Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts on the Web

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• Bibliotheca Schoenbergensis An Exhibition from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg at the University of Pennsylvania
• The Age of King Charles V: 1,000 Illuminations from the Department of Manuscripts of The Bibliothque Nationale de Franceon the theme of "Le roi Charles V et son temps (1338-1380)" (in English and French)
• Bodleian Library. Towards an Image Catalogue.
• Book of Kells: Trinity College, Dublin-- images of only 3 folios to date.
• Choix de miniatures des manuscrits de l'Universit de Lige
• DScriptorium.
• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library. Manuscript Images from the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library.
• The History of Art Virtual Library This site (maintained by the the History of Art Department at Birkbeck College, University of London) indexes a number of other sites, many of which are small and display relatively few images. Some of the sites indexed, however, are enormous art historical resources. The eclecticism of the site mandates that we reference it on more than one page, so please forgive the redundancy.
• IBM Digital Library: The Vatican Library. This site provides some information on the ongoing digitization of the Vatican Library and provides the user with some sample manuscript images.
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek. A hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands).
• The Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit. One can navigate through this site to find images of some of the manuscripts maintained in the collection of the Vatican Library. Manusc ripts are arranged by subject matter.
• Renaissance Dante in Print. This exhibition presents Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection at the University of Notre Dame, together with selected treasure from The Newberry Library.
• Treasures Digitisation Project of the British Library.

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