• Middle Ages (through ArtLex)
• European and Byzantine Art in the Middle Ages: Special Topics (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History)
  • Animals in Medieval Art
  • Antiquity in the Middle Ages
  • Arms and Armor in Medieval Europe
  • The Art of the Book in the Middle Ages
  • Byzantium (c. 330 - 1453 A.D.)
  • The Crusades (1095 - 1291 A.D.)
  • The Cult of the Virgin
  • Death in the Middle Ages
  • Feudalism and Knights
  • Italian Painting of the Later Middle Ages
    • Fresco
    • Panel Painting
  • Late Medieval German Sculpture
    • Materials and Techniques
    • Polychromy and Monochromy
    • Images for the Cult and for Private Devotion
  • Gothic Art
  • Icons and Iconoclasm
  • Liturgy
  • Monasticism
  • Private Devotion
  • Provinces of the Later Roman Empire (1 - 500 A.D.)
  • Relics and Reliquaries
  • The Age of Saint Louis (1226 - 1270 A.D.)
  • Sculpture for Buildings
  • Stained Glass
• Images of Medieval Art and Architecture (Alison Stones), with links to many images of:
  • Medieval Architecture in Britain, with a List of Sites and comparative images:
    • Anglo-Saxon Structures
    • Welsh Castles of Edward I
    • Late Gothic Chapels and Small Churches
  • Medieval Architecture in France
• Medieval Architecture, and gallery 2, gallery 3, gallery 4, and gallery 5 (through Howard Partridge's Cupola)
• Medieval Art in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Medieval Art in Pisa
• Slavic Medieval Treasures from Bulgaria (Tatiana Nikolova-Houston)
• Medieval Paintings in the South of France (Southern Alps), with links to:
  • Creation of paintings
  • Painted chapels
  • Religious life
  • Objects of daily life
• The Walled Town of Carcassone
• Medieval Fortifications in France (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College)
• Medieval Architecture in Belgium (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College)
• Feudal Northeast Africa: Feudal Egypt (through Images from History)
• Index of Cartographic Images Illustrating Maps of the Late Medieval Period 1300 - 1500 A.D.
• Itinéraire de l'émail champlevé médiéval en Limousin (through the Le Ministère de la culture et de la communication, France)
• The Castles of Wales (Jeffrey L. Thomas)
• Historic Irish Castles
• Fontes Vitae: Baptismal Fonts by the Medieval Workshop in Gotland (Harriet M. Sonne & Miguel A. Torrens), a selection of works from Baptisteria Sacra: An Iconographic Index of Baptismal Fonts (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto)
• Jim's Medieval Coins
  • Royal Coins
  • Feudal Coins
  • Crusader Coins
  • Ecclesiastical Coins
  • Miscellaneous Coins
• French and English Royal and Medieval Coins
• Early Medieval Corpus, a database of all the single finds of coins minted 410-1180 found in the British Isles (Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
• Cumdachs and Polaires: Medieval Irish Book Shrines and Book Satchels (Harry Miller)

GOTHIC (Northern Europe)
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• Artists of the Gothic Period (list and links provided through the Artcyclopedia)
• Gothic (through ArtLex)
• The Plans of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse and Amiens Cathedral (Rice University, Humanities Electronic Studio Project)
• Tips & Tricks of Gothic Geometry (though newyorkcarver.com), with links to
  • Gothic Trefoil Design
  • Ogee Arch
  • Equilateral Arch
  • Rose Window
• Gothic Architecture (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College), with additional links to:
  • High Gothic Architecture
  • Notre Dame, Chartres, France. 1145-1220
  • Notre Dame, Bourges
  • St. Bavo (Sint Baafs), Ghent. 1290-1310; 1400s-1554, Belgium
• Gothic Architecture in France (through Romanes.com)
  • Cathédrale de Bourges
  • Cathédrale de Chartres
  • Cathédrale de Saint Denis
  • Cathédrale de Reims
  • Cathédrale de Senlis
  • Cathédrale Saint Pierre de Beauvais
  • Cathédrale de Sarlat
  • Notre Dame de Paris
  • Sainte Chapelle
  • Saint Eustache
  • St Germer de Fly
  • Dampierre sur Boutonne
  • Boiscommun
  • Abbatiale de Saint Leu d'Esserent
  • Auvers sur Oise
  • Saint Denis de Méry sur Oise
  • Saint Nicolas d'Ercuis
  • Saint Pierre et Saint Paul de Précy sur Oise
  • N.D. des Anges de lsle sur la Sorgue
