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Online Medieval Resources
A.selection of freely available online resources specifically relevant to the Medieval
period.
Bil
iographical >>
Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB)
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Texts, translations and bibliographical resources.
Dictionaries and related research resources >>
Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
http://www.anglo-norman.net/
Gateway to the Anglo-Norman dictionary and Anglo-Norman Source Texts (text archive).
Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Bosworth and Toller)
http://ebeowulf. uky.edu/BT/Bosworth-Toller.htm
Digital version ofthis still standard nineteenth-century dictionary,
Dictionary of the Scots Language
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A glossary of terms used in Heraldry
http:// Idsnet.org/saitou/parker/Inglossa.h
Hypertext Book of Hours
www medievalist.net/hourstxt/home.htm
Latin / English electronic version of the primer or Book of Hours
Lewis and Short Latin-English Lexicon
bhttp://nerseus.uchicago,edu/Reference/lewisandshort.htm
Classical Latin dictionary
The Medieval Bestiary
http://bestiary.ca/
Medieval llustrations and texts relating to a wide range of beasts
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http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/index.htm,
A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families
Medieval resources online (Leeds University)
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Middle English Compendium
http://quod lib. umichedu/m/mec/
Electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, bibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
Orbus Latinus
http://www columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents html
Index of Latin place names and their modern equivalents
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
http://www.pase.ac.uk/index.htm!
Transnational Database and Atlas of Saints’ Cults
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University of Leicester project to map and record evidence for medieval saints’ cults provides searchable
datasets for numbers of English dioceses and some other European regions
Corpora of texts and translations >>
Bibliotheca Augustana
http://www. fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.htm!
Large resource of Latin and vernacular texts (including Latin text of the Decretals [see under C13, Gregory
ve)
British History Online
http://www. british-history.ac.uk/
rowing resource of primary and secondary works on British (including medieval) history, includes
numbers of Victoria County Histories, various London medieval records, London chronicles, cartularies,
catalogue of ancient deeds, lay subsidy records, wills, Calendars of Close Rolls, Calendars of Papal
Registers, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Feet of Fines, Rymer's Foedera, Register of the Freemen of the City
of York etc.
The Camelot Project
bttp:// lib.roch i /cphi
Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies and basic information on Arthuriana, from the University of
Rochester
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library
http://www.ccel.org/
Large collection of Christian texts mostly in translation, including numbers of medieval texts (includes
Latin texts of Augustine, Aquinas and Rolle)
Database of Middle English Romance
bttp://wwwmiddleenglishromance.org.uk/
Decretals
http://faculty.cua,edu/Pennington/canon%20Law/marriagelaw.htm
Medieval marriage canons translated into English. For complete Latin text, i.e. not just marriage canons,
see Bibliotheca Augustana above
Digital Index of Middle English Verse
http://www.dimev.net/
Digital MGH (dMGH)
http://www.dmgh.de/
Digital facsimile page images of all volumes of the MGH,
Editions en ligne de Ecole des Chartes
http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/
The electronic Grosseteste
http://www.grosseteste.com/download.htm
Fathers of the Church
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large collection of Patristic texts in translation
Franciscan Archive
http franciscan-archive.org/lombardus/index htm|
In Parenthesis,
http://www. yorku.ca/inpar/
Modern translations of a range of medieval texts from various countries
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://legacy.fordham edu/Halsall/sbook.asp
Late Medieval English Scribes
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http:/ /libro.uca,edu/title htm
Mostly secondary Iterature, but some editions of medieval primary sources
Medieval history texts in translation (Leeds University)
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history texts in translation
TEAMS:
http://www. lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm
Scholarly editions and translations ofa large number of Middle English texts
See also the Anglo-Norman Hub (above)
See also the Middle English Compendium (above)
See also the ORB (above)
Historical Documents >>
Ancient Petitions
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/advanced-search
To search the database of ancient petitions on The National Archives' Discovery catalogue, choose the
advanced search option and enter reference number SC8 into one the boxes next to the options Search
for or within references > Any of these references. This can be combined using the other boxes with
searches for individual words, names, places, dates etc.
The Anglo-American Legal Tradition
http://aalt.law.uh,edu/IndexPri.html
Huge archive of records from The National Archives relating to the royal courts (reproduces original
documents)
Calendars of Patent Rolls
http://sdrc lib,uiowa.edu/patentrolls/search,htm
Searchable edition of published medieval Calendars of Patent Rolls using digital images of original printed
editions
Calendars of Close Rolls: see British History Online above
Cause Papers
http://www hrionline.ac,uk/causepapers/index,jsp
Database of cause papers (records of litigation within the ecclesiastical Court of York). Wil in time include
numbers of digitised images of the sources, held in the Borthwick Institute.
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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
http.//www.ucc.ie/celt/
Searchable online textbase consisting of 13.7 million words, in over 1100 contemporary and historical
documents from many areas, including literature and the other arts
The Parliamentary Rolls of Medieval England
Searchable edition of Latin text and translation of Rotuli Parliamentrum
1379 poll tax returns for West Riding of Yorkshire and Howdenshire
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Electronic (and hence searchable) edition of old Yorks. Archaeological Journal editions
Taxatio Database
http://www. hrionline.ac.uk/taxatio//
Information collected during the assessment conducted for the taxatioof Pope Nicholas IV in 1291-2
Virtual Norfolk
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/pan/12032/20051206/virtualnorfolk.uea.ac.uk/welcome,htm|
Collection of translations etc. of Norfolk-related primary sources including some medieval material
including the Norwich Heresy Trials (1428-31) and numbers of wills
Art Historical Materials >>
British Listed Buildings
http://www. britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/
Catalogue with listing entries, map references, and a few photographs of all listed buildings.
Catalogue of Digitized Manuscripts
http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/index.php
The Churches of Britain and Ireland
http://www churches-uk-ireland,org/county_ index.html
Small photographs of every church in the British Isles.
The Church Monuments Society
http://www.churchmonumentssociety.org/
Numbers of photographs of medieval monuments and some bibliographical material
Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture
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Corpus of Romanesque Sculpturein Britain and Ireland
http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Picture Archive
http://www.cvma.ac.uk/jsp/index.isp
Very large and searchable database of images of English medieval stained glass
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Medieval manuscripts from the Pierpoint Morgan Library, New York
Digital Scriptorium
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Searchable database of thousands of images from several thousand medieval manuscripts
Digital library of St Gall
http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en/index.htm
Digital images of complete manuscripts from the early Middle Ages
e-codices
http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en
Virtual manuscript library of Switzerland
Gatehouse
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Online gazetteer and bibliography of the medieval castles, fortifications and palaces of England, Wales,
the Channel sles and the Isle of Man.
Imagine York
https://www.exploreyork,org.uk/client/en_GB/yorkimages
Old photographs of York - includes now lost medieval buildings.
Larsdatter.com
http://www larsdatter.com/index.htm|
Medieval and renaissance material culture ~ a good collection of pictures.
Manuscrits Enlumés
hetp://www.manuscritsenlumines.fr/
French illuminated manuscripts website.
Medieval illuminated manuscripts
bttp://www.kb.nl/manuscripts/
Medieval illuminated manuscripts from the Dutch national library
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Medieval Manuscript Image Index (St John's College, Cambridge)
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Misericords
bttp://www.misericords.co.uk/
Extensive collection of photographs of medieval misericords
Munich Digitization Center (MDZ)
http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index htm|?c=startseite&l=en&projekt
Online publication of the cultural heritage preserved by the Bavarian State Library
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
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Includes large collection of medieval manuscripts
Oxford Digital Library
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Manuscripts from the Bodleian Library, Oxford
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