Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Includes a large number of medieval sources (full text as well) organized by language, culture, and area.

Comprehensive resource for medieval studies.

Contains the full text of "La Commedia" and commentaries by more than 70 authors.

The Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database Project provides Byzantinists and other medievalists with new opportunities of access to this important and underutilized corpus of Greek texts. Included in the database is information from the Greek vitae and martyria of one hundred and nineteen saints of the 8th-10th c., accounts of the translations of their relics, and collections of miracles, as well as notices from the Synaxarion of Constantinople (a 10th-century liturgical collection of brief hagiographical notices). The project provides a subject index (the database proper) on many aspects of Byzantine civilization, from everyday life to liturgical vessels to toponyms.

Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays about women, sexuality and gender in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E., with citations for Russia extended to 1613.

A database of medieval architecture sites in France and Britain.

Access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

The Index of Medieval Medical Images project began in 1988 and aimed to describe and index the content of all medieval manuscript images (up to the year 1500) with medical components held in North American collections. The goal of this 2001 pilot project was to make a substantial sample of the images and descriptions available via a searchable database on the Web.

Documentary sources for the Arts and Humanities in the Medici Granducal Archive, 1537–1743.

A scholarly resource for the study of women’s religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE edited by Lisa Bitel and Katherine Gill (University of Southern California). The database is a collection of primary and secondary sources, as well as images, related to religious women in premodern Europe.

A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

An analytic bibliography of on-line neo-latin texts, by Dana F. Sutton, University of Irvine.

Collection of Western manuscripts.

The Online Research Resource of the Pierpont Morgan Library.

Manuscript catalog of the Vatican Library.

The digitized full-text of rare books in the Bibliotheca Hertziana collection, Rome, Italy.

More than one million digitized documents (books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, images, scores, sound recordings, etc.) at the French National Library.

Access to all medieval and selected early modern manuscripts held in Switzerland via a virtual library.

Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Denmark), manuscripts.

Manuscripts in German libraries.

This database contains all kinds of information about the illuminated medieval manuscripts of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum.

This project aims to establish a system of computer-readable transcription of the manuscripts and early editions of the work.

Digitized catalogs for Manuscripts (West), Manuscripts (East), and Publications in non-Roman Alphabets.