• Gothic Architecture (part of a History of Western Architecture, through the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office), with links to
  • Basilique, Saint-Denis
  • Cathedral, Paris
  • Cathedral, Laon
  • Cathedral, Bourges
  • Cathedral, Chartres
  • Cathedral, Amiens
  • Cathedral, Reims
  • Sainte-Chapelle de Paris
  • Cathedral Saint-Pierre de Beauvais
  • Santa Croce, Firenze
  • Duomo, Milano
• Gothic Architecture (part of 40 Centuries of Architecture, through Thais)
  • Locality and Subject Index
  • Period Index
• The Salisbury Project (Marion E. Roberts), with links to:
  • The Cathedral
  • The Close
  • The Town
  • Parish Churches
  • Old Sarum
• Canterbury Cathedral
• Westminster Abbey
• York Minster
• A Walk Round Winchester Cathedral (Pete Reed)
• Tintern Abbey (through The Castles of Wales)
• Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
• Cologne Cathedral (photographs)
• Auxerre Cathedral
• Gothic Art (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
  • French Gothic, plues pages 2, 3, 4, 5
  • English Gothic
  • German Gothic, plus pages 2, 3, 4
• Gothic (mainly architectural) sculptures from the 13th and 14th centuries (through the Web Gallery of Art, created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx)
  • Gothic architectural sculptures (1200-1230)
    • French architectural sculptures (1200-1230)
    • Italian Romanesque architectural sculptures (1200-1230)
  • Gothic architectural sculptures (1231-1250)
    • Sculptures of the Naumburg and Bamberg Cathedrals
  • Gothic architectural sculptures and tombs (1251-1300)
    • Spanish architectural sculptures (1251-1300)
  • Gothic architectural sculptures and tombs (1301-1400)
  • Gothic architectural sculptures and tombs (15th century)
• International Gothic Style in Painting (a tour by Web Gallery of Art), with links to
  • Terminology
  • Historical background
  • Devotional images
  • From the model-book to the sketch-book
  • Characteristics of the style and its emergence
  • History of the style
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
• Gothic Painting (1280-1515) (through The WebMuseum, Paris), with links to:
  • International Gothic Style, with links to:
    • Les Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
  • Innovation in the North, with link to:
    • Jan van Eyck
  • Late Gothic Painting
• Les Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
• Klosterneuburg bei Wien - Verduner Altar (ca. 1180) (through Das österreichische Kulturinformationssytem)
• Oeuvre Notre-Dame, with links to:
  • Historical Background
  • Heritage
  • Know-How
  • Work in Progress
  • A Scientific Approach
  • Tool Dictionary
  • Library, Iconography and Plan Sources
  • Glossary of Gothic Architecture
• Notre-Dame de Paris (through Media Center for Art History, Columbia University)
• La Sainte Chapelle (in French)
• Amiens Cathedral (through Media Center for Art History, Columbia University)
• The Virtual Abbey: Medieval Tour (though newyorkcarver.com)
• Les Chapelles du Palais des Papes d'Avignon

MANUSCRIPTS
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• The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux: Prayer Book for a Queen (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  • Illuminated M Manuscripts
  • Religious Calendar
  • Hours of the Virgin
  • Hours of Saint Louis
• Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection (a checklist of 720 Manuscripts spanning 5000 years by Martin Schøyen, Oslo, Norway)
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Monastic scriptoria and provenances
    • Main Collections
      • Bible
      • The Hebrew and Aramaic Bible
      • The Greek New Testament and the Septuagint
      • The Coptic Bible translation
      • The Latin Bible translation
      • Other Bible translations
    • History
      • Sumerian history
      • Babylonian history
      • Assyrian history
      • Persian, Greek and Byzantine History
      • Roman history
      • Medieval history
      • Modern history
    • Literature
      • Sumerian literature
      • Babylonian literature
      • Assyrian literature
      • Classical Greek literature
      • Classical Roman literature
      • Medieval and Renaissance literature
      • Modern literature
