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A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek - A selection of manuscripts, printed works, book bindings, and specimens from the paper history collection in the Department of Special Collections is presented with explanatory notes.
 
Aberdeen Bestiary - An on-line database of text, digitised images, commentary and translation from this 12th century encyclopedia of the natural world. Maintained by the University of Aberdeen.
 
Bodleian Library Image Catalogue - Features medieval manuscript images from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK.
 
Choix de miniatures des manuscrits de l'Université de Liège - Illuminated manuscripts from the collection of the University of Liege - Belgium (text is in French, but the site is easy to navigate).
 
DScriptorium - Devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.
 
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.
 
Early Medieval Maps - A series of images of maps dating from 400-1300 AD.
 
Edward the Confessor Illuminated manuscript - 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.
 
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.
 
Electronic Beowulf samples - A selection of reduced resolution (approx 100k) images from the Electronic Beowulf Project. Note: the site is FTP.
 
Encyclopedia Scriptoria - Illustrated glossary explaining the monastic scriptorium from Joe Chiffriller, part of the New York Carver.
 
Images of Catalan Manuscripts - Catalan manuscripts in UC Berkeleys collections.
 
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry - The Paris Web Museum provides a guide and illustrations of the famous calendar section of this beautiful illuminated book of hours commissioned by the Duc de Berry c.1412.
 
Manuscript Facsimiles - An online exhibit of the history and use of medieval manuscript facsimiles, containing hundreds of images from dozens of manuscript facsimiles, with closeup images of illuminations and palaeographical descriptions of their scripts.
 
Medieval Manuscript Leaves - 51 leaves from Western European manuscripts of the 12th - 16th centuries. Selected to illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest development and influence
 
Medieval Manuscript Leaves - 51 leaves from Western European manuscripts of the 12th - 16th centuries. Selected to illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest development and influence
 
Medieval Paleography - Part of an MA course, this introduction gives hands-on experience for reading, interpreting and understanding medieval texts.
 
Medieval Writing - An introduction to the history of writing in Western Europe, including basic paleography and the social history of literacy.
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection, MS 54.1.2 (Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux) - On-line exhibition of the famous Book of Hours made for Jeanne d'Evreux, queen of France. Illuminations by Jean Pucelle (French, early 14th century).
 
Paging Through Medieval Lives - Illumination and calligraphy from selected collections at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.
 
 

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