The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database was created to collect, organize, and display historical representations of medieval monuments and cities in southern Italy for the purposes of study and research.
The project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ will show the importance of medieval reading culture as a European movement by bringing together (digitised) manuscripts produced between c. 500 and c. 1550 from across Europe, unlocking their educational potential by curational and editorial enrichment, using innovative ways for displaying and handling digital objects in an educational context.
The word “manuscript” from the Latin words manus (hand) and scriptus (writing) literally means “written by hand.” Before the invention of printing, copies of books had to be handwritten. A scribe would obtain a book to copy and painstakingly write out every word, in ink with a quill pen.
The Parvum lexicon stemmatologicum (PLS) is a scholarly digital resource providing explanations for technical terms related to stemmatology, a discipline of classical and mediaeval philology aiming at understanding the historical evolution of textual traditions.
The Patrologia Latina covers the works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian around 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. In 221 volumes, it covers most major and minor Latin authors, and contains the most influential works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature.
e carnet Liturgica se propose d’informer la communauté scientifique de mes découvertes et de mes travaux relatifs à l’étude des manuscrits liturgiques, un domaine de recherche très peu connu, malgré le nombre de manuscrits...
As a prototype, eCodicesNL provides free online access to 180 medieval (ca 500 – ca 1600) manuscripts from three public collections. It provides a digital infrastructure, enabling research on these manuscripts. eCodicesNL collaborated with e-codices Switzerland (Prof Dr Christoph Flüeler, University of Fribourg) and Fragmentarium (Dr William Duba, University of Fribourg) to structure the metadata in XML-TEI P5.
By Michael North This post is the second in a series exploring the National Library of Medicine’s rich and varied collection of “herbals,” which are books devoted to the description of medicinal plants (and sometimes other natural substances) with instructions on how to use them to treat illness. The Library’s herbals are some of the…
The Manners and Customs of the Middle Ages:--this subject is of the greatest interest, not only to the man of science, but to the man of the world also. In it, too, "we retrace not only one single period, but two periods quite distinct one from the other."
BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art) is a new, open-access online database of representations of books and other textual documents in the figurative arts between approximately 1300 and 1600 CE, the period encompassing the advent of print culture in Europe and its neighboring regions
Since 1999, the Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Palaeography and Codicology (Abteilung Schrift- und Buchwesen, ASBW) at the ÖAW has made available Watermarks of the Middle Ages (Wasserzeichen des Mittelalters, WZMA), a watermarking research tool that provides not only clear image representations but also essential information on the relationships between watermarks and their supporting manuscripts, archival material, and documents.
Die handgeschriebenen Bücher aus Mittelalter und Neuzeit sind unikale Kulturobjekte und einmalige historische Quellen. Das Handschriftenportal (HSP) ist das zentrale Online-Portal für diese Buchhandschriften in deutschen Sammlungen.
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