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Carrie Benes, New College of Florida; last updated 20 Sept 2006
The following list is divided into 5 categories:
Reference Sources
Manuals and Online Courses
Digitized Archives
Groups, Projects, and Offline Courses
Historical Fonts
You can also view the syllabus to my own class on manuscript studies, in PDF or HTML form.
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Franz Steffens, Lateinische Palaographie (1910; PDF)
http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/Biblioteca/indexSteffens.html
Otto Grässe, Orbis Latinus (1909; text)
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html
W. M. Lindsay, Notae Latinae (1915; text from the Canadian Archives)
http://www.archive.org/details/notaelatinae00linduoft
Adriano Cappelli, Lexicon abbreviaturum (as images; apparatus in German)
http://inkunabeln.ub.uni-koeln.de/vdibProduction/handapparat/nachs_w/cappelli/cappelli.html
M. R. James, "The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts" (1919; text)
http://tertullian.org/articles/james_wanderings_and_homes.htm
Electronic Palaeography, an updated version of Leonard Boyle's Medieval Latin Palaeography (1984)
http://www.geocities.com/athens/aegean/9891/palaeog.html
Bibliography of catalogues of dated and datable MSS (CIPL)
http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/cipl/Cmd.htm
Abbreviationes (an online/computer abbreviations handbook, like Cappelli)
Nota bene: orig. developed in early 1990s, technologically out of date
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophy/projects/abbrev.htm
Porphyrogenitus Project (on ligatures and abbreviations; Cappelli for Greek scripts)
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Hellenic-Institute/research/Porphyro.htm
Byzantine Paleography (at the Online Medieval Sourcebook)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/paleog.html
Anglo-Saxon Charters on the Web
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/charthome.html
The On-Line Calendar of Saints' Days
http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/religion/hagiography/calendar/months.htm
The Latin Vulgate Bible
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/Vulgate/Vulgate.html
A Hypertext Book of Hours
http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/religion/hagiography/hours/hrstoc.htm
Parallel-Text Latin-English Psalter
http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/religion/hagiography/psalter/pshome.htm
Pecia Manuscript Blog
http://blog.pecia.fr/
Further links at the Labyrinth (Georgetown)
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/display.cfm?Action=View&Category=Manuscripts
Further links at the WWW-VL History Project (mostly in German)
http://www.vl-ghw.lmu.de/palaeographie_en.html
Exercises in Latin Palaeography (Pontifical Gregorian University)
http://www.unigre.it/pubblicazioni/lasala/WEB/HOME_E.HTM
Ductus, an online palaeography class (University of Melbourne, Australia)
http://www.evellum.com/index.html?ductus
Theleme: Techniques pour l'Historien en Ligne (École nationale des Chartes, Paris)
http://theleme.enc.sorbonne.fr/index.html
Medieval Manuscript Manual (Central European University, Budapest)
http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/
"Medieval Manuscripts as Primary Sources" (course website at the Digital Scriptorium)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/scriptorium/Class/syllabus.html
West Sussex Record Office/University of Leicester Palaeography Course
http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/
Arisitum (by Jean Claude Toureille, 15th-18th century)
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric-camille.voirin/paleo/
English Handwriting 1500-1700 (Cambridge University CERES Project)
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/
National Archive (UK) Palaeography Tutorial (1500-1800 only)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/
The Schoyen Collection
http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/4/4.4/index.html
Medieval Writing (non-academic, but with a good intro palaeography tutorial)
http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/
The Written Word (non-academic, but excellent pictures)
http://members.aol.com/ottoxxx/script.htm
Andrea Winkler, "Digitized Manuscripts in the Classroom: A Project in Progress" (article)
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/35.2/winkler.html
Medieval & Early Modern Manuscript Studies (course website by Stephen Reimer, Univ. of Alberta)
http://www.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/ms-course/ms-course.htm
Codicology & Latin Paleography (course website by Elizabeth Teviotdale, Western Michigan Univ.)
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~eteviotd/codicology2005/index.html
The Digital Scriptorium (collaboration b/tw Columbia, UCBerkeley, and others)
http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
http://image.ox.ac.uk/
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (UPenn, centered on the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg)
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/
British Library (London)
Treasures in Full: http://www.bl.uk/treasures/treasuresinfull.html
Turning the Pages: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
Images Online (not full MSS): http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/
Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm
Mandragore (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris)
http://mandragore.bnf.fr/html/accueil.html
Vivarium (Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Minnesota)
http://www.hmml.org/vivarium/hmml_collections.htm
Manuscripts from the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/mdr/index-en.htm
Codices Eletronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (Cologne, Germany)
http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de/
CORSAIR, research portal of the Pierpont Morgan Library (NYC)
http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/
Leaves of Gold (Illuminated Manuscripts in Philadelphia Collections)
http://www.leavesofgold.org/
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Netherlands)
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/index.html
Digital Mirror, National Library of Wales
http://www.llgc.org.uk/drych/drych_s004.htm
Digital Image Collections, Cambridge University Library
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/digital_image_collections/
Bibliotheca Palatina (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg)
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digi/engl_welcome.html
Parker-on-the-Web Project, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (only 1 MS so far)
http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker/parkerweb.php
http://parkerweb.stanford.edu
Leaves from the Cary Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology
http://wally.rit.edu/cary/cc_db/manuscripts/index.html
Dressed in Gold: Books of the Italian Renaissance (Walters Art Museum)
http://waltersmanuscripts.org/Voyager/Voyager.cfm
Roman de la Rose Project (6 early manuscripts of the RdelaR)
http://rose.mse.jhu.edu/
The Charrette Project (manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes' Chevalier de la Charrette)
http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot/ss/
The Aberdeen Bestiary (University of Aberdeen)
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/
The Auchinleck Manuscript (National Library of Scotland)
http://www.nls.uk/auchinleck/index.html
University of Michigan MS 225 (The Brut Chronicle)
http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=brut;g=um-ic
The Chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg (at the MGH)
http://141.84.81.24/digilib/thietmar.html
The Archimedes Palimpsest (Walters Art Museum)
http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/
APICES/Comité International de Paleographie Latine
http://www.palaeographia.org/apices/apices.htm
Paleography: Developing the National Resource
http://www.palaeography.ac.uk/
University of London, Center for Manuscript & Print Studies
http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/
UL CMPS Summer School in Manuscript Studies
http://ies.sas.ac.uk/cmps/events/courses/SummerSchool/index.htm
University of Virginia Rare Book School
http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/
Notre Dame Summer Course in Paleography
http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/programs/summer.html
Fontcraft's Scriptorium
http://www.fontcraft.com
Walden Font Co.
http://www.waldenfont.com
P22 Type Foundry
http://www.p22.com
Crazy Diamond Design
http://www.crazydiamond.co.uk/
Fontennium (free historical fonts)
http://moorstation.org/fontennium/fontennium.htm
Old English Fonts from UVa (with most medieval characters in modern form)
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/
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