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The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380)
1000 manuscript illuminations from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Paging Through Medieval Lives
Illumination and calligraphy from selected collections at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

The Life of King Edward the Confessor
Cambridge University Library MS. Ee.3.59 contains the only copy of an illustrated Anglo-Norman verse Life of St Edward, written in England probably in the later 1230s or early 1240s.

Electronic Beowulf Guide
The online guide to the Electronic Beowulf Project, a comprehensive collection of images of the Old English Poem. The full facsimile is available on CD-ROM.

Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
A collaborative effort to create a multi-level, hypertextually linked, electronic archive of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream-vision Piers Plowman, by William Langland.

Digital Scriptorium
A joint project of the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University to digitize and make available on the World Wide Web the two universities' medieval and early Renaissance manuscript holdings.

Images of Catalan Manuscripts
Catalan manuscripts in UC Berkeley's collections.

Medieval Writing
An introduction to the history of writing in Western Europe, including basic paleography and the social history of literacy.

The Burnet Psalter. University of Aberdeen
Full-page images (text and illustration) and details from this 15th-century manuscript. Includes an introduction, commentaries, notes on editorial and technical practice, and a bibliography. The text is accompanied by a full transcription of the Latin and summaries in English.

DScriptorium
Devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.


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