NEW:

online sources about the medieval Vita Religiosa are available

index by title and author in Latin

We would appreciate for corrections and further information.

 

Source Collectionsbroader topics�� facsimiles

 

Broader Topics

The Online Medieval and classical library

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/

links to important source collections and large own collection

 

Abbazia di San Benedetto di Leno

http://www1.popolis.it/abbazia/fonti.asp?vis=1
Italian: collection of different medieval documents of several centuries, partly completely transcribed, ordered by century and by provenience, abbreviation list and register of the mentioned notaries (work still in progress)

 

Aelfrics Homilies on Judith, Esther and the Maccabees

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/kings/

edited by Stuart D. Lee

 

Alcuin and Clemens Libraries

http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/itr/monastic/

�Internet Theological Resources: Monastic Studies� � link list subdivided in the rubrics: �Monastic History I (Pre-Benedict)�, �Monastic History II (Benedict to the Reformation)�, �Rule of Benedict�, �Comprehensive Examination Reading List�, �Other related links�

 

All Ecumenical Councils � All the Degrees

http://www.piar.hu/councils/~index.htm

also for download

 

An analytic bibliography of on-line neo-Latin texts

http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/

ordered by author

 

An Anthology of Translated Texts Illustrative of the History of the Cult of the Saints

http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~thead/anthology.htm

edited by Thomas Head, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, translations and links to further resources

 

Anglo-Saxon charters on the WWW

http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/

a project of the British Academy - Royal Historical Society: REGESTA REGUM ANGLORUM (=searchable edition of the entire corpus of Anglo-Saxon royal diplomas), bibliography, detailed chapters on Anglo-Saxon bishops and abbots ...

 

Arch�ologisches Bildarchiv
http://www.bodenfundarchiv.de/

photo archives of archaeology finds (i.e. coins, jewellery, arms, maps,... from the Celtic, roman and medieval period)

 

Archivio della Latinit� Italiana del Medioevo

http://www.uan.it/alim

Italian: virtual project wanting to assemble all medieval Latin texts produced in Italy

 

Ausstellung aus den Best�nden der Erzbisch�flichen Akademischen Bibliothek Paderborn

http://www.eab-paderborn.de/aus_dalheim.htm

manuscripts and early printings from the region around H�xter/ Paderborn with explanative texts on the exhibits

 

Beatus de Saint-Sever

http://beatus.saint-sever.fr/

French, English: an 11th century manuscript regarding the visions of Saint John in the New Testament, pictures of the evangelists, of the genealogy of Christ, of the apocalypse and of the book Daniel, texts of the revelations of John and Daniel

 

Bible Resources Center

http://biblestudy.churches.net/

World Wide Study Bible, Church Fathers, Christian Classics Ethereal Library: texts for Download (as *.pdf, *.rtf or*.zip file) or on-line readable, with introductory texts

 

Bibliotheca Augustana

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html

full text of works written in Latin, Greek, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish; many of the texts are accompanied by brief biographical information about the author and a list of secondary readings.

 

Biblioteca Electr�nica Cristiana

http://www.multimedios.org

Spanish: search by an index of authors or thematic

 

Intratext: Bibliotheca Latinitatis Mediaevalis����������������������������

http://www.intratext.com/Latina/Mediaevalis/default.htm

medieval Latin texts, partly in English

 

Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Calvin College - Early Church Fathers

http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/

English: extensive online library about the history of Christianity and the church fathers

 

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http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/christian.html

Latin texts, letters, vitae of Christian authors

 

CELT: Corpus of electronic Texts

the online resource for Irish history, literature and politics; ordered by language and subject

 

Classics Archive

http://classics.mit.edu/

English: E-texts (Aeschines � Xenophon) with search engine

 

Clavis Monumentorum Litterarum

http://www.clavmon.cz/

FRRB � Fontes Rerum Regni Bohemiae: complete texts

 

Corpus Thomisticum PROJECT UNDERWAY

http://www.unav.es/filosofia/alarcon/amicis/ctcorpus.html

Latin, modern languages will be offered soon:

Aims:

-         full edition of the complete works of St. Thomas according, where possible, to the best critical texts.

-         bibliography covering all the studies on Aquinas and his doctrine

-         index of the main tools of Thomistic research, and the edition of the most important among them.

-         database management system, implemented to search, compare, and sort words, phrases, quotations, similitudes, correlations, and statistical information.

-         digital edition of the main manuscripts of Aquinas' works.

