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/ext. link
Additional item: http://carbo.mtak.hu/en/start.htmext. link
See also Wolfenbüttel (below)!
http://www.hab.de/bibliothek/sammlungen/bestaende/mss/corvinen.htmext. link

Troyes: Médiathèque de l’Agglomération troyenne 640+ (mostly digitized microfilms like Valenciennes)
http://www.mediatheque-agglo-troyes.fr/bmtroyes/num/fscatPRID.asp?PR=FAMANUSCRITSMULTI_0ext. link

Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico
http://bvpb.mcu.esext. link
640+ mss. (search for manuscrito)

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

CEEC Cologne 400+ mss.
http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.deext. link
with manuscripts not only from the Episcopal and Cathedral Library Cologne
but also from 10 minor parish institutions:
  • Bad Muenstereifel, Kath. Pfarrei St. Chrysanthus und Daria
  • Bergisch-Gladbach, Paffrath, Kath. Pfarrei St. Clemens
  • Duesseldorf, St. Lambertus
  • Duesseldorf, Gerresheim, Kath. Pfarrei St. Margareta
  • Euskirchen, Kath. Pfarrei St. Martin
  • Kerpen, Kath. Pfarrei St. Martinus
  • Kerpen, Sindorf, Kath. Pfarrei St. Maria Koenigin
  • Koeln, Kath. Pfarrei St. Kunibert
  • Koenigswinter, Kath. Pfarrei St. Remigius
  • Lindlar, Kath. Pfarrei St. Severinus

    • Alba Iulia, Batthyaneum 194 mss.
    http://www.apograf.cimec.ro/CIMEC/index_eng.htmext. link
    See the German comment
    http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/3748974/ext. link

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

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

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

    Manuscripta Mediaevalia 89 mss. mostly University Heidelberg
    http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/hs/hs-online.htmext. link
    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.htmlext. link
    (It is planned to digitize all 800+ Codices palatini germanici!)

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

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

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

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

    Dresden, SLUB 60+ mss.
    http://digital.slub-dresden.de/sammlungen/kollektionen/handschriften/ext. link

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

    Olomouc (Olm�tz) Digital Library 60+ mss., some rare books
    http://dig.vkol.cz/ext. link

    Cesena, Malatestiana 50+ mss.
    http://www.malatestiana.it/manoscritti/manoscrittig.htmext. link
    Choose "Search by images"

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

    Strahov monastery Prague 20 free mss. (the others on memoria.cz with fee)
    http://www.strahovskyklaster.cz/index2.asp?zobraz=knihovna&stranka=6&lang=2ext. link

    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.htmext. link
    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.htmext. link

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

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

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~mdz/sammlungen.htmlext. link
    Quick growing Digitization on demand project (Latin, German)
    Cod. icon. could be searched via OAIster.

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

    E�tv�s Lorand University Library (Hungary)
    http://www.konyvtar.elte.hu/kincseink/kezirat/index.htmlext. link
    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.phpext. link
    30+ mss.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


    Enjoy the worldwide pearls!  


    Embarassing projects


    Progetto Irnerio - Legal mss. from Bologna
    http://www.cirfid.unibo.it/irnerio/ext. link
    It is - like http://www.manuscriptorium.comext. link (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/ext. link


    Bibliography

    Liturgical mss. in the internet
    http://www.gregofacsimil.net/03-MANUSCRITS/INTERNET-ET-LES-MANUSCRITS/Dossier-ms/Base%20de%20manuscrits%20internet.htmext. link

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