Link: http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/accueil/index.php
Project Status: Ongoing
A French-language, searchable catalog of manuscript illuminations found in manuscripts in French public libraries, excluding the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The catalog may be searched by corpus, manuscript, decoration, or bibliography, and results include the manuscript citation, brief description, date, title, and images of the illumination.
Resource details:
Resource Type: Catalog, Images, Manuscripts/Facsimiles, Searchable Database
License: Must provide credit, No Fee
Modern Language: French
Medieval content details:
Dates: 700 - 1600
Subject: Art, Carolingians, Clergy, Iconography, Manuscript Studies, Material Culture, Nobility, Gentry, Royalty, Monarchs
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Manuscripts, Material Evidence