Web Links: Start here! These four sites are known for their combination of content and links to other worthy sites. All have been put together by the voluntary efforts of medieval scholars:

• The Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Paul Halsall, hosted by Fordham University)
• The Labyrinth (Georgetown University)
• Netserf (Beau Harbin, formerly hosted by Catholic University)

See also The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS).

Medieval Manuscripts: Collections of Images on the World Wide Web

• Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. An online version of the spring 2001 exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• Bibliotheca Schoenbergensis: Images from the collections of University of Pennsylvania alumnus Lawrence T. Schoenberg.
• The Electronic Beowulf Project: The online help pages for a groundbreaking CD-ROM based project that allows electronic access to the only surviving copy of Beowulf while safeguarding the precious and fragile original.
• The Age of King Charles V: From the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, a thousand illuminated images.
• The Digital Scriptorium: A prototype of a project to create a union catalog and image archive for medieval manuscripts.
• Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, medieval manuscripts images
• Book of Hours, Brandeis University

See also Netserf's listing of collections of medieval manuscript images and The Labyrinth's Arts and Architecture section.

Medieval Manuscripts: Glossary of Terms

• University of Pittsburgh -- a comprehensive, illustrated glossary of terms. Uses frames.

Making Your Own "Medieval Manuscripts"

Richard W. Clement, special collections librarian at the University of Kansas library, teaches a course on the history of the book. His online materials include:

• Class Handouts -- Making a Medieval Book (how to cut a quill pen, how to lay out a page, etc.)

Sources of "freeware" fonts inspired by medieval manuscripts:

• The Scriptorium -- Medieval-inspired fonts, some free

Other Links of Interest

• The St. John Bible project -- the first handmade Bible of the new millennium