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Online Manuscripts; Manuscript Collections, Libraries and Archives

Rare Books; Biblical Manuscripts, Illuminated manuscripts; Manuscrits; Manuscritos; Manoscritti

A List of the Best Websites

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Medieval N  Organizations  Papyri S Sanskrit

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American manuscript collections

American manuscripts.
University of Texas Archives and Manuscripts Section of the Center for American History

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Searchable digital image collections.

Columbia University Archives and Manuscripts Collection.

Cornell University Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection

Fordham University Archives and Special Collections

Getty Museum Center manuscript collection.
Religious, devotional and secular works.

Harry Ramson Humanities Research Center
American literary manuscripts. University of Texas.

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library,
Duke University.

Australian manuscript collections

Australian literary manuscripts.
The database consists of electronic guides for more than eighty collections of Australian literary manuscripts.

National Library of Australia manuscript collection.

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Searchable digital image collections.

Bening, Simon. Simon Bening, 1483-156, Flemish illuminator.
The Getty Museum

Bible manuscripts

Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time.

British Library exhibition of sacred texts, sacred manuscripts.

Dead Sea Scrolls


Gutenberg Bible. Gutenberg Digital, The Göttenberg  Gutenberg Bible, Germany.
View by chapter and page. All 1282 pages of both volumes. Johann Gutenberg: His Life.

Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan.
Manuscripts, indices, codices, Leonardo da Vinci manuscripts.

Biblioteca Vaticana
The Vatican Library, Rome.

Bibliothèque Nationale de France manuscript collection.
Mandragore, base iconographique du département des Manuscrits

Blogs

Bodlean Library, Oxford University, manuscript collections.


Boston Public Library
Boston Public Library hosts a huge collection of rare books,  manuscripts, maps, musical scores and prints, including several first edition folios by William Shakespeare.

Bodlean Library Illuminated Manuscript Collection, Oxford University.
Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals. The site provides access to over 80 early manuscripts now in institutions associated with the University of Oxford.

British Library manuscript collections


British Library 'Turning the Pages' manuscript website.
The Lindisfarne Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Sforza Hours, the Leonardo notebook, the Golden Haggadah, the Luttrell Psalter, Blackwell's Herbal, Vesalius and the Sherborne Missal and others.

British literary manuscript collections

British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660–1900
British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660-1900 is the first release in Gale’s British Literary Manuscripts Online series. This extensive digital archive includes hundreds of thousands of pages of poems, plays, essays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence and other manuscripts from the Restoration through the Victorian era. These  documents can now be accessed by students, instructors and researchers everywhere.

Historical Manuscripts Commission, National Archives, Britain.
A searchable index of manuscripts held in Britain

Buddhist manucripts

Buddhist manuscripts.
The Early Buddhist Manuscript Project. The British Library and The University of Washington. Scrolls written in the Kharosthi script and the Gandhari (Prakrit) language.

Chester Beatty Library
Permanent exhibitions of eastern and western manuscripts, sacred texts and miniature paintings.

Byzantine manuscripts


Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
Producing digital photographs of extant Greek New Testament manuscripts and announcing new discoveries.

The Charrette Project
A scholarly, multi-media electronic archive containing medieval manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette(Lancelot,ca. 1180). Department of Romance Languages, Princeton University.

Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland.
Permanent exhibitions of eastern and western manuscripts, sacred texts and miniature paintings.

Chinese manuscripts


The City and the Book
International congress held May, June, September, 2001 at Certosa, Florence.

Codices

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Dead Sea Scolls


Digitalized images online.
Projects, indices, research libraries with manuscript collections, interpreting manuscripts.
Medieval Manuscripts; links to manuscript websites.
The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380): 
1,000 Illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts,The Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Bodleian Library: Illuminated  Manuscript Images.
The Book of Kells: Trinity College, Dublin. British Library Treasures.
The Cary Collection: Medieval manuscripts in The Carey Graphics Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y.
Chepman & Myllar prints (earliest Scottish printed books), National Library of Scotland. Digital Beowulf  Project.
DScriptorium Digital Manuscript Image Project.
Dutch Medieval Manuscript Collections
This database contains descriptions of all medieval western manuscripts up to c. 1550 written in Latin script and preserved in public and semi-public collections in the Netherlands. These include the collections of libraries, museums, archives, collections of monastic orders and some private institutions open to researchers.

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Eastern Orthodox Manuscripts at Mount Athos,Thessaloniki.
Catalogi Codicum. Montis Athonis

English manuscripts

Bodleian Library: English manuscripts to c. 1500.

British Library manuscript collections.

Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, The Volumes

Early English Drama Centre for Research in Early English Drama, Toronto.

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Fiske Icelandic Collection, Cornell University Library.
The largest repository of works on Iceland and on Nordic medieval studies in North America. Vellum and paper manuscripts, Elder Edda, contemporary Icelandic belles lettres, medieval sagas and literary criticism.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University.
The Department of Manuscripts and Printed Books

Folger Shakespeare Library
The world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, in addition to a magnificent collection of other rare Renaissance books and manuscripts on all disciplines.

French manuscripts

Bibliothèque Nationale de France manuscript collection.

ARCH, a French archive of valuable historical documents, pictures and photographs from France's National Archives' historical department.

Bestiaire médiévale, Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Gallica: la bibliothèque numérique, Bibliothèque Nationale de France

The European Digital Library Treasures, The European Library

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Getty Museum Center manuscript collection.
Religious, devotional and secular works.

German manuscript collections

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Harry Ramson Humanities Research Center
American and international literary manuscripts. University of Texas. Manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs and galleys, notes, correspondence, diaries, and annotated volumes of major twentieth-century authors from North America, Great Britain and France. There are also important holdings in British history and the history of science.

Hebrew manuscripts

Hebrew Books and Manuscripts at the Leiden University Library, Netherlands.
Hebrew incunabula.

Hebrew manuscripts.
The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Israel. Collecting microfilm copies of all Hebrew manuscripts extant in public and private collections.

The John Rylands University Library Genizah collection.
The library holds a collection of around 11,000 fragments, mostly written in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic, from the Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo,

The Jewish National and University Library
Edmond Safra campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem.

Talmudic manuscripts, Jewish National annd University Library, Israel.
Historical Manuscripts Commission, National Archives, Britain.
A searchable index of manuscripts held in Britain.

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