CPI is a database of conductus, sacred but non-liturgical chants used in the processions; conductus were especially popular in France from the 12th to the 13th century. The database is presented in a column arrangement through which one can search by conductus, manuscript, form, “syllabic/melismatic,” and the stanzas transmitted. For each entry, CPI presents the… Read More
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Corpus Synodalium
Throughout the later Middle Ages, bishops across Latin Christendom promulgated provincial canons and diocesan statutes to guide the clergy and instruct the faithful. Offering direct access to more than 1700 of these texts (many transcribed directly from manuscripts or rare early printings), Corpus Synodalium allows users to explore and compare these texts using a variety… Read More
Virtual Mappa
An ongoing set of linked and annotated digital editions of medieval world maps, published as open-access scholarship, and undertaken in collaboration with the British Library, and hosted by the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. Each map edited in the project is available as a fully annotated digital facsimile edition, with every inscription many other features of… Read More
Amalarius’s Bells: An Old English and Medieval Latin Edition
This digital scholarly project is designed as a learning resource for students of all levels of Old English, medieval Latin, paleography, and medieval translation, and also as a detailed resource for scholars. It provides full transcriptions & editions of a short medieval Latin text and its subsequent Old English translation, digital facsimiles of both manuscript… Read More
Four Anglo-Carolingian Minitexts
This peer-reviewed project publishes a set of editions for four recently identified short Carolingian Latin texts in a late tenth-century English manuscript; three of these texts were not previously known to be in England before the Norman Conquest. The editions themselves link together digital manuscript facsimiles, transcriptions, editorial commentary and modern English translations.
Lexikon zur Byzantinischen Gräzistik
The Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität (LBG) is a dictionary of the Greek language as found in the Byzantine Empire. The work is based on the Greek-English Lexicon by Liddell, Scott, and Jones and on Lampe’s Patristic Greek Lexicon. The project has created a searchable digital edition of all eight fascicles of the dictionary’s two volumes.… Read More
Monasterium Digital Archive
Monasterium is a collaborative digital archive containing charters and documents from over 2000 repositories across 17 European countries. The site can be used in 14 different languages. Not limited solely to documents of the Middle Ages, Monasterium brings together over 775,000 digital documents. After registering for a free account, users are able to interact with… Read More
Medieval Londoners
Medieval Londoners introduces resources available for research about medieval London and its people, focusing not only on documentary and narrative sources in print, but also archaeological, visual, and cartographic sources that illuminate the physical and material world inhabited by medieval Londoners. An important component of the website is the Medieval Londoners Database (MLD), which records the activities… Read More
Models of Authority: Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government 1100-1250
Models of Authority is a joint research project by University of Glasgow, University of Cambridge, and King’s College, London. The project has brought together digital images of over 90 charters of particular import for the creation of Scottish government during the period 1100CE to 1250CE. The charters are held by a variety of institutions across… Read More
Art & Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connected World
Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connected World (Cornell University Press, 2022) is the first textbook to dismantle the religious, political, and geographical walls that have separated medieval art and architecture into three distinct categories. It treats not only western Europe, the focus of most surveys; it also considers the Byzantine Empire… Read More
Digital Index of Middle English Verse
The DIMEV is An Open-Access, Digital Edition of the Index of Middle English Verse, based on the Index of Middle English Verse (1943) and its Supplement (1965). The DIMEV provides transcriptions of the first two and last two lines of each witness of each Middle English verse text (i.e., for all witnesses for which this data has thus far been collected).… Read More
Medieval Nordic Text Archive
The Medieval Nordic Text Archive (Menota) is a digital repository for medieval texts from Nordic repositories. A user can navigate the repository in either English or Norwegian. A joint project among many libraries and universities across Scandinavia, Menota invites editors to submit medieval texts in the Nordic languages or Latin. All texts on the platform… Read More
Ad Fontes
