Medieval and Renaissance Studies:Open Access Resources

MESA aggregates the best scholarly resources in medieval studies and make them fully searchable and interoperable.

A consortium of libraries and museums offering free access to pre-modern manuscripts held in their institutions.

Links to websites for manuscripts and rare books.

From Georgetown University. Organized by subject and material type with a keyword search function.

From University of California at Santa Barbara. Humanities website. Search a specific subject in the box provided.

From Catholic University of America. Rich and well-organized site with links to many subjects.

From University of Iowa. Indexes journal articles, book essays and book reviews on Medieval women, sexuality and gender. Includes links under "Other Resources."

From Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies. One of the oldest gateway sites.

From Victoria University, University of Toronto. Well-organized, up-to-date site with links organized by subject.

From Professor Christopher Whitcomb, Sweet Briar College.
Links to both Medieval and Renaissance art sites.

Professor at California Polytechnic University provides extensive medieval links.

Compiled in 2004 by librarians.

Created at the University of Pittsburgh. Includes images.

German database including complete page images of catalogs of collections of medieval manuscripts, mostly located in Germany.

Online version of P. O. Kristeller's essential bibliography and guide to collections of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.

Collection of letters to and from women in the Middle Ages, from the 4th to the 13th century. In Latin with English translations. Includes biographical material.

From the British Library. Images of several medieval and renaissance items including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Sfzora Hours.

Full-text of Syriac manuscripts.

List of digitized manuscripts.

Videos of many of the facsimiles owned by Special Collections.