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Roman de la Rose : Digital surrogets for medieval manuscripts. It's worth getting the password.
Court Baroness Scroll based upon The Sforza Hours by Marko Evanovich Panfilov.
Court Baron Scroll based upon The Visconti Hours by Marko Evanovich Panfilov.
Guardian of the Golden Flame for Mistress Tatiana by Marko Evanovich Panfilov.
Scales of Dragonsspine based upon The Luttrell Psalter by Marko Evanovich Panfilov.
Mediaeval Scripts 15th century.
Silverpoit Web Lots of info about drawing with a silverpoint.
Emely Rose Great Scribal Blog
Digitalisierte handschriftenExamples from several different German universities and Collages.
Mediaevum.de Link collection to mostly German manuscripts online.
Abbildungen aus Handschriften Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg. Examples on a timeline.
St. Johns Collage - Medieval Manuscripts
Art of the Book in the Middle Ages
Medieval Book Painting in Slovakia
The Murthly Hours Scotlands finest illuminated manuscript. From the 1280's.
Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of Richard and Mary Rouse Arranged by country of origin.
Basic Gilding Techniques for Illumination
CORSAIR Huge collection from the Pierpont Morgan Library.
The Book before Gutenberg Includes photos from a Gutenberg Bible. University of Texas.
The Illuminted Middle Ages Pictures sorted by different themes.
Whitework 101 Good article!
Whitevine Initial Great little illustration sequence on how to make a whitevine initial.
King Rene's Book of Love
Gutenberg DigitalAn illuminated Gutenberg Bible. In German and English.
Interactieve presentatie handschriften A large Dutch collection.
Saganet Icelandic manuscripts.
Living words & luminous pictures 12 manuscripts from the Copenhagen National Library
The Digital Scriptorium More than 15,000 digitized images!
Free Library of Philadelphia’s digital collection

Calligraphy & Illumination

The Art of Arabic Calligraphy
Baron Adhermar's Scriptorium Same as Baron Morgan's. Lots of fun stuff.
Celtic Art and Illumination Knotwork instructions etc.
Choix de miniatures des manuscrits de l'Universit de Lige
County Scroll/Everyday book The making of a very nice medieval illuminated book.
The Cyber-scriptorium THE SCA scribal Page.
CynScribe A HUGE collection of resources both for illumination and calligraphy.
Draw Your Own Celtic Knots
Gilding : the Application of Gold Leaf
Gouache G-what? A modern substitute for period paints.
GRISAILLE Example and short article.
The Gutenberg School of Scribes Lessons for Beginner Scribes on How to Illuminate Pre-printed SCA Scrolls.
Islamic Calligraphy Lots of examples.
Islamic Medieval Calligraphy Mostly Quick Time movies. Shows the whole process.
Italian Renaissance Scrolls
John Stracke's Book Reviews: Calligraphy & Illumination Formerly "A Scribe's Bibliography".
Kingdom of the Outlands Scribe's Handbook
Making an Illuminated Cover Illustration I highly recommend this, the photos are good as well as the descriptions.
Medieval Calligraphy Website
Medieval Manuscript ManualAlso in Hungrian, Italian and Russian.
MEDIEVALRECONSTRUCTIVISM Has interesting articles.
Medieval Writing
Medieval Writing-History, Heritage and Datasource Good!
Middle Eastern Calligraphy and Illumination Links Arabic, Armenian, Turkish etc.
A Modern Spinn on Traditional Gesso
A Mongolian scrollSCA
On an Ancient Appearance Interesting. How to make your calligraphied text feel more ancient.
On Visage How to make an easy Medieval face.
The On-Line Model Book So far some flat gilding size photo series.Good.
Oriane's Page has some very interesting articles. Rabbit parchment, black manuscripts, etc.
Ottoman Manuscript Illumination
The Painted Word Another great-looking site.
Pater Noster Page A SCA project, very nice
Pigments With color examples.
Pigments and Paints:A Brief Survey and Set of Instructions On Making and Identifying Period Illumination Paints
The Raven's Quill #1 Some interesting articles.
Regional and Global Characteristics of Illuminated Manuscripts
RVLES MADE BY F. B. FOR Children to write by. An interesting treatise from 1611, some picture on hand positions.
Seilnacht-Lexikon der Farbstoffe und Pigmente Very useful if you know German.
Silverpoint Drawing Complete"Introduction to SilverPoint Web,and Silverpoint Drawing".
TECHNIQUES OF ILLUMINATION AND THE BOOK OF HOURS
Tips Towards Better Whitework
Torah Scribe, Jewish Scribal Arts
Unusual Whitevine Examples
Vellum Making Handout
Video Gallery-Making Manuscripts A short documentary showing the whole process from the making of parchment to finished book.
The Write Stuff Early Medieval manuscript-making

