Project Status: Ongoing

The Christine de Pizan Digital Scriptorium is an ongoing project to make available digital surrogates of all the manuscripts of Christine de Pizan’s literary work. Currently, the project offers digital surrogates of 56 of the manuscripts of Christine de Pizan’s work, including all the manuscripts held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Manuscripts are presented in a IIIF viewer.

Copyright to individual manuscripts and their images is retained by the institution that holds the material.

Resource details:

Resource Type: CatalogImagesManuscripts/FacsimilesSearchable Database

License: No Fee

Modern Language: EnglishEnglishEnglish

Medieval content details:

Dates: 1375 - 1500

Subject: CodicologyFrenchGenderLiteratureManuscript Decoration/IlluminationManuscript StudiesMaterial CulturePaleographyPhilologyWomen

Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Art and ArtifactsLiteratureManuscriptsMaterial EvidenceTextual Evidence

Original Language: FrenchMiddle French (14-15C)