LibGuides: HONR.3300-307: Illuminating the Middle Ages: Primary Sources

What are Primary and Secondary Documents?

You will be using the following:

British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
Searchable database of some of the western illuminated manuscripts in the British Library. The Library holds one of the richest collections of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the world, and aims to provide access to images and information about its manuscripts to students, scholars, and the general public.

The Catalogue includes descriptions and images of western manuscripts with pictorial and decorative embellishments, from fully painted miniatures to decorated initials. Because it includes such a wide range of material, it serves as a useful resource for those working in a variety of disciplines. In order to maximize the number of images, the Catalogue includes digital scans of existing slides as well newly-commissioned digital images. As a result, the image quality can vary.

Digital Scriptorium
Digital Scriptorium is a growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts. Our website unites scattered resources from many institutions into a national digital platform for teaching and scholarly research.
Worksop Bestiary/ Morgan Library
Morgan Library: Digitized Facsimiles
Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Fordham Unversity)
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.

Assemblies (Maqamat) of al-Hariri illumination: Abu Zayd preaching in the Mosque of Samarkand, c.1300
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Collection. Used under Artstor Terms and Conditions