    • Palaeography
      • The beginning of writing and the first alphabets
      • Greek book scripts
      • Latin book scripts
      • Latin documentary scripts
      • Greek and various documentary scripts
      • Aramaic, Hebrew and Syriac scripts
      • Arabic scripts
      • Tribes on the American continent, scripts, glyphs, pictographs and drawings
    • Special Collections
      • Patristic literature
      • Liturgy
      • Music
      • Law
      • Mathematics
      • Magical literature
      • Calendars and almanacs
      • Dead Sea Scroll materials
      • Scribal activity, school and learning
      • Papyri and ostraca
      • Bindings and bookboxes
      • Seals
      • Apocryphal literature
      • Nordic countries
      • Dictionaries and Lexical texts
      • China
      • Pre-Gutenberg printing
      • Buddhism
      • Extinct and living religions
    • Various smaller collections
• Medieval Manuscript Manual (created by the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University, Budapest) (also available here), with a link to a Table of Contents
  • I. Art Patronage and Function of Medieval Manuscripts
    • The Use of Books
  • II. Materials and Techniques of Manuscript Production
    1. Parchment
    2. Papyrus
    3. Paper
    4. Ruling
    5. Pen
    6. Ink
    7. Gilding
    8. Pigments
    9. Bookbinding
  • III. The Structure of Medieval Books
    • Arrangement of the Text
  • IV. Typology of Medieval Books
    • The Bible
    • Liturgical Books
    • Diverse Types of Books
  • V. Manuscript Illumination
    • History, Artists, and Works
    • The Technique of Illumination in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance
  • VI. Glossary
  • VII. Bibliography
• Glossary of Medieval Manuscript Terms
• The Western Collections in The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
• Byzantine Medieval Hypertexts (Tatiana Nikolova-Houston, doctoral student in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin)
  • Medieval manuscripts as hypertexts
  • Theodore Psalter
  • Gallery of Illustrations - 1
  • Gallery of Illustrations - 2
• Late Antique & Mediaeval Manuscripts (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
• Scripts Samples from Manuscript Leaves (Takami Matsuda, Professor, Keio University, Japan) (through European Illustrated Books and Manuscripts c. 1400-1700)
  • Romanesque and Beneventan Scripts
  • Gothic Scripts
  • Anglicana Scripts and Italian Humanistic Scripts
• Gothic manuscript painting (miniatures) from the 13th to 15th centuries (through the Web Gallery of Art, created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx)
  • Gothic illuminated manuscripts (1200-1250)
  • Gothic illuminated manuscripts (1250-1300)
    • Illuminations from the Frankish Psalter (1279)
  • Gothic illuminated manuscripts (1300-1350)
    • Illuminations from the French Bible of Hainburg (1300-20)
  • Gothic illuminated manuscripts (1350-1400)
  • Gothic illuminated manuscripts (1400-1450)
  • Renaissance illuminated manuscripts (1450-1500)
    • French illuminated manuscripts
    • Netherlandish illuminated manuscripts
    • Italian illuminated manuscripts
    • Hungarian illuminated manuscripts
    • Other illuminated manuscripts
  • Renaissance illuminated manuscripts (1500-1550)
• Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections (The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art), with an Introduction and links to
  • Bibles and Gallery Guide
  • Books of Hours and Gallery Guide
  • Psalters and Gallery Guide
  • Liturgical and Gallery Guide
  • Literary and Gallery Guide
• Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts in the collection the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, with a link to Highlights
  • Church and Society
    • Holy Helpers: Male Saints and Female Saints
    • Labours of the month
    • Signs of the Zodiac
  • Christian Feasts and Holidays
    • Christmas: the Birth of Jesus Christ
    • The Passion of Christ
    • Easter: the Resurrection of Christ
    • Ascension, Pentecost and the Death of Mary
  • Miscellaneous
    • Absolutely Fabulous Animals
    • Death by Unnatural Causes
    • Devils and Demons
    • Virtues and Vices
  • The Book of Books
    • In the beginning...