Books, Painting and Tools of the Trade

Advanced Gothic Binding Of books.
The Aethelmearc County Scroll Book An SCA project, impressive.
Bookbinding Model Collection
A Booke of Secrets 16th century ink recipes etc.
The building of a 6-7th century Merovingian Prayer Book Interesting, especially the bookbinding part.
CHD Tutorial on the Books of Hours About what was written in them.
Cumdachs and Polaires Medieval Irish Book Shrines and Book Satchels.
Directions for making a soft-covered Coptic Book
Drawing Materials and Drawing Techniques, a Guide and Glossary
The Evolution of the Medieval Book
Ferrogallic Ink
Girdle Books Medieval pocketbook that you could hang from your belt.
Guide to Seal Carving The Chinese kind
A History of Fish Glue as an Artist's Material: Applications in Paper and Parchment Artifacts
How To Cut a Bamboo Pen
How to Make an Agate Burnisher for Gilding
How to Make Drawing Charcoal
How to Make Permanent Gallotannate Ink
Introduction to the Book of Hours
The Ink Compendium
Lia de Thornegge's Portable Scribal Desk I've seen it and I want one.
Making a Seal Matrix
Making and Using Waxed Tablets Make your own Medieval notebook.
Medieval and Renaissance Book Production - Manuscript Books
Medieval Illumination RecipiesFor ink, gesso, glair etc.
Medieval Colours and Modern Paints
The Medieval Pelican Symbolism and images.
Metal Pens Are So Period!
Medieval Seals A Collection of Facsimiles at the Medieval Institute
Medieval Seals of Durham Cathedral and lots of them!
Painting Miniatures Miniature portaits, not illuminations.
Pigments through the Ages
Portable Scribal Desk A different design made out of plywood.
The Practice of Tempera Painting
QuillCut Hur man skr till en fjderpenna.
Quills - Part 1: General Information Has also an article about inks.
Synopia's Recipies Various painting mediums. Oils, Wax Encaustic, gessos and grounds etc.
Time Team Mediaeval Book The making of a Irish type gospel.
The Waxed Tablet Page
Waxed Tablets - why you want one, and how to build one.
A Very Proper Treatise:The Arte Of Limming An anonymous work of 1573 transcribed into modern English by the hand of Merouda Pendray.
15th century girdle book

Illuminated Manuscripts Online

The Aberdeen Bestiary Project A very nice illuminated manuscript.
The Artz Hours
The Black Book of Hours... and other examples of 15th century books.
The Bible of Saint Louis 13th century Castille.
Bibliotheca Schoenbergensis:An Exhibition from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg Some very nice illuminations.
Bodleian Library: Western Manuscripts to c. 1500
The Burgess manuscript Collection At the University of Oregon Library
The Burnet Psalter
The Cantigas de Santa Maria: Illuminations
CEEC - Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis Very nice collection. In German. For English go to "Optionen".
CHARLES EDWIN PUCKETT Gallery A store but with with pictures.
CODEX VINDOBONENSIS 1856 A black book of hours from the 1470's
Digital Facsimiles of Copenhagen Manuscripts Part 1: Middle Ages and Renaissance
DScriptorium "..devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts."
The Durham Cathedral Muniments Charters etc.
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University Takes a bit of surfing to get to the actual images.
THE EARLY HEBREW PRINTING HOMEPAGE A Virtual Guide to the Great Jewish Libraries and Rare Book Collections On-line Hebrew Manuscripts, Incunabula, and Written Antiquities.
Ee.3.59: The Life of King Edward the Confessor You get to see very fine details, it's just to point and click :-)
EuroDocs:Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe"Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations".
A feast for the Eyes Illuminations depicting food and feasts etc.
Fine Arts in Hungary Paintings and illuminations.
Groe Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse)
Hebrew illustrated manuscripts in the Leiden University Library
Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Good for quick examples. Three magnifications for each example.
Late Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina
Les tres riches heures du Duc de Berry 15th century France
Letters of Mark From the 13th- 19th century.
The Maciejowski Bible
Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian manuscript illumination from the J.P. Getty's collection
Medieval illuminated Manuscripts from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek Huge! Nice zoom-in but needs bandwidth.
Medieval Manuscripts of Syracuse University Library
Medieval Manuscripts in the National Museum of Medicine
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts from the Saxon State Library
Die Miniaturen der Manesseschen
Miniatures (16th century) In Hungary.
Paging through Time Varous manuscript examples both European and Arabic.
Repertorium Chronicarum "A Bibliography of the Manuscripts of Medieval Latin Chronicles."
Saganet, Icelandic medieval literature"Images of manuscripts and books published before 1901"
The Schoyen Collection A mix; also has Asian manuscripts.
Turning the pages The Lindesfarne Gospel, the Sherborne Missal and the Sultan Baybars' Qur'an. You need Shockwave.
The Vivarium (Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Manuscript Collection)
Web Gallery of Art Go to the "Quick index" and then "the Gothic section" and there you'll find quite a bit of stuff.

Welsh Treasures A mixture of different stuff.

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