Primary materials. Primarily, freely-available online texts, in the broadest sense of WRITTEN THINGS:
• documents, manuscripts, printed books, music, and images;
• transcriptions, facsimiles, editions, and translations;
• hyperprojects that also come under MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE HYPERPROJECTS: digital humanities, electronic, hypertext projects; featuring encoded or marked-up text, relational or searchable databases, …
• digital catalogues (especially of manuscripts).
Some of the bigger sites and metasites linking to texts online have also been included here, for practical purposes. These are indicated by [M].
[Juliet O'Brien is maintaining a "mirror version" of the FMRSI 's online resources over at meta meta medieval; you are most welcome to peruse, use, and indeed copy and paste whatever is useful there. Both versions will be identical through Spring 2009, and thereafter only the meta meta medieval version will be maintained by her. ]
- Anglo-Norman Online Hub (Anglo-Norman / Old French texts; hyperlinked, marked up, searchable, etc.; Aberystwyth University and Swansea University)
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry Project
- Archimedes Palimpsest
- [M] Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (on-line resources)
- ARLIMA: Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (excellent research resource, inc. bibliographies; international team of contributors across a wide range of Medieval literatures; good on manuscript descriptions). Good collection of texts at Inédits.
- Arnaut’s Babel / Baroque Forms of Poetry – medieval Occitan poetry (click on TROUBADOURS)
- Bibliotheca Augustana (Fachhochschule Augsburg)
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (Universidad de Alicante)
- Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes (Université François-Rabelais, Tours; CNRS)
- Boccaccio’s Decameron (Brown University)
- British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
- Calendoscope (CNRS): destiné à aider les spécialistes dans l’analyse et l’identification des calendriers liturgiques médiévaux
- Camelot Project (University of Rochester, New York)
- CANTUS PLANUS: Data Pool for Research on Gregorian Chant(Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität Regensburg)
- CANTUS: Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant (University of Western Ontario)
- Cartulaire Blanc de Saint-Denis (École des chartes)
- Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. Hosted by UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, this site was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web.
- CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, UCC
- [M] Centre d’Études des Textes Médiévaux: Liens (Université Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne)
- [M] Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA (links page)
- CISP: Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (University College London)
- [M] Consortium: medieval resources on the web (Michigan State University)
- Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum
- CURSUS: Medieval Liturgical Texts (University of East Anglia)
- Dafydd Ap Gwilym Edition (University of Wales Swansea)
- Debora B. Schwartz’s Web Resources and Online Readings (Cal Poly – resources for Medieval English & French literature and women’s studies)
- DIAMM: Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
- Digital Dante Project (Columbia University)
- Digital Renaissance Editions will publish fully annotated, critical editions of early modern English drama. Adopting the already successful publishing platform developed by the Internet Shakespeare Editions, the Digital Renaissance Editions will offer open-access electronic editions of non-Shakespearean drama, from Tudor interludes through to the works of Margaret Cavendish.
- Digital Scriptorium (Columbia University)
- DMLCS: Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources (Royal Irish Academy, hosted by Queen’s University Belfast)
- Early Irish Glossaries Database (University of Cambridge)
- Early Modern Literary Studies: Electronic Texts (Sheffield Hallam University)
- Early Modern Women Database (University of Maryland): primary sources
- e-codices: Virtuelle Handschriftenbibliothek der Schweiz (The goal of e-codices is to provide access to the medieval manuscripts of Switzerland through a virtual library. Complete digital reproductions of manuscripts are linked to scholarly descriptions in e-codices.)
- École Nationale des Chartes (see PUBLICATIONS EN LIGNE)
- Electronic Ælfric (project based at the University of Kentucky; dir. Aaron Kleist, Biola University)
- Electronic Beowulf (University of Kentucky)
- Electronic Boethius (Kevin Kiernan, University of Kentucky)
- Electronic Cædmon’s Hymn (University of Lethbridge)
- ETRC Textbase: Early Modern French Women Writers (University of Minnesota)
- French Medieval Drama Database Project (Brigham Young University)
- Galileo Project Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Rice University)
- Gallica: Bibliothèque Nationale de France: provides some useful, if basic, information – click on “découverte,” click on appropriate term in the main image, then follow the icons (”thèmes,” “chronologies” and “iconographies” are better).
- [M] Globe-Gate: Medieval and Renaissance sections of Tennessee Bob’s Famous French Links (University of Tennessee)
- Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin)
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library Visual Resources Online. In 1965, Saint John’s Abbey and University embarked on a mission of preserving manuscripts on microfilm and providing access to these resources to scholars. Over the years, other collections of art, rare books, photographs, etc., have been added to HMML’s collection.
- Holinshed Project (University of Oxford)
- [M] IRHT: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS)
- Internet Classics Archive (MIT)
- [M] Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University Centre for Medieval Studies / Paul Halsall, ORB sources editor)
- Internet Shakespeare Editions (The University of Victoria and theSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)
- Irish Annals, TCD (This site provides a substantial collation of the entries of all the major and some of the minor Annalistic texts, as well as two articles dealing with their inter-relationships.)