 

Council of Trent

http://history.hanover.edu/early/trent.html

The canons and decrees of the sacred and ecumenical Council of Trent. (complete text)

 

Ecole initiative: �Hypertext encyclopedia of early church history�

http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/

large collection of documents (up to 1500), 100-200 word glosses on topics related to early church history, several essays on major topics and figures, Jud�o-Christian iconography and religious art (each with explanation), timeline with geographical cross-index, very extensive bibliography

 

Electronic Text Center

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/

the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library

 

Electronic Text Collections

http://history.hanover.edu/etexts.html

thematic ordered links to E-Text collections (mainly American Universities)

 

Fondation des Archives Historiques de l�Abbaye Saint-Maurice (Switzerland)

http://www.aasm.ch/

French: historical archives of the abbey Saint Maurice/Switzerland, with internal search engine, inscription and payment necessary

 

Forum Romanorum

http://forumromanum.org/

English: Latin texts of medieval authors

 

God rules.net

http://www.godrules.net/

Bible study tools, Josephus Flavius (writings and biography), Foxe`s Book of martyrs, Summa Theologica, St. Anselm, Phillip Schaff �History of the Christian church� (8 volumes) and writings of the early church fathers, ... each rubric with search engine and cross references

 

GraciousCall.org

http://www.graciouscall.org/books/library.html

large E-text library � all texts in Engl.: 38-volume collection of writings from the first 800 years of the church, works and bibliographical sketches of Ambrose, Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, Athanasius, John Calvin, Martin Luther � and Phillip Schaff �History of the Christian church� in 8 volumes

 

Guide to Early Church Documents

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/christian-history.html

This hypertext document contains pointers to Internet-accessible files relating to the early church, including canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history.

 

Hall of church history

http://www.gty.org/~phil/hall.htm

survey with links to e-texts: church fathers, medieval churchman, heretics, eastern orthodox...

 

Handschriften

http://www.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/webmania/lhsn.htm

classified collection of online resources

 

Hanover historical texts project

http://history.hanover.edu/project.html

English e-texts, each with introduction and further bibliographic reference

 

Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

http://www.hmml.org/

information on microfilming projects and events, online exhibits and manuscript images (with explanations), links

 

Internet History Sourcebook Project (Paul Halshall/FordhamUNI)

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

source collections, bibliographies and much more

 

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

selected and excerpted texts for teaching purposes,full texts of medieval sources arranged according to type, hagiographical sources

 

Ancient Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

 

Modern Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

 

Byzantine Studies Site

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/

academic and teaching resources; texts, images and sounds, links

 

 

Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island)

http://www.earlham.edu/~seidti/iam/interp_mss.html

main focus of the web is on the process used to study the ancient manuscripts upon which the New Testament is based, glossary

 

Joachim von Fiore: Adversus Iudeos

http://www.uan.it/alim/testi/xii/AlimIoachFloreIudeosXIIteopro1.htm

full text

 

LIBRO - The Library of Iberian Resources Online

http://libro.uca.edu/

English: online books about the history of the Iberian peninsula between the 5th and the 17th century, author catalog, title catalogue, internal and external search machine

 

Manuscripts of Austria (8th �13th century)

http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Friedrich.Simader/

data base: manuscripts of Austria 8th �13th century and information on the project: �Romanische Buchmalerei in Ober�sterreich�

 

Manuscripts of Canon law and Roman law

http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~jurarom/manuscr/Can&RomL/introduc.htm#_blank

English: information about the inventory of many libraries concerning medieval law manuscripts, search by library, author or by title

 

Medieval Literary Resources

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/medieval.html

links to e-Texts

 

Medieval Women�s Latin Letters

http://epistolae.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/

Data base: each letter with English translation and historical background information

 

Memoria mundi series bohemica

http://digit.nkp.cz

digital access to rare documents

 

MGH

http://www.dmgh.de/

German: Latin texts of medieval authors

 

MOM - Virtuelles Urkundenarchiv mitteleurop�ischer Kl�ster und Bist�mer

http://www.monasterium.net/

Germ. (introductory text also in Engl., Ital.): virtual archive of documents of central-European monasteries and dioceses.

 

Online Literature Library

http://www.bibliomania.com/

several dictionaries

 

Opera Omnia S. Bernardi Claraevallensis

http://www.binetti.ru/bernardus/pl182_index.shtml

Latin texts of Bernhard of Clairvaux

 

Pachomius Bibo

http://www.voskrese.info/spl/

Engl.: alphabetical list of Orthodox patristic texts, liturgical documents and saints' lives of all eras, links to other projects, texts mostly only in translation

 

Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe

http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations

 

Regensburger Infothek der Scholastik

http://www.alcuin.de/

German: short information about th life and the writings of medieval authors

 

Regesta Imperii

http://www.regesta-imperii.de

Provides access to the online version of Regesta imperii (in form of page images as well as full-text) and related databases, a searchable online index of primary and secondary literature in the area of medieval European studies, and links to online resources in medieval history.