    • Patience and Strength: Job and Samson
    • The Bible in Education: Susanna, Tobias, Esther, Judith
• Manuscript and Printed Leaves in the Collection of Keio University Library (Takami Matsuda, Professor, Keio University, Japan)
• The Bamberg Apocalypse (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
• The Sherborne Missal (in the The British Library, London)
• The Burnet Psalter (in the Special Collections and Archives, University of Aberdeen), with links to:
  • Introduction
  • The contents and their arrangement
  • Index to the Manuscript
  • The writing of the Manuscript
  • The Calendar, Litanies and Liturgical texts
  • The Prayers and Hymns
  • Editorial Conventions
  • Bibliography
• The St. Albans Psalter (early 12th century), University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen
  • Introduction
  • Commentary
  • Translation and Transcription
  • Essays
• Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries)
• Bibliotheca Schoenbergensis: An Exhibition from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (curated by Lisa Fagin Davis, Department of Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania), with links to
  • Books of Hours
  • Books of Hours in the Age of Printing
  • Books of Devotion
  • Books of Imagination
  • Books of Nobility
  • Books of Nature
  • Arts of the Page
  • Leaves of Books
  • Peoples of the Book
• The Charrette Project: Chretien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette manuscript
• Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (11th - 17th century), including links to
  • Miscellaneous 11th-century manuscripts
  • Miscellaneous 12th-century manuscripts
  • Miscellaneous 13th-century manuscripts
  • Miscellaneous late 13th- to early 14th-century manuscripts
  • Miscellaneous 14th-century manuscripts
  • Miscellaneous 15th-century English manuscripts
  • Miscellaneous 15th-century German manuscripts
  • Miscellaneous 15th-century Italian manuscripts
  • Miscellaneous 15th-century Netherlandish manuscripts
  • Miscellaneous late 15th- to early 16th-century manuscripts
  • Miscellaneous 16th-century manuscripts
• Piers Plowman manuscripts
• The Aberdeen Bestiary (Aberdeen University Library MS 24)
• Beatus de Sant Sever manuscrit enluminé du 11e siècle
• The Cantigas de Santa Maria, written during the reign of Alfonso X "El Sabio" (1221-1284), with a link to Illuminations (Greg Lindahl)
• DScriptorium A collection of images of Medieval manuscripts
• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, with a link to Collections:
  • Austria / Germany / Switzerland
  • British Isles
  • Iberia
  • Italy
  • Malta
  • South Africa
  • Sweden
• The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) 1,000 Illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts, The Bibliothèque nationale de France
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Themes
  • Manuscripts
    • Jean Froissart, Chronicles,15th Century (BNF, FR 2643)
    • Jean Froissart, Chronicles, 15th Century (BNF, FR 2644)
    • Jean Froissart, Chronicles, 15th Century (BNF, FR 2645)
    • Jean Froissart, Chronicles, 15th Century (BNF, FR 2646)
    • Grandes Chroniques de France, 14th Century (BNF, FR 2813)
    • The Catalan Atlas, 14th Century (BNF, ESP 30)
    • Bartholomeus Anglicus, On the Properties of Things, 15th Century (BNF, FR 135)
    • Bartholomeus Anglicus, On the Properties of Things, 15th Century (BNF, FR 136)
    • John of Berry's Petites Heures, 14th Century (BNF, LAT 18014)
    • Gaston Phoebus, Book of the Hunt, 15th Century (BNF, FR 616)
    • Breviary of Martin of Aragon, 15th Century (BNF, ROTH 2529)
• Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts [for sale] (through Art Source International)
• Illuminierte Handschriften aus Österreich (ca. 780 - ca. 1250) (Illuminated Manuscripts made in Austria between ca. 780 and ca. 1250) Friedrich Simader
• The Sforza Hours (in the The British Library, London)

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