Link: https://www.adfontes.uzh.ch/en/
Project Status: Ongoing
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, heraldry, chronology, dating, and maps. Transcription and script training focuses on several languages, including medieval Latin, German, and Scandinavian languages among others. Transcription modules include quizzes that allow a user to test their progress.
The platform is continuously updated, with new modules added every few months.
Resource details:
Resource Type: Bibliography, Multimedia, Portal/Gateway, Teaching Resources
License: All/Some Content for Members, No Fee
Medieval content details:
Dates: 400 - 1600
Ad Fontes does not concentrate on any particular subperiod within the Middle Ages.
Subject: Codicology, Diplomatics, Epistolography, General reference, History, Latin, Law, Manuscript Decoration/Illumination, Manuscript Studies, Maps, Material Culture, Paleography, Seals
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Accounts, Advice, Instructional Texts, Art and Artifacts, Biography, Memoirs, Charters, Chronicles, Annals, Coins, Contracts, Property Transactions, Council Proceedings, Minutes, Courts, Episcopal Registers, Genealogy, Heraldry, Hagiography, Legislation, Letters, Petitions, Literature, Liturgy, Manuscripts, Maps, Plans, Material Evidence, Religious Texts, Rules, Seals, Surveys, Taxes, Textual Evidence, Treaties, Visitations, Wills, Inventories
Geopolitical Region: Europe
Original Language: Anglo-Norman, English, French, German, Latin, Middle English, Middle French (14-15C), Norse, Old English, Old French (12-13C), Spanish