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Hwaeddup https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f5Pgp-4kWX5lycmQRkj9w7gWcMlINqmjId1VuQjxXeY/edit. There’s been some interest in digital libraries &manuscripts that various ppl have been asking abt so I thought I’d compile some for you all. Feel free to use for remote teaching this semester. These are open access so anyone can enjoy. 1/25
Another thing is that I've seen scholars say that preparing for virtual classrooms is hard. This is a good time to reach out & tell your digital humanities colleagues you appreciate what they do. Many of them build these sorts of classes from scratch & make them accessible. 2/25
But since we're all in this together & this is something unprecedented we can and should be helping each other. Feel free to add to this list. #medievaltwitter #shakerace 3/25
1) The @BritishLibrary has a wealth of MSS. More than 800 medieval manuscripts online, from Beowulf, St. Cuthbert’s Gospel, da Vinci’s Notebook, Greek MSS, early scientific MSS and more: https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/ 4/25
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2) Quick access to some Old English here at the @BritishLibrary. The Nowell Codex has Marvels of the East, Beowulf, Judith, Letters of Alexander to Aristotle: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_vitellius_a_xv_f094r 5/25
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3) A wealth of digitalized medieval manuscripts from the Monastic Manuscript Project. Literally 100s of MSS here: http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org/listoflinks.html#Digital 6/25
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4) Trinity College Dublin has a wonderful Digital collection of medieval MSS. Type in “medieval” for over 400 hits and “renaissance” will get you almost 200. https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/ 7/25
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5) Book of Kells deserves its own link. It’s a really slow website so be patient: https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS58_003v 8/25
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6) Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library can be perused here: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/ 9/25
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7) The Goodspeed MS Collection has 68 early Greek, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Arabic & Latin MSS from the 5th-19th centuries: http://goodspeed.lib.uchicago.edu/list/index.php?list=listscanned http://goodspeed.lib.uchicago.edu/ 10/25
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8) Quick access to the Ethiopian collection at the @britishlibrary which has medieval and early modern MSS. On the side you can explore the Middle Eastern & African collection. https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/ethiopian-collections 11/25
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9) Lots of illuminated MSS from the Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en 12/25
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10) The Bodleian Library has a fab list of MSS all laid out in a super organized way. Easily accessible and searchable: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
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11) The Vatican’s Digital Library has a wealth of MSS. Narrow down your search with the search engine: https://digi.vatlib.it/all/ 14/25
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12) UPenn has an excellent list of digitized MSS in their digital collection. Here you will find the Manuscripts of the Muslim World with over 500 MSS from 1000-1900. http://openn.library.upenn.edu/html/muslimworld_contents.html 15/25
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13) UPenn actually hosts 1000s of medieval manuscripts online. Here’s the portal: http://openn.library.upenn.edu/ You can also find them here: https://archive.org/details/bibliotheca-philadelphiensis 16/25
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14) Search here for MSS in Britain from 1000 to 1500: https://www.manuscriptsonline.org/ 17/25
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15) Kind of outdated, but still useful, here’s the link to a Medieval Bestiary list with examples from MSS: http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastalphashort.htm
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16) This portal is a collection of digitization projects of medieval MSS in Germany: http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/#|4 You might get lost or struggle if you don’t know German, but you can still navigate fairly easily. 19/25
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17) A really detailed but slightly confusing portal from Iceland that has lots of medieval and early modern MSS from mostly Denmark, Iceland and Britain. https://handrit.is/en/search/results/fzGgFf;jsessionid=4F158FC429412BE7F4D17437ABC21E5F 20/25
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18) Digital Scriptorium is a compilation of US libraries/museums that allows you to search for specific themes, topics, etc. with its search engine. https://digital-scriptorium.org/ 21/25
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19) A fab portal for medieval manuscripts held at various libraries in Europe and the US: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/explore/topic/medieval-manuscripts 22/25
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20) The Morgan Library & Museum’s Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts can be found here: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscripts/list 23/25
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21) Dr. Sian Echard has compiled a good list of medieval MSS around the web and organizes its collection by country. https://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/512digms.htm 24/25
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22) @meganlcook is compiling a list of digitized manuscripts here. Make sure to add to it if you know of one that isn't on the list. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f5Pgp-4kWX5lycmQRkj9w7gWcMlINqmjId1VuQjxXeY/edit 25/25
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