Digital Image Collections

• The British Library – A selection of web resources from the library’s own digitized collection.
  • Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Fully Digitized Manuscripts
  • Digitized Manuscript Web Resources
• Croatian Glagolitic Manuscripts – An annotated listing with links to Croatian manuscripts written in Glagolitic script
• Digital Scriptorium – An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts from many institutions. The advanced search is particularly useful.
• Special Treasures from the Jewish Theological Seminary
• The Medieval Beastiary – Images and information about animals in medieval bestiaries with lists by animal or manuscript; also includes books and articles about animals in the middle ages.
• National Library of the Netherlands – Medieval illuminated manuscripts.
• National Library of Russia –

  The Ostromir Gospel and the Manuscript Tradition of the New Testament Texts Exhibition site – includes Greek, South Slavonic and Old Russian manuscripts (in English)

• The Pierpont Morgan Library – The Morgan Library & Museum’s renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.
• The Ostromir Gospel and the Manuscript Tradition of the New Testament Texts Exhibition site – includes Greek, South Slavonic and Old Russian manuscripts (in English)
• Hill Museum Manuscript Collection – Collection for the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library holdings

Calligraphy

• Medieval Writing – Basic Paleography Bibliography – includes examples and exercises to learn about medieval writing, covers book hands, document hands and personal hands.
• Art of Arabic Calligraphy – Overview of arabic calligraphy including history, development over time and examples.
• Ink Corrosion Prognosis
• Writing & Illuminating & Lettering – Digitized version of the 1917 Edward Johnston book.
• Linugraphy – Generates a PDF for lined calligraphy practice paper based on parameters you enter.

Illumination

• Pigments Through the Ages – History, manufacture, and technical details about pigments – not all are period.

Wordsmith

• Online Calendar of Saints Days – Focused on saints days recognized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
• Epistolae: Medieval Women’s Letters – C

  ollection of letters to and from women – Latin transcriptions and English translations.

• In Parentheses – Medieval texts translated into English.
• Hanover Historical Texts Project – Transcriptions of various historical texts.
• Alys’s “Mad Libs” Wording for SCA Scribes – A tool for SCA scribes to find and use more period wording
• Resources of the Wordsmiths of the East — Various links of useful information.

Heraldry

• A Heraldic Primer – A primer designed to equip the interested novice with the most basic of vocabulary that they need to be able to fuel further study.
• Heraldic Dictionary – University of Notre Dame’s, nicely illustrated introduction to heraldry.
• Heraldic Glossary – Search in and get translations for 6 languages or browse with Atlas.
• SCA Online Armorial – Search for registered SCA names and arms.
• Eastern Crown Herald Letters – Find submissions and results for names & arms in the East by date – LoI includes pictures of arms.
• Book of Traceable Heraldic Art – Black and white drawings of various heraldic charges as produced for the Pennsic heraldry consult table.