Large Digital Libraries of western manuscripts

NB: Large means more than 10 medieval or Renaissance (Western) mss.

Fragment presentations are not in the list.

Featured item (finest mss. ever seen in the web)
Bibliotheca Corviniana
34 mss., 2 incunabula
http://www.corvina.oszk.hu/
Additional item: http://carbo.mtak.hu/en/start.htm
See also Wolfenbüttel (below)!
http://www.hab.de/bibliothek/sammlungen/bestaende/mss/corvinen.htm

Florence, Laurenziana
http://teca.bmlonline.it/TecaRicerca/index.html
1600+ mss.

Heidelberg, University Library
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/handschriften.html
800+ mss.

Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico
http://bvpb.mcu.es
730+ mss. (search for manuscrito)

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~mdz/sammlungen.html
Quick growing, Clm: 650+ mss. (April, 2008)

Troyes: Médiathèque de l’Agglomération troyenne 640+ (mostly digitized microfilms like Valenciennes)
http://www.mediatheque-agglo-troyes.fr/bmtroyes/num/fscatPRID.asp?PR=FAMANUSCRITSMULTI_0

Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di Assisi 600+ mss.
http://www.sisf-assisi.it/digitalizzazione.htm
See the German comment at http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4344513/

CEEC Cologne 400+ mss.
http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de

Codices Electronici Sangallenses
http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/virt_bib/handschriften.htm
250+ mss.
A lot of Swiss mss. from other libraries at http://www.e-codices.ch

Alba Iulia, Batthyaneum 194 mss.
http://www.apograf.cimec.ro/CIMEC/index_eng.htm
Not available 2009
See the German comment
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/3748974/

Biblioteca de Catalunya 180+ mss.
http://mdc.cbuc.cat/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/manuscritBC&CISOSTART=1,21

Perugia, Biblioteca Augusta 135 mss.
http://augustavl.alchimedia.com/
See the numbers at
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4122419/

Valenciennes 120 "microfilms en ligne"
http://bookline-03.valenciennes.fr/bib/fondsvirtuels/microfilms/accueil.asp

Manuscripta Mediaevalia 89 mss. mostly University Heidelberg
http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/hs-online.htm
Not numbered Greifswald mss. in the database
NB Additional stuff (mostly German mss.) on the Heidelberg
website at
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/handschriften.html
All 800+ Codices palatini germanici are digitized!

BNU Torino 100+ (medieval) mss.
http://158.102.224.39:8080/opac/sp_opac/html/elenco.jsp?full
Images are too small!

Cesena, Malatestiana 100+ mss.
http://www.malatestiana.it/manoscritti/manoscrittig.htm
Choose "Search by images"

Parker Library
http://parkerweb.stanford.edu
90+ mss. available after free registration
Toll access from 2009, see http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4696056/

UPenn
http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren/index.html
80+ mss.

Early Mss. at Oxford 80+ mss.
http://image.ox.ac.uk/

Lund University Library 67 mss.
http://laurentius.lub.lu.se/

Dresden, SLUB 70+ mss.
http://digital.slub-dresden.de/sammlungen/kollektionen/handschriften/

Graz University Library 59 mss.
http://www.literature.at/webinterface/library/COLLECTION_V01?objid=1081
Some additional stuff from Innsbruck/Sterzing at http://www.literature.at (Vigil Raber, Deutschenspiegel, Oswald von Wolkenstein)
http://143.50.26.142/listpics/listpics.asp?dir=%5C
100+ additional Graz mss.

