Research-Links
Web resources for research in medieval studies.
Libraries and Catalogues
- Durham, University Library
- Worldcat
- JSTOR (via Durham UL)
- London, British Library
- Cambridge, University Library
- Cambridge Two-Letter Manuscripts
- Oxford, Bodleian Library
- Freiburg, University Library
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale (main catalogue)
Manuscript Metacatalogues
- UL Hill Museum and Monastic Library
- Manuscripta-Medievalia (manuscripts in German libraries)
- Manuscripta-At (manuscripts in Austrian libraries)
- Manus Online (manuscripts in Italian libraries)
- Handschriftencensus (manuscripts containing medieval German)
- DIMEV (Digital Index of Middle English Verse)
Printed Books
- English Short-Title Catalogue (books printed in England, 1473-1800)
Durham University Manuscripts
- A.I. Doyle’s unpublished catalogue
Bibliography and Literature Search Tools
- MLA Bibliography
- Regesta Imperii: online bibliography of medieval studies
- ARLIMA: online bibliography of Old French literature
Old and Middle English texts online
- TEAMS
- Harvard Chaucer pages
- Wessex Web-texts (a selection of Middle English texts and translations, mainly C13 and early C14)
- Corpus of Old English poetry
- Corpus of Middle English prose and verse
- The Labyrinth (resources for Medieval Studies)
- Chaucer Concordance
Ballads, Folk-Songs and Broadsides online
- F.J. Child's corpus of ballads
- Vaughan Williams Library (includes Roud index and Broadside index)
- English Broadside Ballad Index
- Bodleian Ballads
- Hales and Furnivall edition of the Percy Folio
- Percy's Reliques (online text)
- Percy's Reliques (1st edition, online at QUB)
- Percy Folio (entry in the Romance of the Middle Ages exhibition)
- James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum
- Joseph Haydn's folksong settings
Collections of Manuscripts and EPBs online
General Language Resources
English
- Oxford English Dictionary (via Durham UL)
- Middle English Dictionary
- Bosworth-Toller (Old English)
- Dictionary of Old English (via Durham UL)
- Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediæval English (Edinburgh)
- Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (Edinburgh)
- Dictionary of the Scots Language
French
- Anglo-Norman Dictionary
- Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (Old French–modern French)
- Tobler-Lommatzsch (Old French–modern German)
- Godefroy (Old French Dictionary)
- Trésor de la Langue Française (Old French Dictionary)
- DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique d'Ancien Francais
- FEW: Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
- Electronic Dictionary of Chrétien de Troyes: includes a downloadable vocabulary
Latin
- Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
- Lewis & Short (Classical Latin Dictionary), at the Perseus project
- Du Cange (Medieval Latin Dictionary)
- Verbix (Verb conjugator): Latin
- Wordhippo (English to Latin)
- Wheelock's Latin drills
- Open University Latin drills
- The Latin Library
German
- Lexer (Middle High German)
- BMZ (Middle High German)
- MHDWB (Middle High German)
- Wörterbuchnetz (various German dictionaries)
- Verbix (Verb conjugator): German
Dutch
IPA (Phonetics)
- IPA Pronunciations
- IPA Inputs (virtual keyboard)
Biography
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (via DUL)
Bible, Patristics and Liturgy
- Vulgate: the Vulgate is the text of the Bible most widely used in the Middle Ages
- Douay-Rheims: English version of the Vulgate
- Old Latin Bible (Vetus Latina): resources for the study of another Latin Bible used in the Middle Ages; much less influential than the Vulgate and hardly in circulation at all after the Anglo-Saxon period
- Patrologia Latina: works of the Church Fathers (in Latin) (via DUL)
- Cursus: texts of medieval liturgies
- Ordinary Gloss (Venice, 1603)
- Peter Lombard: Master of the Sentences
- Gregory the Great: Moralia in Job (1844 translation)
Chaucer manuscripts
Indvidual Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
- Aberdeen, The Aberdeen Bestiary
- Aberystwyth, The Hengwrt MS of the Canterbury Tales
- Alnwick Castle, Northumberland MS 455 (A Canterbury Tales manuscript)
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 177 (a Latin miscellany)
- Cambridge, The Glastonbury Miscellany (Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O.9.38)
- Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (a Piers Plowman MS)
- Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R. 3.19 (Lydgate and Chaucer)
- Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20 (Lydgate etc, copied by John Shirley, contains Chaucer's words 'To Adam Scriveyne')
- Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.2 (a Confessio Amantis MS, by Hoccleve and others)
- Cambridge, University Library MS Dd 4. 24 (A Canterbury Tales manuscript)
- Cambridge, University Library MS Gg 1.1 (a huge miscellany of Anglo-French texts)
- Caxton’s Chaucer
- Edinburgh, The Auchinleck manuscript
- Geneva, Cod. Bodmer 168 (the Waldef manuscript)
- Heidelberg, Manesse Codex (Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift: Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. Germ. 848)
- Hildesheim, The St Albans Psalter
- London, BL MS Additional 37049 (Carthusian miscellany: from Mount Grace?)
