Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Includes Parliament Rolls of Medieval England. Note: To be recognized as a Fordham user, must first click the Log In link on green banner, upper left corner.
Digitized books and manuscripts principally from the major collections of government records of England, Ireland, and Scotland concerning economic, political, legal, and ecclesiastical history, such as treasury accounts, chronicles, papal registers, etc.
Annotated bibliography of printed and online primary sources for the Middle Ages (including Internet Medieval Sourcebook) from the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University.
Essential texts covering the terror of the Black Death to the drama of the Norman invasion, MMSO brings alive the reality of life in the medieval world through these first hand accounts. ACCESS ONLY TO CONTENT WITH BLUE & YELLOW OPEN LOCK SYMBOL.
Electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Latin Church Fathers from Tertullian around 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
Searchable counterpart to the “Sources Chrétiennes” series of texts published by Éditions du Cerf, Paris. By 2025, the database will incorporate the source texts from the more than 600 printed volumes, in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Armenian and Georgian, sided by French translations and allowing for targeted and filtered searches.When browsing, you can use the option "Availability" to limit the results to the works/authors/volumes that are already completed and include text.
To start, the database contains the texts of 385 out of about 600 printed volumes. Four updates per year are scheduled. All volumes will be available by 2025.
The Morgan Library and Museum provides digital images of its extensive medieval and Renaissance manuscript collections, along with some bibliographic information.
"This curated selection explores medieval manuscripts that were digitised as part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700–1200."
Illumination
The Social Life of Illumination: Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages by Joyce Coleman
Call Number: (RH) ND2920 .S635 2013
Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.
The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques by Christopher de Hamel
Call Number: (RH) ND2900 .D34 2001
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work by Jonathan J. Alexander
Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600 by Michelle Brown
Call Number: (RH) Paleography PAZ105 .B757 1990
London: British Library, 1990.
Lexicon abbreviaturarum : dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane usate nelle carte e codici specialmente del Medio-Evo, riprodotte con oltre 14000 segni incisi, con l'aggiunta di uno studio sulla brachigrafia medioevale, un prontuario di sigle epig by Adriano Cappelli
Call Number: (RH) Paleography PAZ107 .C24 1990
Milano: Hoepli, 1990.
In Italian.
The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books by Albert Derolez; David Ganz (Contribution by); Tessa Webber (Contribution by)
Call Number: (RH) Z106.5.E85 D47 2003
Cambridge, U.K./New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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