Writing Materials & The History of Books and Printing: Some Related Links

One of my chief areas of interest concerns the respective histories of paleography, the Book and the Printing Press. Below, you will find some links that I have visited and enjoyed. Please keep in mind that this is not an all-inclusive list and that it will keep growing as new sources are encountered! Thanks for your interest!

General Paleographical Links

• Abbreviationes 1.7 (TM) (for medieval Latin paleography, 50,000 entries)
• Book Resources on the Internet (U. Iowa)
• Boucher, Elise. On Illuminated Manuscripts
• Clement, Richard W. "Medieval and Renaissance Book Production - Manuscript Books" in ORB Online Encyclopedia - Manuscript Books
• Cours de Paleographie
• Daniel Traister's Home Page--HISTORY OF BOOKS AND PRINTING
• Database of alchemical manuscripts - Wellcome Institute
• Digital Scriptorium-towards a renaissance in Manuscript Studies
• DScriptorium Home Page
• Electronic Access to Medieval Manuscripts
• HISTORY OF LETTERING
• Illuminated Manuscripts
• Illuminated Manuscripts on the Web
• International Paper Historians: Resources on the Web
• Jones, Bruce. The History of Printing
• The Labyrinth: Manuscripts, Paleography, Codicology
• L'ecriture manuscrite
• The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
• LUTE SCRIBES AND HANDWRITING
• Medieval Scribe Writing-up in the Durham Scriptorium (ms illustration)
• NIXNET: Medieval Manuscripts Page
• Paleographie (Archive du cours d'ARISITUM)
• Palaeography
• Papyrology Comprehensive Web Site (U. Penn)
• Papyrology Home Page
• PhiloBiblon Database Search (DL SunSITE)
• PhiloBiblon (Spanish, Portuguese manuscripts)
• Printing: Renaissance and Reformation
• The Process of Writing the Copper Scroll (a Qumran document)
• Quills - Part 1: Broad Guidelines
• Rare Books Information Page
• Rare Book & Manuscript Library: Images
• RBMS: Resources for the Rare Books Cataloger (ALA)
• Renaissance -- Printing and Thinking
• Renascence Editions
• Repositories of Primary Sources
• VIII. Research Links: MSS
• IX. Research Links: Palaeography
• A Select Bibliography of Papyrology (U. Michigan)
• SHARP Web
• Some links concerning medieval manuscript cataloguing, databases, etc.
• Table des matieres (l'histoire de l'ecriture)
• Transmission des textes - Paleographie
• UNION MANUSCRIPT COMPUTER CATALOGUE
• Vellum Gallery of Calligraphy
• The Written Word
  

Regional Links--General Europe

• International Dunhuang Project (IDP)
  

Regional Links--France

(Note: Several links in this section came from Bob Peckham's Globe Gate Site at the University of Tennessee-Martin.)

• The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) - 1,000 Illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts of the BNF
• Ballades en jargon-Francois Villon
• BNF - Ecritures: Bibliographie
• BNF - Les catalogues des manuscrits orientaux
• Choix de Miniatures des manuscrits de l'universite de Liege
• Early Modern French Literature
• French Medieval History & Culture
• French Proverbs & Other Micro-texts
• GAZETTE DU LIVRE MEDIEVAL
• Histoires des Villes Francaises
• INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE ET D'HISTOIRE DES TEXTES
• La France au XVIe Siecle
• La Societe Francois Villon
• Le Grand Testament-Francois Villon
• Le Lais-Francois Villon
• LES TRES RICHES HEURES DU DUC DE BERRY (avec les images)
• Literature of the French Middle Ages
• Poesies diverses-Francois Villon
• Rois francais du moyen age
• The Song of Roland (DL SunSITE)
• Troubador & Early Occitan Literature
• Une Histoire de la langue francaise @ Globe-Gate
• Une Vie de Chateau @ Globe-Gate
• Vie litteraire en France a l'epoque de Villon

Regional Links--Great Britain

• Ancrene Wisse Contents (U. Connecticut-Storrs)
• Bodleian Library's Broadside Ballads Project
• Bodleian Library's Internet Library of Early Journals
• Bodleian Library Western Manuscripts to c. 1500
• British Library - Digital Library - Beowulf
• British Library - Manuscripts
• Cambridge University Library MSS Ee.3.59: The Life of King Edward the Confessor
• The Canon of John Lydgate Project
• The Canterbury Tales Project
• Cathedral Libraries Catalogue (University of Kent at Canterbury)
• Celtic Manuscripts at Oxford University
• Doomsday Gateway Page
• Early English Scribal Culture
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
• The Electronic Beowulf
• Hereford Map (Mappa Mundi)
• HoBo (Cambridge University)
• History: The British Library Newspaper Library
• Literary Links on the Web (University of Rochester)
• Medieval Scribe Writing-up in the Durham Scriptorium (MS illustration)
• The Old English Bible
• The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
• ROBERT CAWDREY'S A TABLE ALPHABETICAL (1604)
• The Tragedie of Antonie.

• University of Oxford's Early Printed Books Project

Regional Links--Germany & Austria

• Heidelberger Gesanwerzerschiris der Greichischer Papyrusurkunden Agyptens
• Homepage der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
• A hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
• Kommission fur Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Manuskriptischer Eintopf a la Rumolt
• St. George's Lutheran Church Library: German Parish Life in London

Regional Links--Greece/Byzantium

• Archive of Papers and Watermarks in Greek Manuscripts
• Halsall, Paul. "Byzantine Manuscript Indices Bibliography"
• JUSTINIAN: Dialogue with Paul of Nisibis
• St. Pachomius Library

Regional Links--Italy

• Renaissance Dante in Print (Notre Dame)
• In The Margins of The Past (Manuscripts as Historical Documents)
  

Regional Links--Spain & Portugal

• HISTORIA DA ESCRITURA EN GALICIA
• S Arquivos de Galicia
  

Regional Links--United States

• The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
• The Center for the Book (Library of Congress)
• Duke's Papyrus Collection
• Hill Monastic Library
• Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University
• Manuscript Studies (Columbia University Libraries)
• RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY (Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts - Columbia Univ.)
• Rare Book School (University of Virginia)
• Repository of Primary Sources (link page to ms holdings, archives, etc.)
• Thomas Gravell Watermark Collection
• TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship (Mississippi State University)
• UBC Special Collections: History of the Book (University of British Columbia)

Questions? Comments? If so, please email me! Thanks again for the interest!

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