Where to Find Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Online
August 22, 2014
The article titled Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online from The University of Tennessee at Martin is an offering of links to some 13,000 digitized manuscripts. It is an amazing thing to consider that these manuscripts, having survived thus far, will now be safe for posterity. Unfortunately, search across the collections is not available, but the manuscripts are organized as follows,
“Below, I have included a block of links leading to collections containing fully digitized medieval manuscripts (over 13,000), one for digitized individual manuscripts, and one devoted to projects choosing to digitize selected pages for things like illustrations, examples musical notation, etc. This page is part of the Andy Holt Virtual Library’s section on medieval source-based textual scholarship. You may also wish to consult some of the incunabula readable on line.”
The article gives credit UCLA’s web database, the Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts for their collection of over 3,000 works. That collection is also easier to navigate due to search capabilities based on title, location, author, and perhaps most importantly, language. You may notice on that site the note that warns the collection is not comprehensive, along with a mention that UCLA’s “active” work on the collection is on hiatus. Hopefully that will not be the case for UTM’s collections, which already dwarfs UCLA’s.
Chelsea Kerwin, August 22, 2014
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