This list is not exhaustive but is intended to indicate useful sites for students participating in the Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory and other users.
Medieval Writing, an introduction to palaeography by Dianne Tillotson, with guided exercises: http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/writing.htm
Paleografia Latina (including English version), course by Fernando de Lasala, Pontifica Università Gregoriana (short version with low-quality images on internet; full version can be purchased on CD-ROM): http://www.unigre.it/pubblicazioni/lasala/index.htm
Materiali didattici per la paleografia latina, by Antonio Cartelli & Marco Palma, at Università degli Studi di Cassino: http://www.let.unicas.it/links/didattica/palma/paldimat.html
Paleographie Latine by Franz Steffens (French version, 1910), in PDF format with plates and transcriptions: http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/Biblioteca/indexSteffens.html
Anglo-Norman Palaeography, focus on documentary hands; at University of Leicester (can also be purchased on CD-ROM): http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/medfram.html
Ductus, course in palaeography by Bernard Muir, University of Melbourne (trial version on internet, full version can be purchased on CD-ROM): http://www.medieval.unimelb.edu.au/ductus/
Abbreviationes (TM) 2.3 for Mac & PC, "the first electronic dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations;" web version does not work at last try; CD offered for purchase on web site: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/projects/abbrev.htm
Palaeography bibliography by Martin Irvin for Labyrinth: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/mss/paleobib.html
Electronic Palaeography, directed by Fabio Troncarelli, based at Societas internationalis pro Vivario; an ongoing bibliography of publications on medieval palaeography, continuing the work of Leonard Boyle, O.P.: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9891/palaeog.html
Bibliography for Medieval and Early Modern Manuscript Studies, by Stephen Reimer, University of Alberta: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/sreimer/ms-course/bibliog/bib-int.htm
Theleme:
Techniques pour l'Historien en Ligne: Études, manuels, exercises, École nationale des chartes, Paris; see specialized bibliographies, including great bibliography on manuscript catalogues:
http://theleme.enc.sorbonne.fr/sommaire62.html
And here is a list of the catalogues of dated manuscripts by country, which can be hard to find in a library without knowing exact titles:
Catalogues de manuscrits datés, http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/cipl/Cmd.htm
Work at the Newberry Library and HMML is an integral part of the MMRL program; students may inquire about special research opportunities with these and other institutions.
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML, formerly Hill Monastic Manuscript Library), Collegeville, Minnesota: http://www.hmml.org
Includes searchable database of microfilm holdings as well as digitized images of selected items; microfilms can be studied at HMML or copies may be purchased.
Newberry Library, Chicago: http://www.newberry.org
University of Minnesota, Special Collections & Rare Books, digitized images of manuscripts:
http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/msslist
Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (IRHT), Paris: http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/index.htm
Site includes MEDIUM, a searchable database of microfilms available for study at IRHT or purchase.
Digital Scriptorium, Columbia and Berkeley; digital manuscript cataloguing project: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium
Labyrinth, at Georgetown University: http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/display.cfm?Action=View&Category=Manuscripts
Bob Peckham's list of Palaeography and MSS URLs: http://students.washington.edu/jjcrump/paleography.urls.html
Manuscripta Medievalia, based in Berlin: http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/handschriften-forum.htm
Palaeographie, at University of Munich: http://www.vl-ghw.uni-muenchen.de/palaeographie.html
Medieval Manuscripts, at Stanford University: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medieval/mss/mancon.html
These are listed because they are also useful for manuscript studies in general, including glossaries of terms and discussions of textual criticism and transmission:
Byzantine Palaeography, at Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/paleog.html
Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts, with focus on Greek Biblical texts, begun at Brown University, now at Earlham School of Religion: http://www.earlham.edu/~seidti/iam/interp_mss.html
Papyrology in Internet, at Department of Papyrology, University of Warsaw: http://www.papyrology.uw.edu.pl/papyrology/papyri/links.html
Perseus Project, Tufts University: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
Digital Medievalist: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=2
University of Bologna, Dipartimento di Paleografia e Medievistica: http://www.dpm.unibo.it/
University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute: http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/index.html
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Muenchen, Codices latini monacences:
http://webserver.erwin-rauner.de/halm/catalogi_clm.asp
British Library, Manuscripts Catalogue: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts/INDEX.asp
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University, digital facsimiles of selected manuscripts: http://image.ox.ac.uk
Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis; catalogues, digitized images, and historical information on MSS of Cologne: http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de
Explore more libraries from the following gateway at Univ. Karlsruhe:
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html
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