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, 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.urbe.it/pubblicazioni/paulius/HOME.HTM
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/
Palaeography: reading old handwriting,
1500 - 1800:
A practical online tutorial -- early modern palaeography, at The National Archives, UK: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/
Abbreviationes (TM) on-line edition (no longer sold for PC or Mac), "the first electronic dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations;" one-time purchase price for personal license 99 Euros; site licenses also available: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/projects/abbrev.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://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/
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.palaeographia.org/cipl/cmd.htm
Labyrinth, at Georgetown University: http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/display.cfm?Action=View&Category=Manuscripts
Bob Peckham's list of Palaeography and MSS URLs: http://www.mun.ca/mst/medtext/TennBob.html
Texts, Manuscripts, and Palaeography, University of Pennsylvania: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/hot/mss.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/mangen.html
Palaeographia.org -- links to Association paléographique internationale, Culture, Écriture, Société (APICES) , Gazette du livre médiéval, & Comité international
de paléographie latine [C.I.P.L.]
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
Oxyrhynchus Online, including links to resources on papyrology: http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/links/links.html
International Association of Papyrologists: http://www.ulb.ac.be/assoc/aip/index.html
Perseus Project, Tufts University: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
Digital Medievalist: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/article.cfm?RecID=2
Fonts for Latin Palaeography: http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/palefont.html
and his fonts for Ancient Languages: http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/alphaeng.html
And the user's manual, with analysis and history of the scripts: http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/LATIN_PALEOGRAPHY.pdf
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
University of Toronto, Center for Medieval Studies: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/medieval/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 Sangallenses, (CESG), Virtual Library: http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en/
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
And last but by no means least,
miscellaneous usefule sites for scholars in manuscript studies: http://www.pims.ca/internexus/weblinks.html
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October 17, 2008
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