Durham University and Durham Cathedral have teamed to digitally recreate a medieval monastic library.
Medieval Treasures from the Digital.Bodleian
August 12, 2015 By
Last month, the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford officially launched their Digital.Bodleian online resource, which allows users to view, download and share over 100,000 images going back to the Middle Ages.
Parker Library on the Web turns 10-years-old, announces improvements to medieval manuscripts database
July 24, 2015 By
Parker Library on the Web has become one of the leading digital medieval manuscript sites since 2005, when an early prototype was first demonstrated. Now, ten years after the prototype, and six years after the release of the first production version, work has begun on Parker on the Web 2.0.
How I Built an Information Time Machine
July 15, 2015 By
Frederic Kaplan shows off the Venice Time Machine, a project to digitize 80 kilometers of books to create a historical and geographical simulation of Venice across 1000 years
New online database allows users to explore the families of Medieval England
July 15, 2015 By
Mapping the Medieval Countryside has announced that the beta version of their searchable English translations of inquisitions post mortem (IPMs) – a major source into the lives and legacies of thousands of families from the Later Middle Ages.
Northumberland Bestiary now online
January 5, 2015 By
The Getty Museum has recently digitized and made available the Northumberland Bestiary, a 13th century manuscript containing descriptions and images of animals and beasts.
Medieval English Law manuscript digitised
November 7, 2014 By
The Textus Roffensis, a 12th century legal encyclopaedia, is now available online.
Aberdeen Breviary goes online
September 26, 2014 By
A copy of the Aberdeen Breviary, one of the first printed books in Scotland, has been purchased by the National Library of Scotland and is now available to read online.
Mapping the Medieval Countryside
June 18, 2014 By
My summary of a Institute of Historical Research session on the digitization of records in Late Medieval England.
Vatican Library plans to digitize 41 million pages
April 21, 2014 By
The Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana has begun the first phase of a massive digitization project and over the next four years will digitize over 3000 manuscripts. The Vatican library hopes to eventually digitize all 82 000 manuscripts in it collection, which covers over 41 million pages.
Limitations and ethical implications of digitizing medieval manuscripts
February 15, 2014 By
This article seeks to identify limitations and ethical implications encountered when digitizing medieval manuscripts.
Old Light on New Media: Medieval Practices in a Digital Ages
January 29, 2014 By
This essay offers an insight into the way digital editions of medieval texts can be employed to replicate the medieval reading experience.
The St Albans Psalter now online
January 28, 2014 By
The St Albans Psalter, one of the most impressive medieval manuscripts created in twelfth-century England, has been digitized and is now available to view for free online.
The Vatican and Oxford University team up to digitize 1.5 million pages of medieval manuscripts
December 3, 2013 By
The University of Oxford and the Vatican have jointly created a digital project that will put online over 1.5 million pages of medieval and biblical texts.
Over a thousand medieval manuscripts to be digitized in Poland
August 1, 2013 By
Wroclaw University Library in Poland is teaming up with IBM to digitize nearly 800,000 pages of European manuscripts, books, and maps dating back to the Middle Ages. This will include over 1100 medieval manuscripts.
Stanford University and Walters Art Museum team up for medieval manuscript digitization project
May 31, 2013 By
A new agreement will ensure the long-term preservation of the Walters Art Museum’s digitized collection of medieval manuscripts and provide new apps for studying them.
‘Fromm thennes faste he gan avyse/This litel spot of erthe’: GIS and the General Prologue
May 2, 2013 By
This paper was given at the Canada Chaucer Seminar on April 27, 2013.
Medievalists and the Scholarly Digital Edition
March 21, 2013 By
Clearly, since 2002 there has been significant growth in the number and range of digitized manuscripts available online, and it may be that the increase in the reported use of digitized facsimiles simply follows the increasing availability of those facsimiles.
New Testament from the oldest complete Bible available online for the first time
December 18, 2012 By
The New Testament volume from one of the British Library’s most valuable treasures, Codex Alexandrinus, has been made available online for the first time on the British Library’s website.
The Geese Book – medieval manuscript now available online
November 28, 2012 By
One of the most interesting manuscripts of the late Middle Ages is now available online – The Geese Book, a lavishly and whimsically illuminated, two-volume liturgical book, can now be accessed through a project from the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
The Reference Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific Prose
September 25, 2012 By
This paper presents the current status of the project Reference Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific Prose, which pursues the digital editing of hitherto unedited scientific, particularly medical, manuscripts in late Middle English, as well as the compilation of an annotated corpus
Medieval Arabic manuscripts, East India Company papers, to go online
July 19, 2012 By
The British Library and Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development have unveiled an ambitious partnership to transform people’s understanding of the history of the Middle East, and the region’s relationship with Britain and the rest of the world.
University of Oxford and Vatican to digitize 1.5 million pages of historical texts
April 12, 2012 By
A collaboration between the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana at the Vatican will bring historical texts dating back to the Middle Ages into the digital era.
Medieval Monastic Library of Lorsch recreated online
April 10, 2012 By
The unique holdings of the medieval monastic library of Lorsch, currently scattered over 68 libraries worldwide, are being re-compiled into a virtual library.
The Walters Art Museum Receives $265,000 NEH Grant to Digitize Over 100 Flemish Manuscripts
March 28, 2012 By
This third NEH grant allows the Walters to provide public access to an even greater number of its illuminated medieval manuscripts
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