Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners. Online since 1997, it is enriched every week with thousands of new features and today offers access to several million documents

Europeana brings together the digital collections from cultural and scientific institutions across Europe. Explore 58,245,986 artworks, artifacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

Find selected digitized materials from the Research Institute's collection that are free to view and download. Materials include over 2.5 million digital images of rare and public domain books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, sketchbooks, and archives.

The Met's collections - including over 5,000 years of art from around the globe - are accessible through this online database. You can search by artist or culture, object type or material, geographic location, date or era, and by department. Select "Public Domain Artworks" to limit your search to only those images that are free to use without permission.

The Morgan Library & Museum's collection is searchable through their database, CORSAIR.

Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners. Online since 1997, it is enriched every week with thousands of new features and today offers access to several million documents

Over 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents.

Though the precise origins of Cambridge University Library are not recorded, we know from the above declaration that a shared collection of books was in place for members of the University by at least 1416. Established before the invention of printing, the Library's earliest collections comprised entirely handwritten books. A small number of these survived dispersal or loss during the Reformation and have remained in the Library ever since. The modern foundations of the collection of western medieval manuscripts were laid later in the 16th century, and it grew through gift, bequest and purchase over subsequent centuries .

Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of North American libraries and museums committed to providing cross-institutional digital access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts and dedicated to enhancing access and appreciation of historically significant but often understudied manuscript materials.

This manuscript collection includes most of the kinds of books used between 1000 and 1500 A.D.: prayer books and poetry, Bibles and political propaganda, philosophical works, and fantastic histories.

Delve into the literature, art, history, music, philosophy, and theology of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Western Europe found in Houghton Library's collection.

This manuscript library celebrates this advancement in digital humanities by gathering volumes from libraries around the world to compare related manuscripts side by side in a digital environment.

The Medieval Digital Resources website (MDR for short) is a project of the Medieval Academy of America, the largest organization in North America promoting excellence in the field of medieval studies. The project aims to provide access to websites that contain content of interest to medievalists and meet the Academy’s scholarly and technical standards of web presentation.

A collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the collection of the Morgan Library.

A list of useful primary sources of online digitized material compiled by the librarians at University of Texas - Arlington.