Online Rare Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Islamic Manuscripts, Ancient Manuscripts, Illuminated Manuscipts

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Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums.
Buffalo, Charleston, Duluth, Jacksonville, Newburgh Santa Barbara, Tacoma.

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Medieval manuscripts  See also: Byzantine manuscripts and Medieval art

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek holds the world's richest collection of incunabula. The collection comprises approximately 20,000 copies of 9,742 editions.
The Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books preserves the most valuable historical holdings of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, which are continuously complemented by further purchases. The treasures of this department rank the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek among the top libraries of the world.
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Biiblioteca Nazionale de Roma
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Bibliotheca Schoenbergensis
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Bodleian Library
Western manuscripts to c.1500: Browse images.
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British Library manuscript collection online.
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The Burnet Psalter
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Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
This site was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web. You can use the search box to quickly search on specific terms, or use the "Search Manuscripts" link to search on particular fields, such as date, or provenance information. You can also browse the Catalogue by the Location of an archive or library, the shelfmark of an item, by the author of a text (where that information is available), or by the language of a text (again, where available).
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Digital Scriptorium, Columbia University.
The Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It bridges the gap between a diverse user community and the limited resources of libraries by means of sample imaging and extensive rather than intensive cataloguing. 
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Dutch Royal Library
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
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e-codices
Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland/Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer
The goal of the e-codices project is to provide access to all medieval and selected early modern manuscripts held in Switzerland via a virtual library
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The European Digital Library Treasures, The European Library
A website that accesses the contents of European national libraries.
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Gallica
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Founded to preserve medieval manuscripts from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East in microfilm form.
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Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Sponsored by Georgetown University. The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies.
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Late Antique and Medieval manuscripts.
Benedictional of Aethelwold, Bible of S Paolo fuori le Mura, c.870, Book of Kells, by 807, Canon table, Book of Lindisfarne, by 698, Canon table.
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Malory's Arthurian Manuscript (The Winchester Manuscript).
British Library
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Medieval Studies
Online Refernce Book for Medieval Studies.ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students.
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Medieval Manuscripts on the Web
This list is intended to offer quick access to various digitization projects on the web. Listings are alphabetical by originating institution.
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The Morgan Library
Medieval Illuminations from the Pierpont Morgan Library.
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National Library of Wales Manuscript Collection
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Oxford University
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University. Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals.
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Piers Plowman manuscripts.
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Scriptorium
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online
A digital archive of manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books from c. 1450-1720, including research and teaching resources for late medieval and early modern manuscript studies.

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Papyri

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Rare books
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Renaissance manuscripts

Renaissance manuscripts (displayed as turning pages) held at The British Library. Sforza Hours. Sketches by Leonardo....
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Vatican Renaissance music manuscripts.
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Illuminated manuscripts (miniatures) from the 12th to 16th centuries.

Research Libraries Group. RLG's Archival Resource. OCLC
A service of the United States Research Libraries Group to make the world's scholarly resources hidden in archives more visible.
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Schoyen Manuscript Collection
A checklist of 222 manuscripts.
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Shanameh. The Princeton Shanameh Project
Archive of book paintings, more commonly known as Persian Miniatures created to illustrate scenes from the Persian national epic, the Shahnama, or Book of Kings.
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Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry illuminated manuscript,
by the Limburg (or Limbourg) Brothers.
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Trismegistos.org
Online database of ancient manuscripts.

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University of Texas Archives and Manuscripts Section of the Center for American History
8,000 separate collections. Because of the size and the age of these holdings, no one index is available for the entire collection of archival and manuscript materials. The index presented here, compiled during the 1980s, provides name, place, and topical subject access to many, but not all, of the collections that had been acquired by the Center at that time.

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Vatican Renaissance music manuscripts.
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Western manuscripts until 1500.
Bodlean Library, Oxford University.

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