European Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Online Resources for the study of illuminated manuscripts.

Excellent overall guides to online resources

Excellent overall guide to online resources:

http://guides.library.harvard.edu/content.php?pid=212299&sid=1929018

Digital Medieval Manuscripts blog

https://blog.digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/

Manuscripts on My Mind newsletter

https://www.slu.edu/arts-and-sciences/medieval-renaissance-studies/publications.php

Medieval Manuscripts Provenance by Peter Kidd

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/

General information videos:

Making Manuscripts, Getty (6.19 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuNfdHNTv9o

The Structure of a Medieval Manuscript, Getty (2.08 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBJkf2xbqI

                                                                                                               

Kathryn Rudy, "The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts," Tedx Talk, 2013 (13 minutes).) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjZAdPX6ek0

ASMR at the museum: Turning the pages of a medieval choirbook, V&A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfFacvSjqns

See also: Making Manuscripts, British Library, 7 videos: https://www.bl.uk/medieval-english-french-manuscripts/articles/how-to-make-a-medieval-manuscript

Other

Hidden Masters of the Middle Ages: the Limbourg Brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIyqpykxVi8

J. J. G. Alexander, “Drawing as an art form in medieval manuscripts”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTgkFWU3-Wk

http://lichen.csd.sc.edu/manuscriptlink/index.php

Binding terminology

https://travelingscriptorium.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/bookbinding-booklet.pdf

Provenance

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/glossary.asp

https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/

MOOQ: The Book: Histories across Time and Space, Harvard University

see especially the following modules:

Jeffrey Hamburger, Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript; Thomas Forrest Kelly and Timothy M. Baker, Scrolls in the Age of the Book, Thomas Forrest Kelly, Books in the Medieval Liturgy, Jeffrey Hamburger, The Medieval Book of Hours: Art and Devotion in the Later Middle Ages; Ann M. Blair, Lianbin Dai and Meredith Quinn, Print and Manuscript in Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East

Humor:
Medieval helpdesk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ&list=RDpQHX-SjgQvQ#t=2

(All links from Szépe syllabus, 2022)

Book of Hours Online Resources

Important online sources for studying books of hours:

Erik Drigsdahl on Books of Hours

http://manuscripts.org.uk/chd.dk/tutor/index.html#ora

Glen Gunhouse, Hypertext book of hours – ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF LATIN TEXTS IN BOOKS of HOURS

http://medievalist.net/hourstxt/home.htm

Francesca Manzari’s website focusing on Italian Books of Hours

https://sites.google.com/view/libridoreitalianimanzari/home-page?authuser=4

Some online facsimiles:

Sforza Hours, 1490-1521 (four volumes), British Library

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_34294_f001r

and

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_45722_f001r

"Stuart de Rothesay Hours," (Probably made for Domenico Grimani), c. 1508-1538illuminations by Giulio Clovio,

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_20927_fs001r

Ghislieri Hours, c. 1500,

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=yates_thompson_ms_29_fs001r

Vatican Library digitized manuscripts:

http://www.mss.vatlib.it/guii/scan/link.jsp

British Library fully digitized manuscripts:

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/

World Digital Library

www.wdl.org/en/

Morgan Library

https://www.themorgan.org/collection/Black-Hours

https://www.themorgan.org/collection/hours-of-catherine-of-cleves/14 (recites)

https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/77045

http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/thumbs/76958

http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/thumbs/77250

The Walters Museum:

http://art.thewalters.org/browse/category/manuscript-and-rare-books/

The Getty Museum

http://tiny.cc/Getty_Book_of_Hours

Videos on Books of Hours:

Barbara Boehm on Simon Bening’s Book of Hours in the Met, NYC (3 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IId7uRkw2uA

Medieval Books of hours in the Public Library of Bruges (11:58)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXISnFgFnp4

How to Buy a Book of Hours (Les Enluminures) (4:24)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amrk60ZXRAo

The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSTd6HlQ494

University of Pennsylvania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmriKatYK3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1IqD1TbOmE

Printed Books of Hours:

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/istc/

Auction houses and dealers

Les Enluminures, Paris, New York, Chicago      https://www.lesenluminures.com/

Jörn Günther, Switzerland                                             https://guenther-rarebooks.com/

Antiquariat Bibermühle AG (Heribert Tenschert), Switzerland

Sam Fogg, London

Charles Edwin Puckett, Akron, Ohio      https://cepuckett.com/html/manuscripts.php?no_cache=20190901093302

Phillip J. Pirages, McMinnville, Oregon https://www.pirages.com/

           

Christie's

Sotheby's

Maggs

Library Catalogs

A few Catalogues:

The British Library

Four sites: see especially:

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/searchSimple.asp

http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/

see also virtual manuscripts online at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html#

Free Library, Philadelphia           https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/feature/medieval/

Morgan Library Corsair

DMMAPP: Digitized Medieval Manuscripts APP

c-codices

Manuscript Mediaevalia             http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/#|11

Monastic Manuscript Project                 http://www.earlymedievalmonasticism.org

Fragments

Fragmentarium             https://fragmentarium.ms/

Fragmentology. A Journal for the Study of Medieval Manuscript Fragments   http://fragmentology.ms/

Christopher de Hamel, Cutting Up Manuscripts for Pleasure and Profit, July 10, 1995

https://soundcloud.com/rarebookschool/de-hamel-christopher-cutting-up-manuscripts-for-pleasure-and-profit-10-july-1995

On the Houghton Shahnameh: Eleanor Munro, "How to Mangle a Masterpiece," 1979

http://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1979oct27-00021

Other

Hidden Masters of the Middle Ages: the Limbourg Brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIyqpykxVi8

J. J. G. Alexander, “Drawing as an art form in medieval manuscripts”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTgkFWU3-Wk

http://lichen.csd.sc.edu/manuscriptlink/index.php