Links to online catalogs
of manuscript collections and image files

The Labyrinth, Georgetown University's site for resources on medieval studies, has a page on manuscripts, paleography, and codicology, which includes links to many other online manuscript catalogs.

New links (December 1999):

The latest news from Germany: The DFG has posted on the internet the abstracts of papers delivered at the International Manuscript Cataloger Congress.  Internationale Handschriftenbearbeitertagung im Handschriftenprogramm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, Leipzig, 20. bis 22. September 1999.

The Beinecke Library, part of Yale University Library, has made its catalog of medieval and renaissance manuscripts (written by Barbara Shailor) available on line, as part of its "Finding Aid Database."  Some records have been encoded in SGML format, using the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) DTD: these can be viewed in their native SGML, if one has an-SGML browser, or in HTML, if one has only the ordinary Netscape or Internet Explorer.  Most records, however, are available only in HTML.  This is a model site for simple and effective full-text searching.
Yale University Library's Finding Aid Database

Older links:

• General.
  • Database of Alchemical Manuscripts
• Austria.
  • Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
  • Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Vienna)
  • Universitätsbibliothek der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
• Canada.
  • Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Index of Medieval Manuscripts, sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. "This database allows the user to locate references to specific medieval manuscripts in a significant corpus of printed texts, including basic studies of French and English literature from the high and late Middle Ages." Includes listings for 237 manuscripts, but no images.
  • Toronto. The Bergendal Collection, "the largest library of mediaeval codices (manuscripts) in private hands in the Americas." The web site contains brief and detailed catalog records, as well as images from selected manuscripts.
• Czech Republic.
  • Praha (Prague). The National Library of the Czech Republic presents information about the Memoriae Mundi Series Bohemica, "a programme of digital access to rare documents", supported by UNESCO. Entire documents will be filmed. The web page introducing The Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts in the National Library of the Czech Republic on CD-ROM links to a small gallery of images.
• France.
  • Paris. Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT)
• Germany.
  • Berlin. Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut (DBI)
• The Netherlands.
  • European Preservation Information Center
• United Kingdom.
  • London. The British Library opened its new manuscripts reading room in January, 1999. Visit the website and see the Treasures Digitisation Project.
  • Oxford. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, with other sites:
    Celtic manuscripts at Oxford University
    The Map Case: A Gallery of Map and Map-related Images
    Towards an Image Catalogue
  • Durham. Durham University Library
• United States.
  • California, Palo Alto. Stanford University has put catalog records of its medieval manuscripts on the web: Pre-1600 Manuscripts in Stanford's Special Collections. The site also includes images from selected manuscripts.
  • California, Los Angeles. Index of Medieval Medical Images Database
  • California. Union Manuscript Computer Catalogue
  • Maryland. The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda has digitized 60,000 images from the history of medicine. Many are medieval.
  • New York. Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  • New York. Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection
  • Utah. Paging Through Medieval Lives

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