Textual scholarship is arguably blessed by the internet. Scholars can exchange paleographic, codicological and other philological information individually or on listserves like MEDTEXTL. They can work in teams, examening text and digitized color photographs shared as e-mail attachments, or as files from FTP directories,in JPEG, GIF and other image formats on web pages, debating the significance of a serrif, or evidence of a trimmed manuscript page. The distance separating team members is little relevant.
In addition, textual scholars can produce critical editions on the web which would not be given due consideration by traditional publishers, not because of quality or of methodological soundness, but simply because of the money involved in producing critical editions that are fully appropriate for a variety of readers, and which take advantage of the enormous amount of relevant information available in our time. These editions will certainly enhance the reader's ability to judge the validity of an editor's choice of manuscripts or readings...
To promote the increasingly possible concept of shared knowledge in medieval manuscript studies extending beyond the walls of remote and wealthy collections, I offer the following list of links, divided according to named criteria. Link titles have been reproduced as transfered from web pages.
ARCHives nationales IMages de documents
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
Bibliographie analytique sur les bibliothèques cisterciennes (arrêtée à l'année 1996)
Cyber-psalter - a home page for psalter studies
Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes
Handschriftenforschung im Internet
Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
HoBo - History of the Book @ Oxford
Manuscript Research: Identifying Texts and Locating Secondary Literature
Manuscript Studies Medieval and Early Modern
Manuscripts, Paleography, Codicology ( Labyrinth)
Medieval Multimedia - Digitizing the Middle Ages
Paleography and Codicology: Introductory Bibliography
Peckham's Paleography & Manuscript urls
Resources for the History of Books and Printing
Some Variables Involved in Document Analysis
Texts, Manuscripts, and Palaeography
Textual Criticism and Manuscript Interpretation
The TEI/MASTER proposals for manuscript descriptions: an introduction
Writing Materials & The History of Books and Printing: Some Related Links
La Revue d'Histoire des Textes
Manuscript Studies (Columbia University Libraries)
Manuscripts - Medieval Studies, at Stanford University
Studies in Bibliography (Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia)
TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship
Traditio: Manuscripts and Transmission of Texts (subject index)
Manuscripts and Transmission of Texts in "Traditio"
(index of article titles)
Abbreviationes (for medieval Latin paleography 60,000 entries)
The Ancient Book - Paleography and Illumination
L'aventure des ècritures - Bibliographie (BNF)
BNF - Ecritures: Bibliographie
Comitè International de Palèographie Latine
Ductus Paleography Course, ed. by Bernard Muir
Glossary of Terms Used in Paleography [emphasis on Greek mss]
Historia da Escritura en Galicia
Historisch Hilfswissenschaften
"An Introduction to Palaeography for Scribes"
(by Nicolaa de Bracton of Leicester)
Medieval Renaissance Calligraphy [Planet Wayne, European calligraphic scripts]
Medieval Scriptoria and the Transmission of Texts
A Primer on Colonial Spanish Paleography
Paleography Working Area: Images, Lectures, Assignments
David A. Postles, Medieval Paleography - An Introductory Course
SCRIPTA: La scrittura nel tempo - The history of handwriting
Transmission des textes - Documents d'archives - Palèographie
WWW Paleography Learning Module (French manuscripts)
Archive of Papers and Watermarks in Greek Manuscripts
Carolingian Writing Centers
Codicology: The Study of the Manuscript Codex - Definition
Richard W. Clement, "Medieval and Renaissance Book Production - Manuscript
Books" in ORB Online Encyclopedia - Manuscript Books
Exposition 200 Reliures du Moyen-âge a nos Jours
Formes sous lesquelles les sources diplomatiques nous sont parvenues
The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive
Thomas Gravell Watermark Collection
IRHT Glossaire Illustrè (en cours) - [French medieval book culture]
The WWW Watermark Archive Initiative
A Shape Retrieval System for Watermark Images
Sur les filigranes des papiers françle;ais des
XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
The WWW Watermark Archive Initiative
The Aberdeen Bestiary Project Table of contents
MS. Ashmole 1462 (Miscellaneous medical and herbal texts,
in Latin England, late 12th century
British Library - Digital Library - Beowulf
About the Brut Manuscript Images: Technical Information, Feedback and
Related Sources
Le CHIENNET - Study of a 14th Century French Manuscript: "La Châtelaine de
Vergi"
The Canon of John Lydgate Project
The Canterbury Tales Project (with sample images)
Extrait d'un manuscrit medieval du XIIiéme
siècle -Exemple de notation en neumes
The Codicology of the Huntingfield Psalter
The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
The Electronic Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (1014 in Anglo Saxon)
Les Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Vita Sancti Wilfridi, auctore Edmero
The Bergendal Collection of Medieval Manuscripts (125 - largest private
collection)
BNF - Manuscrits occidentaux
BNF - Manuscrits orientaux
Bodleian Library - Towards an Image Catalogue
Choix de Miniatures des manuscrits de l'université de Liège
Corpus of Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art
Database of alchemical manuscripts - Wellcome Institute
Digital Scriptorium-towards a renaissance in Manuscript Studies
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
Electronic Access to Medieval Manuscripts
Filmothèques contenant des microfilms de manuscrits médiévaux
Paul Halsall, "Byzantine Manuscript Indices Bibliography"
A hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Illuminated Manuscripts on the Web
Manuscrits médiévaux conservés dans les Bibliothèques universitaires
Mediaeval manuscripts and illumination (from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek -
Netherlands)
Medieval Manuscript Leaves - FIFTY ONE LEAVES FROM MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
Die Minnesänger aus der Manessischen Handschrift
Netserf - Manuscript Images [medieval art]
Penn Library Medieval Manuscript Microforms (extensive collection)
PhiloBiblon (Iberian Peninsula manuscripts)
Pre-1600 Manuscripts in Sanford's Special Collections
RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY (Images from Medieval and Renaissance
Manuscripts - Columbia Univ.)
Repository of Primary Sources (link page to ms holdings, archives, etc.)
Some links concerning medieval manuscript cataloguing, databases, etc.
Les Trésors de la Bibliothèque Municipale de Besançon
UNCATALOGUED MANUSCRIPT CONTROL CENTER
UNION MANUSCRIPT COMPUTER CATALOGUE
University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon (medieval ms descriptions and
searchable datebase)
PERIODICALS
PALEOGRAPHY
CODICOLOGY
SINGLE AUTHORS AND WORKS
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS (REAL & VIRTUAL)
Director, the Globe-Gate Project
Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
University of Tennessee-Martin
http://globegate.org/french/globe.html
e-mail bobp@utm.edu