listed in the James catalogue. Every major subject and figure is listed. On-line reproductions of some of the more interesting and important images are available from the index, and are searchable by keyword.

The Aberdeen Bestiary (Aberdeen University Library MS 24) is considered to be one of the best examples of its type. The manuscript, written and illuminated in England around 1200, is of added interest since it contains notes, sketches and other evidence of the way it was designed and executed.

A complex, scholarly, multi-media electronic archive containing a medieval manuscript tradition -- that of Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot, ca. 1180).

The Schøyen Collection comprises most types of manuscripts from the whole world spanning over 5000 years. It is the largest private manuscript collection formed in the 20th century.