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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.
 
Psalter Map, c.1250 - A copy of the earliest surviving map to symbolise Christ's power as overseer of the world; and one of the earliest maps to depict Biblical events.
 
Rome Reborn: the Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture - An online museum that presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps.
 
The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) - 1000 manuscript illuminations from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
 
The Burnet Psalter. University of Aberdeen - Full-page images (text and illustration) and details from from this 15th-century manuscript. Includes an introduction, commentaries, notes on editorial and technical practice, and a bibliography. The text itself is accompanied by a full transcription of the Latin and summaries in English of the prayers and hymns.
 
The Morosini Codex - This is the longest unpublished mediaeval Venetian chronicle. Publication of the manuscript (more than 500,000 words) has begun, with one volume completed and the second expected at the end of 2000.
 
The Planctus for William Longsword - A 'mourning poem' for a Norman ancestor of William the Conqueror. The site provides images, translations and commentary and aims to illustrate the difficulties in interpreting medieval sources.
 
 

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