Copenhagen e-manuscripter (only Middle Ages and
Renaissance: 30+)
http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/materialer/haandskrifter/HA/e-mss/index.html

Olomouc (Olmütz) Digital Library 80+ mss., few rare books
http://dig.vkol.cz/

BM Lyon, 55 early medieval mss.
http://florus.bm-lyon.fr/index.php

UCLA 50 mss.
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009gx4f

SCETI Schoenberg Center 20+ (9th-16th cent.)
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/

Strahov monastery Prague 20 free mss. (the others on memoria.cz with fee)
www.strahovskyklaster.cz/index2.asp?zobraz=knihovna&stranka=6&lang=2
NO LONGER AVAILABLE (2009)

Strasbourg (Strassburg) BNU 20+ mss. "Mystique rhenane"
http://www-bnus.u-strasbg.fr/BNU/FR/Biblioth%C3%A8que+virtuelle/Collections+num%C3%A9ris%C3%A9es/Mystique+rh%C3%A9nane.htm
After a relaunch of the website the mss. are viewable. Before it was technically impossible to read the scans (ActiveX?), see also the German comment at
http://manuscripta.mediaevum.de/manuscr4.htm

Biblioteca Digital Hispànica
http://www.bne.es/BDH/coleccionesdigi.htm
A lot of mss.

Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
http://www.hab.de/bibliothek/wdb/mssdigital.htm
A lot of mss.

University Library Freiburg: Sammlung Leuchte
http://www3.ub.uni-freiburg.de/index.php?id=1238
30+ mss.
Some other mss. at
http://www3.ub.uni-freiburg.de/index.php?id=hss

University Library Munich: Cimelia
http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/keimelion.html
10+ mss.

E�tv�s Lorand University Library (Hungary)
http://www.konyvtar.elte.hu/kincseink/kezirat/index.html
30+ mss. - images are too small!
See also here DigiOsten for more mss. from Hungary (single items, small collections)

University Library Zaragoza
http://biblioteca.unizar.es/tesoros/index_m.php
30+ mss.

Dante manuscripts
http://www.danteonline.it/italiano/codici_indice.htm
A lot of mss.

Montserrat Abbey (Spain)
http://www.lluisvives.com/portal/Abadia/cataleg.shtml
Some mss., mostly in the Catalan language

Biblioteca Histórica de Santa Cruz (U. Valladolid)
http://www.bhsc.uva.es:8080/BHSC/bhsc/VerCatalogoAlfabetico.action
25 mss.

Biblioteca Virtual de Andalucia
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/bibliotecavirtualandalucia/secciones/secciones.cmd?id=68
20+ mss.

National Digital Library Polonia
http://www.polona.pl/dlibra/collectiondescription2?dirids=16
20+ mss.

University Library Wroclaw
http://www.bibliotekacyfrowa.pl/dlibra/pubindex?dirids=8
Some medieval mss.

Krakow, Bibliotheca Iagellonica
http://pka.bj.uj.edu.pl/pbi/index_n.php
14 mss.

BM Laon
http://manuscrit.ville-laon.fr/
10+ mss.

BM Albi
http://www.manuscrits.mediatheque-albi.fr/
11 mss.

BM Lille
http://numerique.bibliotheque.bm-lille.fr
10+ mss.

Atheneum Deventer
http://www.sabinfo.nl/
10+ mss.

Congrégation du Grand-Saint-Bernard, 10 mss.
http://www.gsbernard.ch/index.php?page=manuscrits-du-gd-st-bernard

Klosterneuburg
http://www.ksbm.oeaw.ac.at/digi.htm
10 mss.

National Library of Wales
http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=126
Some Welsh mss., few in other languages

Ateneu Barcelona
http://almirall.ateneubcn.org/
Some medieval mss.

Harvard, Houghton Library
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/about.html#collection


Enjoy the worldwide pearls!  


Toll access projects


Progetto Irnerio - Legal mss. from Bologna
http://irnerio.cirsfid.unibo.it/
It is - like http://www.manuscriptorium.com (alias memoria.cz with 11 demo mss.) - a toll access project, see the explanation in German
http://log.netbib.de/archives/2006/01/08/nochmals-progetto-irnerio/


Bibliography

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/
Very incomplete.

Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online
http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/mdmss.shtml

Liturgical mss. in the internet
http://www.gregofacsimil.net

Neolatin texts (mostly printed books, but also some mss.)
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/

German mss.
http://www.handschriftencensus.de/hssabbildungen