Latin

Perseus, hosted by Tufts University. Search instances of the occurrences of Latin words and their definitions in A Latin Dictionary, by Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879).

William Whitaker’s WORDS. An automated Latin dictionary. The dictionary provides definitions and morphologies (gender, case, tense, mood, etc.) for approximately 20,000 Latin words.

Abbreviationes™. This dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations contains over 80,000 references to manuscripts held at a wide variety of libraries throughout Europe. Click on either server, and start searching!

Orbis Latinus. Online version of the 2nd edition (1909) of the standard guide to Latin place names.

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Instructional resources

Medieval Manuscript Manual prepared by the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University.

The Evolution of the Medieval Book, © 2002, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious. An online exhibition of materials from Special Collections at the Princeton University Library.

History of the Book. The Web site for Richard W. Clement’s course at the University of Kansas.

Making Manuscripts. Click on "Making Manuscripts" for the J. Paul Getty Museum's six-minute video on the making of medieval manuscripts.

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Image databases

Digital Scriptorium. An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

Medieval Travel Writing. An extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing. The core is a collection of medieval manuscripts dating from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century.

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Reference

Latin Manuscript Books before 1600: A List of Printed Catalogues and Unpublished Inventories of Extant Collections. The e-version of Paul Kristeller’s inventory, as revised by Sigrid Krämer (2003).

Catalogue of Digitized Manuscripts. This site, hosted by UCLA's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the Web.

Scriptorium/Bulletin Codicologique. This site includes a comprehensive manuscript index of the journal Scriptorium and its Bulletin Codicologique, one of the most efficient tools for finding secondary literature published in the last half century on a given medieval manuscript.

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