Medieval Manuscript: Portals and tools
The summr edition of ola.access has a long article by Jennifer Dekker on websites and protals to sources on European history. Her article is based on another rticle about the Digital Scriptorium project where author Stephen G. Nichols compares the creation, production, circulation and accessibility of manuscripts in the medieval period to the same values for the digitized manuscript in our times.
The article points to a few sites that have succeeded very well in digitizing medieval manuscripts.
European History Primary Sources (EHPS): Medieval period
The EHPS is a portal to sources for European history but can also provide a shortcut to some of the most significant online medieval texts available. Sites are organized by country, language, subject and type.
This site is a portal intended to provide access to multiple collections of digitized medieval and renaissance sources. This portal also provides access to documents that are found in American collections.
Manuscripts Online: Written Culture 1000-1500
Manuscripts Online is a growing collection of mixed surces such as text transriptions, databases, image catagues and tols for understanding medieval Britain.
The National Archives of the UK has developed several online tutorials in reading Latin and Latin paleography to help readers interpret what they are seeing when viewing a digital image.
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