Ad Fontes is a web platform designed to train students and scholars for medieval archival work. Administered through the University of Zurich, the project requires the user to register for a free account that then allows him or her to take modules on the use of archives. Numerous modules exist, including ones on transcription, coinage,… Read More
Handschriftencensus
Handschriftencensus is a German-language web platform published by a team at the University of Marburg. The site functions as a directory for medieval German-language manuscripts from 750CE to 1520CE in libraries around the globe. The platform itself does not contain images, but does contain detailed catalog entries for each manuscript in addition to links to… Read More
Oxford Genizah Collection
The Oxford Genizah Collection contains some 4,000 fragments from the Cairo Genizah that were deposited in the Bodleian Library. The fragments cover a broad time period, from the 9th century to the 19th century. The online catalog is based on Neubauer and Cowley’s 1906 catalog and Cowley’s later 1926 catalog. The database allows users to… Read More
Cambridge Genizah Digital Collection
The Cambridge Genizah collection is one of the largest groups of medieval Jewish manuscript fragments in the world. Famously, Cambridge is the repository for most of the materials of the Cairo Genizah, which were brought there with the Jewish community’s permission in the early 20th century. Roughly 193,000 items from the Genizah are housed in… Read More
Estoria de Espanna Digital
Created by scholars at the University of Birmingham, the Estoria de Espanna Digital project has created a digital edition of nine of the medieval manuscript witnesses to the text of the Estoria de Espanna, the 13th-century Spanish-language chronicle commissioned by Alfonso X. The chronicle details the history of the Iberian peninsula from Roman times up to… Read More
Repertorium Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters
The Repertorium is a free German-language reference work for the history of the German Middle Ages from about 750-1500. It provides a large catalog of authors and works who discuss the history of the region that is today German. Entries frequently provide links to digitized manuscripts and texts on external websites when available. There are… Read More
Old English Poetry in Facsimile Project
The premise of the Old English Poetry in Facsimile project is simple: produce a comprehensive collection of open-access, scholarly and rigorous digital facsimile editions that present digital manuscript images, transcriptions and translations of Old English poetry all in one place, to better allow people to study and explore these works. To do so, the project… Read More
MedMel: The Music of Medieval Vernacular Lyric
MedMel (The Music of Medieval Vernacular Lyric) contains digital editions of monodic melodies of Troubadours, Trouvères and Trobadores lyrics, and it is aimed at musicologists, philologists and performers. The MedMel database allows users to search lyrics and melodic patterns, customize their visualization, switch from modern to ancient notation, export the music in various formats (pdf,… Read More
Chaucer Hub
Chaucer Hub contains guidance in grammar and phonology to help beginners read Chaucer and other Middle English texts. It also has audio clips in which Chaucerians read Middle English illustrating Middle English’s sounds. The site also provides background information on Chaucer’s life. The site also has an online concordance to all of Chaucer’s works. This… Read More
Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico (DEMel)
From project introduction: Based on the digitized data archive of the renowned Diccionario del Español Medieval (DEM), the DEMel provides access to over 31,000 lemmas with about 650,000 attestations. They were extracted from more than 600 literary and non-literary works or collections of texts and documents from the 10th to the beginning of the 15th century by… Read More
Re-Imagining History: A Digital Handlist of Brut Manuscripts
Description from creators: This project is a browseable directory of known copies of the Middle English Prose Brut chronicle, drawn from previous scholarly projects to describe and define the manuscript corpus. It contains links to projects, descriptions, and digital facsimiles of the manuscripts available on the web. A copy of the dataset is freely available… Read More
Books of Duchesses
Books of Duchesses is a collaborative project that collects, organizes, and presents data related to late-medieval laywomen and their books. Through an interactive map of Europe, users are able to visualize networks of manuscripts, texts, and readers and explore the libraries and peregrinations of woman book owners. The data collected in the project has the… Read More
Innovating Knowledge Database
The Innovating Knowledge database contains structured information on all surviving and identified early medieval manuscripts transmitting the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (d. 636), the most important medieval Latin encyclopaedia. Released in 2021, it currently consists of almost 500 detailed descriptions of manuscripts, more than 350 manuscript images, and provides direct access to more than… Read More