 

Regesta regum anglorum

http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/NewRegReg.html

English: detailed site with Anglo-Saxon charters, lists of rulers, abbots and bishops in England, maps, Old English texts, information concerning several historical dates

 

Romanische Buchmalerei in Ober�sterreich
http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Martina.Pippal/ooe.htm

German, with map

 

Roots of Asceticism

http://www.ellopos.net/notebook/resources_f.htm

introductory text in Greek, all texts in Engl. translation (Basil - Tertullian)

 

Sch�pfung und Weltbild des Mittelalters
http://hanumans.de.ki/ [opens in a new window]
multilingual: extensive source collection

 

Scrolls from the dead sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship

http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html

an exhibit at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC

 

Sources disponibles en ligne � propos du haut Moyen �ge

http://lamop.univ-paris1.fr/W3/elites/sources.htm

French: sources from the high Middle Age, mostly in the original language

 

Sources of medieval History � Columbia University

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/

Chronicon episcoporum Finlandensium, La Divina Comedia, Legenda S. Helenae Schedviensis, Orbis Latinus u.a.

 

Stiftsbibliothek Melk

http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ksbm/melk/

German: library of the monastery of Melk

 

Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen
http://www.stiftsbibliothek.ch/index.asp
library of the monastery of Sankt Gallen
 
CESG � Codices Electronici Sangallenses
http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en/manuscripts.htm 
English, German, French, Italian: digitised medieval manuscripts

 

Stuttgarter Vulgata

http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/~www/referate/theologie/vulg1519.html

entirely photographed

 

Texts, Manuscripts and Palaeography

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/hot/mss.html

link collection

 

Textual Criticism and Manuscript Interpretation

http://members.aol.com/dvdmoore/html/txtcrt.htm

link collection

 

Treasures of the National Archives: Middle Ages

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/dates.asp?date_id=1

English: important medieval documents (Magna Charta, Domesday Book ...) and links to their transcription, different links concerning medieval texts

 

Ulrich Richentals Chronik des Konstanzer Konzils und ihre Funktionalisierung im 15. und 16.

Jahrhundert: Aspekte zur Rekonstruktion der Urschrift und zu den Wirkungsabsichten der

�berlieferten Handschriften und Drucke

http://w210.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/dbt/volltexte/2002/520/

 

Vatican Library

http://212.77.1.230/en/v_home_bav/home_bav.shtml

Engl. (partly Ital.): information about history and structure, representations of treasures of the library, library catalogue

 

Vincent de Beauvais

http://atilf.atilf.fr/bichard/

French: texts of Vincent de Beauvais in Latin

 

Watermarks in incunabula printed low countries - Suchmaschine

http://watermark.kb.nl/

 

WZMA- Wasserzeichen des Mittelalters

http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ksbm/wz/wzma2.htm

you can choose by motives

 

broader topics�� facsimiles

 

Facsimiles / Manuscripts

 

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, UK, others

 

Austria

Bibliographie zu mittelalterlichen Handschriften in �sterreich

http://www.ksbm.oeaw.ac.at/lit/frame.htm

German: bibliography on manuscripts in Austria, alphabetically ordered by place

 

Erlebnisraum Altes Buch

http://www.literature.at/webinterface/library/COLLECTION_V01?objid=1081

German: different digitalised manuscripts not only from the middle ages

 

Illuminierte Handschriften aus �sterreich (ca. 780 � ca. 1250)
http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/Martina.Pippal/hssdata.htm
[opens in a new window]

German: illuminated manuscripts from Austria, with search engine

 

Inventar der Handschriften des Benediktinerstiftes Melk

http://www.ksbm.oeaw.ac.at/melk/inv1/

German: digitalised manuscripts of the library of Melk, with dating of the manuscripts and more information about them

 

REALonline

http://www.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/realonline/

German: digital image archive with search engine

 

Seitenstetten - Manuscript 30

http://www.tertullian.org/manuscripts_apologeticum/seitenstetten_30.htm

German: digitalised manuscript of the �Apologeticus adversus gentes� of Tertullian

 

Universit�tsbibliothek Salzburg

http://www.ubs.sbg.ac.at/sosa/webseite/hsskat.htm

German: online catalogue of medieval manuscripts in Salzburg, with search engine

 

Denmark

Digitale faksimiler af manuskripter � K�nigliche Bibliothek Kopenhagen

http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/index2.htm

Danish, English: facsimiles of medieval and renaissance manuscripts

 

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, UK, others

 

