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

What are Primary and Secondary Documents?

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British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts This link opens in a new window
Searchable Open Access database of some of the western illuminated manuscripts in the British Library, which holds one of the richest collections of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the world. Provides images of many of the most well-known early manuscripts, plus descriptions of the history and provenance of those manuscripts.

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