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Further Resources
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Many of the resources below are electronic
text based. Textual studies, however, is not only the study of the content of a
text but also the study of the form or structure of the text. Paleography is as
relevant to textual studies as other forms of text analysis. There are an
increasing number of sites on the Internet which permit access to digitised
folios of medieval manuscripts, sometimes together with transliteration,
translation, and/or commentary. A few are listed below and might be of use for
teaching palaeography or the history of manuscripts.
- Scripta: The History of Handwriting
Based at the Dept. of Italian Studies of the University of Trieste, Italy, this
site allows you to download and configure your PC to display a Toolbook
application which contains examples and commentary on manuscript hands ranging
from the first century BC to the fifteenth century AD. Users should be aware
that the Toolbook applications are all written in Italian.
- Duke University Papyrus
Archive
This extensive site provides electronic access to texts about and images of
1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt. There are also sections dealing with the
general history of papyri as well as the opportunity to browse the archive by
selected topics (culture, document forms, religious aspects, scripts etc). See
also the papyrus collection at the University of Michigan and the
Papyrology Home
Page.
- Byzantine
Paleography
Created by Paul Halsall (Fordham University) as part of his
Byzantine Studies web
site this page designed as an aid to teaching Byzantine paleography contains an
introduction to Greek manuscripts, a guide to Greek letter forms and the
derivation of the Greek alphabet, a worked example (Ps 25 from the Chludov
Psalter, Moscow State Historical Museum) and an annotated collection of
digitized folios which illustrate the development of Greek writing. This site
might be used to good effect with Timothy Seid's
Interpreting
Ancient Manuscripts tutorial.
- The
Aberdeen Bestiary
The project is a collaborative effort between Aberdeen University Library, the
department of Art History and the Centre for Computer Based Learning in Land
Use and Environmental Sciences (CLUES) to produce digitised images of
manuscripts on the World Wide Web. Each folio of the The Aberdeen Bestiary has
been digitised and is displayed together with transcription, translation and
commentary. There are also opporunities to view magnified sections of each
folio (The Aberdeen Bestiary is a highly illuminated manuscript). Requires
Netscape 1.1 and a high resolution monitor capable of displaying 64,000
colours.
- Le Roi Charles V et
son temps
This resources is made available by La Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
It contains 1000 illuminations from their department of manuscripts detailing
the age of Charles V (1338-1380). There is a range of background material and
introductory essays. The digitised manuscripts include a copy of the Breviary
of Martin of Aragon (15thC), the Chronicles of Jean Froissart, and the 14th
century Catalan Atlas.
- The
Electronic Beowulf
Probably the best known of the British Library's
Initiatives for
Access programme, the Electronic Beowulf is an assemby of a huge
database of digital images of the Beowulf manuscript and related manuscripts
and printed texts. "The project has been developed by The Library with two
leading American Anglo-Saxon experts, Kevin Kiernan of the University of
Kentucky and Paul Szarmach of the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan
University."
- The York
Doomsday Project
This is a multimedia computer project on the fifteenth-century York Mystery
Plays. The project is directed by Professor M.A. Twycross (Lancaster
University) and Dr P.M. King (St Martin's College, Lancaster), and funded by
the British Academy. The Project intends to collect and hyperlink all evidence
(text and image) pertaining to the study of the York Mystery Cycle, and make
them available to scholars and teachers of medieval theatre.
- The Planets and
Their Children: A Blockbook of Medieval Popular Astrology
Digitised images of 15th century views of the planets together with
accompanying poetic texts.
- The
Bayeux Tapestry
A series of images made accessible by Carolyn Schriber at Rhodes College.
Further teaching resources are available from the
Medieval History at Rhodes
page.
- Further resources may be found from
EuroDocs: Primary
Historical Documents from Western Europe (compiled by Richard Hacken);
ORB: On-Line
Text Materials for Medieval Studies (directed by Carolyn Schriber, Rhodes
College); The
Labyrinth Project (directed by Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart,
Georgetown University).
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