- Irish Bardic Poetry Database (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
- Irish Script On Screen (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
- [M] Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (University of Toronto Libraries)
- Jean Froissart Project (University of Sheffield)
- John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs Variorum Edition Online (Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield)
- [M] Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown University)
- LIBRO: The Library of Iberian Resources Online (U of Central Arkansas)
- Lives of the Saints: The medieval French hagiography project (Amy Ogden, University of Virginia)
- Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature: Texts, Resources, Essays, and Articles
- Partial Transcription of John Lydgate’s “Fall of Princes” (University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre)
- Manuscripta Mediaevalia (Cataloguing information on all mss in German libraries, and in some others.)
- Manuscriptorium (Manuscriptorium is a system for collecting and making accessible on the internet information on historical book resources, linked to a virtual library of digitised documents. The Manuscriptorium service is financed by the National Library of the Czech Republic)
- [M] Mappamundi (Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University)
- MATEO: Frauen des Humanismus (Universität Mannheim)
- Medieval Manuscripts Online: an excellent list of online resources, maintained by Siân Echart at the University of British Columbia
- Medieval Nordic Text Archive
- Medieval Scribes (University of York)
- [M] Ménestrel (the Sorbonne & Poitiers libraries, Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale – Poitiers/CNRS, Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales – Caen, Centre de recherches historiques CNRS/EHESS, Central European University – Budapest, École nationale des chartes, IRHT, Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris – CNRS/Université Paris 1-Sorbonne, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université de Nancy 2)
- Middle English Compendium (University of Michigan)
- Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank (Universität Salzburg & Universität Wien)
- Monastic Matrix: a scholarly resource for the study of women’s religious communities from 400 to 1600 C.E. (University of Southern California)
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- Musical Sources (9th–15th Centuries) in the Austrian National Library
- [M] NetSerf: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources (The Catholic University of America)
- Online Froissart (The University of Sheffield, University of Liverpool, and AHRC)
- Online Medieval and Classical Library (University of Berkeley)
- Opere di Dante lemmatizzate (Università di Pisa, CiBit – Consorzio Interuniversitario Biblioteca Italiana Telematica)
- [M] ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
- [M] ORB: Reference Shelf
- Partonopeus de Blois (Penny Eley, Penny Simons, Mario Longtin, Catherine Hanley, and Philip Shaw; published by the Humanities Institute of the University of Sheffield; supported by the University of Sheffield and the AHRC)
- Perdita: Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Catalogue (AHRB and Nottingham Trent University, in conjunction with Warwick University)
- Perseus Digital Library (Classical history, literature, and culture; Tufts University)
- The Philological Museum (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham): humanistic and neo-Latin texts on the Web
- Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (Institute for Advanced Technology – University of Virginia at Charlottesville)
- [M] PIMS: Internexus: online resources (Pontifical Insitute of Mediaeval Studies)
- Princeton Charrette Project (first phase Princeton University, second phase Baylor University)
- Princeton Dante Project (Robert Hollander, Princeton University)
- Project Gutenberg: the Internet’s oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or eTexts)
- REED: Records of Early English Drama (Centre for Research in Early English Drama, University of Toronto)
- Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629): online exhibition (University of Notre Dame, University of Chicago, and the Newberry Library)
- Renaissance Electronic Texts (University of Toronto): A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period.
- Renascence Editions (University of Oregon): An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799; one of the oldest Early Modern English HTML online text archives
- Representative Poetry Online (University of Toronto): version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s.
- [M] Reti Medievali: Iniziative on line per gli studi medievistici (Università di Firenze, Napoli, Palermo, Venezia e Verona)
- Rialc: Repertorio informatizzato dell’antica letteratura catalana (Università di Napoli Federico II)
- Rialto: Repertorio informatizzato dell’antica letteratura trobadorica e occitana (Università di Napoli Federico II)
- Roman de la Rose Digital Library Digital Surrogates of Medieval Manuscripts (joint project of the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France)
- [M] RSA: Renaissance Society of America links database: from antiquity to ca. 1700.
- Sengoídelc (Quotations from Early Irish Literature; Dennis King)
- St. Gall Monastery Plan (Prof. Patrick J. Geary, University of California, Los Angeles)
- Thesaurus linguae hibernicae, UCD (An on-line research and teaching tool for Early and Medieval Irish School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore, & Linguistics)
- Thesaurus musicarum italicarum (Universiteit Utrecht)
- Timaeus Project (a.k.a. The Digby 23 Project; at Baylor University; dir. K. Sarah-Jane Murray)
- Tristania (Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona)
- University of Virginia Library Digital Collections: used to be the Electronic Text Center (1992-2007), currently in process of migrating to new site
- Visionary Cross Project: directed by Catherine Karkov of the University of Leeds, Daniel Paul O’Donnell of the University of Lethbridge, and Roberto Rosselli Del Turco of the Università degli studi di Torino, with James Graham (Multimedia, University of Lethbridge) and Wendy Osborn (Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Lethbridge)
- [M] VOS: Voice of the Shuttle (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- World of Dante (Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities, University of Virginia)
