Aberdeen Bestiary  Project WWW

AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium Database) UIUC

Art Images for College Teaching--Medieval Art WWW

ArtStor UIUC

ARTstor is a digital library of art images associated with information and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship. ARTstor currently contains approximately 300,000 images from a wide range of cultures and time periods. The database is growing and will eventually reach 500,000. Currently, the ARTstor collection is derived from the following collections: The University of California, San Diego; Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection; Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts; Huntington Archive of Asian Art; The Illustrated Bartsch; The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive; The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection; Native American Art and Culture from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution; Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection. In the future, ARTstor will be digitizing parts of the following collections: The National Gallery of Art; The Frick Art Reference Collection; Samuel H. Kress Foundation; Oxford University; AMICO library.

Beinecke Library Photonegatives Database WWW

"This database contains approximately 19,000 images of photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, artwork, objects, and illustrations and selected pages from printed works in the Beinecke's collections. The images were scanned from the Photonegative File, a file containing negatives and color transparencies of images selected for reproduction or study by patrons over the last twenty years. Data describing these images in most cases is very brief, but generally includes call number and subject or author."

Codices Electronici Sangallenses WWW

This site provides access to the illustrated manuscripts held at the abbey library of San Gallen, Switzerland in digital form with a detailed descriptions of each image.

Bibliothèque nationale, France, The Age of Charles V, (1338-1380) WWW

Bibliothèque nationale, France, Mandragore WWW

Mandragore is the iconographic database of the Department of Manuscripts of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and contains thousands of images of select illuminated medieval manuscripts and detailed descriptions of them.  The database offers a range of search criteria.

Bodleian Library, University of OxfordWWW

About a thousand images of manuscripts, covering from 11th - 17th century in Europe, can be found from this page. Full catalog descriptions for the images are under preparation. Skeletal 'checklist' information, which includes a bibliography, is provided. The checklist will direct users to sources of further details.

Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum WWW

Select images from the Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art are available online. The exhibition runs until December 31, 2010.

The Cantigas de Santa MariaWWW

This site contains images of Codices TO and E of the Cantigas de Santa Maria written during  the reign of Alfonso X "El Sabio" (1221-1284) and generally ascribed to the king.

Carey Collection of Medieval ManuscriptsWWW

Medieval manuscript leaves in the Carey Graphics Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y.

The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City WWW

Cloister's Apocalypse--An online partial facsimile WWW

Codex Manesse (Codex Palatinus Germanicus 848 der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg) WWW

The Heidelberg University Library has made available on the WWW a full facsimile of the renowned fourteenth-century, German Codex Manesse. The site is searchable by folio number.

Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEE)WWW

The Episcopal and Cathedral Library of Cologne is digitalizing and mounting on the web all of its medieval ecclesiastical manuscripts.

Columbia University, Rare Book Collections WWW

The database consists of 100 images of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts housed in Columbia University Rare Book Collections.

Corsair: The Online Catalog of the Pierpont Morgan Library WWW

Thousands of digital images from the Morgan Library’s renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts are now available in CORSAIR. Spanning some ten centuries of Western illumination, the collection contains manuscripts from all the major schools, including some of the great masterpieces of medieval manuscript art. The images and accompanying descriptions are the product of an extraordinary collaboration between the Morgan and the Index of Christian Art to photograph, digitize, and describe all significant illustrations within the Morgan’s medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. CORSAIR currently includes more than five thousand medieval images, and the number is constantly growing.

DScriptoriumWWW

Digital ScriptoriumWWW

The Digital Scriptorium was conceived as an image database of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It has evolved into a general union catalog designed for the use of paleographers, codicologists, art historians, textual scholars and other researchers. As a visual catalog, it allows scholars to verify with their own eyes cataloguing information about places and dates of origin, scripts, artistic styles, and quality. It documents visually even those manuscripts that traditionally would have been unlikely candidates for reproduction. It provides public access to fragile materials otherwise available only within libraries. Because it is web-based, it encourages interaction between the knowledge of scholars and the holdings of libraries to build an ever-enriched and corrected flow of information.

Enluminure WWW

Enluminure contains images and decorative elements from medieval manuscripts housed in municipal French libraries. Begun in 1979, the database is a joint projects of the Direction du livre et de la lecture et l'Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (CNRS).

Exeter Cathedral Keystones & Carvings WWW

"Exeter Cathedral Keystones & Carvings: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculptures & their Polychromy offers a complete, explanatory record of the medieval bosses, corbels, labelstops, figurative capitals (and a few other interior carvings) which are an integral part of the medieval interior construction of Exeter Cathedral, Devon, England. The authors describe the carvings' architectural context together with their significance both as indicators of the sequence by which a Norman cathedral was refashioned into a Gothic one, and as objects of great beauty and interest in their own right. There is no attempt to present a visual tour of the Cathedral, or to show the architectural context of each object, apart from its position on the Cathedral Plan, though views of the main areas of the Cathedral are provided.

Free Library if Philadelphia's Digital Collection of Medieval and Renassiance Manucripts WWW

The Free Library’s digital manuscript collection includes two different sorts of objects: complete manuscript books, or "codices," and separate leaves and cuttings—fragments separated from their original contexts. With the images you will find basic information about the object pictured: when and where it was made, and what its imagery depicts. When the image is from an intact book, the accompanying information will tell you about the book, and will also link to a complete description of it. Books have been photographed to look like three-dimensional objects instead of flat images. Individual leaves and cuttings are shown front and back to give as much information as possible about the leaf’s original context. All texts should be legible in close-up view.

