Medieval Manuscript Leaves: Additional Resources

Discover over a million images of rare books, manuscripts, and other treasures from the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college libraries.

Aims to investigate the textual tradition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Researchers have established a system of transcription for all the manuscripts and early printed editions of the Canterbury Tales into computer-readable form and transcribed around 65% of the texts using this system.

From the University of Aberdeen, images of and resources about the Abderdeen Bestiary, one of the best examples of its type, written and illuminated in England around 1200.

Digital collection of primarily Western manuscripts.

From Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Digital collection.

Collection includes nearly three hundred manuscripts and documents ranging in date from ca. 1900BC to the 20th century, with particular focus on the eras of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Access images and resources.