Surf these sites: A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek -- A selection of manuscripts, printed works, book bindings, and specimens from the paper history collection in the Department of Special Collections is presented with explanatory notes. Aberdeen Bestiary -- An on-line database of text, digitised images, commentary and translation from this 12th century encyclopaedia of the natural world. Age of King Charles V -- (1338-1380): 1,000 Illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts - Bibliothèque Nationale de France Bodleian Library Image Catalogue -- A variety of page images from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK. Boeci -- Imatge dels folis 1r-3r del ms 160 de la UCB: la traducció catalana (ca. 1470-1480), per Antoni Ginebreda, de «De consolatione Philosophiae», d’Anicius Severinus Boethius. Choix de miniatures des manuscrits de l''Université de Liège -- Illuminated manuscripts from the collection of the University of Liege - Belgium (text is in French, but the site is easy to navigate). Digital Scriptorium -- A joint project of the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University to digitize and make available on the World Wide Web the two universities'' medieval and early Renaissance manuscript holdings. Domesday Facsimiles -- Online merchant offering reproductions of the Domesday Book. Edward the Confessor Illuminated manuscript -- Cambridge University Library MS. Ee.3.59 contains the only copy of an illustrated Anglo-Norman verse Life of St Edward the Confessor, written in England probably in the later 1230s or early 1240s, and preserved in this manuscript, executed c. 1250-60. Electronic Beowulf Guide -- The online guide to the Electronic Beowulf Project, a comprehensive collection of images of the Old English Poem. The full facsimile is available on CD-ROM. Electronic Beowulf samples -- A selection of reduced resolution (approx 100k) images from the Electronic Beowulf Project. Note: the site is FTP. Medieval Manuscript Leaves -- 51 leaves from Western European manuscripts of the 12th - 16th centuries. Selected to illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest development and influence Medieval Paleography -- Part of an MA course, this introduction gives hands-on experience for reading, interpreting and understanding medieval texts. Paging Through Medieval Lives -- Illumination and calligraphy from selected collections at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. 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. Scriptorium: Editiones Limitadas -- A company offering facsimiles of medieval manuscripts, with information and sample pictures. 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 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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