France

ARCHIM - Documents m�di�vaux

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/documentsmedievaux.htm

French: photos of medieval original documents and seals online

 

Enluminures

http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/

French: high quality photos of more than 80 000 illuminated medieval manuscripts of different French libraries

 

Gallica / Biblioth�que nationale de France

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ [opens in a new window]

French: digital facsimiles and full texts

 

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, UK, others

 

Germany

BSB M�nchen - Handschriftensammlungen

http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~mdz/kurzsammlungen.html?klassifikation%5B%5D=klassifikation+like+%27%25handschrift%25%27

German: digitalised manuscripts of the library of Munich

 

Chronicon Thietmari Merseburgensis

http://141.84.81.24/digilib/thietmar.html

German: digital version as well as the facsimile of the manuscript of Dresden of 1905

 

Codex Diplomaticus Saxoniae Regiae

http://isgv.serveftp.org/codex/

German, Latin: detailed site providing digitalized charter books of Saxon margraves, towns and monasteries and of the university of Leipzig

 

Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis

http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de/ [opens in a new window]

German, partly English: project of the University of Cologne and the �Erzbisch�fliche Di�zesan- und Dombibliothek�: digitalisationof medieval Codices

 

Digitalisierte Best�nde der Universit�tsbibliothek Kiel
http://www.uni-kiel.de/ub/Nachlass/Cramer/hand.html
German: digitalised manuscripts of the university library of Kiel/ Germany (work still in progress)

 

Fontes Civitatis Ratisponensis � Geschichtsquellen der Stadt Regensburg

http://www.fcr-online.com/

German: digitalised historic sources of the town Regensburg/Ratisbon, with virtual archive, publications and auxiliary means

 

Gutenberg Digital

http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/

German: project offering access to a digitalised version of the bible of Gutenberg in G�ttingen

 

Handschriften-digital

http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/handschriften.html

German: digitalised manuscripts in Latin, German and Greek, with links

 

Manuscripta Medievalia

http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/

German: project offering access to a broad manuscript database as well as digitalised medieval manuscripts and catalogues of manuscripts

 

Marburger Repertorium

http://cgi-host.uni-marburg.de/~mrep/index_mrep.html

German: German manuscripts of the 13th and 14th century

 

Stadtarchiv Duderstadt

http://www.archive.geschichte.mpg.de/duderstadt/dud-d.htm

German, English: digital archive of the town Duderstadt with search engine

 

Stuttgarter Vulgata

http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/referate/theologie/vulgata.html

German: completely digitalised version of the �Stuttgarter Vulgata�, which is somehow related to Martin Luther

 

Wolfenb�tteler Sachsenspiegel

http://www.sachsenspiegel-online.de/

German: digitalised version of the �Wolfenb�tteler Sachsenspiegel�, with search by keyword and by full text as well as table of contents

 

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, UK, others

 

Italy

Institut f�r Rechtsgeschichte Mailand.

http://www.historia.unimi.it/istitutonew/microstat.htm#_blank

Italian: data base of manuscripts concerning the history of law (common law, canon law, civil law ...), with search engine

 

Netherlands

Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/

Engl.: Koninklijke Bibliotheek � National library of the Netherlands: a very extensive collection, search engine

 

Switzerland

Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland online

http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/de/

English, German, French, Italian: high resolution digital images with over 40'000 facsimile pages of 100 complete manuscripts, with description and search engine

 

CESG - Codices Electronici Sangallenses

http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/de/
German, Engl., French, Italian: entire digital manuscripts with descriptions, free access, search options

 

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, UK, others

 

Sweden

Lund University � digital manuscript library

http://laurentius.lub.lu.se/

English: digitalised medieval manuscripts of the library of Lund

 

The Waller manuscript collection

http://www.ub.uu.se/arv/waller/eindex.cfm

English: huge collection of (also medieval) manuscripts being available online; with detailed search engine

 

UK

Early manuscripts at Oxford University

http://image.ox.ac.uk/

English: digitized manuscripts of different British universities online

 

Electronic Beowulf

http://www.uky.edu/%7Ekiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm

English: digitalised version of the manuscript of Beowulf existing in the �British Library�

 

The Aberdeen Bestiary

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/

English : digital version of the manuscript with information and bibliography

 

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, UK, others

 

others

Digi-Archives.org

http://www.digi-archives.org [opens in a new window]

French: a portal offering access to different digital archives, access only with registration and contribution

 

Digital Scriptorium

http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/

English: digital versions of medieval and other manuscripts, with search engine and bibliography

 

Medieval Manuscript Manual

http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/

English, Hungarian, Italian, Russian: detailed site concerning medieval manuscripts; their production, function, materials, content ..., with glossary, links and bibliography