Websites about Calligraphy
Websites about Medieval Manuscripts
- Medieval Manuscript Manual: An excellent introduction to Medieval manuscripts.
- Exploring Two Medieval Manuscripts: Takes a detailed look at two musical manuscripts.
- Introduction to Books of Hours: Books of Hours, small personal devotional books, were the most popular books of the late Middle Ages.
- Enluminures: French website with many images of illuminated manuscripts. In French, but not hard to navigate even if you don't know French.
- Irish Script on Screen: Images of Irish manuscripts and information about their history.
- Manuscript Facsimiles: Provides background information about many types of manuscripts, as well as references to published facsimiles.
Facsimiles of Medieval Manuscripts
More and more manuscripts are digitized and put on the web every year, which provides wonderful opportunities to view these treasures.
- Digital Scriptorium: Highlight images of manuscripts from libraries throughout the United States, with a searchable database.
- The Artz Hours: A Book of Hours in the Oberlin College Library.
- The Getty Museum has many images of their manuscript collection online.
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford University: Includes a very wide range of manuscripts, from the finely crafted to the mundane.
- The Cambridge Illuminations: A digital version of a famous manuscript exhibition.
Paleography
Paleography is the study of historical hand-writing.
- Medieval Writing: A wonderful site with images and transcriptions of just about all medieval scripts.
- Anglo-Norman Paleography: This is another comprehensive website in paleography, which focuses more on documents than the previous site. An excellent resource.










