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Medieval manuscript art4/19/2023 ![]() ![]() E-book Treasures: a British Library app that allows in-app purchases of complete facsimiles of books and manuscripts, including the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Bedford Hours, the Luttrell Psalter, and other manuscripts also featured on the British Library site (see below).The Book of Kells: a complete, high-resolution digital facsimile, with 21 highly zoomable pages.You should be able to use this list to search your own particular iTunes store, however. I have not linked these to the iTunes store, because results will differ depending on your country of origin. I include here a list of a few apps that are currently (January 2017) available. Sometimes these appear in relation to exhibitions, and are subsequently discontinued. There is an increasing number of manuscript-related apps for the iPad. Monastic Manuscript Project is a very complete, specialized list of manuscripts relevant to the study of early monasticism, maintained by Albrecht Diem Manuscript Apps ![]() Useful for finding resources, but note that many of these are subscription-based databases, rather than direct links to images. Manuscripts Online : Written Culture 1000 to 1500 allows users to search a range of online primary sources related to Britain. Related Projectsĭigitized Medieval Manuscripts is an ongoing project to present digitizations of medieval manuscripts on interactive maps.Ī digital project that is also of potential interest professional users of this page is the Seymour de Ricci Bibliotheca Britannica Manuscripta Digitized Archive, a searchable database of the notes made by De Ricci towards his planned census of medieval manuscripts in British libraries. I have included some notes about contents, formats, and intended audiences. There are now so many that the list below has become extremely unwieldy, but I still use it, and hope it might be useful to others as well. When I began this list many years ago, there were very few manuscript sites on the web. Sometimes a manuscript is physically located in one country, but has been digitized in another in these cases, the sponsoring institution is used (so, for example, the British Library manuscript Cotton Nero A.x, because the images are housed at the University of Calgary, appears under the listings for Canada). Some cooperative projects are to be found at the relevant top level so, a consortium of American libraries will appear as the first entry under the United States, for example. Listings are alphabetical by country, then city, and then by originating institution. The list below is intended to offer quick access to various digitization projects on the web: clicking the project title will take you directly there. I'll try to indicate on each page once it has moved. My other pages are also gradually migrating to my new domain, but it will be a while before they all relocate. March 11, 2021: This page is no longer being maintained at this location. Siân Echard, Department of English, University of British Columbia ![]() Some examples of such early works (chivalric or not) include: The Filocolo by Giovanni Boccaccio from 1335/6 (first novel in Italian) Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta again by Boccaccio from 1343/4 (first psychological novel in the West) Le Mort d'Arthur by Thomas Malory from the 1470's (first novel in English) and other such works.Īlso, other countries developed novels - see for example Lady Murasaki's genius Tale of Genji from Heian Japan (early 11th century).Medieval Manuscripts on the Web (digitized manuscripts) Medieval Manuscripts on the Web Most of the books written in prose were chivalric romances (aka, the kind of books where the brave knight rescues the damsel in distress), which were early signs of what would evolve into the modern form. However, modern novels grew out of medieval traditions, and there are some medieval books we can consider "novels." In the early 13th century, there was a shift from poetry towards prose writing. In fact, the first "modern novel" was Don Quixote published in 1605, two centuries after the Middle Ages! ![]() There are some examples of "novels" dating from the Roman era however, these were very different than ones you would find in modern bookstores. That's a really cool question! Unfortunately, it's also kinda hard to answer, because the genre known as a "novel" has greatly evolved throughout time. ![]()
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