- London, BL MS Harley 978
- London, The Wellcome Apocalypse (London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, MS 49: another illustrated MS)
- Oxford, Balliol College, MS 26 (Robert Holcot's Commentary on the Minor Prophets)
- Oxford, Balliol College, MS 27 (Robert Holcot's Commentary on Wisdom)
- Oxford, Balliol College, MS 354 (Richard Hill’s Commonplace Book)
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11 (the Cædmon MS)
- Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 198 (A Canterbury Tales manuscript)
- Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 201 (A Piers Plowman manuscript)
- Oxford, St John’s College MS 154 (Ælfric’s Grammar and Colloquy)
- Paris, BNF MS Cod. lat 3718 (a MS containing Drogo de Altovillari's Mary vs Lazarus) [BNF page for this MS]
- Munich, BSB, cgm. 3974 (an illustrated MS)
- Munich, BSB, clm. 384 (MS containing Winrich of Trier's Sheep vs Flax)
- Munich, BSB, clim 443 (MS containing Clerks vs Knights debate)
- Munich, BSB, clm 686 (MS containing the debate of Fortune and Philosophy)
- Munich, BSB, clm 4660 (the Carmina Burana MS)
- Munich, BSB, clm 17404 (the Scheirer Rhythmus MS)
- Munich, BSB, clm 14644 (Death vs a Young Man MS)
- Paris, BNF fr. 837
- Paris, BNF lat. 11867 (a Latin miscellany)
- San Marino CA, The Ellesmere Chaucer (A Canterbury Tales manuscript)
Style Guides
Bookshops & Publishers
- Abebooks: second-hand books
- Amazon: new books
- Boydell & Brewer
Library Imaging Services
Durham
Medieval Philosophy, Theology and Science
- SIEPM: Online library of medieval philosophy
- Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum naturale (Strasbourg, a. 1476): facsimile of the copy in the BSB
- Vincent of Beauvais Website
- Slotemaker's Holcot pages
- Isidore of Seville, Etymologies
Medieval Law
- Decretum (Gratian’s Concordance of Discordant Canons, Friedberg edition)
- Decretum (1582 edition)
- Decretals (of Pope Gregory IX), ie the ‘Liber Extra’ (X)
- Corpus iuris civilis (Vulgate edition, with commentary, Lyons 1604)
- Corpus iuris civilis (Vulgate edition, with commentary, Lyons 1627)
- Blume’s translation of Justinian's Novels
- S.P. Scott’s translation of ’The Civil Law’
- Roman Law links at Fordham
- Lexikon frühmittelalterlicher Rechtswörter
- Otto Vervaart’s Medieval Law Page
- Processus iuris ioco-serius:
- Processus Sathanae: Memmingen, 1500
Classical Texts and Concordances
- The Perseus Project: online texts
- The Latin Library: online texts
- Concordances at Monumenta.ch
- Ovid's Metamorphoses: concordance
Gateways/Encyclopedias
- The Literary Encyclopedia
- British History Online
- Gallica (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale e-resources)
Miscellaneous Reference
- Medieval Calendar Calculator
- Orbis Latinus (Latin place-names)
- The Bayeux Tapestry (whole)
- http://neilcartlidge.net/index.php?p=1_5 The Bayeux Tapestry (organised by scene)
- The Bayeux Tapestry (animated)
- Glossary of Book Terms (alibris)
- Chrétien de Troyes bibliography (ARLIMA)
- Scottish Text Society
Funding Bodies
- The Leverhulme Trust
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Neil Ker Fund
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science