ILLUMINATION ONLINE

These are links to online manuscripts and collections. Articles and how-to pages on illumination will be found here.

This is a private website maintained by Phoebe Waller-Sharp, known in the SCA as Lady Ysabeau Tiercelin. Contact the webmistress. Copyright 2008. This site is not an official SCA website in any way whatsoever.

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Leige University Manuscripts

In French, but easy to navigate

Gaston Phoebus, Book of the Hunt

From the French National Library

Age of King Charles V

From the French National Library

Friossart’s Chronicles

From the French National Library

Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

The Dutch National Library collection

Manuscript Compendium

A site with a lot of manuscript collection links

European Electronic Text Collection

Another mega site with links to many language collections—Old Norse anyone?

The Morgan Library Collection

Amazing collection, searchable by keyword

Oxford University Manuscripts

Bodleian,  Balloil, Magdalen, more...

Hill Museum and Manuscript Collection

St. John’s University collection

The Labyrinth

Georgetown searchable medieval resources

Le Tres Riches Heures de Duc du Berry

An online exhibit with the month color plates

Le Tres Riches Heures de Duc du Barry II

Another online site with more plates

Digital Scriptorium

Columbia University online search tool to several collections—try the basic search by keyword

Bavarian State Library, Munich

Huge collection, but other than the front page, you will need to speak German to do the search.

The Carey Collection

51 various manuscript leaves

DScriptorium

Nice small collection of unusual online manuscripts

Web Gallery of Art

HUGE searchable collection of art & sculpture

Auckland City Library Manuscripts

New Zealand manuscripts online

British Library Online

Turn the pages on the Sforza Hours!

National Library of Wales

Their manuscript collection

Rose and Chess

Chicago library online special exhibit

German University Manuscripts

German university manuscripts online

King Rene’s Book of Love

Le Livre du Coeur D’Amour Epris

The Murthly Hours

One of Scotland’s most richly decorated hours

Digital Abbey of St. Gallen Library

144 manuscripts, easy to navigate