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DScriptorium is devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts (D is for Digital).

All materials contained here may be freely distributed for the personal use of students, scholars and the public. Any commercial use or publication of them is strictly prohibited. Images may not be resold or redistributed for compensation of any kind.

What's New? (Last updated May 7, 2021)

Manuscript Images

• Bibliothèque Méjanes, Aix-en-Provence
  Ms. 166 (Rés Ms 14)
  Le Jeu de Robin et Marion

• Bibliothèque Municipale d'Abbeville
  Ms. 94: Chronique de Pierre le Prestre
  Nice example of binding with bosses.

• Bibliothèque Municipale de Besançon
  Ms. [M] 579: Mystere dou jour dou jugement

• Brigham Young University Special Collections
  Life, Death and Miracles of St. Jerome (French c. 1495-1515)

• University of Kentucky Special Collections

Related Resources on the Web

• Médiathèques de l'Agglomération Troyenne
• The Aberdeen Bestiary
• La Bibliothèque nationale de France: Le roi Charles V et son temps (1338-1380). 1000 enluminures du Département des Manuscrits (Français/English)
• Bodleian Library, Western Manuscripts to c. 1500 Over 550 images of manuscripts digitized from color slides.
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals (Very large files, very high resolution).
• Illuminated manuscripts from the collection of the University of Liege, Belgium.
• The Electronic Beowulf Project
• Labyrinth: Manuscripts, Paleography, Codicology
• Book Lovers: Rare Books Home Page
• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
• Paging Through Medieval Lives
• Duke Papyrus Archive

  Library of Congress Exhibits

• Scrolls from the Dead Sea
• Creating French Culture. Treasures from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
• Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture

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