Gallica WWW

The Gallica Web pages, part of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France site, provide access to a rich collection of texts, images, audio, and commentary, spanning the history of France from the fourth century to the end of the nineteenth. Important works in the fields of literature, philosophy, science, and politics are included, as well as other materials that have been significant in the history of French thought. Texts and images may be accessed via links from a chronological timeline, via the site's search engine, or via lists of themes or authors. As one would expect a complete bibliographic record is supplied for each available text (including information as to whether the digital edition is complete or abridged). A number of historic dictionaries and encyclopaedias are included at the site, as are a series of special collections, which include: 'Utopia' (images and sources of the ideal with 250 works available and a virtual exhibition); Michel Proust (a virtual exhibition dedicated to the last book of 'À la recherche du temps perdu', 'Le temps retrouvé',); and an online sound archive including Les archives de la parole, 1911-1913, Le Pont Mirabeau (1913), Discours d'hommes politiques français durant la Première guerre mondiale. This is a beautifully presented site with a good deal of significant content. It should prove a useful resource for students of French literature and intellectual history. --From Intute

Getty Museum's Photo Study Collection WWW

The Getty Museum's Photo Study Collection "contains approximately two million photographs, primarily black and white, that document works of art and architecture. Approximately half of the photographic holdings are represented in The Photo Study Collection Database. This research database is a work in progress. While most of the database is comprised of descriptive records, several hundred include links to research images. Additional images will be added periodically."

Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture WWW

A database containing glossary and images of Medieval art and architecture.

Heidelberg University Library WWW

A joint effort of the Heidelberg University and Institute for Art History, this website features 27 of the library's late medieval illustrated manuscripts, including the Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift, also known as the Codex Manesse (Codex Palatinus Germanicus 848 der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg).

Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux WWW

The Metropolitan Museum has made available images of and background information on this exquisite early fourteenth-century prayer book.

Illuminated Manuscripts in Austria, 780 - 1250 WWW

The material for this site comes from the project Fruh-und hochmittelalterischen Buschmalerei in Österreich sponsored by the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) from 1994-97. The database is searchable by library and secondary literature.

Index of Christian Art  UIUC

The Index records works of art produced from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400. As is to be expected, there is a particular emphasis and focus on art of the western world. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive and include manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, glass, and so forth. The Index  presently provides detailed description on approximately 200,000 photographic reproductions of Christian art.  The term "Christian" is broadly construed and is not restricted to art produced within ecclesiastical contexts or theological in theme. Classical gods, crocodiles, and comets are all included in the Index if found in a Christian
context.

Leaves of Gold Project  WWW

A collaborative exhibition sponsored by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, Leaves of Gold features Bibles, Books of Hours, Psalters, liturgical and literary books from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two images from each book in the exhibition, the exhibited opening and an additional page from the book, are available on the website.

 Liber Floridus WWW

This website offers images of  medieval manuscripts from the Bibliothèques Mazarine et Sainte-Geneviève, France. The database contains approximately 1700 manuscripts and 33,000 images. 

 La Librairie des ducs de Bourgogne (Call Number 015.444042B471L)

*Available on CD-ROM at Architecture & Art Library.*
Currently only volume 1 (Textes liturgiques, ascétiques, théologiques, philosophiques et moraux ) is available. Eventually there will be four volumes.

 Ee.3.59: The Life of King Edward the Confessor WWW

Cambridge University Library MS. Ee.3.59 contains the only copy of an illustrated Anglo-Norman verse Life of St Edward the Confessor, written in England probably in the later 1230s or early 1240s, and preserved in this manuscript, executed c. 1250-60.

Manuscripts at the University of Liège WWW

The Medieval Bestiary WWW

Medieval Latin Illuminated Manuscripts WWW

Medieval Manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine WWW

Murthly Hours--Online Version WWW

The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages--an online resource that includes images from medieval bestiaries WWW

Medieval Manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine WWW

National Library of the Netherlands: A Hundred Highlights WWW

National Library of the Netherlands: Manuscripts WWW

New York Public Library's Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from Western Europe WWW

Approximately 2,340 manuscript pages, and associated illuminations, based upon NYPL's contribution of 259 manuscripts to "The Digital Scriptorium," a multi-institutional image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.

Pecia--Le manuscrit médiéval WWW

Pecia is a web blog devoted to the history of the medieval manuscripts, from conception to distribution, The site is maintained by Jean Luc Deuffic and updated daily with topics such as book auctions, conferences, and new websites. The site allows users to search by subject or date.

Roman de La Rose WWW

The Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University and The Pierpont Morgan Library have scanned six manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose from the collections of the Walters Art Museum (W. 143), the Pierpont Morgan Library (M. 948), the Bodleian Library of Oxford University (MS. Douce 195, MS. Douce 332 and MS. Selden Supra 57), and the J. Paul Getty Museum (MS. Ludwig XV 7) for viewing on the World Wide Web. All folios of these manuscripts may be viewed and compared, and a portion of the text is searchable. Users need to get a login and password before viewing the images.

The Royal Library, Copenhagen WWW

Images from 12 medieval manuscripts in The Royal Library in Copenhagen.

St Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library, Lund University WWW

Vatican Library Manuscripts WWW

The Vatican Library provides online images of its medieval and renaissance manuscript, either as featured items or as part of exhibitions.

Yale University, Divinity School WWW

"The EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies is a faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies. Images in the EIKON database are a subset of the  Yale Divinity School Digital Library. Some images in the EIKON database are restricted to Yale use, due to copyright agreements."

Van Kampen Collection WWW